Bhubaneswar: After the Centre's refusal of permission for Vedanta's mining project, the Odisha government on Wednesday asked the UK-based group to have patience in order to get alternative sources of bauxite for its refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district.

Allocating mines to any company requires a lot of time as the state government has to go through different phases.

Therefore, Vedanta

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

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government, it seems, is not in a hurry to provide alternative bauxite mines to the UK-based Vedanta group for its refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district after the Centre rejected the stage-I forest clearance for its proposed mining project in Niyamgiri.

It has asked the company to have patience to get alternative sources of raw material in Orissa.

BHUBANESWAR: Maintaining that the Centre had given conditional clearance to Polavaram dam project, the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) criticised the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for trying to politicise the issue.

BJD is trying to politicise the issue even after the assurance given by Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik that al

Bhubaneswar: London-based mining major Vedanta Resources on Wednesday requested the Orissa government for allotment of an alternative bauxite mines in view of the Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) denying it access to the Niyamgiri reserves in Kalahandi district.

The chief operating officer of Vedanta Alumina (VAL) Mukesh Kumar, met the Orissa steel & mines minister, Rathunath Moh

Dilip Bisoi

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government is in no hurry to allot alternative mines to Vedanta Resources even though the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) has denied access to bauxite reserves in Niyamgiri hills of Kalahandi district.

The fate of two of Orissa

BHAWANIPATNA: Two H1N1 positive cases in Kalahandi have spread panic in the district.

A teacher, Chandramani Nag, of Dadpur village near Bhawanipatna was admitted in MKCG Medical in Berhampur and on August 24 he tested positive.

He has now, however, recovered, Kalahandi CDMO Dr. Susil Chandra Rath said.

Debabrata Mohanty

Stung by the Environment Ministry on mega industrial projects of Vedanta and Posco and Rahul Gandhi

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 ministry had rejected Vedanta