Odisha government has asked 36 steel companies, including Posco-India and ArcelorMittal, which had signed MoUs to immediately submit their physical and financial progress reports, according to official sources. ...
01:35 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Anti-Posco protesters clashed with the police which left 12 persons injured at a project site village in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district, while no land was acquired on Thursday. The clash took place during a demonstration by anti-Posco protesters demanding withdrawal of the police force at Mangala Chak in Gobindpur village, which fell within the three kilometer radius, where prohibitory orders were clamped since the death on Saturday of three persons while...
05:50 PM, Mar 07, 2013
A day after three anti-Posco activists were killed while allegedly making bombs, tension gripped the proposed plant site in Jagtsinghpur district on Sunday as police recovered the bodies and materials used for making the explosives. Three persons were killed and another was critically injured in the blast when members of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) were making crude bombs, Jagatsinghpur SP Satyabrata Bhoi said today after reaching the spot. ...
02:46 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Galvanised steel makers like SAIL and Tata Steel will reap benefits with the Budget 2013-14 bringing down export duty on certain items to nil from 7.5 per cent earlier. ...
05:14 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The salary of Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, inched up a mere 1.78 per cent at $1.77 million last year, amid the world's largest steelmaker reporting a net loss of $3.73 billion in 2012 due to slump in demand and write downs. ...
04:27 AM, Feb 25, 2013
The worst thing to happen to the steel and mining sector was the boom. Some of the experienced CEOs never thought that a boom would last forever. All those companies that invested between 2006 and 2008 are the ones that are now suffering. Those who didn't fall for the boom are doing well. ...
02:52 PM, Feb 14, 2013
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to Congress MP Naveen Jindal and the Centre on Zee Group's plea for transfer of alleged extortion case investigation against it from Delhi Police to another agency. ...
06:29 PM, Feb 12, 2013
State-owned Steel Authority of India reported a 23 per cent drop in quarterly profit, weighed by higher input and wage costs and sluggish sales. ...
03:32 PM, Feb 12, 2013
A few weather-beaten shipping containers, a swathe of sand and a bitterly divided village: that is all South Korea's POSCO has to show seven years after it announced plans for a $12 billion steel mill on a fertile strip in Odisha. Last week, the project took a step forward as land was taken over from farmers for the first time since 2011, and yet Posco is still a long way...
08:36 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Footage of a man protesting the Posco steel plant being beaten by a government land officer in Odisha has triggered outrage with activists and politicians on February 5 demanding strong action against the culprit. Sangram Mohapatra, a land officer with the state-run Orissa Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO), was seen mercilessly beating a protestor with a stick on February 3 near Jagatsinghpur district's Gobindpur village, about 100 km from here....
05:54 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Land acquisition has begun for the second day at the proposed POSCO site in Jagatsinghpur in Odisha. So far the acquisition is going peacefully with heavy police deployment. ...
10:25 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Tension broke out at POSCO's plant in Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha after the police tried to forcibly acquire land for the steel giant that was allotted to farmers on Sunday. Betel farmers protested after the police dismantled seven betel vines. ...
08:44 AM, Feb 03, 2013
Anand suffered a shocking last-round defeat against Wang Hao of China and had to be content with a joint third finish. ...
10:25 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Carlsen took his tally to an unassailable 9.5 points and remains 1.5 points ahead of Anand and Levon Aronian of Armenia. ...
11:42 AM, Jan 27, 2013
Desperately in need of some big wins, Viswanathan Anand will take on Yifan Hou in Tata Steel Chess tournament. ...
06:20 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Viswanathan Anand could not breach the solid defenses of Sergey Karjakin of Russia and played out another draw. ...
02:30 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Anand played out an easy draw with Peter Leko of Hungary in the ninth round of Tata Steel Chess tournament. ...
09:43 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Viswanathan Anand slipped to the second position after he was held to an easy draw by tail-ender Ivan Sokolov. ...
12:07 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Anand outsmarted Van Wely to come back in joint lead after the seventh round of the 75th Tata Steel Chess tournament. ...
11:33 AM, Jan 20, 2013
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with compatriot P Harikrishna and slipped to second spot at the end of the sixth round of Tata Steel Chess tournament here on Saturday. ...
05:07 PM, Jan 19, 2013
