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Forest Official Attacked By Mafia, Cops File FIR Nearly 24 Hours Later
In eastern Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district, the coal mafia has once again shown who really calls the shots.
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Mining Mafia Held Forest Officials At Gunpoint To Free Seized Tractor: Madhya Pradesh Cops
Members of the mining mafia in Antri district of Gwalior freed a tractor which had been seized by the forest officials but while they were taking it away, it overturned and they fled. Now the police are searching for them.
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Previous Governments Handed Over Resources To Mafia: PM Modi In UP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the previous state and central governments of devastating the Bundelkhand region by handing over its resources and forests to mafia elements who "looted" them.
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Kerala Opposition Walks Out From Assembly Over Illegal Felling Of Trees
Congress-led United Democratic Front leaders staged a walkout from Kerala Assembly, alleging that Left government of shielding culprits in the illegal recent mass felling and smuggling of trees by forest mafia in the revenue land allotted to farmers.
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Man Arrested In Suspected Mining Mafia Killing In Madhya Pradesh
A 35-year-old man was arrested early Saturday for allegedly running over and killing a Forest Department officer with a sand-laden tractor-trolley, police said.
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Madhya Pradesh Forest Officer Crushed To Death Allegedly By Mining Mafia
A forest guard was run over by men who were illegally transporting sand in Madhya Pradesh's Chambal area on Friday. The guard had tried to stop a tractor, carrying sand in Morena, the police told NDTV.
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Will Expose Lalu Yadav In Next 3 Days, Says Bihar's New No. 2 Sushil Modi
Sushil Modi, Bihar's new deputy chief minister, has said he will expose in the next three days what he alleges are Lalu Yadav's links with Bihar's sand mafia. Mr Modi, who is the new Forest Minister too, has also ordered a fresh investigation into a "soil scam" and his predecessor Tej Pratap Yadav's alleged role in it. Tej Pratap is the son of Lalu...
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Bulldozers Raze Thousands Of Trees In Haryana, Activists Cry Foul
Seven bulldozers razed some 6,000 trees in the dead of night in Faridabad's Aravali area on Saturday. The machines started moving slowly, bringing the trees down one by one, just after dusk on Saturday and continued till Sunday. Environment activists alleged the night-long 'operation' was strategically timed as Monday being Eid holiday, no stay ord...
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No Tolerance To Illegal Mining In Uttarakhand: Trivendra Singh Rawat
Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Monday asked officials to adopt zero-tolerance towards illegal mining, days after a forest department employee was killed allegedly by mining mafia in Ramnagar.
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Punish Those Behind Forest Fires With Life Term, Says BJP's Tarun Vijay
BJP lawmaker Tarun Vijay today urged the central government to "enact a law to prescribe life imprisonment" for people found guilty of causing forest fires in the country and said forest mafias were responsible for the devastating Uttarakhand forest fire.
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Forest Official Attacked By Mafia, Cops File FIR Nearly 24 Hours Later
In eastern Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district, the coal mafia has once again shown who really calls the shots.
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Mining Mafia Held Forest Officials At Gunpoint To Free Seized Tractor: Madhya Pradesh Cops
Members of the mining mafia in Antri district of Gwalior freed a tractor which had been seized by the forest officials but while they were taking it away, it overturned and they fled. Now the police are searching for them.
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Previous Governments Handed Over Resources To Mafia: PM Modi In UP
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the previous state and central governments of devastating the Bundelkhand region by handing over its resources and forests to mafia elements who "looted" them.
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Kerala Opposition Walks Out From Assembly Over Illegal Felling Of Trees
Congress-led United Democratic Front leaders staged a walkout from Kerala Assembly, alleging that Left government of shielding culprits in the illegal recent mass felling and smuggling of trees by forest mafia in the revenue land allotted to farmers.
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Man Arrested In Suspected Mining Mafia Killing In Madhya Pradesh
A 35-year-old man was arrested early Saturday for allegedly running over and killing a Forest Department officer with a sand-laden tractor-trolley, police said.
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Madhya Pradesh Forest Officer Crushed To Death Allegedly By Mining Mafia
A forest guard was run over by men who were illegally transporting sand in Madhya Pradesh's Chambal area on Friday. The guard had tried to stop a tractor, carrying sand in Morena, the police told NDTV.
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Will Expose Lalu Yadav In Next 3 Days, Says Bihar's New No. 2 Sushil Modi
Sushil Modi, Bihar's new deputy chief minister, has said he will expose in the next three days what he alleges are Lalu Yadav's links with Bihar's sand mafia. Mr Modi, who is the new Forest Minister too, has also ordered a fresh investigation into a "soil scam" and his predecessor Tej Pratap Yadav's alleged role in it. Tej Pratap is the son of Lalu...
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Bulldozers Raze Thousands Of Trees In Haryana, Activists Cry Foul
Seven bulldozers razed some 6,000 trees in the dead of night in Faridabad's Aravali area on Saturday. The machines started moving slowly, bringing the trees down one by one, just after dusk on Saturday and continued till Sunday. Environment activists alleged the night-long 'operation' was strategically timed as Monday being Eid holiday, no stay ord...
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No Tolerance To Illegal Mining In Uttarakhand: Trivendra Singh Rawat
Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Monday asked officials to adopt zero-tolerance towards illegal mining, days after a forest department employee was killed allegedly by mining mafia in Ramnagar.
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Punish Those Behind Forest Fires With Life Term, Says BJP's Tarun Vijay
BJP lawmaker Tarun Vijay today urged the central government to "enact a law to prescribe life imprisonment" for people found guilty of causing forest fires in the country and said forest mafias were responsible for the devastating Uttarakhand forest fire.
