Toxic runoff from unregulated rare earth mines in Myanmar and Laos is contaminating the Mekong River and its tributaries, threatening the l...

Birbhum's Bolpur and Rampurhat constituencies are set for tight electoral battles. Factional rivalries within the ruling TMC and local deve...

A presiding officer in Lok Sabha asked a minister about balancing rare earth mineral exploitation with environmental protection. The minist...

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

While addressing a rally in Assam's Dhubri, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi said BJP has became world's richest party in just 10 years, Con...

In its drive against trans-border crimes and smuggling, Border Security Force (BSF) troops deployed under the Guwahati Frontier foiled a sm...

The snake is referred to as the mandool/mandul or du-tondya (the one with two mouths), and its scientific name is Eryx Johnii. It is also k...

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

Challenging Abhishek, Dilip Ghosh commented that “Abhishek mentioned about the 25 BJP MLAs after he got disoriented after nine-hour long qu...

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president went on a 12-hour hunger strike, or “deeksha”, to protest against the severe shortage of sand in And...

These are trained bulls that can transport smuggled sand in the cover of darkness and carry it to the right destination without a cart driv...

Maharashtra government is mulling over a policy that may allow entry tax and VAT to be imposed on import of sand from neighbouring states.

After items like antiques, narcotics, sandalwood or animal body parts, now it is the turn of live animals like snakes.

The acute shortage of the material that makes for about 10-15% of the cost in any housing project could delay an array of projects under co...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has banned mining of sand from river beds across the country without environmental clearance.

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

An alarming increase in the smuggling of reptiles such as monitor lizards, snakes and turtles in the Tarai belt of UP bordering Nepal has p...