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 …
pakistan president Pervez Musharraf recently suspended chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on allegations of misconduct and misuse of authority. Lawyers, opposition parties, human rights activists and some judges condemned the suspension effected on March 6, 2007, calling it unconstitutional and a blow to the independence of the judiciary. The Supreme …
On March 8, 2007, tribals lifted a blockade in Orissa's Kalinga Nagar steel complex in Jajpur district. The move came after assurances from the district administration that some demands of the tribals will be met. Tribals had been blocking the highway since January 2, 2006, when 13 protestors were killed …
I wrote last fortnight about how mining in Goa for iron ore was ripping its forests and devastating its people. I wrote of the violence and protests I saw in its villages, where miners were pitted against people angry at the loss of their cultivable lands and their water bodies. …
US Steel sues EC Slovakia's steel major US Steel Kosice, filed a complaint against the European Commission in the second week of February complaining about the reduced limits of carbon dioxide emissions for Slovakia. The company considers that the reduction of the emissions limit unjust, as does the Slovakian government. …
Kazakhstan has warned ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steel company, that it could be forced to close one of its coal mines if it does not improve safety following an explosion last month that killed 30 people. Vladimir Bozhko, head of Kazakhstan's ministry of emergencies, has given the company one month …
Like State governments in many other parts of India, the government of Jharkhand State is planning large-scale industrial expansion across the entire region in the name of development and poverty reduction. To the dismay and disillusionment of mass movements in Jharkhand, newly elected government officials plan to uphold agreements struck …
South Korean steel giant Posco's offer to invest Rs 52,000 crore in Orissa was the country's largest single foreign investment event ever and the excitement was palpable. The steel giant added to it by calculating the financial benefits for both state and central government over 30 years. It plotted out …
Tata Steel has taken every care to ensure that the villagers were fully informed of all plans and practices followed by us in the rehabilitation and resettlement of displaced people, for those in the proposed site as well as in other sites. We are not in position to comment on …
Wayward growth Since 2002, India has been the largest producer of sponge iron, also called direct reduced iron (dri), in the world. Today about 20 per cent of the sponge iron produced worldwide is made in India. The growth of this industry is touted as one of the major success …
Villagers of Chourenga have actually managed to stop a plant from coming up after nine months of protests with 85 per cent of the plant already constructed. When people came to their village asking them to sell their land for a nursery, they agreed. Land was sold at rates between …
Essar Steel is working on a special resettlement and rehabilitation (r&r) package for its proposed 6 million tonne steel plant in Chaibasa in Jharkhand. The proposed Rs 1,200-crore project will require about 1,012 hectare (ha) of land, mostly to be acquired from tribal marginal farmers. It will require displacement of …
essar Steels is on the road to opening a steel plant in Chaibasa, Jharkhand. The Mittal-owned company has promised an ambitious rehabilitation project for the villagers they are going to evict. The fundamental premise of the deal is that Essar will not start operations until alternative accommodation and livelihoods are …
the list of Indian companies inappropriately claiming benefits of clean development mechanism (cdm) seems to be endless, the latest addition being the Raigarh-based Jindal Steel and Power Limited (jspl). The company is claiming cdm benefits for an activity that it would have undertaken with or without the cdm benefits. This …
hazardous wastes from sponge iron plants in Goa, dumped in wildlife reserves of the Western Ghats, have put national parks in Goa and the reserve forests of Karnataka along the national highway 4, at risk. The matter came to light, after Paryavarni, a Belgaum-based ngo in Karnataka, spotted over 700 …
the Chhattisgarh government has declined to make public the memorandum of understanding (mou) it had signed with Tata Steel and Essar Steel to set up steel plants in the predominantly tribal district of Bastar. A Raipur-based businessman had sought details of the mou under the Right to Information (rti) Act, …
Whereas a sense of jubilation is palpable in Goa, tension is rising in neighbouring Belgaum district of Karnataka. The responses are divergent but their source is one: sponge iron plants. The Goa government recently decided not to sanction any more sponge iron plants in the state. The units are extremely …
Based on primary source material, this paper unravels the undermining of development of vital transport infrastructure in Orissa, namely, Paradeep port and a proposed railway line for exploiting the rich mineral resources of the state
Orissa is going through a "steel revolution". In the past three years, the state government has signed more than 40 MoUs with companies, both domestic and foreign, signing off 20 billion tonnes of iron ore that it is supposed to be sitting on. But it has also meant destruction of …
