Iron in particulate matter damages lungs

Slow and unsteady

POSCO gets green signal

Environment ministry goes soft on South Korean steel giant POSCO

Fertilising the ocean

Iron leads to the growth of algae, which absorb carbon dioxide

Essar gets Bailadila prospecting lease

Legal tussle

Quit Wardha

Gandhi ashram protests polluting pig iron plant nearby

Science & Technology - Briefs

Sindhudurg on road to conflict

Goa suspends mining trade licences

Move aimed to curb illegal trading in metal ores

Centre suspends green clearances to Goa mines

Conditions for restoring clearances not spelt out

The top two

What bleeds Bellary

How illegal iron ore mining has bled Karnataka’s Bellary district

Bytes

Court gets tough on temporary mining permits

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In Court

Ministry indifferent to illegal mining

Shows cold response to recommendations on curbing illegal mining of iron, manganese

Jharkhand tribals up against mining companies

SAIL gets pristine forest to mine

MoEF flouts its own order by expanding mine in Saranda without wildlife management plan

Norwegian pension fund, banks invest in polluting Indian steel mill

Foreign investors in India ignore green performance of industries

Irongate opened

Shah Commission report shows how authorities, mine owners stripped Goa of iron

Mineral development PSU snaps ties with Rio Tinto

Joint venture with Anglo-Australian firm to explore iron ore yielded no result

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Licence to mine

Supreme Court allows conditional resumption of iron ore mining in Goa