Bhubaneswar: The Centre on Wednesday made it clear that it would not tolerate any back door entries by industry for seeking mines, a move that could dampen corporate efforts of forging alliances with PSUs for their mining projects.

Asked about the industrial controversies relating to mining activities like that in Odisha, Union mines minister B K Handique said that the mining lease was given to

Standards not consistent, rules changed midway, it contends.

You are not going by your own rules, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) intends to tell the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) tomorrow.

Also, it plans to say MoEF is applying to VAL a different standard than the one being held for other companies.

Vedanta intends to say so in reply to the MoEF showcause notices of August

S Kalyana Ramanathan / London September 13, 2010, 0:18 IST

Even as London-based mining and metals major Vedanta Resources struggles to procure bauxite from Niyamgiri in Orissa for its 1-million tonne capacity alumina project in the state, it has managed to find a new source of a slightly lower grade of bauxite in Gujarat.

According to a senior Vedanta executive, the supply of bauxite from Gu

VEDANTA ALUMINA chief operating officer, Dr Mukesh Kumar, on Wednesday met Orissa steel and mines minister, Mr Raghunath Mohanty, and urged him to provide alternative bauxite mines for the company

Ranju Sarkar / New Delhi September 8, 2010, 0:37 IST

Given the serious allegations against the firm, did these members of the board fail in their duty to safeguard the interests of stakeholders?

Vedanta Resources had environment clearance to set up a 1-million tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa. But, it went ahead with expanding its capacity six-fold without any approvals.

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government will find it tough to provide another mining site to Vedanta Resources, which was denied permission to mine bauxite in Niyamgiri Hills, a top company official said on Monday.

Environmental fundamentalism is proving a major hurdle to economic development in India
A V Rajwade / New Delhi September 06, 2010, 0:39 IST

Continuing the last week

Close to 75 workers at the alumina refinery complex of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) at Lanjigarh in western Orissa

New Delhi: Vedanta

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 six-fold expansion of its refinery in Lanjigarh even as the Ministry was still appraising