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 …
Jamshedpur, Feb. 16: Around 40 experts and company representatives from across the country and abroad are putting their heads together to develop high-grade steel for automotive industry. The deliberations are on at a three-day international conference at SNTI Auditorium. The meet kicked off yesterday. According to the organisers, the growth …
Intensifying its efforts to secure a global footprint, state-run mineral giant National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) is understood to have signed a confidentiality agreement with ArcelorMittal for jointly developing the latter
An organisation of villagers facing displacement for Posco steel project site near here today burnt copies of the rehabilitation package issued by the company.
South Korean steel giant Posco today said it is hopeful of getting about 4,000 acres of land soon for setting up its proposed Rs 54,000-crore steel project in Orissa. "Things are moving on the ground and we are hopeful of getting the possession of land from government to start construction," …
New Delhi: SOUTHKorean steel giant Posco on Sunday said it is hopeful of getting about 4,000 acres of land soon for setting up its proposed Rs 54,000-crore steel project in Orissa.
BHUBANESWAR: In another setback to the beleaguered Posco project, the people who will be displaced when the South Korean steel major sets up a $12 billion steel plant have rejected the rehabilitation and compensation package offered to them. The anti-Posco agitation, which is headed by Posco Pratirodha Samiti, burnt copies …
South Korean steel giant Posco’s faces another hurdle in Orissa even though it has invited bids from contractors and vendors for its proposed Rs 54,000 crore steel project. The Union environment ministry on January 8 wrote to the state government that the project can go ahead only with the consent …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO The Orissa government on Thursday dismissed the speculation that South Korean steel major Posco was planning to shift its proposed 12-milliontonne steel project to Kulti in West Bengal. "I am confident that they (Posco) are not shifting their Orissa project anywhere. We have talked to them and …
ADHUNIK Corporation, which is planning to set up an integrated steel plant in West Bengal, has received allotment of a substantial portion of its required land, in what comes as a major boost to the company
India will become the world's second largest steel producer by 2012, more than doubling its capacity of 57 million tonnes as part of push being given to assist overall infrastructure development, Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh has said. "I have set a target of 124 million tonnes by 2012. Yes, we …
KULTI: Posco, the South Korean steel behemoth, has offered to set up a Rs 10,000-crore joint venture plant with Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) in the industrial town of Kulti, Burdwan, about 200 km from Kolkata. Land acquisition will not be an issue here, because the project will come …
DHENKANAL: The Rehabilitation and Peripheral Development Advisory Committee (RPDAC) yesterday rejected the request of Bhusan Steel Limited (BSL) to construct an ash pond in Nimidha village and asked it to go for afforestation around BSL to check pollution. The RPDAC met to discuss rehabilitation and resettlement (R& R) proposals of …
This PPSS press release calls for support and action, as the deadline by Orissa government on filing for compensation ends on Feb 10, 2010. The threat of state and company sponsored violence looms large over hundreds of farmers sitting on an indefinite dharna at Balitutha in Jagatsinghpur district against Orissa …
New Delhi, Feb. 9: Vedanta Resources is under fire from heaven and earth, and even Hollywood has been asked to join in. Tribal rights campaigner Survival International has appealed to Avatar director James Cameron, through an advertisement in US entertainment magazine Variety, to help it stop the company from mining …
Calcutta, Feb. 8: Sajjan Jindal today provided steam to the proposed Salboni steel project that could bring Bengal its biggest private investment yet, but hived off a power plant from its original plan. His company now plans to build the power plant near its coal reserves in Burdwan
SUMITOMO Metal and Bhushan Steel, which had recently agreed to build a steel project jointly in West Bengal, are now understood to be looking at Karnataka as a second destination, as the southern state is increasingly seen as being easier to operate compared to other traditional steelmaking states. If successful, …