Maharashtra minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday said the state revenue and police departments will jointly take strict action against illegal mining of sand and its transportation. No ...

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

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

The High Court of Bombay at Goa came down heavily on the State government and police over their inaction in curbing illegal ...

Jaipur: Illegal sand mining continues unabated across Rajasthan, largely due to the acute shortage of legally operational ...

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

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 ...

Former Minister Rajitha Senaratne has filed an anticipatory bail application before the Colombo Magistrate’s Court, seeking ...

Sand mining — mostly for use in the construction industry — is big business, with 50 billion tons used globally each year, the United Nations Environment Programme said in a report last year ...

Sand mining has been declared illegal in most parts of India with countless court petitions highlighting the danger it poses to coastlines, marine life, and sand reserves.

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).

Sand mining requires water to wash the material. Too much pumping lowers the water table, and the use of flocculants can contaminate groundwater. These are solvable hydrogeology and design issues.