Eye on the storm

Cyclone Phailin has not taken many lives but has left behind a trail of destruction that severely cripples people’s livelihood. What did it …

Polavaram fraud

The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forestland. Most of the people threatened …

Heavy rains lash coastal Odisha as Bulbul nears

Fishermen have taken shelter in harbours even as farmers are harvesting paddy that has not fully ripened

Boat makers in Odisha’s coastal villages struggle to stay afloat

New bridges, fibre boats, lack of good wood and even fish stocks bring about the industry’s end

Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara prepare for Cyclone Bulbul

Expect landfall in two Odisha districts on November 8-9

Odisha’s artisans strike gold with golden grass

Handicrafts made from the wild grass are helping change lives in Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur, providing people with a steady source of income  

Carcass of fourth dead whale shark in 11 months found on Odisha beach

Forest officials have said a whale shark found dead along a beach in Odisha may have been hit by ships out at sea

DTE Ground Report: After Posco, women of Odisha’s Dhinkia village take on Jindal Steel

Women of villages affected by JSW’s steel project in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district are unequivocal in their opposition 

India 2nd-most dangerous country in 2022 for those flagging concerns about corporate projects: Report

Globally, 10 human rights defenders protesting harmful business practice attacked every week in 2022  

Orissa High Court stays alienation of forest-categorised land for JSW steel project in Jagatsinghpur 

The project site is in an area that is home to around 22,000 people with a significant number of Dalits

Amphan causes heavy damage in coastal Odisha’s districts

The districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara were the worst-affected due to the cyclone

Dhinkia on the boil: Odisha Police turn violent against protestors

The administration in Dhinkia village in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur tried to forcibly acquire betel vineyards January 14 for Jindal Steel’…

Coastal villagers vow to oppose JSW steel plant in Odisha

Jindal Steel Works Ltd is to build a proposed steel, cement and power plant on land where POSCO was to build a plant earlier

Odisha braces for cyclone Phailin

People in vulnerable villages in coastal districts are being evacuated to safe areas, cyclone shelters

POSCO makes villages vulnerable to cyclone

Forests that shielded seaside villages from earlier super cyclone have been chopped down for proposed steel plant

Pre-dawn police crackdown on village at POSCO site

Move marks restart of land acquisition for steel plant; police say they were only protecting farmers who wanted to give land

Seaside villages deserted

Experience of super cyclone1999 prompts people to move to safer places; evacuation continues

Survey work for POSCO boundary wall begins amid protests

Authorities start GPS survey work for boundary wall of the proposed steel plant as angry villagers accuse government of siding with the company

Forest guards protecting Olive Ridley turtles to be exempted from poll duty

Decision taken after forest officials tell authorities that not exempting them would hamper conservation of wildlife and sea turtles

Steel minister’s POSCO statement comes as relief to Odisha village residents

Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar had said that the steel giant will have to bid for iron ore reserves in an open auction

Phailin intensifies into 'super' cyclone

Storm winds moving at speed of over 200 km/hr head to districts that bore the brunt of 1999 super cyclone

POSCO to get water from Mahanadi

People protest Odisha government's decision to allocate water from the Mahanadi and Hansua rivers, saying it will turn large tracts of farms …

How people weathered Phailin storm

Bitter lessons from 1999 cyclone and a prepared community helped reduce the impact of the night-long cyclonic storm that raged across coastal …

POSCO unplugged

Sayantan Bera travels to Jagatsinghpur in Odisha to find that villagers labeled ‘pro’ POSCO do not have a choice otherwise

Package POSCO

The Odisha government is trying to acquire land on a shoddily drawn compensation package