Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
BellaryThe Bellary district administration, which had intermittently gone to sleep in the last few days despite the Supreme Court ban on mining, seems to be awake and alert now. The officials have now taken some concrete steps to check illegal transportation of iron ore, after huge quantities of it continued …
PANJIM : Though closure notices have been issued to 19 mines on Tuesday, lack of coordination and failure to determine which department should enforce the notices, puts the important ban on operations in limbo. Both Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) and Mines and Geology department and Mines Department opine …
Bangalore: Outgoing Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has moved the High Court challenging the Lokayukta report indicting him in the illegal mining case. In his submission, Yeddyurappa has said the findings recorded by the Lokayukta were without jurisdication as they went beyond the terms of reference. Yeddyurappa, who has filed …
Withdraws petition from green tribunal, makes fresh plea for Lanjigarh project. Nearly a month after Jairam Ramesh took over as the rural development minister, the Vedanta Group is trying to patch up with the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) to get its projects fast-tracked. Vedanta Aluminum Ltd (VAL), an …
With 5,000 MW planned for commissioning in the 12th Five-Year Plan, Neyveli Lignite Corporation is looking for allocation of coal blocks to fuel its growth. The corporation plans to install two 1,980-MW coal-based plants at Ghatampur, Kanpur Nagar District in Uttar Pradesh, and Sirkazhi in Tamil Nadu, besides a 1,000-MW …
GVK Power and Infrastructure is likely to finalise a deal to buy coal mines of Australia's Hancock Prospecting soon, according to Mr G.V.K. Reddy, Chairman of GVK Group. Responding to queries on the outcome of his company's talks with Hancock after the inauguration of India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd regional …
Sesa Goa, a Vedanta Group Company, is close to acquiring development rights to mine iron ore in Liberia, West Africa . The mineral potential of the Western Cluster is divided among three deposits – Bomi Hills, Bea Mountain and Mano River. $600-m investment The company is expected to get the …
See Also In-court: Supreme court order on mining in Bellary by OMC Report: CEC report on iron ore mining leases in Bellary Report: Sustainable framework for mining Bill: The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2010 Rules: The Karnataka (Prevention of Illegal Mining, Transportation and Storage of Minerals) Rules, …
Kumaraswamy also appears to have been indicted Parts of the Karnataka Lokayukta, Justice N. Santosh Hegde's report on illegal mining that were leaked to the Times Now channel on Wednesday may not have added materially to the information that is already in the public domain. However, the response the leak …
Reddys are into mining in State as well, says Justice Hegde Bangalore:The Lokayukta has named Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, four ministers, former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, Congress Rajya Sabha member Anil Lad and BJP legislator Anand Singh, among others, beneficiaries of the illegal mining scam in Karnataka. The …
Coal India Ltd (CIL), which meets about 80% of the country's coal requirements, faces serious difficulties in stepping up its coal production even as the domestic demand for coal grows at a fast pace, thanks to capacity addition in key sectors like power, cement and steel. Growing environmental hurdles to …
Seeing the unregulated mining and quarrying operations in various parts of the country (not to mention those under the very nose of policy makers and regulators) that disproportionately benefit the operators and harm (net and long term) the uninformed communities in the vicinity in particular, and the citizens in general, …
Order of the Supreme Court of India dated 29/04/2011 on the Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) No. 7366-7367/2010 between Govt of A.P. Versus M/S Obulapuram Mining Co. P. Ltd & ORS on mining in Karnataka.
The Orissa government-owned Orissa Mining Corporation on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court challenging an earlier Union environment and forests ministry order to withdraw permission to mine at Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi. Instead of going to the apex court as a direct applicant, the Orissa government challenged the decision through the …
NATIONAL Mineral Development Corporation has asked the government to give a "careful consideration" before asking it to continue exports to Japanese Steel Mills and Posco ARGUING that imposition of 20 per cent ad valorem duty on iron ore exports would deplete its export earnings by a huge margin, National Mineral …
Any investors willing to bet that the commodities boom is running out of steam may need both courage and patience: major miners have wagered more than $110 billion on the opposite view. BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata have committed themselves in the last two weeks to spending vast sums …
Why a song on mining? I am a trained environmental engineer, so I always wanted to write a song on environmental degradation caused by mining in Australia. I am not sure why I did not write it before, but it is an opportune time as mining is expanding in the …
The report of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) submitted to Supreme Court, recommending the cancellation of mining leases belonging to Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), owned by Reddy brothers of Bellary.
