PANJIM: In a partial relief to the sand extraction activity, Union government has asked Goa to form a special committee to study the specific sites where sand extraction can be done without harming the ecology.

In major development with an obvious projected fallout, The Ministry of Environment and forests has sounded a virtual death knell to Goas mining by filing an affidavit on the High Court of Bombay

PANJIM: Claiming that the upcoming Mines and Minerals Regulation and Development (MMRD) Bill 2011 will be deterrent to the mining industry in Goa, industry players will be placing their views befor

PANJIM: The Justice M B Shah Commission will submit its first report into the Illegal Iron Ore trade in Goa to the Union Mines Ministry on December 1.

A senior member of the commission said that two reports would be submitted to the union government and the first one would be given on December 1.

PANJIM: The Chief Minister has thrown his entire might behind the man the government bent over to please by denotifing his land marked for airport parking.

Denying any illegality, the Goa Revenue Department on Wednesday filed an affidavit in the Bombay High Court at Goa in response to a petition filed in September by a citizen challenging the State government's de-notification of a piece of land that was acquired to create a parking lot at Dabolim airport in south Goa under the Naval jurisdiction

NEW DELHI: The Environment and Forests Ministry may stop halting industrial and government projects for minor lapses of conditions stipulated under the Environment (Protection) Act to escape the bl

PANAJI: Supreme Court has issued notices to State Government over illegal mining case related to Jitendra Deshprabhu and others in a petition filed by social activists Kashinath Shetye and others.

PANJIM: After doing its job and thinking they had gotten away, the government is on the back foot as Herald is asking serious questions to Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on the role he, the revenue

Even as the government may not be in favour of a blanket ban.

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