Grief engulfed Kanyamisinga village in Kanungu District on January 4, 2026, after a sand quarry collapse claimed the lives of two men during a routine sand-loading exercise.The deceased have been ...

Despite the ban on the use of machinery while extracting and loading sand, permit holders have rampantly been using machinery while loading sand extracted from rivers in Coastal Regulation Zones (CRZ) ...

Collector Pamela Satpathy and Police Commissioner Gaush Alam directed TGMDC to install CCTV cameras at sand quarries, ...

The Menomonie Town Board on Thursday night, June 14, unanimously approved recommending the rezoning of about 150 acres for a silica sand rail loading site. Vista Sand of Granbury, Texas, wants to ...

Authorities in Mexico say gunmen killed five men who were loading sand onto a truck at a riverbank near the resort city of Acapulco, while a shootout in an adjacent state killed one federal police ...

The sand that lines beaches, lakes and rivers can often seem like an infinite resource, but 50 billion tonnes of sand is extracted around the world every year, far faster than the sand can be renewed.

Tons of sand illegally taken out from the river have been seized and the track used for taking tractors and trucks to the ghats for loading the sand have been blocked. If you have been to Bhita, the ...