Metal czar Anil Agarwal-promoted Vedanta Resources has lined up Rs 125 crore investment for CSR activities in India next fiscal, even as the global economic slowdown is set to squeeze its profits by over 30 per cent in 2008-09.
Company jumped the gun to feed refinery starved of bauxite, they allege IN THE dead of night on January 7, two earthmoving vehicles were seen moving up the forest road of Niyamgiri Hills. Villagers of Semalbhatta were quick to conclude that the heavy vehicles were from the nearby Lanjigarh refinery owned by Vedanta Alumina Ltd. They alerted nearby villages. By 3.30 am a crowd of 800 people
BHUBANESWAR: Industries Minister Biswa Bhusan Harichandan has said that out of the 2,310 acres of land sought by Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) for its alumina plant at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, 1,805.81 acres have been provided.
BERHAMPUR: Members of the Niyamgiri Bachao Samity (NBS) on Sunday held a meeting at Sakata under Muniguda block in Rayagada district to plan their future plans to oppose mining in the Niyamgiri hills in south Orissa.
Have you noticed how the mighty automobile industry in the US is beginning to sound like the now infamous tobacco industry at the time of its collapse, taking cover behind the people it employed to
In the era of liberalization and privatization, a sizeable number of mineral processing industries are coming to invest in the mineral rich state of Orissa. As a result, there is large involuntary population displacement of the marginalized sections including tribal.
Bauxite versus livelihood of tribals An uneasy calm prevailed in Lanjigarh and the adjoining Niyamgiri hills, with the Kondh tribals and activists of Green Kalahandi, Kalahandi Sachetan Nagrik Manch and Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti appearing more determined than ever to thwart any attempt at mining the bauxite-rich hills. These organizations were leading the campaign to save Niyamgiri. In
