Troubles are far from over for global steel giant Posco to set up its Rs 54,000 crore steel plant in Jagatsinghpur in Orissa with tribals in the area divided over allowing the Korean company to enter.

NEW DELHI: The proposed new mines legislation that envisages 26% profit sharing by miners with project-affected people, among other things, is likely to be placed again before a group of ministers (GoM).

Bangladesh will face mounting challenge of resettling and rehabilitating the people displaced by climate change, says an Asian Development Bank study.

The country is already at high risk of catastrophic environmental hazards and floods from sea surges, river flow, rainfall and coastal and riverbank erosion that are likely to force more people from their home.

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New Delhi: The joint family is fast disappearing from the milieu of the capital. A report labelled

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice to the Haryana government on a public interest litigation filed on the basis of The Tribune report highlighting the state

The Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), the organisation spearheading agitation against Posco

Their land was acquired to set-up the plant and were promised jobs
Nalas (Rajpura): Unemployed youth from seven villages, whose land was acquired to setup thermal plant in Nalas village, today staged a dharna for not getting jobs in the thermal plant despite government promises.

Foundation stone of the 1,320-MV thermal plant was laid by Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in March last y

Agartala, Jan 31: The Centre has turned down Tripura government

More than a thousand villagers from Chhattisgarh's coal-rich Raigarh district have expressed their opposition to a mine proposed by Vedanta Resources, a giant multinational.
Vedanta, if granted clearance, hopes to mine four million tonnes of coal a year to fuel the expansion of its 810-MW captive power plant on the Bharat Aluminum Company (BALCO) premises in Korba, Chhattisgarh.

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