In response to a massive sand mining scam in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, the Maharashtra government has taken strict action by ...

Even as sand mining is permitted up to a depth of only 1 meter from the riverbed at Gangapur-Vailwadi in Chhatrapati ...

A large-scale illegal sand mining operation has been uncovered in the Versova sea near Andheri West. In connection with the ...

Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Maharashtra's Revenue Minister, announced a joint initiative between the state's revenue and police ...

Nagpur: In a major shift aimed at curbing rampant illegal sand mining across Maharashtra, revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday annou.

Illegal sand mining in Keta Municipality has persisted despite a ban by the Municipal Assembly, with communities like ...

Raipur: The Opposition on Tuesday raised the hot-button issue of illegal sand mining in the Assembly during Zero Hour. Leader ...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said on Wednesday, in the state assembly, that henceforth the ...

A man was fined RM100,000 by the Sessions Court, here, today, after he pleaded guilty to illegally extracting sand from ...

Mining companies get the sand by blasting chunks off the region’s rolling hillsides and washing away the other soil and rock. Nearly every step of the process poses problems for surrounding ...

Fifty-six residents of an Indigenous Oaxaca community face 200 trumped-up charges for resisting mining in their rivers.

Sand mining is believed to have lowered the bed of the Poyang Lake - a Yangtze river flood outlet and one of the world's largest sources of sand used in construction - by at least 20 metres (60 feet).