Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
LANJIGARH: Even as the Centre has dealt a body blow to the expansion project of the UK-based Vedanta in Kalahandi by rejecting the stage-II forest clearance from its proposed mining project at Niyamgiri, tribals fighting to save their habitat on Thursday announced that the campaign would continue. Kunti Majhi, the …
Rourkela: The BJP on Wednesday demanded resignation of chief minister Naveen Patnaik following Centre's rejection of environment clearance to Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Kalahandi district. The chief minister has no moral right to continue as chief minister after indictment by Union environment and forests ministry on the Vendanta mining …
Bhubaneswar: Close on the heels of the rejection of UK-based Vedanta Resources proposed bauxite mining project in Odisha by the Centre, the CPI on Wednesday demanded similar action against South Korean steel major Poscos' Rs 52,000-crore plant in the state for alleged violation of Forest Rights Act. Pointing out several …
IJIRUPA (LANJIGARH, KALAHAND ) TWO years ago when AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi visited Ijirupa village, he promised Dongaria Kondhs and Kutia Kondhs –the two primitive tribal groups -and the other people living in around Niyamgiri mountains that he would bat for their rights in Delhi. "When Rahul came in …
LANJIGARH WITH the Environment Ministry denying clearance to the Vedanta bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri, the Congress in Orissa is going all out to project party general secretary Rahul Gandhi as the "saviour of tribals". The Adivasi Adhikar Samavesh, which will be addressed by Gandhi tomorrow, is the brainchild of …
N C SAXENAThe report on Vedanta calls the approval for the refinery illegal. Should it not be cancelled? No, it will probably continue with raw materials from other mines. But the report has found many of those other mines illegal... I am not aware of that. Our committee dealt only …
The fact-finding team set up by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) last month to probe allegations of violations of the Forest Rights Act by Posco, the Korean steel major, for its proposed project in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district, will visit the site on Friday and Saturday. The team …
Priyadarshi Siddhanta Indicating a softening of stance with respect to South Korean steel major Posco’s proposed Rs 52,000-crore project again in Orissa, Environment and Forests minister Jairam Ramesh today said that there was no violation of tribal rights in its project area and that it was “a project of strategic …
C H I E F O P E R A T I N G O F F I C E R , V E D A N T A A L U M I N I U M The environment ministry on Tuesday denied clearance to Vedanta's proposed $1.7-billion bauxite …
GUWAHATI, Aug 24: The Assam State BJP today accused Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain of helping illegal Bangladeshi immigrants to settle in forest areas in order to get their votes for the Congress in the elections. The BJP demanded the resignation of Hussain as a Cabinet minister for his alleged role …
More bad news for Anil Agarwal as odds seem to be stacked heavily against him both in bauxite mining & Cairn dealOur Political Bureau NEW DELHIIT IS expected to be curtain call for Vedanta
In a big blow to Vedanta Resources, the government on Tuesday rejected environment clearance to its $1.7 billion bauxite mining project in Orissa after accepting recommendations of its key panel clearing such ventures.Giving reasons for the denial of clearance, environment minister Jairam Ramesh told reporters that "there has been a …
Orissa Chief Minister To Discuss Problems Faced By Posco And Vedanta In The StateOur Political Bureau NEW DELHI ORISSA chief minister Naveen Patnaik is taking his case to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the fate of Vedanta
Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The UPA government on Friday moved a step closer to giving the red signal to the Vedanta mining of bauxite in the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa. The Union ministry for environment and forests
New Delhi: The government has decided to widen the ambit of the Meena Gupta committee, which is looking into the Rs 50,000-crore Posco Integrated Steel Project to review the case not only for its compliance with the Forest Rights Act (FRA) and Forest Conservation Act. The panel will also be …
Says Gram Sabhas Alone To Decide If They Want To Part With Forest Land Nitin Sethi | TNN The N C Saxena Committee that called for scrapping the Vedanta bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa has set a precedent that could jolt the entire mining industry
