Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
SUNITA DUBEY On May 13, individuals and groups from from Kazakhstan, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Romania and the us gathered at Luxembourg for ArcelorMittal
pro- and anti- posco groups in Orissa clashed again. It is alleged that the hand of a 58-year old man of the posco -support group was chopped off on May 14 by project opponents led by the posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (ppss). ppss has been actively protesting posco's 12 million …
Steel makers will honour their commitment to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to hold prices for three months, but rates will go up thereafter, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of JSW Steel Sajjan Jindal said on Tuesday, after taking over as Assocham President. "Prices have to go up. We have to go …
Recycling is an effective way of creating treasure out of waste at a fraction of the energy used in producing primary metals from minerals. Now that both ferrous and non-ferrous metals are ruling at historically high prices, the outlook for scrap recovery and metal production through the secondary route of …
Little did I know that the seven of us would be branded "Maoists' when we set off for a protest rally against posco in Orissa on April 1. We had reached Bhubaneswar a day earlier and booked a taxi to Dhinkia, a hamlet 10 km off Paradip port. A local …
Making the situation more complex for the state government, activists opposing the Rs 12,000-crore Posco steel project at Paradip have formed a suicide squad. The Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti (PPSS), which is spearheading the anti-displacement movement, has formed the suicide squad with at least 50 members enrolled from Nuagaon panchayat, …
Global steel major ArcelorMittal, who is proposing to set up a 12 million tonne greenfield steel plant at Patna tehsil in Keonjhar district of Orissa, plans to spend about $300 million (about Rs 1,200 crore) on rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R;). Only a couple of weeks ago, the company had announced …
Bowing to continuous government pressure, the steel industry today agreed to cut prices by Rs 4,000 a tonne on flat products, used in consumer durables and automobiles, and Rs 2,000 a tonne on long products, used in construction, with immediate effect. The industry also reiterated its April 22 commitment to …
Tender plant: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh plants a sapling during the centenary year celebrations of the Tata Steel at JRD Tata Sports complex in Jamshedpur on Tuesday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday urged the steel industry not to fall prey to the temptation of seeking windfall gains from market …
SAIL has decided not to increase prices for the moment. Also, faced with the possibility of a cut in excise duty, the private sector steel makers who had announced imposition of a raw material surcharge of Rs 5,000 a tonne on hot-rolled steel, have now kept this in abeyance, sources …
An inter-ministerial group constituted to suggest measures for checking steel prices, has recommended a 10% export duty on steel and 15% on iron ore. The report will be submitted to PM Manmohan Singh before the meeting of cabinet committee on prices. It is learnt that the proposal has got the …
This rapid EIA and EMP has been prepared for 2x150 mw thermal power plant to be set up at village Dongamahua, tehsil Garghoda, district Raigarh of Chhattisgarh by Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. This report addresses the environmental aspects of construction and operation of the proposed 2 X 150 mw …
