Orissa Mining

• Government to decide on giving iron ore license to POSCO: Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court has set aside Orissa High Court order which had cancelled the state government's recommendation for mining lease in the state to be given to Posco India. The Odisha government wanted Posco to mine there. However this decision was challenged in the Orissa High Court after which the court cancelled the state's recommendation for P...

• Orissa govt backs Vedanta, moves court against ban on mining

  The Orissa government has thrown its weight behind mining group Vedanta Aluminium Limited and has moved the Supreme Court against the Centre's ban on bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri Hills for the group's Rs 5,000-crore alumina refinery project at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district of the state.The state government's move came after the Jairam Ramesh-l...

• Steel executive dies after workers attack him in Orissa

  A senior executive of Powmex Steel in Orissa has died in hospital after he was attacked by factory workers.  RS Ray, who was the Deputy General Manager of the steel plant that's based in Orissa's Titalagarh district, was in his car when it was set on fire.Workers at the steel plant are on strike, demanding higher salaries.Reports that 11 emplo...

• Protests at Vedanta site after 5000 contract workers sacked

  Days after the environment ministry cancelled its clearance to the Vedanta mining project in Orissa and put its refinery on notice, workers are protesting at the plant site in Lanjigarh.More than 5000 workers were suddenly retrenched on Tuesday by Larsen & Turbo, the contractor for carrying out Vedanta's construction work.After protests by the ...

• Vedanta seeks alternative bauxite mines from Orissa govt

  Denied permission to start mining activities atop Niyamgiri hills in Orissa's Kalahandi district, Vedanta Group has proposed to the state government to allocate it an alternative source of bauxite for running its 1 MTPA alumina refinery plant.This was stated by Vedanta's Chief Operating Officer (COO) Mukesh Kumar who yesterday met officials of the ...

• Will Central team clear POSCO project?

  A four-member Central panel is on a two-day visit to Orissa to probe if any forest laws have been violated at the proposed site for POSCO Steel plant near Paradeep Port.This is the second Central panel after Ashish Kothari committee to have visited the area.The earlier panel reported that the rights of tribals in the area had been ignored, somethin...

• Rahul Gandhi to Orissa tribals: You have saved Niyamgiri

  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is celebrating "victory" in Orissa's Kalahandi, saying the rejection of environment clearance to a big bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills is a victory of the local tribal people."Your voice reached Delhi and you saved your land. I did what I could, but this is your victory," Rahul said in Lanjigarh on Thursda...

• Jairam says no to Vedanta mining project in Orissa

  It's a battle that's being presented as India's real-life Avatar - mountains that are sacred for very different reasons to the tribals that live around them, and a UK corporate giant. (Read: Vedanta responds to charges of environmental violations)Now, the Environment Ministry has stepped in to keep Vedanta - a company promoted by Anil Agarwal - fro...

• Tribal leader tortured in Orissa

  The Dongaria Kondh tribals from Kalahandi Orissa, became an international talking point among environmentalists. Their story mirroring the Naa'vi, the blue-skinned nature-loving aliens of the 2009 movie Avatar, who are massacred by greedy human miners drew much acclaim.However, for the Dongaria tribe and its firebrand leader Lodo Sikaka, the repres...

• Vedanta stalemate: Orissa Chief Minister to meet Manmohan Singh

  Facing heat from the Centre over mining projects in his state, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is expected to raise concerns over recommendations of a government panel on the matter with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday.Patnaik said he would apprise the Prime Minister on the adverse effects the recommendations would have on investments ...

• Are Orissa tribals winning their battle against Vedanta?

  The Dongria Kondh are a primitive tribal community who live in the pristine hills around Niyamgiri in Western Orissa's Kalahandi district. On youTube, a series of spots campaigns have been running for their rights against a corporation named Vedanta. The mountain, the Dongria Kondhs worship, is the centre of rich deposits of bauxite that Vedanta wa...

• In Orissa, Opposition decides to run the House

  The Opposition created ruckus alleging Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's involvement in the Rs 50,000 crore mining scam.

• Maoists explode bomb in Orissa mine

  Maoists on Friday exploded a bomb in Meghatpur mine and planted another at Kiribur, both run by public sector SAIL along the Orissa-Jharkhand border.

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  Crackdown on illegal mining in Orissa

  In a major offensive against illegal mining activities in Orissa, the state government has suspended mining operations in 128 mines.

• Mineral-rich Orissa hit by mine scam

  Orissa is in the shadow of perhaps one its biggest mining scams, worth Rs 50,000 crore.