PNS | Bhubaneswar

Ending all speculations and making its stand clear, Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), which is setting up the one-million-tonne refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, on Wednesday, denied any mining activity at Niyamgiri hill.

With the four-member NC Saxena committee making recommendations against Vedanta in Odisha, prominent environmentalist and member of Transparency International India, Biswajit Mohanty, has written to the State Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for fixing of accountability on the officers indicted in the report.

The Saxena committee was set up by the Environment Ministry to examine the proposal of ba

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

India has about 55.27 million hectares (m ha) of wasteland. These are not suitable for any purpose and are exposed to the vagaries of nature like weathering, gully erosion, etc. The Department of Land Resources of the Ministry of Rural Development has been implementing three area development programmes since 1995, viz.

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 BHAWANIPATNA: Incessant rain, triggered by a low pressure,
during the last 24 hours has taken the Kalahandi district administration off
guard. Flash floods paralysed normal

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