The Forest department has booked 57 mining companies, including the State-owned Mysore Minerals Limited (MML) and National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), for carrying out mining operations
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgment on the Goa mining dispute after five weeks of the final hearing on the writ petition of the Goa Foundation.
It also fixed November 11 for passing two interim orders, further to its stay on all the mining activities in the state since October 5 last year.
The State government has decided to put a cap on the quantum of ore to be mined every year, henceforth, at the 51 ‘C’ category mines which will be re-auctioned in the near future. The decision was taken on October 7 at a meeting of the Committee for the disposal of ‘C’ category mines headed by Chief Secretary S V Ranganath.
PANJIM: The Supreme Court will resume hearing the Goa mining case today (October 22), with all parties hoping that the hearings are completed over the scheduled two weeks until the court breaks for
Company recently secured a working permit for one year from MoEF for its mines in Chitradurga district
Sesa Goa, a division of Sesa Sterlite, is moving towards resuming iron ore mining in Karnataka. The company, which had stopped mining following a Supreme Court ban in the state two years ago (later lifted), recently secured a working permit for one year from the union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) for its mines in Chitradurga district.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday defended Minister of State for Infrastructure Development Santosh Lad by stating that there were no documents to prove allegations of illegal mining against him.
He said the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) had listed V S Lad and Sons mining company under ‘C’ category and its licenses were cancelled for ‘overstretching of dumps’ into forest land and not for illegal extraction, transportation or export of iron ore.
Manohar Parrikar-led Goa government made a vehement appeal to the Supreme Court Wednesday that it should be given a chance and “left alone” for some time to judge efficacy of its actions against il
Emphasising that the purported illegal mining in Goa was carried out during the previous Congress-led regime, the Goa government Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to lift the ban in view of the resol
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Goa government on what basis it had placed the mining cap on leases at 45 MT in its draft mining report even as it did not accept the contention of the State government advocate that the case filed by the Goa Foundation should be dismissed.
Taking note of Goa's plea of "zero tolerance" against illegal mining, the Supreme Court today asked the state government as to why there was no regulatory mechanism in place to check illegal iron o
