Vedanta refinery pollutes river, sickens people in Orissa VEDANTA recently invited bureaucrats and glitterati to pat its back on corporate social responsibility activities at its first such meeting. But people living around Vedanta Aluminium Ltd
Earlier this year, I called the Union budget myopic (see Down To Earth, March 31, 2008). Let me reiterate why. The Union budget did not take into account the fact the world was beginning to face new
A few years ago I wrote about a textile town called Pali, in Rajasthan, which had completely toxified its seasonal river Bandi with industrial discharge. Then, I said the real story was not about
Vedanta Resources, London-based energy company Aldwych International and infrastructure firm Nava Bharat Ventures have been shortlisted by Zambia Consolidated Copper Mine Investment Holdings (ZCCM-IH) to develop and operate a coal mine and build a 400 mega watt thermal power plant in the African nation, sources said.
This year, for once, the devastating floods of Bihar seem to have touched us. Last year, when the same region was reeling under what was said to be the worst floods in living history, we simply did
Barely two weeks after announcing what it called a mega-restructuring plan, London-listed Vedanta Resources, India's largest diversified mining group, has scrapped the proposal.
The company cited the global financial turmoil and shareholders' objections as reasons for the sudden change of plan.
Jambudwip is a tiny dot in the Bay of Bengal. A few years ago, it hit headlines when wildlife activists dragged fishermen, who used the landmass to dry their fish, to the Supreme Court. A case was
