Economic Times (blog)
At last, India gets genuinely serious about companies flouting mining and environment laws
Economic Times (blog)
The landmark judgement of the Supreme Court imposing penalties of an estimated Rs 25,000 crore on illegal mining merits serious reading by the entire corporate sector, and not just by those who extract mineral wealth. Two aspects of the verdict stand out.
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