On July 21, barely a fortnight after he filed a PIL in the Gujarat High Court seeking an end to illegal limestone mining along the Gir wildlife sanctuary, 36-year-old activist Amit Jethava was killed. He was shot from point blank range on a busy highway in Ahmedabad, minutes after he came out of his lawyer
New Delhi: Lafarge moved nearer to operating its mining lease for limestone from the Meghalaya hills after the Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court the company has deposited Rs 75.06 crore in a corpus to finance compensatory afforestation. The corpus is under a Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority, set up by the environment ministry.
BHUBANESWAR: Senior Congress leader Umesh Swain today alleged that the State Government had given a benefit of Rs 25,000 crore to the mine owners of State by not pursuing the case relating to Orissa Rural Infrastructure and Socio-Economic Development (ORISED) Act, 2004 in the Supreme Court.
SHILLONG: The KHADC received a lump sum amount of Rs 1.59 crore in the last financial year from the State Government as royalty on limestone extracted from Nongtrai-Shella areas by the French company Lafarge to feed its cement plant in Bangladesh.
The absence of any systematic study by Indian or foreign scientists has left sufficient room for wide and wild speculation on the probable causes of high incidence of cancer in parts of Punjab
Union Minister for Steel Virbhadra Singh is upset over the alleged attempts to derail the Rs 260-crore Arki Limestone project, for which the Steel Authority of India Limited signed an agreement with the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) in November 2009.
SHILLONG, April 28: French cement giant Lafarge has to overcome yet another hurdle to resume operations in Shella areas, with a tribal village council having denied holding any meeting with Regional Chief Conservator of Forests BN Jha.
