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 …
For decades, villages in interior Goa have paid the price of mining operations. Despite what the industry says, villagers have felt the pinch from air and water pollution, the loss of groundwater, the death of agriculture fields, and much more. Only in recent years has the campaign against mining pollution …
Gorillas, the largest of the great apes, are under renewed threat across the Congo Basin from Nigeria to the Albertine Rift: poaching for bushmeat, loss of habitat due to agricultural expansion, degradation of habitat from logging, mining and charcoal production are amongst these threats, in addition to natural epidemics such …
Karwar: A team of forest officials swooped down on the Belekeri port on Monday evening and seized five lakh tonnes of iron ore worth Rs. 150 crore, Forest Department sources said. Fake passes of the Forest Department were used to transport the ore from Bellary district to the Belekeri and …
ANANTAPUR: The Obulapuram Mining Corporation, owned by Karnataka Ministers G. Janardhan Reddy and G. Karunakara Reddy, has suspended mining operations and iron-ore transportation at Obulapuram in Anantapur district in the wake of the Supreme Court's Monday order, staying all mining-related work. Obulapuram in D. Hirehal Mandal, which used to bustle …
New Delhi: In a setback to the Reddy brothers of Karnataka, the Supreme Court on Monday stayed all further mining activities by the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) in Andhra Pradesh. A Bench consisting of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice Deepak Verma appointed an expert committee headed by the Survey …
Leader of the Opposition Manohar Parrikar once again raised the issue of illegal mining in the House today indicating that the State government is not serious enough to put an end to the illegality. Raising the issue during Question Hour as a supplementary to a question tabled by Shiroda MLA …
Hyderabad/ANANTAPUR, March 22: The IFS officer Mr Kallol Biswas, who was involved in the Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC) mining controversy in Anantapur, was transferred and posted to Warangal as forest geneticist. Mr Biswas, a 1991-batch IFS official, was the deputy conservator of forests when the controversy over OMC occurred. The …
The Supreme Court today stayed all further mining activities of Obulapuram Mining Corporation in Andhra Pradesh, belonging to Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy and his brother. Earlier, the court had ordered status quo on an Andhra Pradesh High Court judgment that had allowed mining activities. Today, a bench headed by …
S.S. NEGI NEW DELHI After several rounds of litigation on alleged illegal mining by a company owned by Karnataka's powerful minister G. Janardhan Reddy and his brothers in the Bellary area, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered a fresh survey of all their three mining fields and till then stayed …
JOWAI: Cattle smuggling is rampant along the Meghalaya- Bangladesh border. Hundreds of cattle -heads are smuggled to Bangladesh via Kuliang, Dona, Umkiang and Ratacherra villages daily and the illegal business is a cause of serious concern for BSF personnel in the area. Most locals residing along the border are involved …
Three persons were arrested for attempting to sell a leopard pelt in the City on Friday. The pelt has been seized from them. Police with three men suspected of selling a leopard pelt at Chikkanayakanahalli on Friday. DH PhotoActing on a tip off that leopard pelt was being traded in …
tlantic bluefin tuna could be the first widely eaten species to be banned from being traded internationally. Would it work, and would it set a useful precedent for other species?
Greater Noida: Officials of the special mining squad, including a sub-divisional magistrate and a deputy superintendent of police, had a narrow escape when the mining mafia opened fire at them during a surprise check in Maujabad area of Greater Noida. However, no one was injured as they managed to flee. …
Set against the mighty Reddy Republic, these two miners are small players. But their stories are remarkably instructive since these capture the sweep of alleged irregularities that the Reddys are being scrutinised for
MUMBAI: The sand-mining mafia, which is gradually choking Bankot Creek in Raigad, attacked a TOI team and environmental activists Sumaira Abdulali and Naseer Jalal that visited the creek on Tuesday afternoon to report on the illegal activities. The Mahad police have registered a case of attempt to murder, criminal intimidation …
The state vigilance department began probing the scam after the opposition highlighted irregularities in mining in July last year. Till date it has registered 11 cases against individuals and mining companies, including big names like Rungta Mines and Ms Serajuddin and Company. The department has also filed cases against some …
Bhubaneswar, March 14: The defeat of top Congress and BJP leaders in the last Assembly elections has apparently made it easy for the ruling BJD in Orissa to have smooth sails in each session of the Orissa Legislative Assembly. The
