In this Special Report for India Today, reporter Nitin Jain exposes the rampant illegal sand mining devastating the Kosi ...

The investigation documents how large-scale extraction of sand and gravel is continuing openly in the riverbed, in full ...

Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s ...

This special report investigates the rampant illegal sand mining in Uttarakhand's Kosi River. The investigation reveals how ...

Tribunal gives four weeks to parties after panel finds GRAP breaches midstream mining and missing audits by a private firm ...

Illegal gold extraction detected in Nilambur forest as gold prices cross Rs 1 lakh a sovereign in Kerala, forest officials ...

Noida:Illegal mining activity was detected along Yamuna riverbed in Raipur Khadar village, Sector 126. A penalty of Rs 5 lakh ...

Nagpur: Acting on a tip-off, Bela police, in collaboration with revenue officials from Pipla Kotwali, busted illegal sand ...

Each time Sangam Mahato passes the excavators scooping up sand from the Aurahi River, it brings back painful memories of her brother, Om Prakash. Also known as ‘Dilip’, her brother had been protesting ...

It's a resource used in global construction and mined from rivers and coasts across the world. Now new research has shown sand mining is causing river beds to lower, leading to riverbank instability ...

July 19 (Reuters) - Over two decades, dredging ships have sucked massive amounts of sand from the bed and shores of Poyang Lake in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, drastically altering the ...

There are many ways to kill a river. With Southeast Asia's storied Mekong, China's upriver damming is taking a heavy toll, but downstream neighbors share the blame. The No. 1 threat: sand mining. In ...