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 …
Manoj Mitta | TNN New Delhi: An intervention by environment minister Jairam Ramesh on November 27 has had an unintended consequence on the contempt petition against advocate Prashant Bhushan: it has turned the focus on the anomaly of the Supreme Court pre-empting the government in granting forest clearance for the …
Dec. 4: The Vedanta Group chairman, Mr Anil Agarwal, has been awarded `Lifetime Achievement Award -2009' by a a leading weekly magazine Mining Journal for his contribution to the global mining industry in London. While describing Mr Agarwal as a "visionary entrepreneur" and the founder of one of the most …
The Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), part of Vedanta Resources, has not violated any forest and environment norms at its alumina refinery and bauxite mining site in Kalahandi district of Orissa, according to a report of the state government. While the refinery is at the foothill of Niyamgiri hills, the proposed …
VEDANTA ALUMINIUM Ltd, part of the Anil Agarwal-promoted Vedanta Resources Plc, has got a major reprieve on Tuesday after the Kalahandi district collector, Mr R. Santha Gopalan, cleared the company of violating any government guidelines at Niyamgiri bauxite mines. The collector's report has come as a shot in the arm …
WITH the Centre hinting at alleged illegal bauxite mining at Niyamagiri hills by Vedanta, the Orissa government has asked the Kalahandi district administration to verify the truth behind it.
Two big-ticket Bengal projects involving a total investment of over Rs 40,000 crore are in trouble because they are likely to make an estimated 200 million tonnes of coal inaccessible. The Rs 22,000-crore aluminium smelter and power plant of Vedanta Resources near Ranigunj is slated to come up in an …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today defended proposed mining at Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi district saying that not a single tribal family would be displaced due to this project. In a written reply to a question from Hitesh Bagarti (BJP), Steel and Mines Minister Raghunath Mohanty told the House there is …
Hyderabad, Nov. 18: The AP High Court on Wednesday q a criminal case against the chairman of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd, Mr Anil Agarwal, and eight others. Maytas Infra Pvt Ltd. had lodged a complaint with the police against Vedanta chairman and eight others alleging that the firm illegally invoked the …
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP will raise four burning issues in the winter session of the Assembly to corner the ruling BJD. The string of suicides by the farmers during the last two months, the multi-crore mining scam and the reluctance of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to order a probe by the …
Nearly one-and-a-half month after the collapse of chimney at a power plant near here, the police on Monday arrested three senior officials of Vedanta Resources-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (BALCO) in connection with the accident. The accident had claimed at least 41 lives at BALCO Nagar on September 23. BALCO …
The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills and worshipped them as living deities. Now these hills have been …
Global metal and mining major Vedanta Resources has decided to revive its Rs 10,000-crore independent power project in Punjab, which it had put on hold last year.
Dubai-based minerals trading company Trimex International EZE Ltd today moved the Supreme Court claiming $600,000 as damages from Vedanta Aluminium Ltd, a subsidiary of London Stock Exchange-listed Vedanta Resources. In its petition, Trimex sought appointment of the second arbitrator and the presiding arbitrator as per the clause in a contract …
Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) has condemned the findings of the UK National Contact Point, a UK-based government agency, which accused London-based Vedanta Resources, the parent company of VAL of overlooking the interests of the local communities in Orissa.
