Why Orissa mining may not go the Goa way

National Thermal Power Corporation's (NTPC) 3,000 mw Kaniha power station in Orissa's Angul district continues to reel under acute coal crisis with the plant surviving on a coal stock of less than one day's requirement over the past one week. NTPC's ...

More embarrassment for Orissa government now. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has found unlawful extraction of iron ore, manganese ore as well as coal in excess of approved limit without prior environment clearance (EC) in the state. The ...

Orissa Minerals Development Company Limited (OMDC) is an India-based mining company which is engaged in the exploration and production of iron ore. The company is one of the oldest iron ore mining companies. The company comes under the Ministry of ...

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In the wake of the Supreme Court judgment in the Vedanta mining case, Union tribal affairs minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo has called upon governors of nine states to invoke their special constitutional powers to stop the state governments from allowing the ...

Bhubaneswar: With the Supreme Court leaving the fate of Vedanta's proposed bauxite mining project at Niyamgiri Hills in hands of gram sabhas, Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) Friday asked the Odisha government to honour the views of a similar ...

Terming it as a 'landmark victory in recognizing indigenous rights in India', Amnesty International has hailed the ruling by Supreme Court that the Indigenous (Adivasi) communities will have the final decision on plans for a bauxite mine by a ...

Vedanta Resources Plc (VED), controlled by billionaire Anil Agarwal, may soon restart a mothballed alumina refinery after a change in mining rules helps resume supply of raw materials to the plant. Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. had to shut its factory in ...

The Supreme Court has said that it's up to the local gram sabha that governs the Niyamgiri Hills in Odisha to decide whether to allow mining by the Vedanta Group. The court ordered the Odisha government to share details of the mining proposal with ...