New Delhi, Aug. 10: A Union government panel has found evidence of rampant illegal mining along the Yamuna in Gautam Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh where the suspension of an IAS officer who had cracke ...More

An environment ministry committee has confirmed that illegal sand mining was taking place on river banks in Gautam Budh Nagar, a cause for suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal. Environment m ...More

The three member committee of the Union environment and forests ministry has found rampant mining in Gautam Budh Nagar. In the report submitted to the ministry it has said, “It is evident that ram ...More

A committee set up by the environment ministry is understood to have found evidence of illegal sand mining in Gautam Budh Nagar district, where IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal was recently suspended ...More

Amid raging controversy over suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakthi Nagpal by the Uttar Pradesh government, a central probe team has found that “illegal and unscientific” sand mining was rampant al ...More

NOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh government has posted a new mining officer in Gautam Budh Nagar district. The post had been lying vacant since July 25 after the former official, Ashish Kumar, was transferr ...More

A government panel Saturday said it had found "rampant" illegal sand mining along the Yamuna river in many parts of Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Budh Nagar district, where now suspended IAS officer Durga Sh ...More

CHENNAI: Amid allegations of illegal beach sand mining in Tuticorin district, the Tamil Nadu government on Thursday constituted a special investigation team led by senior bureaucrat Gagandeep Singh Be ...More

NEW DELHI: Large-scale illegal sand mining could be changing the face of Noida in many ways. Experts say it is likely to deplete and pollute groundwater, ruin river bank ecology and alter the course o ...More

SHILLONG: Sand mining in Meghalaya, which has no mining policy yet, is rampant despite the recent ban imposed by National Green Tribunal across the country on mining or removal of sand from river beds ...More

NEW DELHI: Close on the heels of the crackdown on sand mining mafia by IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal, a central panel has found "rampant, unscientific and illegal" mining going on at various locat ...More

The ruling by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) making it mandatory to get environmental clearance for mining or removal of sand from river beds including areas less than five-hectares has put both th ...More

NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the action taken by young IAS officer Durga Sakthi Nagpal against sand mafia, the union ministry of environment and forest, which has constituted a committee to inquire into the a ...More

A wetland stretching over 85 kms from Hapur’s Brijghat to Bulandshahr’s Narora area is facing severe threat due to illegal sand mining by locals and sand mafia, environmentalists said on Wednesday ...More

NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW: Amid the raging controversy over the IAS officer's suspension issue, Centre today constituted a three-member panel to probe allegations of illegal sand mining in Gautam Budh Nagar ...More

NOIDA: The regional office of UP Pollution Control Board in Noida has written to the union environment ministry that it has not accorded clearances to any sand mining lease in the district in the la ...More

SURAT: Confusion prevails among the officials on a recent National Green Tribunal order banning the mining activity in riverbeds unless an environment clearance (EC) is obtained. With the copy of th ...More

NOIDA: The regional office of UP Pollution Control Board in Noida has written to the union environment ministry that it has not accorded clearances to any sand mining lease in the district in the last ...More

MP government will file an application in National Green Tribunal (NGT) next week to inform it about the amendment made in MP minor mineral rules, 1996 which enables sand mining in area less than 5 he ...More

Vivekanand Gupta deals in all kinds of building materials. The locks hanging from the wall behind him, the neatly rolled up plastic pipes and the packaged water pumps are proof enough. Yet, the shine ...More