NEW DELHI: Vedanta, whose proposal to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills, was rejected by the Centre on Tuesday, says the Orissa government

The Orissa state government is upset that it has not been invited to participate in the crucial Forest Advisory Committee meeting scheduled to be held in New Delhi on Friday in order to explain its position on Vedanta Aluminium

Bhubaneswar, Aug. 18: London-based Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) on Wednesday denied any mining activity at Niyamgiri Hill. The company is setting up a one-million-tonne refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa

If there is a single conclusion the Ministry of Environment and Forests can arrive at based on the report of the four-member committee led by Planning Commission member N.C. Saxena on the proposed open cast mining in Orissa's forested Niyamgiri hills, it is this: drop it.

Bhubaneswar: Orissa government Tuesday lodged its protest against the Saxena Committee report on Vedanta issue.

The state government, in a letter to the Union ministry of environment and forest, has asserted that Orissa is second in the country in the implementation of forest laws and rules.

After one stop-work order on the Rs 54,000-crore Posco project, a four-member panel appointed by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has dealt a blow to yet another big-ticket investor in Orissa, the London-based Vedanta Resources Ltd.

NEW DELHI: The N.C. Saxena panel, which has asked the Centre not to clear Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Orissa, is scathing about the

Priscilla Jebaraj

NEW DELHI: The Attorney-General has given the government a free rein to refuse forest clearance for Vedanta Aluminium's bauxite mining proposal in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa.

New Delhi: The Union environment and forests ministry has armed itself to tighten the noose against the Vedanta project in Orissa. It has sought and received an opinion from the Attorney General that the ministry, despite a Supreme Court order, still holds the legal mandate to refuse forest clearance to the company.