The IEA’s special report Energy and AI, out today, offers the most comprehensive, data-driven global analysis to date on the growing connections between energy and AI. The report draws on new datasets and extensive consultation with policy makers, the tech sector, the energy industry and international experts. It projects that …
Indian-focused mining group Vedanta is planning to spin off its aluminium division with an announcement regarding a demerger due as early as this week, said the UK newspaper The Independent on Sunday . The paper said the Londonlisted group would apply to the Indian courts to demerge the aluminium division, …
The Church of England has sold its shares of Vedanta Resources saying it is not happy with the way the metal corporation treated tribals of Orissa’s Kalahandi district. The sale of shares, on February 5, worth US $5.8 million, was followed by an Amnesty International report on human rights violation …
SARJU KAUL The mining company has been criticised for "failing to respect human rights of the Dongria Kondh tribe in Orissa". : Indian mining giant Vedanta Resources, which has faced a series of high-profile divestments from high-profile organisations in Britain, is facing more pullouts over its human rights and environment …
The State Government seems to have developed a new policy for corporate social responsibility (CSR) expenditures of the mega industries. It follows the model laid by the Supreme Court in the case of Lanjigarh-based alumina project of Vedanta Resources. The annual CSR expenditure will not be below 5 per cent …
Abhineet Kumar / Mumbai March 03, 2010, 0:31 IST Vedanta Resources, the London-listed holding company for India's largest copper producer, Sterlite Industries, raised $883 million (Rs 4,000 crore) through issue of convertible bonds in Europe. This was the largest issue of convertible bonds in Europe till date in this calendar …
Mining giant Vedanta’s proposed university in Orissa will not only be one of the few in the world with an outlay of Rs 15,000 crore and spread across 2,400 hectares, it will also sit on land rich in thorium deposits. Politicians and activists have been questioning the need for so …
People belonging to Dongria Kondh tribal community have accused multinational mining company, Vedanta, of felling trees near Niyamgiri hills for bauxite mining. The allegations were levelled when members of a fact finding committee of the Union ministry of environment and forests (MOEF) visited Kalahandi in the last week of January. …
Local voices oppose a project but the public hearing report recommends it anyway. The experience of aggrieved villagers and activists present at the hearing for Vedanta Aluminium
Though people oppose refinery expansion, officials record their statements as favourable for project NEW DELHI: The official record of the public hearing on the Vedanta Aluminium
The mine will cause irreversible damage to the ancestral home and way of life of ` thousands of the Kondh tribal people in Orissa. CELEBRITY Bianca Jagger, the ex-wife of Mick Jagger of the Rolling stones, is in the forefront to save the Niyamgiri hills in south Orissa which is …
INDIAN companies such as Essar, London-listed Vedanta and a subsidiary of shipmaker Varun Industries are scouting around for opportunities to explore and mine uranium in countries like Australia, Canada and parts of Africa which have deposits of the mineral used to power nuclear reactors. An overseas subsidiary of Reliance Industries, …
Over 5,000 Dongria and Kondh tribals car- rying traditional arms held a massive protest rally in the Niyamgiri hills of south Orissa against the mining project of Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) on Sunday. With growing international support, the tribal struggle has received a major push with both, the Church of …
On persuading the Church of England to divest its stake in the UK-based Vedanta Resources Anuradha Raman Interviews Bianca Jagger She has been spearheading campaigns highlighting the plight of indigenous communities worldwide. More recently, Bianca Jagger has been in the news for persuading the Church of England to divest its …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: In a blow to mining firm Vedanta, a fourth European investor has sold its multi-million pound stake in the company, citing
LESS than two weeks after the Church of England decided to sell its shareholding in metals and mining giant Vedanta Resources, three international shareholders have also decided to sell their holdings in the mining company because of concerns over its record on human rights. Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Marlborough Ethical …
