Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 16, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 24, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal
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
Bihar advocate alleges threat to life from sand mafia, seeks protection
He wrote to the chief minister and other officials but received no response
Supreme Court gives conditional go-ahead to Bihar to start sand mining
Illegal extraction becomes rampant when mining is banned, says apex court
Andhra Pradesh unveils new sand policy
A tonne of sand will be available for Rs 370 only at government-owned stockyards
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
Wildlife trafficking, organised crime linked: Nonprofit’s report sheds new light
Wildlife Justice Commission Report also includes illegal sand mining as environmental crime
Look back at the decade: Sand
India faces sand scarcity leading to conflicts and illegal trade
Replenishment study of riverbed sand must for sand mining in Uttar Pradesh: NGT
Replenishment studies must be done by credible institutions, says court
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
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 30, 2023)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 11, 2024)
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)
A river ruined: Are India’s mining laws deterrent enough?
Mining has to be considered not as either a law-and-order or an administrative issue, but rather as one of environmental management
6 billion tonnes of sand taken annually from oceans, causing irreparable damage to benthic life
Marine sand extraction expected to rise to 10 to 16 billion tonnes per year, which is the natural replenishment rate
Rethink sand use, move to circular economy: UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme recommends solutions for better sand management in new report
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
Why unlawful sand mining in India needs good governance
Violation of environmental laws needs pressing attention by officials; a strict law enforcement is needed against illegal sand mining, says experts
These satellite images of Indian rivers highlight environmental impacts of sand mining
In India, sand mining grew after the rapid urbanisation brought on by the economic liberalisation in the 1990s
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 10, 2023)