Environment/Ecology Current Affairs 2012.  The Supreme Court on 5 October 2012 banned until further orders on all mining operations, in all 90 mines which also includes transportation of mined iron ore and manganese in leases, in Goa

Tags : Supreme Court , Goa , National Board for Wildlife , Central Empowered Committee

India Current Affairs August 2012. The Supreme Court of India on 17 August 2012 ruled that it would not allow resumption of mining activities of iron ore in Karnataka

Tags : Supreme Court , Karnataka , Mining

India Current Affairs August 2012. The Supreme Court of India ruled that it would not allow resumption of mining activities of iron ore in Karnataka

Tags : Supreme Court of India , Mining activities in Karnataka , Iron ore

Environment & Ecology Current Affairs 2012. Current Affairs 2012. The Supreme Court of India ruled that the states and Union Territories could now grant leases for mining minor minerals in less than 5 hectares and to renew them they needs prior approval from the Union Environment Ministry

Tags : Supreme Court of India , Environment ministry , Current Affairs March 2012 , mining activities

The Survey of India report was submitted to the submitted to the Supreme Court on 30 April 2010. The report deals with the mining activities of the Andhra Pradesh- Karnataka border that involved the Karnataka Cabinet ministers- the Reddy brothers. 

Tags : Supreme Court , Survey of India report , Karnataka Cabinet , Obulapuram Mining Company , mining , Reddy’s mines , Bellary Iron Ores Pvt Ltd

The Indian Government on 9 April 2010 submitted a set of conditions to be imposed on the French cement major Lafarge in the Meghalaya limestone mining case before the Supreme Court. Lafarge was barred from continuing with its mining activities in Meghalaya.

Tags : cement , natural resources , illegal mining , Meghalaya mining case , Central Empowered Committee , SC , Lafarge