The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted simultaneous raids at eight locations across West Bengal in connection with a sand-smuggling rac...

The Enforcement Directorate launched raids at 22 locations across West Bengal, including Kolkata, Jhargram, Nadia, and North 24 Parganas, o...

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

Welcome to Birbhum's world of illegal sand mining, which has spawned rivalry, murder, a culture of adversaries storing guns and illegally m...

Illegal sand mining, conveniently brushed under the carpet for years, kicked a political storm when CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan embarked on Na...

Its recommendation was based on a letter from the Thoothukudi district collector Ashish Kumar registering that inspection into mining of mi...

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

Internet of Things is being used to bring transparency in the scam-hit iron ore sector in Goa and sand mining business in Andhra Pradesh an...

“Given the shortage of sand in the market, we will be opting for manufactured sand,“ said C Muralidhar, engineer-in-chief in Telangana's Ir...

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

Directorate of geology and mining joint director Mahesh Babu said, "The crisis has ended now.In every district, one to two sanctions were b...

With the report just being submitted, critics are questioning why two other districts that see rampant illegal mining have been left out of...

The National Green Tribunal directed UP government to show by August 29 "definitive results" on banning illegal sand mining.

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

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

Supreme Court today issued notice to Centre and all states seeking their response for framing rules for preventing illegal sand mining on r...

With the people in the rural areas turning out on the roads to protest illegal sand mining, the Jayalalithaa government has launched a majo...