Accidental radioactivity

Hills of greyville

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

Nigeria hasn’t been able to produce steel: Remanufacturing could be the solution

Lack of a rail line around Ajaokuta Steel plant, changes in political and operational management stymied completion

What long-term economic stagnation means for climate change

Steel industry is a key driver of climate change and is responsible for around 7% to 9% of global carbon emissions

Evidence of pre-modern iron technology found in Nagaland

Wui village of Tuensang district in the state is known for its traditional art of iron-smelting and iron tool production since pre-colonial times

Election boycott over mining

Residents protest iron mining in Maharashtra tehsil; authorities blame murder for boycott

Government releases guidelines, allocates Rs 455 crore for green hydrogen pilot projects in steel sector

Type of projects listed for support in the guidelines seem to include any innovation carried out at a plant of any scale

Decision 2022: Goa’s BJP faces a challenge to solve decade-old mining imbroglio 

Opening up mining in Goa is not going to be easy; there are wheels within wheels, in an issue that is mostly misunderstood

Governance failure

How agencies meant to regulate mining conspired in the loot

Shifting ground

After cracking the whip on mining offenders, CEC is now going easy on them

POSCO gets final clearance

Environment ministry sides with Odisha government, ignores people’s forest rights

Need or greed?

The Union Ministry of Finance has recently alleged that green clearances are holding up the country’s infrastructure development and growth.…

India’s iron and steel industry is capable of emitting less and producing more: CSE

CSE underlines the need for better planning, new technologies and adequate finance to help the sector make the much-needed shift in today&…

Doubling ship recycling capacity by 2024: Are we ready?

The industry is an economic driver for India, but entails several occupational hazards and environmental implications 

Data fudged for mining clearance

Iron ore mines in Goa also concealed facts to get environmental clearance, shows report

POSCO: take land but give life

Steeled up

Unable to bear pollution any longer, people in Kotdwar force Uttarakhand to commission an independent assessment of steel factories in the region

POSCO unplugged

Sayantan Bera travels to Jagatsinghpur in Odisha to find that villagers labeled ‘pro’ POSCO do not have a choice otherwise

There’s rising need for global co-operation to decarbonise industries

The initiatives at COP28 send out a clear message for the need of international cooperation to achieve accelerated industrial decarbonisation

Operation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners

Rs 3,300 crore omission

Subsidies given annually to industries for pollution control are unmonitored

Spring of discontent

Mining in Odisha’s Khandadhar hills will dry out perennial water bodies

Land acquisition for Posco begins

How Bellary was laid waste

Karnataka’s Lokayukta Santosh Hegde’s report is a sordid story on the rise of India’s mining poster boy, Bellary. The …

COVID-19: Industries, steel plants in Odisha begin supplying oxygen to affected states

Odisha has around 70 industries, including 12 steel plants, many of which produce industrial oxygen