Mangaluru: MLAs Umanath Kotian, D Vedavyas Kamath, Y Bharath Shetty, Harish Poonja and Bhagirathi Murulya raised the issue of contractors charging high prices for laterite stone despite the reduction ...

Mangaluru: Karnataka legislative assembly speaker UT Khader said that the long-standing issues related to laterite stone quarrying in the coastal districts were resolved. He told reporters here on ...

Bhubaneswar: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a joint committee to investigate allegations of illegal and unscientific extraction of laterite stone from the Olasingh Laterite Stone ...

SHIMOGA: When Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa himself is fighting for a ban on illegal mining in the state, it is an irony that laterite stone or red stone mining is going on unabated for the past four ...

The Dakshina Kannada district administration will issue more permits to extract laterite stones from agricultural land to help bring down stone prices, said Dakshina Kannada district in-charge and ...

Mumbai: Revenue Minister of State Yogesh Kadam has directed officials to take necessary measures to simplify and speed up rules and permission procedures for the laterite stone mining industry, while ...

Laterite stone extractors in Dakshina Kannada on Wednesday sought more permits to extract the stones to bring down the cost of each stone. Talking to reporters, Satish Acharya, president of Dakshina ...

On noticing the extent of laterite stone quarrying at the site, he sought a detailed report from the Department of Mines and Geology on its impact on the surrounding areas and action taken so far.

The deceased was identified as Ajit Kumar Sahoo , a resident of Odagaon police station area in Nayagarh district. So far, two accused persons have been arrested while search is on to nab other persons ...

Ponda: Stone excavation machines, including a power tiller and a stone extractor, were seized by Ponda police in a raid on an illegal laterite stone quarry at Marad, Dharbandora, on Saturday. The ...

BHUBANESWAR: The IIT Bhubaneswar is in a pit. For the laterite stone mafia has not spared the land identified for the prestigious institute at Arugul, about 25 km from here. Three years ago, the ...

A man was killed by assailants who also allegedly chopped off his right hand in Odisha's Nayagarh district on Monday in a dispute over illegal mining of laterite stone, police said. The deceased was ...