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 …
Bhubaneswar: The ministry of environment and forest on Wednesday issued show cause notice to Vedanta Aluminum Ltd asking as to why the Stage II environment clearance should be given and why its six million expansion proposal of its aluminum refinery should not be stopped. Just a few days ago, the …
Anirudh Burman & CV Madhukar The recent order of the ministry of environment and forests (MoE&F;) rejecting the application for grant of forest clearance to the Orissa Mining Company (the Vedanta project) has raised a number of important questions. The order cited the company
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 …
Sankar Ray A strict vigil should be kept on the fact-finding committee on Posco A pro-BJP political commentator vented his anger against environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh for a feat that drew the "gushing praise of international jholawalas" THE report of the four-member committee headed by N C Saxena …
Joe C Mathew / New Delhi September 01, 2010, 1:20 IST A 15-year agreement between India and Britain that assures equitable treatment to cross-border investors from both countries may technically permit Vedanta to seek legal action against the central government if its investments in Orissa suffer for no fault of …
Debabrata Mohanty A week after the Ministry of Environment and Forests threw the Vedanta Aluminium project in Orissa into doldrums by denying final stage forest clearance, the fate of the 12 million tonne per annum steel project by Korean steelmaker Posco appears to be bleak after the ministry widened the …
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 Awards to Vedanta have been withdrawn by …
In May, a few bankers walked into the headquarters of Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta Resources in London with a blind suggestion to take over Cairn India, the 62 per cent subsidiary of London-headquartered Cairn Energy. Agarwal gave them the go-ahead to begin talks. But who would approach Bill Gammell, the overpowering …
It took us a day to trek to the Niyamgiri hill to Lakhpadar village in Orissa, where Lado Sikaka is back home. Picked up a few days earlier by the Rayagada police on charges of being a Maoist supporter, the Dongria Khond Niyamgiri Surasksa Samiti (NSS) member was allegedly beaten …
All-India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday admitted he had played a crucial role in the rejection of forest clearance to the Niyamgiri bauxite mines and assured local tribals here that he would continue to fight to protect their interests. Mr Gandhi, whose visit to this remote and …
Lanjigarh (Orissa): Two days after Jairam Ramesh withdrew environmental clearance to bauxite mining and alumina refinery project in Orissa, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday flew to Niyamgiri Hills to claim a share of the
