In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
Arnab Pratim Dutta visited Attero’s recycling unit in Roorkee, posing as a scrap dealer from Moradabad Attero, India’s recognized recycling facility for e-waste, is about 20 minutes from Roorkee. Its walls and gates are about eight feet high. A signboard warns of CCTV. The security guards have orders to prevent …
Illegally imported e-waste reaches the Seelampur market every second day, said a 35-year-old trader in Delhi’s Nehru Place market. He runs a showroom of laptops and stores secondhand computers in the basement. “I know importing waste is illegal. But as long as ships come in, so do profits. My business …
Three months ago, in March, customs officials at the Tuticorin port in Tamil Nadu seized 20 containers carrying 500 tonnes of diapers, sanitary napkins, under-garments, surgical gloves—all used—along with shoe soles, broken toys, perfume bottles, aluminium foil packing material, batteries and bottles. These products, labelled waste paper consignment, were on …
J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI: A vacation Bench of the Supreme Court on Monday directed the writ petition filed by the former deputy general manager with the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), V. Anjaneya, to permit him to become an approver and witness against the alleged illegal mining operations by the Reddy …
S.S. NEGI In a new twist to the alleged illegal mining by Reddy brothers' Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) in Ballery forests, the Supreme Court on Monday referred to the "green bench" a petition by a former company officer, seeking to become a "witness and approver" to show how they had …
PANAJI: Arguing that mining needs to be monitored and regulated more effectively, environmental activists and groups have called for a scaling down of iron ore mining in the State till a serious impact assessment study on the lives and livelihoods of people in the affected villages is carried out. A …
The Union government has convened a meeting on May 20 on regulation of illegal mining activities in Orissa. The co-ordination between different ministries of the Government of India (GoI) and the state government is expected to come up for discussion in the meeting to be chaired by the Union cabinet …
In March the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) rejected petitions by Tanzania and Zambia to sell ivory. Samuel Wasser,an ivory tracker and head of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, told Sumana Narayanan why CITES first banned ivory trade 20 years ago and …
May 13: The Ballery Iron Ore Private Limited, one of the six mining companies in Obulapuram area, on Thursday raised certain issues related to the overlapping of its mining lease with Reddy brothers
The owners of Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), the Reddy brothers, have now accused some of the mining companies of encroaching on their land, while claiming that the Supreme Court ruling vindicates their stand that they have not carried out any illegal mining. The OMC promoter and a Minister in the …
Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: This 60-year-old farmer used RTI to expose how Rakhial village administration clandestinely passed fake resolutions to allow illegal sand mining. The issue was an eye-opener for the state geology and mining department which is the regulatory body for sandmining activities in the state. The department …
The Supreme Court on Monday permitted magnates Reddy brothers to resume mining in Andhra Pradesh's Obulapurum on the condition that it would only be in undisputed areas. The court had last week reserved orders on the plea of the Reddy brothers of Bellary to allow them iron ore mining in …
On Friday, the Supreme Court in its first hearing of the forest law violations in the Orissa mining scam asked the state government to file compliance report on the recommendations of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) within six weeks. The CEC, which probed into the multi-crore scam, in its interim …
BANGALORE: The former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, on Saturday accused the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party of having scuttled a discussion on illegal mining and looting of mineral wealth during the just-concluded Parliament session.
TRIBALS of Jharkhand, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh have become vulnerable to HIV infection due to illegal mining. Twenty one HIV positive cases have been reported from Noamundi iron-ore mines in Jharkhand alone, a health ministry official said. Companies operating mines in the region, such as Tata Steel and SAIL, accuse …
Kakinada, May 5: The president of the East Godavari District Congress Committee and zilla parishad chairman, Mr Ch. Venugopala Krishna, said that he had recently appealed to the Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, to inquire into Opposition parties
