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If forests belong to the forest-dwellers, then the coastal areas should belong to the fishing community. Acting on this line, the government is proposing to bring in a new law
Vedanta Group purchases bauxite from Jharkhand and particularly Lohardaga on selective basis as the bauxite available in the State is not suitable for its Alumina Refinery at Lanjigarh.
In a surprise development, a bench of the Supreme Court recused itself today from hearing a set of appeals on the quashing of the Orissa government notification to acquire land for a university project of the Vedanta group. The bench of judges R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik gave …
NEW DELHI: A no to Vedanta's mega mining project , a moratorium on Bt Brinjal, a question mark on steel major Posco's plans...The Indian environment scene suddenly hotted up in 2010 thanks to green minister Jairam Ramesh who was not afraid to take controversial decisions whenever he thought ecological balance …
If it was the inability to resettle 450 families that sealed the fate for Korean steelmaker Posco in Orissa, the failure to give jobs to another 500 families in and around the Vedanta project in Niyamgiri put paid to the aluminium major
BHUBANESWAR: The Congress on Wednesday maintained that nothing less than implementation of the High Court judgment, terming the land acquisition for the proposed Vedanta university as illegal, would make way for participation of its members in the Assembly proceedings. Congress members, who have been stalling the House demanding resignation of …
A construction firm accused India's government of high-handedness on Monday and South Korea's POSCO received another setback in its plans to make the country's biggest foreign direct investment, intensifying an ongoing dispute between business and government over the environment ministry's aggressive enforcement of green rules. A forest panel said permits …
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Vedanta Group firm Sterlite Energy has sought relaxation in SEZ rules to benefit its power plant in Odisha that needs to transport coal through Vedanta Aluminum's special economic zone, a commerce ministry official has said. Under the commerce ministry rules, all activities within a special economic zone must …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government will take a decision soon on whether to move the Supreme Court challenging the decision of the Centre for rejecting the stage-II clearance for bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills for the Lanjigarh refinery of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL). Official sources said the recommendations of the advocate-general …
The state government is yet to take a call on the Orissa Advocate General's suggestion to approach the Supreme Court challenging the environment ministry's decision to cancel the Stage-II forest clearance for Vedanta's Niyamgiri Project. "The Advocate General has given his views on bauxite mining at Niyamgiri and it is …
Indian focused mining group Vedanta has appointed a chief sustainability officer after being hit with a series of setbacks due to environmental issues. The London-listed company on Friday named Antony Henshaw, previously corporate vice-president of sustainability at Mexico's Cemex, the world's No. 3 cement maker. On October 21, India said …
The Orissa government is contemplating to challenge in the Supreme Court the denial of permission to the Vedanta Alumium Limited (VAL) by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) for bauxite mining at Niyamgiri hill in Kalahandi district. According to sources
