RAWALPINDI: Punjab Minister for Mines and Minerals Chaudhry Sher Ali asked Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) to cut off supply to stone crushers at Margalla Hills, claiming that the illegal

The District Administration Office (DAO), Morang has been preparing to shut down all kinds of crusher factories in the district.

BHOPAL: Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has urged the Union government to exempt quarries of minor minerals from provisions of environmental clearance besides declaring Narmada-Malwa Link proj

The centre has appointed a three-member state-level impact assessment authority (IAA) to issue environmental clearances for minor mineral leases in Gujarat.

In a first for any state, the Haryana government has made public its losses on account of illegal sand mining.

These people are also cutting down trees inside the plant, defacing its greenery and putting the area’s ecological balance under threat

Ignoring a government ban, politically influential people have been allegedly running a profitable business of extracting stones from three rivers in Lalmonirhat – Dharla, Shaniajan and Singimari –

We served several notices to the illegal stone lifters beside the LGED’s infrastructures but the syndicate did not respond to the notices

Over a dozen illegal stone quarries are operational at Manjhphat and Baskharka, the north VDCs of Parbat.

Illegal sand mining in the Chure region is causing destruction of the forests areas, stakeholders have said.