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 ambit of the Meena Gupta panel looking into the steel project.
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Awards to Vedanta have been withdrawn by the British Safety Council (BSC) in response to findings thrown up by a broader analysis of deaths of
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 CEO of Cairn Energy?
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 up by the policemen.
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 poverty-stricken part of the state comes just three days after the Union ministry of e
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
