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Goa News |Economy | Mining

Tuesday 25 August 2026

News Analysed, Opinions Expressed

Economy | Mining

Sesa defers salaries, transfers staff

Following the blanket ban on iron ore mining in Karnataka and Goa, London-based billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Sesa Goa Ltd has started the process of deferment of salaries and moving employees to other group companies to ... READ

PM assures to try to restart mines

Prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh has assured the mining people that the central government would work positively towards restarting legal mining as soon as possible. READ

SC to hear Goa mining case only after Odisha & Karnataka

Goa's mining case would be the last to come up before the Supreme court. READ

Goa wants SC to replace CEC with a retired judge

Goa government has requested the Supreme Court to replace the Centrally Empowered Committee on mining with a committee headed by a retired judge. READ

Cong opposes Govt selling mining dumps

Congress has opposed Goa government’s proposal to the Supreme Court to take over and sell the 750 million tones of mining dumps. READ

Goa urges SC to allow Govt to sell mining dumps; for revenue + jobs

Goa government has urged the supreme court to allow the government to sell 750 million tonnes of mining dumps, in order to generate revenue for the state and employment for the affected people in the ... READ

GF to demand cancellation of all leases & mining nationalisation

Goa Foundation would demand in the Supreme Court cancellation of all the mines operating illegally and restart mining only after nationalising mining. READ

All-party convention on 13 Feb for legal mining

The Goa Mining People’s Front is now trying to mobilise political force with a convention on 13 February at Azad Maidan in Panaji. READ

CM welcomes Pawar move, BJP calls it "political"

Even as Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar welcomed union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar's assurance to mediate between those affected by stalled mining activity and the Centre, his party, the BJP, slammed the NCP chief for ... READ

Pawar to convene central ministers' meet on mining

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said he would seek to convene a meeting of concerned ministries in a bid to thrash out a solution to the problems faced by mining industry in Goa. READ