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Eight labourers, mostly from Bihar, killed as rock collapses at stone quarry in BengaluruA devastating rock collapse at a Bengaluru stone quarry claimed the lives of eight daily-wage labourers, primarily from Bihar. The incident...
Meet Dhiman Chakma: IAS officer suspended in Rs 10 lakh bribery case, now reinstated by Odisha govtOdisha has reinstated 2021-batch IAS officer Dhiman Chakma. He was arrested in June 2025 for allegedly accepting a bribe. Chakma now serves...
Vehicles, road dust & industries main Delhi-NCR polluters: StudyThe Commission for Air Quality Monitoring is reviewing an IIT Kanpur-TERI report. It identifies road dust and traffic as the main pollution...
Kinnaur, Spiti valley cut off from Shimla due to landslidesAlternate routes are also closed due to heavy rains and landslides. The Luhri-Aut National Highway (305) is also blocked at three places an...
Anti-encroachment drive intensified in Kashmir: OfficialsIllegal encroachments at many places in Srinagar including at Humhama, Peerbagh, Padshahibagh and Chattabal were removed on Saturday, the o...
Mizoram quarry collapse: NGT registers suo-moto case, summons officialsTill now 11 of the 12 bodies have been recovered from the site at Maudarh village in southern Mizoram's Hnahthial district.
Adherence to environmental and pollution norms cannot be compromised: Supreme Court"Adherence to the environmental and pollution norms cannot be compromised for factual misunderstandings or due to cryptic determination. Or...
NGT imposes over Rs 1.17 cr penalty on 21 stone crushers in AP for causing pollutionIt warned that if the amount is not paid, then the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) is directed to take appropriate steps to ...
CPCB orders closure of hot mix plants, stone crushers in Delhi-NCR till November 17"Frequency of mechanised cleaning of roads and water sprinkling to be increased, particularly on road stretches with high dust generation p...
Singrauli pollution: SC notice to Centre on plea alleging non-compliance of NGT orderA bench of Justices R F Nariman, Navin Sinha and K M Joseph sought response from the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Central Pollution...
ULFA(I) militants attack stone crusher unit workers in Dibrugarh, 2 injuredPolice said today that five gunmen with their faces covered came to the stone crusher unit in Namrup last night and started firing on the w...
In this Uttarakhand village 5000 villagers drove away miners to save their fieldsAfter all, it was in these very fields that the 5,000 odd villagers fought for their existence, in question for the past 11 months.
Ban fails to stop illegal mining in AravalisLocals said the activities usually happen at night and they have spotted a couple of trucks coming out of the villages loaded with stones.
Centre,ONGC to say if gas can be given to tea units in AssamA bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar asked the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, ONGC and AGCL to make their stand clear before i...
- Gujarat Pollution Control Board gets HC extension to form policy
The Gujarat high court grants extension to pollution control board to formulate policy regulating stone crushing and quarry business.
- 6 illegal crusher units in Hazaribagh National Park destroyed
Six illegally operated stone crusher units were today destroyed in the Hazaribagh National Park during an operation by district authorities.
- After Nigamanand, NGOs only green obstacle to illegal quarrying in Ganga
Following the ban on their activities in 2010, Himalaya stone crushers first obtained a stay order against which Nigamanand went on a fast-...
- Quarrying on in Aravalis despite SC ban
No amount of court orders, it seems can save the Aravali from the marauding miners.
- J&K committee suggests measures to control pollution in valley
The Assurance Committee of J& K legislature suggested stringent measures to check growth of "unlicensed and illegal" industrial units espec...
- Havoc in Aravalis as SC norms are ignored
TOI uncovers a disturbing story of savage exploitation of environment and labour just 36 km from Delhi