India is set to auction 13 offshore mineral blocks in the Arabian Sea and Andaman Sea on November 28, 2024. This groundbreaking initiative ...

The centre will soon auction ten offshore mineral blocks to expand raw material sources for key industries like construction. Secretary of ...

The mines ministry has identified offshore blocks within India's exclusive economic zone for granting operational rights, following amendme...

M-Sand is artificial sand produced from crushing hard stones into small sand-sized angular shaped particles, washed and finely graded to be...

Bains, in another decision, said his department will impose a fine of Rs 2 lakh if anyone found carrying construction material which was ex...

Inaugurating three mines of WCL through video conferencing, the road transport, highways and MSME minister also asked the company to employ...

The ruling BJP govt reviewed the progress of the mining directorate, after it suffered a setback in the Lok Sabha bypolls in Gorakhpur and ...

The Sand Mining Framework was launched by Union Minister of Mines Narendra Singh Tomar at the third National Conclave on Mines & Minerals h...

"The changes in the MMDR Act are benefiting people. Their living condition is changing," Narendra Singh Tomar said.

The Union minister has been writing to many CMs on the issue and the first set of letters has been despatched — including to Yogi Adityanat...

The port proposes to use dredged sand for construction purposes after segregating and subjecting it to washing. This will be done on a PPP ...

Mining of sand, boulder and, gravel, halted for almost five years, is set to resume shortly in Haryana, a much-needed relief to constructio...

A pilot sand mining scheme undertaken in East Godavari district under the new Sand Mining Policy-2014 has met with "tremendous success".

Jakhar dared Badal to convene a one-day legislative session exclusively on the issue and "let it be broadcast, so that the people of Punjab...

National Green Tribunal has banned mining river sand to ensure that reckless river sand mining does not wreck the environment and lead to d...

The policy, if implemented effectively, will curb the growing activities of the sand mafia in the state and make sand available to all at a...

In a significant move to check exploitation of sand quarrying licences issued to private parties, the Tamil Nadu government has made the Pu...