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 …

Odisha seeks panel nod for forest clearance transfer from POSCO ltd to Jindal Steel

Forest Advisory Committee says Union Environment Ministry will seek legal opinion on the issue

Villages protest forest acquisition

No compensation from steel major Jindal, allege Odisha people

WTO rules against US tariff on Chinese, Indian goods

US had imposed a cess on steel imported from India and on various China-made goods saying their selling prices were too low due to unfair …

Gali Janardhan Reddy's Brahmani steel project scrapped

Andhra Pradesh government to take back over 5,000 ha allotted to the company

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

Right of way

An upcoming port at Dhamra was cited as the reason for the endangered Olive Ridley turtles giving the Gahirmatha beach a miss last year. This year,…

Muscle power

Conservationists divided over Dhamra port

The 200 million tonne challenge

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

It's the typos, stupid

POSCO faces fresh litigation, protest

Uncertainty looms over its $12 billion steel plant project in Odisha

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

Chhattisgarh activist, Ramesh Agrawal, bags Goldman prize

He used RTI to block big corporations, such as Jindal group, that have mining and steel interests in the state

Slack approach

POSCO villages resist land acquisition by Odisha government

Despite protests administration demolishes 37 betel gardens on the forestland. Land acquistion put on hold till June 17

Pollution glorified

World Bank arm finances polluting steel mill in Jharkhand

Opencast expansion at Chhattisgarh mine violates NGT order

The EAC recommended that the coal mine be expanded to 1.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) from 1 MTPA through opencast method

Chhattisgarh's Industrial Jungle

Chhattisgarh is set to become the largest producer of thermal power, cement and sponge iron. The push is on to install 77 per cent of India's …

European cycling industry employs 655,000 people

Employment figure in the sector could grow to over one million by 2020 with right investments, says a study commissioned by federation of …

Bomb kills 4 protesters at POSCO steel project site

Crude bomb was allegedly hurled by hired local goons at a group gathered in the backyard of a house to discuss land acquisition