IN A bid to put pressure on the Naveen Patnaik government, Posco is scouting for favourable places to set up plants in the country.

The Dongria Kondh tribe who live in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa do not normally go to the top of the bauxite-rich slopes. The hilltop is considered sacred, the place where their presiding deity Niyam Raja (literally, the King of Law), or the Universal Lawgiver, is said to reside, and they leave it undisturbed.

Report By Govt-Appointed Panel To Be Sent To Tribal Affairs Ministry For Inputs

THE plan by London-based Vedanta Resources to mine bauxite in Orissa

SANJAY JOG / Mumbai March 15, 2010, 0:16 IST

Korean steel major Pohang Iron and Steel Company (Posco), the world

Like the Telecom Ministry, the Ministry of Mines plans to hand out licences for minerals other than coal to those

Ore loading stopped at Joda East mines.

Santanu Sanyal

The Orissa Government's order banning what it feels

Catholic Church Joins Villagers In Opposing Rs 50,000-Cr Plant In Orissa
Nageshwar Patnaik BHUBANESWAR

AFTER Anil Agarwal

Swarup Chakraborty & Ishita Ayan Dutt / Mumbai/kolkata March 09, 2010, 0:21 IST

The outlay on these projects is estimated at Rs.17,000 cr