Pandavapura: Following a High Court order allowing conduct of trial blast in stone mining areas of Bebi Betta in Pandavapura taluk, the Mandya District Administration has begun preparations for conducting trial blast in select areas of Bebi Betta stone mining range to find out if there is any danger or threat to nearby KRS dam…
Pandavapura: With the Mandya District Administration going ahead with the preparations for trial blast at Bebi Betta, several farmer organisations staged protests for and against the blast near KRS Dam in Srirangapatna taluk 1on Wednesday. Farmers under the banner of KRRS led by Badagalapura Nagendra staged a protest against the blast by blocking the road…
Mining activities around KRS Dam in Mandya Bengaluru: Three months after the Karnataka High Court imposed a ban on mining and blasting activities within 20-kilometre radius of the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam due to concerns over potential structural impacts from mining blasts, a Division Bench of the High Court (HC) has declared that the…
Mandya: In a repeat of the events that unfolded on July 25, 2022, the Mandya District Administration was compelled to suspend trial blasts near the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam in Srirangapatna taluk of Mandya district this morning. This decision was prompted by vehement protests by farmers. As a result, the team of scientists from…
MSME and Mines Secretary visits quarry sites; seeks report from officials Mandya: Despite the Mandya District Administration taking stringent measures to curb illegal mining in Bebi Betta Kaval premises and teams being formed to raid unauthorised stone quarries, loud sounds and repeated earth vibrations have rattled residents and villagers of surrounding areas. Yesterday afternoon, one…
Srirangapatna: Memories of a deadly dynamite blast, claiming at least six lives of those trying to dispose of gelatin sticks fearing Police search at a quarry site in Herenagaveli village of Chikkaballapura taluk in February this year, returned to haunt on Thursday at Bebi Betta in Pandavapura when a huge cache of live gelatin sticks…
Mandya: Amid a talk war between political leaders over the safety and security of KRS Dam and illegal quarrying in Mandya district, MP Sumalatha Ambarish, who is on a two-day tour of the district today and tomorrow, will visit KRS Dam in Srirangapatna taluk at 12.30 pm tomorrow (July 14). Later, she will visit illegal…
Mandya: In a crackdown against illegal stone mining, a team of officials led by Pandavapura Assistant Commissioner (AC) raided a stone quarry at Bebi Betta on Tuesday and arrested three persons on charges of illegal quarrying. Following complaints that stone quarrying was going on illegally in Bebi Betta area despite the ban, especially during the…
Mandya: There seems to be more trouble for Mandya MP C.S. Puttaraju as the Government has ordered a probe into the alleged illegal stone quarrying in Mandya district. Based on a complaint lodged by RTI activist Kallahalli Ravindra alleging that rampant illegal stone quarrying was going on in Bebi Betta, Chinnakurali and Honaganahalli forest area,…
Pandavapura: Youths of Banangaadi village have rescued two leopard cubs from a field last evening which the Forest Department have taken into custody. The cubs were spotted by workers in the field and as the news spread, the youths identified as Devaraju, Nandish, Ravi, Shekar and others who arrived at the spot, waited till the…
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