-PTI Karnataka Government would abide by the Supreme Court decision on the recommendation of Central Empowered Committee to extend CBI probe into Illegal Mining in the state, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said today. "I will abide by the Supreme Court decision," he told reporters when asked about CEC's recommendation to the court yesterday for a CBI probe into Illegal Mining in Karnataka. Gowda had earlier rejected demands for a CBI probe...
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Coal mining: Centre dumps 'go, no-go', dubs it illegal by Neeraj Thakur
Less than two years after splitting coal mining zones into ‘go and no-go’ — a move that has stalled almost every big-ticket coal mining project in India — the government is scrapping the policy. The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), which had framed the policy guidelines along with the Ministry of Coal, on Tuesday accepted that the categorisation of ‘go and no-go’ did not have any legal sanctity. The move was...
More »Goa mining scam worth Rs 10,000 crore: Congress legislator
-IANS Goa's Illegal Mining scandal is worth Rs10,000 crore ($2 billion), former deputy chief minister of Goa and Congress legislator Dayanand Narvekar on Saturday told the Justice MB Shah commission probing the scam. Narvekar, who was a cabinet minister in Chief Minister Digambar Kamat's Congress-led government until a couple of years ago, also told Shah during a public hearing at the state secretariat that constant complaints in writing to the state chief...
More »Rs 19,000 hotel bill for ‘Gadkari sir friends’...by Amitabh Sinha and Johnson TA
*Rs 19,000 to Atria Hotel for ‘Nithin Gadkari sir friends’ on August 31, 2010. *Rs 44,000 for a money counting machine on September 9, 2010. *Rs 10,000 for the wedding of a journalist’s son. *Footwear for G Janardhan Reddy’s son. As the CBI pursues former Karnataka minister G Janardhan Reddy and his Illegal Mining activities, details emerging from the computers and diaries of close associates of the mining baron are providing investigating agencies a...
More »Iron ore mining firms get Rs 140-cr jolt by Mahesh Kulkarni
Karnataka finds large-scale violations of state laws in its three districts. Karnataka has imposed Rs 140 crore in penalties on 13 iron ore mining companies in Tumkur for encroaching on government land and dumping mineral waste, thereby causing damage to the environment. “We have conducted a suo motu joint survey with the departments of mines and geology, forest and revenue in Tumkur district and found that 13 iron ore mining companies have...
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