Mangaluru : Senior Congress leader and former district in-charge minister B Ramanatha Rai submitted a memorandum to  Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh to stop illegal sand extraction in Bantwal taluk. The  illegal sand extraction going on unabatedly at several places including Maninalkur, Karpe and Kadeshwalya. He also alleged that a contractor who had got the license […]

Mangaluru: Police raided illegal sand extraction units which were operational at Adyar and seized 30 loads of sand and demolished 33 sheds here. Based on a tip off, the officials visited the spots on Monday evening and found around 25 boats here which were used for sand mining. Notices have been issued for four more […]

Mangaluru: A team of police officials busted an illegal sand mining racket at Adyar village in the wee hours of Saturday; they seized three lorries but the accused managed to escape. The accused were mining sand on the banks of the Netravathi behind Sahyadri College of Engineering at about 1.45 am. The police, apart from […]

Mangaluru: “The contractor will be held responsible for the untoward incidents which may take place during the raid on illegal sand mining places and criminal case will be registered against such contractor,” said Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner K G Jagadeesh. Speaking to the media personnel on Thursday, he said that the district administration is ready […]

Bantwal : Two mechanised boats and two tippers have been seized from an unauthorised sand mining place near the Thumbay dam in Bantwal taluk. It is learnt two persons namely Arif from Mysore and Manoj Shetty from Karkala had cheated the locals by stating that they had secured permission for mining. It was alleged that […]