Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Mumbai: South Korean steel major Posco has sounded out unlisted Essar Steel for an alliance to build the planned $12 billion (12 million tonnes) steel plant in Orissa, which has run into repeated hurdles since the world’s fifth largest steel maker signed the construction agreement with the state government in …
Twenty-one iron and steel plants, having capacity of 0.5 million tonnes a year and above, are up for an independent “green” rating. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a New Delhi-based NGO, has completed a survey of the country's top steel-sector players for the environmental ratings. The results of …
Last year, Ministry had scrapped coal blocks to 6 PSUs and 3 pvt firms for not developing them The Coal Ministry is likely to begin this week the process of issuing show-cause notices to 58 captive coal block holders, including PSUs, which have not started the development work of mines …
Current Indian investment may not be hit immediately The Australian government’s move to impose 30 per cent tax on coal mining and iron ore profits might not affect any Indian investment in that country immediately, but could have an impact on Indian companies, including state-run mining major Coal India Limited …
Tata Steel has flagged off the preparatory work of underground mining project at its Sukinda Chromite Mine (SCM), which has an annual chromite ore beneficiation facility of 6.5 lakh tonne. "Mining at SCM is fully-mechanised at present. The roadmap ahead is to operate underground mines. This will go a long …
Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday directed Tata Steel to prepare an action plan to remove slag from Kharkai and Subernarekha, the rap coming three days before the founder’s day celebrations and after almost a decade of shifting views on the contentious issue of industrial waste poisoning Jamshedpur’s border rivers. Way …
A slag-choked Subernarekha may hope to breathe easy sometime soon. The Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board (JSPCB) — possibly chastised by a CAG report on Jharkhand’s poor conservation of rivers — has served a 15-day deadline to steel wire manufacturer Usha Martin, asking it to state measures taken to check …
Process still in its ‘nascent stages’; price yet to be fixed Tata Steel may have claimed that the land acquisition process for its integrated steel plant at Agadi in the taluk had been completed. But the land acquisition officers and farmers beg to differ. While the officers say that the …
Tata Steel has secured a major contract from Siemens Wind Power to supply 25,000 tonne of high-quality profiled steel plate for wind towers. The order, according to the company's press release filed with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), is the largest to date for the steel company's dedicated wind tower …
The mines ministry has ticked off Odisha for its failure to check mining irregularities, saying it should share the blame for illegal mining. The ministry's surprise missive, which comes a day after an central probe panel wrapped up its tour of the state as part a countrywide exercise to investigate …
Tata Steel Europe is betting on production from the African mines scheduled to be functional from March. Tata Steel Europe's concerns about acquiring coal assets are set to ease soon. Its Mozambique mines, owned jointly with Rio Tinto, will start production from March. The coal would be sent to the …
The government is formulating an iron ore utilisation policy on the lines of a similar policy currently operating in the domestic gas sector. The move, fuelled by concerns over improper exploitation and wastage, coupled with huge exports of the major mineral out of the country, is likely to include prioritising …
The steel city will soon grow a green lung out of industrial waste with the forest department taking the first step on Statehood Day. The department, which is planning an eco-restoration and reclamation drive, kicked off a plantation programme at Jugsalai muckdump on Tuesday. The aim is to study and …
Australia’s parliament on Tuesday passed a landmark carbon tax legislation that will force the top 500 polluting companies to pay A$24 per tonne for carbon emissions from July 1 next year. The Clean Energy Act, which includes investments in renewable energy sources, would result in the continent country cutting its …
The share prices of steel companies shot up sharply in response to an interim relief provided by the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) which cleared 24 applications for re-commencing mining operations in Karnataka. The stock price of smaller companies with interest in iron ore mining shot up sharply, with Jai Corporation …
New Year, new-look roads even for Jamshedpur’s less-than-trendy pincodes. That seems to be the agenda of Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC), which is taking up an ambitious Rs 2.5-crore road construction programme for its command areas. The tender for 25 roads — most of which are pre-stressed cement concrete (PCC) …
Ranchi, Sept. 16: The state government today indicated it would not accept Tata Steel’s demand of fresh mining leases as a pre-condition to going ahead with its proposed 12MTPA steel plant at Tontoposhi in Jamshedpur as per a 2005 MoU. Reacting to the steel behemoth’s threat to dump the plan …
Ranchi, Sept. 15: Tata Steel has threatened to abandon a Rs 40,000-crore plan to set up a 12MTPA steel plant in Jharkhand if the state government did not act on its application of a fresh iron ore lease. Tata Steel vice-president (corporate services) Sanjiv Paul articulated the company’s stand in …
Tata Steel has announced a major five-year improvement programme for its IJmuiden steelworks in the Netherlands that is designed to sustain the plant's potential to be a world-class steelmaker. It is intended that this programme will be accompanied by a substantial investment that may total around 800 million euro (about …
Ranchi, Aug. 31: Chief minister Arjun Munda today asked the Centre to ban the export of iron ore from the state in an attempt to enlarge the scope of a debate raging in Jharkhand on his government’s decision allowing sale of iron ore fines by owners of captive mines. “Why …
