In 2019, the illegal wildlife trade reached staggering levels. Pangolin scales and ivory were being trafficked in massive quantities from Africa to Asia, exposing a network of crime syndicates operating at an industrial scale. The sheer volume of these shipments marked a disturbing milestone, one that revealed the global reach …
BHUBANESWAR: The Mines Directorate seems to have woken up to the occasion after the Opposition brought the multicrore mining scam to the fore. Conducting a series of raids in the Cuttack and Jajpur Road circles, the State- level enforcement squad of the directorate seized minerals worth over Rs 13.32 crore …
THE Union environment ministry has adopted an unusual conservation strategy to save the dwindling population of edible-nest swiftlets (Aerodramus fuciphagus) in the Andamans. It has taken them off the Schedule-I list of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, which accords the highest protection to a species. The nests of these swiftlets …
BHUBANESWAR: Vigilance sleuths today raided the Unchabali iron and manganese mines at Joda in Keonjhar district in connection with multi-crore mining scam. Application for the mine was submitted in the name of Indrani Patnaik in 1999. Surface right was granted to the applicant in 2008. The raid was conducted in …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO Even as the UPA government maintains silence over the massive "irregularities" in mining activity in Orissa, the Naveen Patnaik government in the state -- which itself faces charges of "patronising" and "shielding" the accused -- continues to employ its vigilance wing to net the "small fishes" allegedly …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the Vigilance Department of the State government conducted raids at several places in the course of their investigation into the multi-crore mining scam on Wednesday, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a demonstration here demanding that the probe into the scam should be carried out at …
Illicit gem mining by outsiders continues relentlessly in the Sri Lanka Gem Corporation owned lands of Welgahawadiya in Minipe sector. Unscrupulous elements are taking advantage of the Gem Corporation's failure to auction the land nearly 1.5 acres in extent despite an announcement made by the Corporation some time ago. A …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO It's official now. The Union government has admitted illegal mining of iron ore and manganese in Orissa's mineral-rich Keonjhar district. Replying to a letter by Pradesh Congress Committee president K.P. Singhdeo, Union mines minister Bijoy Krishna Handique has said investigation carried out by the Indian Bureau of …
Bhavnagar: Forest department officials caught a 19-year-old class XII student with antlers and skull of a blackbuck, a protected wildlife species, on Monday evening. Police also recovered an antler of a nilgai from him. They said they caught him after setting a trap when he was trying to sell a …
Poachers have killed two rhinos and robbed them off their precious horns in a span of ten days in Chitwan National Park (CNP), Nagarik daily reported. A male rhino was found in Temple Tiger area on September 2, while a female rhino was found in Krishnasar Community Forest of Nawalparasi …
BHUBANESWAR: While the multi-crore mining scam is unfolding everyday, national BJP president Rajnath Singh today deputed a party delegation to visit the mines-rich Keonjhar and Sundargarh districts to assess the illegal mining. A delegation of the State BJP comprising Bijay Mahapatra, Dharmendra Pradhan, Rudranarayan Pani and Jatin Mohanty today met …
P. Sudhakar Mud road formed to enable lorries reach Tamirabharani Not a good sign: A mud road, formed by sand miners, branching off a Palayamkottai-Seevalaperi stretch near Kirubha Nagar. TIRUNELVELI: Even as illegal sand mining with bullock carts by a group of politically influential persons in Pettai near Tirunelveli Town …
The State Government on Wednesday suspended Director of Mines Rabi Narayan Sahu in connection with the multi-crore mining scam. J R Patnaik, Director of Geology, will be in additional charge of Mines. Sources said that Sahu had allowed the Ram Bahadur Thakur Limited (RBTL) to guard the Katasahi and Rudukela …
ALAPPUZHA: Large quantities of sand, mined from the Vembanadu lake during the dredging of the Kollam-Kottappuram Inland Waterway-III at Thanneermukkom, is alleged to have been illegally transported to various places inside and outside the State. The contractor who undertook the dredging work for Rs 20 lakh, has already transported around …
Harish Joshi & Yogesh Pareek | TNN Bharuch: Setting traps for rare birds is turning out to be good business for poachers with customers lining up for the birds' meat every week in Hansot area of Bharuch district. While officials concerned are so far not aware of this, illegal trade …
Asia Pulp and Paper, one of the largest paper producers in Asia, said on Thursday it has no immediate plans to expand its two Indonesian pulp mills and would only do so if it secured sustainably produced timber. The Indonesia-based company, known by its initials APP, is a target for …
KRISHNAGIRI: Stringent action would be initiated against anyone found involved in illegal quarrying in the district, District Collector V.K. Shanmugam warned. In a press release Mr. Shanmugam asked people to inform the District Revenue Officer (Mobile: 9445000909); Deputy Director
Surinder Sud / New Delhi September 07, 2009, 1:17 IST Over 90 countries, including India, have agreed to a draft of the first-ever global treaty to curb illegal marine fishing that is disturbing the fisheries
P. Sudhakar GROUP ACTIVITY: Bullock carts, which were involved in illegal sand mining at Kondanagaram near Tirunelveli on Saturday. TIRUNELVELI: Even as the officials here have intensified their drive against lorries and the tractors involved in illegal sand mining through surprise checks during the wee hours and confiscating those vehicles, …
LOOTING of the reserve forests in the Chittagong Hill Tracts has reached alarming proportions. The way the illegal loggers in collusion with some dishonest forest officials are depleting the forest resources of Rangamati has again become glaringly evident from a recent report in this paper. But one would again notice …
Counterfeit medication is not only a problem of developing countries. Thanks to globalisation and e-commerce this profitable business is spreading to Europe too. Governments, industry and consumers must cooperate to fight such practices.
