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 …
While Uttarakhand counts the cost of the floods and landslides caused by rains, scientists claim that it was a man-made catastrophe caused by mining and encroachments in the flood zone of the rivers. The foundation for a similar disaster is being laid in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, where illegal …
BHUBANESWAR: Taking serious note of pollution generated by stone crusher units in the state, Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) has directed all district collectors and SPs to keep a tab on the violators of pollution control norms. The OSPCB direction came in the backdrop of forest and environment minister …
Units ordered to close many times, but reopened soon after It is now the seventh year of protest. But, for the residents of Kenchanakuppe, Dasappana Doddi, Kallagopahalli and Thammanadoddi coming under Kenchanakuppe Gram Panchayat, next to Bidadi, the struggle to get the stone quarrying and crushing units closed continues. About …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pradip Kumar Agarwalla (Proprietor of M/s Assam Brick Craft) Vs Rohit Choudhary & Ors on quarrying and mining activity in Kaziranga dated 09/05/2013.
The National Green Tribunal, Southern Bench, on Friday ordered notices to the State government and other authorities to file replies on a residents’ welfare association’s application for closure of illegal stone-crushing units operating in residential localities in Pammal and Anakaputhur areas of Tambaram taluk, Kancheepuram district. The Bench comprising its …
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday directed the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board to submit, within a week, a report on the stone crushing units functioning in the State. During the hearing of a batch of petitions by stone crusher operators, the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice D H …
Thirteen units were operating illegally and one unit was closed down in Sidhra area while 13 others including five stone crushers, have been granted ‘consent to operate’ by the State Pollution Control Board in the same area. Minister for Forests, Environment and Ecology, Mian Altaf while giving reply to the …
PONDA: Residents of Keri-Ponda are on a chain hunger strike to oppose the deputy collector’s order granting permission to lift mined stones from a quarry at Amadi-Keri. Opposing the order, several villagers including women on Tuesday decided to block transportation of the mined stones. It may be recalled that the …
Agitated locals detain a truck in Dugh rivulet for ‘loading gravel’ from the riverbed After the failure of the Mining Department and the district administration in reining in illegal mining in Dugh and Poong rivulets, near Hamirpur, by “politically influential” people, agitated locals detained a truck in the Dugh rivulet …
SANGUEM: The mines department has directed a basalt stone quarry operator in Sanguem to pay Rs 1.22 crore towards royalty within one month, following the controversial extraction of basalt stones from a quarry in Uguem from 2008 to 2012. Hit by this notice, efforts are now on to involve local …
Order of the High Court of Karnataka regarding relocation of stone crusher units to safer zones dated 15/01/2013 in the matter of M/S Siddaroodha Stone Crushing Vs the State of Karnataka.
Amreli Activist Beaten Up By Stone-Crushing Unit Owner Rajkot: An RTI (Right to Information Act) applicant was attacked on Sunday in Thordi village in Savarkundla taluka of Amreli district. According to sources, Narshibhai Malani, a resident of Thordi, was allegedly attacked by the owner of a stone crushing unit, Mahesh …
Plans to open International Centre on Mining Safety and Automation with industry support State-owned mining major, Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (GMDC) is planning to set up centres of excellence for the stone industry in North Gujarat. The company is also searching for an industry partner to set up an …
JAMMU: Expressing serious concern on the growing environmental pollution due to mushrooming growth of stone crushers, brick klins and cement plant in various areas of the State, the Chairman, Environment Committee of the Legislative Assembly, M.Y. Tarigami, today urged for an effective regulating and monitoring mechanism, adding that existing Environment …
A crusher industry has been extracting stones from the Narayani river illegally, putting the river embankment at risk of bursting. People said over 20 tractors full of stones are supplied to the industry, run by Om Prakash Jaisawal at Ramnagar, on a daily basis. They said the stones are crushed …
Stone-crushing units continue to operate in defiance of court order Several government orders, verdicts of the courts, including directions from the Supreme Court, seem to have had no impact on the quarries and stone-crushing units around the Bannerghatta National Park (BNP). They have not only indulged in the illegal blasting …
Apex court guidelines on forest clearance violated Bandipora: In a brazen violation to the Supreme Court (SC) guidelines, a private company in league with the Border Roads Organizations (BRO) project Beacon's officials and forest department has set up a stone crusher in the dense forests of Bandipora. The Company is …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered about 70 industrial units operating inside the “no-development zone” near Kaziranga National Park in Assam to shut down. It has also imposed a penalty of Rs 1 lakh each on the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the state for allowing …
JAMMU: The Stone Crusher Owner Association (SCOA) has expressed resentment against the order issued by State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) for closure of BN Stone Crusher. In a meeting held here in this regard, president, SCOA Vikram Randhawa described the report given by Additional DDC Jammu frivolous and misleading. He …
