Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
NEW DELHI: One week after Vedanta Aluminium's application to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa was rejected, its refinery expansion project has been slapped with a show-cause notice by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. The company was taken to task for allegedly going ahead with a …
Leading mining group Vedanta Resources has been stripped of international safety awards amid claims that it won the prize without declaring that a chimney collapse at one of its sites had killed at least 40 workers last year, according to a media report. Awards to Vedanta have been withdrawn by …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Today, he is known as a champion of tribal rights and a leader in the fight against Vedanta's proposal to mine bauxite in Niyamgiri. But 14 years ago, Bhakta Charan Das, Congress MP from Kalahandi sang a different tune.
Dilip Bisoi Bhubaneshwar VEDANTA HAS BEEN ASSURED SASUBAHUMALI MINES REPORTEDLY, WHICH PROMISES ABOUT 81 MILLION TONNE OF DEPOSITS With bauxite from Niyamgiri out of the question, Vedanta Aluminium, the aluminium arm of London-based Vedanta Resources, is now looking up to the state government for alternative arrangement of bauxite supply to …
Put the ball in the Orissa government’s court, is Vedanta’s Plan B to get its proposed six million-tonne alumina refinery project going. “We went on an invitation from the Orissa government. If an alternative site has to be located, the state government will have to do it,” said a Vedanta …
The state government would undertake a detailed examination of the Union environment and forest ministry's rejection order and would take correct and appropriate steps on the matter Naveen Patnaik, Orissa CM Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday hoped there was `no politics' behind the environment ministry's denial of clearance …
NEW DELHI: After a long drawn -out consultation process, the Union government has finally pronounced its verdict against Vedanta Alumina's $1.7-billion plan to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa.
Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has acted boldly and impartially by relying on scientific expertise and rejecting the application from Vedanta Resources for forest clearance to start bauxite mining in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills. In doing so, he has laudably upheld due process, human rights, and …
The Orissa state government is upset that it has not been invited to participate in the crucial Forest Advisory Committee meeting scheduled to be held in New Delhi on Friday in order to explain its position on Vedanta Aluminium
Bhubaneswar, Aug. 18: London-based Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) on Wednesday denied any mining activity at Niyamgiri Hill. The company is setting up a one-million-tonne refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa
If there is a single conclusion the Ministry of Environment and Forests can arrive at based on the report of the four-member committee led by Planning Commission member N.C. Saxena on the proposed open cast mining in Orissa's forested Niyamgiri hills, it is this: drop it. The violation of laws …
Bhubaneswar: Orissa government Tuesday lodged its protest against the Saxena Committee report on Vedanta issue. The state government, in a letter to the Union ministry of environment and forest, has asserted that Orissa is second in the country in the implementation of forest laws and rules. It also said that …
After one stop-work order on the Rs 54,000-crore Posco project, a four-member panel appointed by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has dealt a blow to yet another big-ticket investor in Orissa, the London-based Vedanta Resources Ltd.The committee, chaired by N C Saxena, who is also member of …
