Long road ahead: Odisha’s DMF funds to improve livelihood

The state has amended its DMF Rules and is also investing in projects to improve the lives of its mining-affected people; whether DMF lives up to …

Odisha stir against coal trucks emitting smoke: Nearly 170, including children, detained

The movement of coal trucks sparks pollution concerns; police claim no forceful detention of children

A benign dam

POSCO remains Orissa's choice

Whiff of scam in Orissa mines

Opposition demands CBI probe

NCST notes irregularities in employment of tribals displaced by Rourkela Steel Plant

The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes directed officials to report back on actions taken on the issue within a month

In Photos: Canopy bridge comes up in Odisha to avoid roadkills

The bridge provides safe passage to monkeys and squirrels in the forest, who would often be hit by trucks carrying iron ore

SC dismisses petition demanding exclusion of Sundargarh from purview of municipal Act

Activists say judgement is a setback for tribal communities who are being denied special status and land rights granted by the Constitution

Fight for Khandadhar

Once rescued from Korean company POSCO, Odisha's ecologically rich Khandadhar hills have now been handed over to the state's mining body. Tribal …

A phoenix of a tribe

A nomadic community in Odisha insisted on its right to live and farm even after forest officials burnt its houses

Their own suppliers

Scarcity teaches a village in Orissa how to manage its water supply  

Orissa calling

Orissa government withdraws elephant reserve plan

19-cm long limbless lizard found in Orissa

Elephants found dead in Odisha’s Keonjhar with tusks removed; activists allege poaching

Odisha forest department comes under fire by locals, activists; locals allege neglect

Centre stops work at POSCO site

Committee reports violation of tribal and forest rights

Villagers see reason in protesting against POSCO

Making India's mining sector socially and environmentally viable

A government committee wants regime change to facilitate private investment in mining. What it is oblivious to is the need for more regulation to …

Tribals block steel city Rourkela for a day

Odisha’s third largest city has taken over a few tribal villages so that it can function as a municipal corporation

Jumbo conflict

Human-elephant conflict is rising across India. Every year nearly 400 people are killed by elephants and about 100 elephants lose their lives. …

Where is POSCO headed?

Odisha government has completed land acquisition for plant site but proposed mining in Khandadhar hills might stir up another struggle

Public hearing for Bijahan coal block mining: residents oppose forestland diversion

Officials claim people support project

Package POSCO

The Odisha government is trying to acquire land on a shoddily drawn compensation package

Spring of discontent

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

Weak rules, weaker regulators

Factories flout emission standards at will