MEA says site allotment for S Korea deferred due to pending projects

South Korea’s first lady President Park Geun-hye has a lot to cheer about the environmental clearance to Posco’s Rs 52,000-crore steel plant project in Odisha after an eight-year delay, but she will be disappointed with Delhi’s decision to go slow on the bilateral nuclear pact and not allot any site for the reactor during her four-day visit to India beginning January 15.

The government has marked the report as ‘secret’

The Supreme Court has ordered the Centre to file copies of the Justice Shah Commission report on illegal iron ore mining in Odisha. The government had marked the report as ‘secret’ and decided not to put it in public domain until it was tabled in Parliament.

In a major setback to Anil Agarwal-promoted Vedanta Resources, the Ministry of Environment and Forests has turned down its proposal for bauxite mining at Niyamgiri hills in Odisha.

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to place the Justice Shah Commission’s report on illegal mining in Odisha and Jharkhand before it by January 27.

Activists may move NGT against revalidation by ministry

It may not be a smooth ride yet for South Korea steel major Posco’s integrated steel plant project in Odisha. The project’s forest clearance, currently pending before the National Green Tribunal, may not be the last hurdle for the South Korean company. Opponents of the project are questioning the legality of the ministry’s decision to revalidate the environmental clearance as well.

The Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation of Odisha (Idco), the land acquisition agency for the Posco's mega steel plant near Paradip in Odisha, has asked the chairman cum managing dire

The environment ministry has rejected London-listed Vedanta Resources Ltd's request to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri hills of Odisha state after local residents opposed mining in the area they cons

Environment Ministry rejects Vedanta's plan to mine Niyamgiri

The Union Environment Ministry has taken a decision in two high profile cases, rejecting the forest clearance for Vedanta’s bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha, and renewing the stand-alone environmental clearance for Posco’s eight million tonnes per annum steel plant.

An Odisha minister today said that rejection of the mining proposal on Niyamgiri hills was 'unfortunate' and steps would be taken to alternatively source bauxite for Vedanta Resources' refinery.

An Odisha minister today said that rejection of the mining proposal on Niyamgiri hills was 'unfortunate' and steps would be taken to alternatively source bauxite for Vedanta's refinery.

"It is unfortunate that the UPA government is doing politics at the cost of development. We condemn the Centre for rejection of the mining proposal at Niyamgri hills," Steel and Mines minister R K Singh told reporters here.