Heavy metal

Police clears way for POSCO

Batons and bullets chase agitators blocking access to steel plant site  

POSCO: take land but give life

Stink of India's steel frame

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

Yours privately

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

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

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

As told to Parliament (December 20, 2021): 3.4 million tonnes of plastic waste generated in 2019-20

All that was discussed in the House through the day

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 …