Mines and Geology Minister Vinay Kulkarni has said that 38 sand blocks have been identified, spread across an area of 506.56 acres, in the non-CRZ area of Dakshina Kannada.

Residents of Kandaneri, a village in Vellore district, have been knocking the doors of the district administration to stop the unauthorised mining of sand from the Palar basin.

MLC Kota Srinivas Poojary said that district administration has utterly failed to maintain the effective sand mining policy in the district.

In a significant order, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), East Zone Bench has directed the State administration to not allow sand mining on the Brahmani river bed at Dharmasala tehsil of Jajpur di

If the entire process is going to be handed over to the district administration, the situation is also likely to worsen'

Meerut: The National Green Tribunal on Thursday directed five persons "involved in illegal mining" in the Saharanpur area to pay an "environmental compensation" of Rs 50 crore, "payable by each for

Chennai: The Madras high court has given the Vellore district administration one month to verify whether sand quarrying on Palar river bed was being carried on as per rules, and whether the operato

Alternative to river sand is made by crushing rocks using new technology.