The Madras High Court on Tuesday upheld a rule in Tamil Nadu Minor Mineral Concession Rules making it mandatory for dealers in river sand to obtain a licence for setting up stockyard. The rule also makes it compulsory for the stockists to obtain the sale slip from the local Deputy Tahsildar.

Dismissing a batch of over 500 writ petitions challenging the newly introduced rule, filed at the principal seat here and the Madurai Bench, the First Bench of Chief Justice M.Y. Eqbal and Justice T.S. Sivagnanam said that Rule 38-C was fully in conformity with the Mines and Minerals

Janardhana Reddy The Uranium Corporation of India and the Karnataka government has signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a uranium ore mining and processing plant in Karnataka. UCIL proposed to invest Rs 550 crore in the plant at Gogi, Saidapur, Diggi and Umardoddi villages at Shahapur taluk of Karnataka’s Yadgir district, a release said here on Monday.

The Karnataka government would help UCIL to obtain permissions, registrations, approvals and clearances from the concerned departments as per the existing policies and rules and regulations of the state government, it said.

After a delay of two years since the memorandum of understanding (MoU), signed between the State Government and Posco India for establishment of a steel plant near Paradip, lapsed in June 2010, pro

PANJIM: Mines and Geology department will be holding a special inspection of State’s oldest mining company, Damodar Mangalji and Company Limited (DMC) on Monday before suspending its lease, as directed by Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM).

IBM, in an order issued on April 18, has directed the company to suspend the mining operations of its Band Doncol iron ore mine in Pissurlem, for violations of provisions of Mineral Conservation and Development Rules (MCDR), 1988.

After a wait of seven long years, the greenfield steel project of Posco in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district may be a reality with the state government readying an instrument of renewal for the proje

Witnesses who have testified against Janardhan Reddy and his menfear the mining baron's release from jail

A torrent of calls flooded the CBI unit in Bangalore when T. Pattabhi Ramarao, the CBI judge in distant Hyderabad, granted bail to the jailed mining baron, G. Janardhan Reddy, on May 11. Many of the frantic calls were from the 300-plus witnesses painstakingly persuaded by the CBI-Bangalore to testify in the case registered against Mr. Reddy's flagship firm, the Associated Mining Company (AMC).

BICHOLIM: Accusing a mining company of violating the North Goa District Magistrate's order, environmentalist Ramesh Gawas on Tuesday demanded that the company demolish a compound wall on the road.

It may be recalled that the district magistrate had banned public transport along the old road between Bicholim to Sarmanas passing through mining zone at Dhabdhaba-Bicholim. The notification dated October 25, 2011, was issued under Section 115 of Motor Vehicles Act 1988.