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Tamil Nadu geology, mining dept to conduct enhanced drone inspection to find illegal miningTamil Nadu's Geology and Mining Department to use advanced drones for quarry inspections. This follows recent physical checks that uncovere...- Under Notre Dame cathedral, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of historyAn archaeological dig beneath Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is unearthing Roman Paris. The excavation is happening as the square is being r...
- Mining turns India's heat-shield hills to dustDizzyingly deep pits from large-scale mining scar India's ancient Aravalli mountains, threatening the future of a forested buffer that New ...
- A vanished branch of the Nile once ran beside the Great Pyramid and helped build it, a new study revealsAncient pollen grains trapped in desert sediment reveal a lost arm of the Nile, the Khufu branch, flowed near the Giza plateau during pyram...
- West Bengal orders crackdown on illegal mining to plug revenue leakagesIn a decisive move, West Bengal's Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has instructed all relevant departments to clamp down on the financial dr...
- Scientists say Easter Island’s giant Moai statues may have ‘walked’ upright across the islandA new theory suggests Easter Island's moai statues were moved upright in a rocking motion, like walking. This hypothesis, supported by stat...
- NGT orders survey of 'illegal' quarrying near Tata Cancer Hospital in Navi MumbaiThe National Green Tribunal has ordered a survey of alleged illegal stone quarrying near Tata Cancer Hospital in Kharghar. The hospital had...
- Odisha: Several people feared dead in rock collapse in stone quarryA rock collapse at a stone quarry in Odisha's Dhenkanal district on Saturday evening has left several workers feared dead. Rescue operation...
- Stone quarry collapse in Bengal’s Birbhum kills six labourers, injures manyA stone quarry collapsed in West Bengal's Birbhum district. The incident occurred in Bahadurpur village. At least six labourers died and se...
- Stone quarry caves in, 3 feared dead in MizoramThe National Green Tribunal (NGT) registered a suo-moto case in the stone quarry collapse and had ordered a compensation of Rs 2.4 crore fo...
- NGT files suo-moto case in Mizoram quarry collapse, toll climbs to 11 with recovery of one more bodyThe National Green Tribunal (NGT) has registered a suo-moto case in the stone quarry collapse in south Mizoram's Hnahthial district and dir...
- Mizoram stone quarry collapse: Toll rises to 10, PM Modi announces ex gratia for kin of deceasedThe death toll rose to 10 in the stone quarry collapse in South Mizoram's Hnahthial district as two more bodies were recovered from the sit...
- Mizoram stone quarry accident: Rescuers recover eight bodiesAccording to a report of the Deputy Commissioner of the Hnahthial district five belong to West Bengal followed by three to Assam, two each ...
- Mizoram stone quarry collapse: 15 feared trapped, rescue operation underwayAccording to media reports, 15 workers have been trapped under the quarry. The workers had returned from their lunch break when the inciden...
- Karnataka to conduct drone-based survey to get data on mineralsThe survey will begin soon and the results will be scientifically analysed. The GPRS assisted data will give us the exact location and this...
- Prohibitory orders imposed in 3 black granite quarries of BajabatiProhibitory orders were imposed at three black granite quarries at Bajabati hillock under Dharmasala tehasil limits in Odisha's Jajpur dist...
- NGT bans mining, stone quarrying near Sariska tiger reserveThe National Green Tribunal on Monday directed that no person or company will be allowed to carry out stone quarrying or mining of any sort...
- Stone quarrying: Maharashtra yet to decide if hills can be cutThe state environment impact assessment authority (SEIAA) will decide whether to allow hills to be cut for stone quarrying.
- After Nigamanand, NGOs only green obstacle to illegal quarrying in GangaFollowing the ban on their activities in 2010, Himalaya stone crushers first obtained a stay order against which Nigamanand went on a fast-...
- Silicosis wreaks havoc as illegal stone quarries flurry in RajasthanIn neighbouring Shriji Ka Kheda, which falls in Bhilwara district, more than 70 people from 60 families have died in the past decade of sil...
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