Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 3, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 27, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Crackdown on sand mafia: ED raids across Tamil Nadu over money laundering, tax evasion
Sand mining sites and sales depots managed by the state water resources department under lens
Bihar advocate alleges threat to life from sand mafia, seeks protection
He wrote to the chief minister and other officials but received no response
Look back at the decade: Sand
India faces sand scarcity leading to conflicts and illegal trade
Illegal sand mining: 20 arrested, 40 big boats seized in Bihar police operation on Sone river
Criminal syndicates have been unleashed terror in recent months by attacking & killing police officials who have cracked down upon them
Replenishment study of riverbed sand must for sand mining in Uttar Pradesh: NGT
Replenishment studies must be done by credible institutions, says court
How will India address illegal sand mining without any data?
New laws to regulate sand mining have not had much impact
Supreme Court gives conditional go-ahead to Bihar to start sand mining
Illegal extraction becomes rampant when mining is banned, says apex court
Wildlife trafficking, organised crime linked: Nonprofit’s report sheds new light
Wildlife Justice Commission Report also includes illegal sand mining as environmental crime
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 30, 2023)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 11, 2024)
Tamil Nadu suspends coastal sand mining
Government orders a probe into alleged violations by big companies
Supreme Court refuses to lift stay on sand mining in Andhra Pradesh
Asks state government to approach MoEF for environmental clearance
Supreme Court asks Jaipur metro authorities to approach environment ministry for mining sand
City metro rail project likely to get delayed
Andhra Pradesh High Court firm on not lifting stay on sand mining
Exempts state-owned Singareni Collieries
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 28, 2024)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 27, 2024)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 7, 2024)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 19, 2023)
Bihar government bans sand mining near river bridges
Move to check illegal sand mining that is destroying foundations of bridges, disturbing water flow of rivers
A river ruined: Our Yamuna is dying due to sand mining, say locals in Haryana
From flora and fauna to human residents, no one has been left untouched due to the wanton extraction of sand in the area
Sand mining ban extended till October 15 in Bihar
Three-month ban was to lift on October 1; changing rainfall trends in monsoon 2023 behind extension
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 1, 2019)
Illegal sand mining: 48 arrested in Bihar’s Bhojpur
Cops, however, have failed to arrest any of the chieftains of the region’s powerful sand mafia.