SHILLONG: The Congress-led KHADC Executive Committee (EC) has set up an independent inquiry committee (IAC), headed by the Council Court Additional Judge S Kharsyiemlieh, to investigate the reported involvement of its senior employees in smuggling of timber from the forest areas under the jurisdiction of the Council.

The Wildlife Conservation Department says that the elephant which received gunshot injuries when illicit timber fellers shot at the animal which was trying to obstruct the miscreants in a very strange manner had died.

Main pipeline getting damaged due to widening of roads

ARIYALUR: The Ariyalur municipality has warned that stern action would be taken against persons tapping drinking water illegally by using motors and by creating huge pits along the 28-km main water pipeline from the water pumping station at Tirumanur to Ariyalur.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Lok Ayukta has directed the Director General of Police (DGP) to deploy sufficient police personnel to keep a constant vigil in the rural areas of the district from where illegal sand mining has been reported.

AFTER an intensive campaign by the media and environmentalists, followed by an attack on the Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) by the illicit magnesite miners, the authorities have finally decided to crack down on illicit mining.

BANGALORE: Expressing dissatisfaction with the Action Taken Report (ATR) submitted by the State Government on the findings of the Lokayukta concerning irregularities and illegalities in the mining sector, Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde said:

July 13: The Centre will take up a survey to demarcate the boundaries of five iron ore mines in Anantapur forests to resolve the dispute on alleged illegal mining by Obulapuram Mining Company, owned by the Karnataka tourism minister, Mr Gali Janardhan Reddy.

The Centre on Monday informed Parliament that a survey will be conducted by the Survey of India by the end of July to demarcate the mining lease areas of five mines in Andhra Pradesh.

Former governor Rameshwar Thakur has rejected all charges made against former chief minister and senior Congress leader N Dharam Singh by the Karnataka Lokayukta in its report on the illegal mining.

AHMEDABAD: Not just poaching of winged visitors, illegal fishing is also a menace at Nal Sarovar. Rampant fishing has worried nature lovers and forest department officials alike because decrease in the fish population will directly affect the number of birds from abroad coming to the lake.