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Mud road formed to enable lorries reach Tamirabharani

Not a good sign: A mud road, formed by sand miners, branching off a Palayamkottai-Seevalaperi stretch near Kirubha Nagar.

The State Government on Wednesday suspended Director of Mines Rabi Narayan Sahu in connection with the multi-crore mining scam. J R Patnaik, Director of Geology, will be in additional charge of Mines. Sources said that Sahu had allowed the Ram Bahadur Thakur Limited (RBTL) to guard the Katasahi and Rudukela iron ore mines in Keonjhar district

ALAPPUZHA: Large quantities of sand, mined from the Vembanadu lake during the dredging of the Kollam-Kottappuram Inland Waterway-III at Thanneermukkom, is alleged to have been illegally transported to various places inside and outside the State.

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Asia Pulp and Paper, one of the largest paper producers in Asia, said on Thursday it has no immediate plans to expand its two Indonesian pulp mills and would only do so if it secured sustainably produced timber.

KRISHNAGIRI: Stringent action would be initiated against anyone found involved in illegal quarrying in the district, District Collector V.K. Shanmugam warned.

Surinder Sud / New Delhi September 07, 2009, 1:17 IST

Over 90 countries, including India, have agreed to a draft of the first-ever global treaty to curb illegal marine fishing that is disturbing the fisheries

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GROUP ACTIVITY: Bullock carts, which were involved in illegal sand mining at Kondanagaram near Tirunelveli on Saturday.

LOOTING of the reserve forests in the Chittagong Hill Tracts has reached alarming proportions. The way the illegal loggers in collusion with some dishonest forest officials are depleting the forest resources of Rangamati has again become glaringly evident from a recent report in this paper.