Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
New Delhi he Supreme Court has sought replies from the Centre, the Karnataka government and four mining firms including JSW on cross-petitions seeking review of its September 2010 order that set aside a recommendation by the Karnataka government — later endorsed by the central government — to allow mining of …
Odisha expects to get additional revenue of Rs 1000 crore from the proposed forest development tax (FDT). The FDT is set to be levied at the rate of 15 per cent on sale value of minerals raised on forest land. "The finalization of FDT will need an inter-departmental consultative process …
PANJIM: While iron ore production in Goa declined, bauxite mining tripled during the financial year 2010-11, as indicated by the knowledge paper released during the recently held Investor’s Forum in Panjim. The knowledge paper was released by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar during the Investor’s Forum organized on June 30, by …
Deputy Director of Mines (DDM) for Joda mining circle has issued notices to eight iron and manganese mines for payment of royalty dues amounting to Rs 350 crore on the basis of updated ore prices issues by Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM). The notices for differential royalty collection were sent …
KOLKATA, 12 JUNE: The Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) is planning to auction around 100 acres of its land in and around Kolkata and is awaiting a nod from the Centre. All this to raise funds to meet future liabilities towards payment of pension to the employees, the KoPT management said. …
Ranchi, April 24: Reclaimed from Maoists, the natural reserves of Saranda are up against unscrupulous adversaries. At least four mining firms have been extracting iron ore and manganese against their sanctioned capacities in this West Singhbhum region since 2008 right under the nose of the mines department and Jharkhand State …
BHUBANESWAR: Minister for Steel and Mines Raghunath Mohanty on Wednesday said the State Government had decided to make the export of iron ore from different ports fully transparent. To a question from Hitesh Kumar Bagarti (BJP), the minister said according to the decision taken at a meeting presided over by …
Goa Mineral Ore Exporters Association (GMOEA), has welcomed the Union Mines Ministry’s decision of referring Justice Shah Committee suggestion of banning exports of iron and manganese ore, to the Ministry of Commerce. The Association has said that since the exports are guided by Export-Import Policy under the Ministry of Commerce, …
Justice MB Shah Commission of Enquiry on illegal mining of iron and manganese ores has in this first interim report suggested a ban on exports of iron and manganese ores to conserve the mineral for posterity. The Government of India has set up Shri Justice M. B. Shah Commission of …
Supreme Court order dated 02.09.2011 in IA no.22 in WP (C) 562/2009 regarding sale of iron ore in districts of Bellary, Chitradurga and Tumkur and matters connected therewith.
Days after the Supreme Court temporarily banned mining in Bellary, the suspended miners want the state’s forest department to share responsibility for the environmental degradation. The miners, including one of the largest — Sandur Manganese Iron Ore, have said that if the rationale for last week’s Supreme Court decision to …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided that only traders with licence will be allotted rakes to transport minerals by railways. This was decided at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Secretary TK Mishra here today. Mishra took stock of the situation arising out of illegal transportation of iron and …
The mining scam unfolding in Orissa shows companies, big and small, have been illegally extracting ores worth hundreds of crores of rupees for years. The state vigilance department began probing the scam after the opposition highlighted irregularities in mining in July last year. Till date it has registered 11 cases …
The steel and mines ministries are locked in a bitter turf war on amending the existing Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation (MMDR) Act. The mines ministry has proposed giving states full powers to allocate mining leases by removing the clause that requires them to seek Centre
Several corporate houses have their eyes on the manganese reserve recently found at Patamda block of East Singhbhum. Officials in the district mining department revealed that they had received as many as 90 applications from across the country.
The Unchabali Iron & Manganese Ore Mines of Srimati Indrani Patanaik is situated in Mahaparbat Pahad in Unchabali & Balda villages under Champua sub division in Keonkhar district of Orissa state.. An area covering 106.4728 hectors was granted for P.L in favour of Smt. Indrani Patnaik on 5.3.98 for a …
The mining of manganese ore by the government-owned Mysore Minerals Ltd and a private Goa-based mining company has "resulted in massive degradation" in the Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka, says Anantha Hegde Ashisar, convenor of the Vriksha Raksha Andolan, a local environment movement. On January 27, a massive demonstration against …
