Mangaluru: A high-level meeting, led by speaker UT Khader and ministers of various departments, was held at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru on Tuesday, to facilitate laterite stone mining as per the law ...

Mangaluru: Despite the state Cabinet reportedly deciding to relax rules pertaining to laterite stone quarrying, the ground reality remains unchanged with the price of laterite stone skyrocketing to Rs ...

The Deputy Chief Executive of the Minerals Commission, Mr A. Y. Maxwell Klu, has called for a renewed commitment to the fight ...

Laterite stone extractors in Dakshina Kannada on Wednesday sought more permits to extract the stones to bring down the cost of each stone. Talking to reporters, Satish Acharya, president of Dakshina ...

The Dakshina Kannada district administration will issue more permits to extract laterite stones from agricultural land to help bring down stone prices, said Dakshina Kannada district in-charge and ...

Bhubaneswar: The State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) has directed the Deputy Director of Mines (Khurda) to ...

The Federal government has directed its road construction contractors not to use laterite as a base in road construction any longer. Accordingly, lumps, sharp sand and stone base will form the base ...

Upon inspection, it was found that all four lorries were loaded with laterite stone and carried no valid permit. There were a total of 1,750 stones.

The operation took place at Narkodu in Aletti village. Both vehicles, along with their drivers, were taken into custody for further legal action.