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 …

Land acquisition for Posco begins

Spring of discontent

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

Operation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners

Rs 3,300 crore omission

Subsidies given annually to industries for pollution control are unmonitored

पर्यावरण मुकदमों की डायरी: उद्योग से निकली राख से हुआ भूजल प्रदषित, नोटिस जारी

यहां पढ़िए पर्यावरण सम्बन्धी मामलों के विषय में अदालती आदेशों का सार

POSCO looms over Republic Day

Will diplomacy determine steel plants future?

Green rupee in a mess

POSCO clearance illegal: activists

Say the claims made by Odisha government are barefaced lies

POSCO gets final approval

Environment ministry endorses state government’s claim that there are no forest rights to be settled in the project area

An exercise in flippancy

Planning Commission report for a low-carbon future disappoints

8% FOREVER

Per capita emissions will remain competitively low  

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

Stained steel

The iron and steel sector is regarded as the core of Indian economy. Its players are big and powerful. It is extremely resource-intensive and …

The dirty dozens

Between Maoists and mines

Ho tribals lose hold of Saranda as mining is set to take over the pristine sal forest. A report and photographs by Sayantan Bera

Sponge iron industries are killing fields

The sponge iron industry is growing fast and polluting alarmingly. K Radhika in Chhattisgarh and Maureen Nandini Mitra in Jharkhand and Orissa …

Villages protest forest acquisition

No compensation from steel major Jindal, allege Odisha people

High court closes polluting factory

Low on carbon crunching

Fresh scheme sets efficiency targets for energy-guzzling sectors but is still too soft

Maoist insurgency

Land struggles and growth of India’s red corridor

Smokestacks lightening?

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

Muscle power

The 200 million tonne challenge

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

Saranda for sale?

First by diluting it and then by delaying it, the Jharkhand government ensures slow death of a plan meant to safeguard Saranda and its wildlife …