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 …
The iniquitous development agenda pursued by successive governments at the centre and the state has rendered several tribal groups in Orissa, who reside in some of the poorer, more inaccessible districts of the state, largely marginal to the governance process. Arguably, it is this alienation and underdevelopment that has afforded …
at least 12 tribals and a policeman were killed in a clash at the Kalinga Nagar steel complex in Orissa's Jajpur district on January 2, 2006. The state government has ordered a judicial inquiry. Nearly 800 tribals from nearby villages were protesting the construction of a boundary wall for a …
the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (kspcb) has issued a show cause notice to Kundil Sponge Iron Limited for beginning work on its plant at Londa in Belgaum district without obtaining an environmental clearance from the state government's ministry of environment, forest and ecology. Following the kspcb notice, Belgaum deputy …
states of eastern India are locked in a tussle over private investment in steel plants. Jharkhand chief minister Arjun Munda recently avowed to not allow private investors access to his state's iron-ore reserves unless they set up plants in the state. In an impassioned speech before fellow chief ministers at …
Once touted as a symbol of West Bengal's industrial resurgence, the mini sponge iron plants in Durgapur and adjoining panchayat areas of Burdwan district are now being blamed for pushing the region "closer to a major industrial disaster'. Most of these plants, which blithely disregard pollution control and labour laws, …
In 2001, China won the bid to host the 2008 Olympics. Since then, in a race to spruce up the country for the international sports meet, the Chinese government has undertaken a huge infrastructure overhaul, which includes tripling the length of Beijing's highways and quadrupling its subway capacity. As a …
Madhab Baru is a worried man. His livestock keep falling ill these days. The cows pass black dung and the goats, especially the kids, suffer from diarrhoea. It's the black dust from the factory across the road, says the small time farmer of Harirampur, a remote village in West Bengal's …
pressured by mounting people's protest against the pollution caused by sponge iron units (sius), the Orissa government has decided to close its doors to new sponge iron ventures. The decision has been taken by a government committee comprising top bureaucrats. It will also cover applications pending with Orissa State Pollution …
sponge- iron units have mushroomed in West Bengal since the turn of the century. Lack of space in urban industrial estates has pushed them into rural areas. The state government has been flaunting the units as a sign of industrialisation and development. But Harirampur village in Bankura district shows the …
To Jindal Steel's expansion planNearly 2,000 written complaints and a protest document signed by 40,000 people were submitted at a public hearing against the expansion plan of Jindal Steel and Power Plant in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh. Tension prevailed during the entire course of the public hearing, held on January 29, 2005. …
mineral-rich Orissa is being eyed by the corporate sector seeking to cash in on its iron ore reserves. Work on projects worth Rs 30,000 crore has already begun in the last two years and the Orissa government is considering investment proposals of another Rs 1,22,000 crore. The state's industry department …
In this paper the authors have estimated for 1990 and 1995 the inventory of greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O for India at a national and sub-regional district level. The district level estimates are important for improving the national inventories as well as for developing sound mitigation strategies at manageable …
a carcinogenic gas called cokeoven leaked from the gas supply lines of the Durgapur Steel Plant (dsp), West Bengal, in the last week of December, 2000. The leak took place when a fire gutted the benzol scrubber unit of the plant. The Steel Authority of India Limited (sail) owns the …
The Supreme Court (SC) has directed iron foundries in Agra to either shift from the ecosensitive area surrounding the historic monument Taj Mahal or immediately start using natural gas as fuel. The iron foundries using cupola furnaces have been identified as the main culprits causing harm to the monument. The …
An accident at a steel mill in Spain has contaminated large parts of southern Europe with radioactivity, say environmentalists. The Spanish Nuclear Safety Council says scrap containing the readioctive metal caesium-137 was mistakenly fed into the smelter of a steel mill in Algeciras, near Gibraltar, at the end of May …
following recent reports of emission of dioxins from iron and steel plants in Europe, federal environmental agencies in usa and Canada are planning to launch a bilateral effort to probe dioxin emissions from such plants. Dioxins are carcinogens that are emitted when certain highly-chlorinated compounds are burned. Some recent European …
The iron hand of the law has fastened on the Rourkela steel plant. Owned by the Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), it has been served a show-cause notice for bucking the Anti-Pollution Act. Ten units of the plant have been found to be emitting excessive iron and coal particles, …
THE direct steelmaking process, long the holy grail of researchers around the world, may soon be reality. Scientists from Nucor, a US steel producer, have identified iron carbide as a new raw material for steelmaking. The new technology aims at producing steel directly from iron carbide, cutting out expensive and …
