Sand Quarries

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  Sekhar Reddy, Arrested Mining Baron, Loses 30 Kilos Of Gold Bars

  Mr Reddy, who owns SRS Mining and controls many sand quarries in the region of Vellore, was arrested in December. After getting bail in March, he was re-arrested and was let on bail earlier this month.

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  All Sand Quarries In Tamil Nadu To Be Closed In 3 Years

  All sand quarries in Tamil Nadu would be closed down in three years and the government would undertake mining, storing and selling of sand at cheaper rates, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami has said.

• Did not expect to be posted outright now: Tamil Nadu bureaucrat on his transfer over crackdown on illegal sand mining

  Ashish Kumar, who was the District Collector of Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu till two days ago, was handed his transfer order on Tuesday evening. Earlier that day, he had conducted raids on mineral quarries owned by local mining barons in two villages in the district.

• Centre seeks report from UP government on IAS officer Durga's suspension

  The Centre has sought a report from the Samajwadi Party-led Uttar Pradesh government on the suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nath, who had cracked down on sand mafia involved in rampant quarrying along the banks of Yamuna river.

• Cauvery River quarries which are more than five years old ordered to be shut down

  Identifying new quarries and allowing sale of manufactured sand are some of the measures on Saturday proposed by the south Indian state Tamil Nadu government to streamline sand mining in the state.

• Court directs 16 sand quarries on River Cauvery to be shut

  The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court has ordered permanent closure of 16 sand quarries functioning in Tamil Nadu's Cauvery and Kollidam rivers. In the case of ten other quarries, the court has directed the government to obtain clearance from the Environmental Impact Assessment Authority in three months. It has also instructed the state govern...

• Blog: Tamil Nadu Police turning trigger happy

  Another alleged gangster in Tamil Nadu has been killed in a police encounter. According to the police, the Inspector was attacked at an illegal sand quarry in Tirunelvelli district and he opened fire in self defence. This has now become a routine predictable theory. This reminds me of a gruesome police encounter in Madurai which I covered as a fled...

• One killed in Tamil Nadu police encounter

  One person was shot dead in a police encounter in Tirunelvelli district of Tamil Nadu. According to initial reports, a police inspector, who raided an illegal sand quarry near Nanguneri, opened fire in self-defence and killed an alleged gangster. The gangster has been identified as Vanavamalai.

• Tamil Nadu Government's stand on sand quarrying challenged

  Organisations against exploitation of sand wealth from the Cauvery River have opposed Tamil Nadu government's contention that it did not require obtaining clearance from the Environment Ministry and Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA) committee to quarry sand in the State.

• High Court directs regulation of sand quarrying in Cauvery

  The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the collectors of five districts in the Cauvery delta to regulate sand quarrying in the Cauvery and Kollidam rivers. The directive to the District Collectors of Karur, Tiruchirappalli, Thanjavur, Nagapattinam and Thiruvarur was issued by Justice R Banumathi and Justice B Rajendran, in ...

• Sand mafia in Tamil Nadu? Man run over by mini-truck carrying sand

  A day after the sand mafia allegedly opened fire on officials probing illegal mining in Madhya Pradesh, a young man, who tried to stop illegal sand quarrying in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelevelli district, was run over by a mini-truck allegedly carrying illegal sand.