Tag: Mining

Ajay Sharma Reasi, March 22 Despite slogan of ‘no corruption' by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi and Lieutenant Governor, Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, ‘illegal' mining activities have been flourishing reportedly unchecked in Pouni tehsil of Reasi district, raising serious questions about the responsible authorities. Local sources ...

#Pakistan News An explosion occurred in a coal mine in Harnai city in Pakistan's Balochistan province. After the explosion, a part of the mine collapsed and 20 miners were trapped.Rescue teams were dispatched to the area. During the work carried out, the dead bodies of 12 miners were found, ...

Unions point to hazardous working conditions as major cause of accidents in resource-rich Balochistan.At least 12 miners have been killed in a gas explosion at a coalpit in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan. The explosion at the private pit in Harnai, in the mining region of Khost, occurred late ...

Twelve miners were killed and eight rescued after an explosion in a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan, officials said on Wednesday."The rescue operation has just been completed," said Abdul Ghani Baloch, Balochistan province's chief inspector of mines, on Wednesday morning. He said that 20 miners had been inside ...

CS for taking strict measures against illegal mining – Kashmir Reader Jammu: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo on Thursday stressed on taking strict measures as per law against those involved in illegal mining across J&K.The Chief Secretary was speaking in a meeting called to assess the working of the Mining ...

NEW DELHI, Feb 28: The CBI has summoned Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav as a witness for questioning on Friday in illegal mining cases, five years after registering the case.In a notice issued under section 160 of CrPC, the agency asked him to ...

Jammu Tawi, FEB 25: Over Rs 5 lakh penalty was imposed on Construction Company for illegal mining in Sahar Khad near local Bridge by using heavy Machinery. A Chain Machine and Dumper of the Construction Company were fined by the District Mineral Officer Kathua Rajinder Singh. It was observed that ...

AICC in-charge for Andhra Pradesh Manickam Tagore addressing the media in Vijayawada on Thursday. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. GIRI All-India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge for Andhra Pradesh Manikam Tagore on February 15 (Thursday) demanded a fair investigation into the “illegal sand mining” taking place in the StateAddressing the media ...

Khanij Bidesh India Ltd, a joint venture of state-owned miners, has signed a Rs 200 crore deal with the Argentinian government-run Catamarca Minera Y EnergÃtica Sociedad Del Estado for exploring and exploiting five lithium blocks in the South American country’s Catamarca province, Union Minister for Coal and Mines Pralhad ...

The government has already started taking steps to facilitate mining the lithium mineral in Reasi, according to multiple reports. However, mining in such a hilly district has its own challenges.For one, owing to its fragile ecology, the Himalayan region is extremely vulnerable. Raising environmental concerns of large-scale mining, experts warned that ...