Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …
Samaj Parivarthan Samudaya (SPS), the main petitioner in the public interest petition on illegal mining in Karnataka, has appealed to the Supreme Court for scrapping of all mining leases in Category ‘A’, which fall in the forest areas in the three districts of Bellary, Chitradurga and Tumkur. In a submission …
Initiates steps to resolve teething problems and procedural delays The Karnataka government has initiated steps to resolve some of the teething problems and procedural delays coming in the way of smooth transportation of iron ore sold through e-auction by the monitoring committee. It has decided to issue round-the-clock transit permits …
Forest department to review progress and survey leases The Central Empowered Committee has informed the Supreme Court that the reclamation and rehabilitation work has been initiated in as many as five out of 16 in the ‘A’ category of mines in Karnataka. In its latest report submitted to the Supreme …
Forest Bench says statutory clearance is a must The Forest Bench of the Supreme Court on Friday made it clear that no iron ore mining operations in Karnataka shall be permitted to resume unless there was statutory clearance for mining and till reclamation and rehabilitation was implemented in full. The …
The Supreme Court on Friday took a tough stand over the resumption of mining in Karnataka and asserted that unless it was sure that the reclamation and rehabilitation (R & R) steps are “hundred per cent” complied with, operations cannot be allowed. “There is an assumption that operations can start …
Members say it will help ganja cultivators, encourage poaching The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) of the Supreme Court on August 7 rejected a proposal cleared by the Tamil Nadu Government for laying a road connecting Karumbarai in Theni Forest Division with the grizzled giant squirrel sanctuary near Watrap in Virudhunagar …
The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has approved 16 iron ore mining lessees in Karnataka to resume operations, but has not permitted them to produce more than a third of their earlier annual sanctioned capacity. These mines together have been allowed to produce 8.24 million tonnes (mt) per annum, …
S R Hiremath, convenor of Samaja Parivartana Samudaya (SPS), has claimed that the Central Empowered Committee (CEC), appointed by the Supreme Court to examine aspects of mining in the State, has offered a biased view favouring mining companies. At a press conference, he said “Initially, excellent reports on illegal mining …
Firms like JSW Steel could face closure if mining does not resume soon Steel and pig iron companies that depend on iron ore from Karnataka are facing closure due to a severe shortage of the mineral. The state’s steel industry, whose 21-million-tonne (mt) output accounts for 25 per cent of …
The Supreme Court today asked the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), the associations representing various private industries related to mining and iron ore and the Karnataka government to draft a scheme for the e-auction of iron ore. They will also evolve a pricing mechanism. The court did not pass any …
The Supreme Court on Thursday decided to consider the plea for re-opening of 16 iron ore mines in Karnataka, acknowledging the adverse impact on the steel industry due to ban on mining operations. A three-judge forest bench led by Justice Aftab Alam fixed as August 17 the date for considering …
Private cos under-reported 30-40 mt of mining a year: SC-appointed panel The national exchequer lost more than . 50,000 crore because of illegal mining of iron ore in Karnataka, a Supreme Courtappointed panel of experts has said. The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) told the court on Thursday that not only …
New Delhi: The scale of the Karnataka mining scam seems to be getting bigger: the estimates of an expert panel suggest the alleged barons of illicit mining may have cheated the state of Rs 50,000 crore in taxes and levies. The mining syndicate which thrived across regimes claimed it was …
Following direction by the State Government to the Deputy Director of Mines (DDM), Joda, senior mining officer Samir Kumar Mishra has filed a case against Pattnaik Minerals Pvt Ltd (PMPL) in the Barbil JMFC court for illegal mining. The case is filed against PMPL directors Saroj Pattnaik, Akhilendra Pattnaik and …
Violation forest rules by cement cos in Jaintia Hills Shillong: The Shillong bench of the Guahati High Court has directed the State Government to submit a report on whether provisions of the Forest Conservation Act 1980 has been complied while granting permission of establishment of cement plants and limestone mines …
Leases with SC panel-nod yet to get legal approvals from Indian Bureau of Mines operations unlikely to start before October Steel mills in and around Karnataka that are dependent on iron ore from state mines might have to wait for some more time to get fresh supplies, as the resumption …
Environmental organisations have come out against the reported move to revive a proposal to set up a mineral water-bottling plant in the buffer zone of the Silent Valley National Park. When the proposal was made two years ago, the State government and the district administration had objected to it, with …
As the CBI continues to probe into the captive coal block allotment scam, Orissa forest department has recommended that nine coal mines of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited be closed for operating without the approval under the Forest Conservation Act. The nine mines should have been closed in May 2011, but the …
The Karnataka government is looking to mobilise close to Rs 10,000 crore from the iron ore mining sector which will be transferred to a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to undertake social infrastructure development works in the three mining districts where large scale environment degradation has taken place due to iron …
Eight Karnataka iron ore mines will resume operations by the end of July, possibly adding around 5.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) and easing some supply constraints. “The reclamation & rehabilitation (R&R;) plans of eight mines have been cleared and final approval will be given by the central empowered committee …
