Mineral-Based Industry

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding an illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, 29/05/2025

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 …

Agitating farmers seek time to decide on Nirmas offer

Ahmedabad: To pacify agitating farmers in Mahuva against its cement plant, the Nirma Limited on Wednesday proposed before the Gujarat High Court that the company is ready to release 46 hectares of land for deepening catchment area of the reservoir. The petitioners, who are opposing setting up of cement plant …

Cong blames MLAs mining interests for Goa crisis

Battling a political crisis in Goa, the Congress has blamed illegal mining and business interests of MLAs for the instability and repeated attempts to topple the State Government. In a confidential internal report prepared for Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the State unit has sought the Centre

Cement companies to advertise jobs

SHILLONG/JOWAI: Bowing down to the pressure of FKJGP, the cement companies in Jaintia Hills have decided publicize vacant posts in different cement plants through the local media and also in the polytechnics, colleges and ITIs. The decision to advertise the various posts in the cement plants was taken at a …

3 mine owners assaulted in Bellary

SC Had Stopped Reddy Bros Mining Ops In Obulapuram After Their Plea Bellary: Three mine owners, on whose plea the Supreme Court recently stayed mining operations of a company owned by the Reddy brothers in Andhra Pradesh, were attacked by an eight-member gang in Bellary on Monday, police said. Tapal …

Lafarge told to get new green nod for mining

French cement giant Lafarge may have to wait a while to resume mining, with the Supreme Court asking it to seek fresh environmental and forests clearance from the Centre for mining in the eco-fragile East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya. A Bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan while rejecting the …

SteelMin seeks PMs help to contain export of iron ore

Pointing out that the current export duty was grossly inadequate to contain rising export of iron ore from the country, steel minister Virbhadra Singh has sought the Prime Minister

ArcelorMittal finally finds land sellers

Ishita Ayan Dutt / Petarwar (jharkhand) March 29, 2010, 0:16 IST 90% of villagers at new site are willing to swap property for jobs. If you thought the willing land losers

Scanner on coal firm

Ranchi, March 23: A coal mining company that supplies the precious mineral from Pakur to Punjab for production of electricity invited the wrath of both the Opposition and the treasury bench today for allegedly violating pollution and transport norms. Legislators cutting across party lines created an uproar over the issue …

SC grounds Reddys mining activities

New Delhi:For the second time in three months, the Supreme Court on Monday halted the multi-crore iron ore mining activity on Andhra Pradesh-Karnataka border by politically powerful Reddy brothers accused of extracting iron ore by digging beyond their lease boundaries into Bellary reserve forest. To put the matter beyond the …

SC blocks Reddys mining: come clean

The Supreme Court today suspended all three mining leases of the Reddy brothers

Apex court asks Bellary brothers to suspend mining, orders fresh probe

Asks Survey of India To Assess Whether Reddys Have Encroached Upon Forest Land IN A blow to mining magnates and Karnataka

Maps in our minds

Consider three images. The first: of the Karnataka assembly, in chaos on Thursday as the state

Amendments to Mining Act endorsed

A cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan endorsed the proposed amendments to Madhya Pradesh Gaun Khanij Niyam 1996. The Cabinet also endorsed the proposed amendments to Madhya Pradesh Khanij (Awaidh Khanan, Pariwahan Tatha Bhandaran ka Niwaran) Niyam 2006. The Cabinet endorsed the order given by the Chief …

Even Centre admits: Our men scared of Reddys

Set against the mighty Reddy Republic, these two miners are small players. But their stories are remarkably instructive since these capture the sweep of alleged irregularities that the Reddys are being scrutinised for

From Minister to Collector how all come to the aid of the Rs 3,000-crore mining party

In the sprawling lawns of a fortified complex on a five-acre hillock in Bellary, local BJP MLA P A Suresh Babu is bowling to a 10-year-old. The boy doesn

Church of England sells Vedanta shares

the Church of England has sold its shares of Vedanta Resources saying it is not happy with the way the metal corporation treated tribals of Orissa

Vedanta plans within law: Orissa

New Delhi, March 14: Orissa government on Sunday said that Vedanta

Vedanta eyes aluminium unit spin-off: Report

Indian-focused mining group Vedanta is planning to spin off its aluminium division with an announcement regarding a demerger due as early as this week, said the UK newspaper The Independent on Sunday . The paper said the Londonlisted group would apply to the Indian courts to demerge the aluminium division, …

Vedanta sees more stake sell-offs in UK

SARJU KAUL The mining company has been criticised for "failing to respect human rights of the Dongria Kondh tribe in Orissa". : Indian mining giant Vedanta Resources, which has faced a series of high-profile divestments from high-profile organisations in Britain, is facing more pullouts over its human rights and environment …

Essar to buy US coal firm for $550-600 mn

The Essar Group is close to buying Trinity Coal, one of the top 10 coal producers in the US, in a deal worth $550-600 million (Rs 2,500-2,735 crore). Trinity is owned by private equity investment firm Denham Capital Management, Sources with knowledge of the developments said Essar

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