In what may scuttle efforts in wildlife conservation, a black granite factory is being built illegally in the K Gudi eco-sensitive zone of the Biligiriranganatha-swamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve.
The Madras High Court bench here on Wednesday ordered notice to the Public Works Department (PWD), the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and the Madurai District Collector on a public inte
The department wants own sleuths to crack down on illegal mining activities, just like transport and excise department have their personnel for such tasks
The High Court on Friday disposed of a petition for CBI inquiry into illegal granite mining in Bagepalli town of Chikkaballapur district after the government agreed for a probe by the district’s Su
Rights’ panel order ignored, say environment activists
The Chembanmudy Protection Council and the Chembanoly People’s Action Council have strongly condemned the withdrawal of the ban imposed on Manimalethu Granites at Chembanmudy hillock for granite quarrying.
Consistently clocking negative growth for the past two years, the mining industry now has some good news: this has been the safest period with the number of fatal accidents hitting an all-time low
Licensed granite miners have extracted more of the scarce natural resource than they should from the government sanctioned quarries in Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram districts in Kerala, according t
