Ban on mining on Vedanta's Niyamgiri to continue : SC

More than 3000 tribals assembled in Muniguda village of Rayagada district on Wednesday (May 22), to protest against mining in the Niyamgiri hills. The Supreme Court had recently suggested that there was need to seek the opinion of local tribals before mining ...

The Odisha SC & ST department will instruct the district administration of Kalahandi and Rayagada soon to initiate work at the field level for conduct of gram sabhas for deciding the fate of bauxite mining at Niyamgiri hills. Despite the Supreme ...

Koraput/BHUBANESWAR: The Niyamgiri Surakshya Samiti (NSS), an organization fighting against bauxite mining at Lanjigarh by Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), is out to woo tribals to rally for its cause. During its campaign, the samiti organized ...

Reports said that the company is hopeful of securing approvals for doing mining at Niyamgiri hills in the state by September. Vedanta Resources is expecting to begin its alumina refinery in Odisha'sLanjigarh by July, according to reports. Reports ...

The State Government will seek six weeks time from the Supreme Court for conducting gram sabhas to decide the fate of bauxite mining in ecologically sensitive Niyamgiri hills. We will request the apex court to grant us six more weeks for holding ...

The villages of Dongriya Kondh tribals around Odishas Niyamgiri hills are likely to simmer again as the Centre and the state government along with civil society groups are planning to converge on the site for the proposed Vedanta bauxite mine.

Describing the Supreme Court's judgment on mining of bauxite in Niyamgiri wherein the decision has been left to the gram sabha as a path-breaking one, Union Tribal Affairs Minister V Kishore Chandra Deo has, however, said the apex court has not gone ...

SC continues ban on Vedanta's Niyamgiri project Anti-displacement group hails ruling on Vedanta project Second unit of MAPS to be functional by June end Rs.1,200 crore paper board project in TN: Jayalalithaa Bhubaneswar, May 13 (IANS) The Utkal ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court's decision to let gram sabhas decide the fate of Vedanta's Niyamgiri mining project will make it difficult for the government to divert forestland for industry without the consent of tribals and local population. The ...