LANJIGARH: Even as the Centre has dealt a body blow to the expansion project of the UK-based Vedanta in Kalahandi by rejecting the stage-II forest clearance from its proposed mining project at Niyamgiri, tribals fighting to save their habitat on Thursday announced that the campaign would continue.
Kunti Majhi, the president of Niyamgiri Suraksha Parishad, said that he was quite happy that the N
Ranchi, Aug. 25: A day after the Centre rejected Vedanta’s $1.7 billion project in Orissa, the group’s “illegal” procurement of bauxite — the main raw material for aluminum— from private miners in Jharkhand has come under the scanner of the Union ministry of environment and forests and the concerned department in the state.
TWO years ago when AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi visited Ijirupa village, he promised Dongaria Kondhs and Kutia Kondhs –the two primitive tribal groups -and the o
At a time when the prime minister is bent upon thrusting the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill down the nation's throat, it is heartening that environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh has taken a popular stand and put a stop to Vedanta's planned `illegal' mining in Orissa.
The government's decision to reject Vedanta's proposed $1.7 billion bauxite mining project in Orissa has been hailed by green lobby terming it as a great step towards people's empowerment and saving pristine wildlife in the eco-fragile Niyamgiri Hills.
"It's a great step foward in people's empowerment.
