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Topic: illegal mining

Court sends truck driver accused in Nuh DSP’s murder to 5 days’ police custody

Sabbir, alias Mittar, the key accused, was arrested from Rajasthan Wednesday. Police are questioning him about the other co-accused.

‘Let’s teach police a lesson’ — illegal miners who ran over DSP ‘threatened his team with gun’

Tauru DSP Surendra Singh, 59, who was due to retire in three months, was mowed down Tuesday by a dumper allegedly carrying illegally mined stones in Haryana's Nuh.

Haryana DSP killed while trying to stop illegal mining in Nuh district

Tauru DSP Surendra Singh was mowed down by a dumper-truck he had signalled to a halt to check documents, in Aravalli hills, Panchgaon area.

ED recovers over Rs 18 crore in Jharkhand MGNREGA funds fraud case

The raids pertain to a money-laundering case in which Ram Binod Prasad Sinha, former junior engineer in Jharkhand govt, was arrested in 2020 under the PMLA.

Channi involved in illegal mining, claims SAD’s Majithia with ‘proof’. Punjab CM says ‘baseless’

Majithia's press conference included photos & videos as 'proof' of Punjab CM's wrongdoing, but Channi & Congress hit back by pointing at allegations against SAD leader himself.

Home of Punjab CM Channi’s nephew among 10 sites raided by ED in 2018 sand mining case

The raids, which come weeks before Punjab polls, follow ED taking cognisance of 2018 Punjab Police case. Channi's nephew Bhupinder Singh Honey not named as accused in police FIR.

Behind Bengal’s Rs 1,900-cr ‘coal scam’ story is Class 8 dropout who began as ‘petty coal thief’

Top politicians like Mamata’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee have been grilled in connection with the coal mining scam. At the centre of it is a man called Anup Maji.

Another year, another mining tragedy — why Meghalaya’s ‘rat holes’ won’t stop killing

Two years after 15 miners were killed at an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya, six others lost their lives in another accident at another mine in January.

Siddaramaiah slams Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa over ‘rampant’ illegal mining in state

BS Yediyurappa has assumed that legalising illegal mining is like regularising houses and land, said former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah.

Karnataka new forest minister’s CV: 15 criminal cases, ‘illegal miner, forest encroacher’

CM B.S. Yediyurappa has given the forest portfolio to turncoat four-time MLA Anand Singh, who is an accused in several illegal mining and forest cases.

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Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.