Dharwad-based non-government organisation - Samaj Parivartana Samudaya (SPS) – has urged the apex court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) to recommend ban on mining activities in Tumkur a
The new Mines and Mineral Development and Regulation (MMDR) Bill, 2011 will ensure that the industry shares its profits with affected people. This is a special report by Down To Earth on this bill that will make mining companies shell out Rs 10,500 crore a year for affected people.
The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) conducted inspections in the mining areas bordering Tumkur district at Doddabyaladakere of Hosadurga taluk of Chitradurga district on Tuesday.
Bangalore: The Bellary brothers, considered the kingmakers of Karnataka politics, found themselves sidelined from the new ministry led by Sadananda Gowda after a tame surrender by the Jagadish Shet
The goods train transporting ore has been at the Sasalu railway station in Holalkere taluk for one week now. Companies have stopped mining activities as a last ditch effort to avoid facing a ban in the face of the visit of the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) to the district to study the impact of mining on the environment.
Investigators followed the money trail to zero in on the alleged attempts made by the JSW Group to influence the then Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa by giving huge illegal gratifications to his kin.
The reluctant resignation of B S Yeddyurappa from the chief-ministership of Karnataka has shown once again that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is as complicit as the Congress Party on corruption and the criminal abuse of government authority for personal aggrandisement. This is not a revelation, but it is easy to overlook how significant a blow it is to the BJP’s image and political strategy of cornering the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government over corruption. (Editorial)
