A top UN official stresses electric mobility and mandatory vehicle emissions testing for long-term air pollution solutions. India's plan to...

Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. This follows senior leader Raghav Chadha's similar move. Maliwal allege...

India has issued its first offshore mining block to the Jawaharlal Nehru Ports Authority for construction sand to be used in developing a G...

India's growing housing boom is increasing demand for river sand, leading to environmental damage and violence by the sand mafia. To mitiga...

India plans to convert Overburden from mining into M-Sand for construction to reduce reliance on river sand and protect the environment. Pu...

Accordingly, it was decided to sell sand online on a "no profit no loss" basis, Vikhe Patil said after the cabinet meeting.

The move comes after attacks on police personnel and officials of the Mines and Geology Department by the sand mafia were reported from sev...

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...

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

Once, India’s growth was hobbled by shortage of foods, foreign exchange, or skills. But now we have a bewildering new shortage: a shortage ...

Mining in the dune sand along the coastal belt of Andhra Pradesh has raised many eyebrows.

The National Green Tribunal on August 5 passed an order restraining all sand mining activity that did not have the requisite environmental ...

Boom in construction industry has triggered demand for sand, to meet which contractors, with state officials' help, have begun a dig-load-s...

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 notion that sand mining is a shady activity conducted covertly with political patronage to earn huge illegal rents must change.

What is underway in construction boom-spots such as Gr Noida & elsewhere is analogous with nothing less than Karnataka's iron ore scam.