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 …

Noamundi is easy to mine

1,620.361 ha of discontent

Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are …

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

Operation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners

Rs 3,300 crore omission

Subsidies given annually to industries for pollution control are unmonitored

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 …

Pollution glorified

World Bank arm finances polluting steel mill in Jharkhand

Quit Wardha

Gandhi ashram protests polluting pig iron plant nearby

POSCO, a better tomorrow?

Sayantan Bera captures the mood at Jagatsinghpur, Odisha (Photos from June 16 and 17)

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