The Supreme Court's environment panel, Central Empowered Committee (CEC), on Friday concurred with the Karnataka Lokayukta to report rampant illegal iron ore mining in Chitradurga and Tumkur districts and recommended a complete ban on private mining. Submitting the CEC's report to a bench of Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justices Aftab Alam and Swatanter Kumar, amicus curiae A D N Rao said the adverse impact on environment in these two...
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Villagers force suspension of Posco project work by Prafulla Das
Oppose laying of coastal road Stiff opposition from the locals against acquisition of land for the proposed Posco Steel project and the construction of a coastal road from Paradip to the project site has forced the Jagatsinghpur district administration to stop the project work. Residents of Dhinkia and Nuagaon gram panchayats on Saturday held a public meeting to oppose the laying of the road. The road work began near Paradip on Friday. Raising...
More »RS Sharma's works reflected the larger struggle to keep India secular by Neena Vyas
Anyone who came in contact with Professor R.S. Sharma — students, teachers, ordinary men and women from different walks of life as this reporter did — could not have remained untouched by him. Gentle and with a sparkle in his eyes, he came out as strong, determined and always principled. Moreover, as a historian he was never locked up in the ivory tower of academia and did not shy away from...
More »Posco project is a closed chapter
-IBN After failing to provide the promised land for the proposed Steel plant in Gadag district, the state government has convened a meeting with the representatives of the Korean based Steel giant Posco Ltd, to locate a new place in the state, Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani said here on Wednesday. While assuring the people of Gadag district that the government was very much committed to its decision of abandoning the proposal, Nirani...
More »Talks with Posco on MoU renewal inconclusive
-The Business Standard The road to renewal of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Posco India seems to be bumpy with the officials of the Steel firm and the Orissa government failing to reach a consensus even though the pact lapsed on June 21 last year. In the latest of their series of interactions with the state government, the Posco India officials on Wednesday met state Chief Secretary B K Patnaik and Steel...
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