Some sectors will struggle to be the best, some can’t as they operate in tropical India

Smokestacks lightening?

Emissions are bound to increase. The power sector improves, but others will spew more, especially iron and steel

The 200 million tonne challenge

With the sector set to boom, India needs an action plan

Some sectors perform at the global best levels, others can reach there

Slow and unsteady

The top two

The wasteland

Bellary has lost 45 per cent of its forest cover to iron ore mining, says the CEC report

Picture imperfect

Fertile and picturesque, that is what Bellary was before companies started indiscriminate mining for iron ore  

Big numbers

The state is on a spree

Weak rules, weaker regulators

Factories flout emission standards at will

The steel shock

Remembering Kalinganagar - Will cheap and dirty industrialization work?

Goa's mining problems

What China is doing to Goa

POSCO: take land but give life

Stink of India's steel frame

Shifting pains

Karnataka gets jitters as Goa clamps down

Play by the rules

Is the sponge-iron industry listening?

Revisiting Kalinganagar

A year after Kalinganagar firing, tribal India refuses to shine

Unruffled flakes

Pig iron plant of Sesa Goa pollutes South Goa; firm says expansion will take care of problems

Hills of greyville

Fast-expanding steel industry yet to find an effective way to reuse its waste product, slag

Cleared for growth

Theirs to mine?

This is the question angry and beleaguered tribals in Orissa and Jharkhand are asking, as mining companies set up shop in the midst of their land …

Red alert in Chhattisgarh

Land acquisition is at the centre of intense political and social disputes in the tribal hinterland of Chhattisgarh. On the one hand, Naxal …