Prosperity, thorns, a village road: Ground report from Khodgaon (near Rowghat iron ore reserve)

A road in national interest: Despite its opposition, a tribal village sees a road cut right through it to mine one of India’s biggest iron-…

Anti-POSCO leader loses in Odisha election

Does that mean people in the region are pro-industrialisation as claimed by victorious Biju Janata Dal candidate?

Public hearing for Bhushan steel plant ends in fracas

Company did not consult village council or obtain its consent as mandated by law for scheduled areas, complain residents

The top two

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 11, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal 

Green tribunal suspends environment clearance of Scania sponge iron plant in Raigarh

Environment ministry granted clearance even though mandatory public consultations were not held

News 360° - Briefs

As told to Parliament (December 19, 2022): No evidence to link poor AQI in NCR with green cracker burning

Delhi-NCR air quality in October, November 2022 best in 7 years, Ashwini Kumar Choubey tells Lok Sabha

The wasteland

Bellary has lost 45 per cent of its forest cover to iron ore mining, says the CEC report

Picture imperfect

Fertile and picturesque, that is what Bellary was before companies started indiscriminate mining for iron ore  

In Court

Coal quandary

In a sweeping pronouncement, the Supreme Court has termed all the 218 coal blocks allocated since 1993 illegal. This has raised a fundamental …

Odisha government proposes fresh agreement to expedite POSCO steel plant

People protesting land acquisition for the project say they will intensify stir

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

POSCO asked to revise plans for fresh environment clearance

Environment ministry's expert committee seeks new layout plan; fresh studies on environmental and social impact

Activists Akhil Gogoi and Ramesh Agrawal attacked

Gogoi was visiting flood-affected areas in Assam; Agrawal is fighting land grab by industries in Chhattisgarh

Will Andhra governor cancel mining leases?

Centre returns bauxite mining proposals in Schedule V areas

Science and Technology - Briefs

Nowhere to nest

Olive Ridleys jostle for space at the shrinking Gahirmatha beach in Odisha

Vedanta falters in Odisha

High court upholds Centre’s decision, rejects refinery expansion

News 360° - Briefs

UPA misses opportunity to pass landmark mining Bill

Mining and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Bill set to lapse. Passing it would have led to distribution of mining profits to the tune of Rs …

Steel lobby locks horns with mining firms in Karnataka

Three years after the mining scam that rocked the country, steel producers and mining companies accuse each other of forming cartels to control …

Big numbers

The state is on a spree

Public hearing for Jindal coal project in Raigarh held amid protests

Will National Green Tribunal accept the second public hearing; it had dismissed the first one held five years ago as a ‘farce’