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Orissa: Business community in Lanjigarh threaten to suicide if Vedanta closes its alumina refinery
19 JAN 20111MINS

Orissa: Business community in Lanjigarh threaten to suicide if Vedanta closes its alumina refinery

... Hundreds of representatives of Contractors Association, Labours Association, ... if Vedanta Aluminium Limited closes its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh ... senior management of the plant informed them about the current situation of the alumina refinery at Lanjigarh.

Vedanta likely to apply for Niyamgiri afresh
18 JAN 20111MINS

Vedanta likely to apply for Niyamgiri afresh

... Vedanta Resources is likely to submit a fresh application with the Union environment ministry for revival of Niyamgiri bauxite mines and its Lanjigarh expansion project. ... Anil Agarwal on Monday met Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh in the Capital and discussed the company’s Orissa...

Vedanta likely to apply for Niyamgiri afresh
18 JAN 20111MINS

Vedanta likely to apply for Niyamgiri afresh

... Vedanta Resources is likely to submit a fresh application with the Union environment ministry for revival of Niyamgiri bauxite mines and its Lanjigarh expansion project. ... Anil Agarwal on Monday met Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh in the Capital and discussed the company’s Orissa...

Orissa High Court asks MoEF to justify its stand on Vedanta expansion
12 JAN 20111MINS

Orissa High Court asks MoEF to justify its stand on Vedanta expansion

... The Orissa High Court has directed the Union ministry of environment and forests to justify the ministry’s earlier decision to deny permission to Vedanta Aluminium to expand its refinery capacity at Lanjigarh. ... Vedanta Aluminum’s writ, questioning the environment ministry’s October 20 order...

Balco offers VRS to shed excess staff
12 JAN 20111MINS

Balco offers VRS to shed excess staff

... Vedanta-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco) Limited has started a voluntary retired scheme (VRS) to shed excess workforce. ...

Orissa High Court to hear Vedanta Aluminum's plea over mining on Feb 2
11 JAN 20111MINS

Orissa High Court to hear Vedanta Aluminum's plea over mining on Feb 2

... The Orissa High Court on Monday fixed February 2 for adjudicating the petition filed by Vedanta Aluminum Limited (VAL) challenging the decision of the Central Government rejecting the company's stage-II bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills for its refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district....

Court poser to Centre on Vedanta's Lanjigarh plan
11 JAN 20111MINS

Court poser to Centre on Vedanta's Lanjigarh plan

... The Orissa High Court on Monday directed the Centre to submit its reply on the entire issue of disallowing Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL)'s expansion project in Lanjigarh. .... Forests (MoEF) to halt the expansion of its alumina refinery and captive power plant in Orissa citing violation of...

Vedanta gives Gujarat aluminium plant offer a miss
04 JAN 20111MINS

Vedanta gives Gujarat aluminium plant offer a miss

...It is reported that Vedanta Resources does not seem interested in setting up an alumina refinery and an aluminium smelter in Gujarat. It has decided against an expression of interest as invited by the state-owned Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation...

Vedanta gives Gujarat aluminium plant offer a miss?
03 JAN 20111MINS

Vedanta gives Gujarat aluminium plant offer a miss?

... The bauxite requirement of the project is supposed to be fulfilled by GMDC ... He said bauxite deposits in Kutch were 'very limited' and would not be able ...

Vedanta gives Gujarat aluminium plant offer a miss?
03 JAN 20111MINS

Vedanta gives Gujarat aluminium plant offer a miss?

... It is reported that Vedanta Resources does not seem interested in setting up an alumina refinery and an aluminium smelter in Gujarat. .... GMDC had invited EoIs for a 1 million tonne per year alumina refinery and a half a million tonne aluminium smelter project in the Kutch region. The bauxite...

Orissa government likely to ink fresh JV with Rio Tinto
03 JAN 20111MINS

Orissa government likely to ink fresh JV with Rio Tinto

... The Orrisa government is examining a draft regarding a fresh agreement with Anglo-Australian major Rio Tinto for mining in the mineral-rich state. ... The environment ministry had refused forest clearance to Vedanta Resources for alumina mining at the Niyamgiri hills. ...

Orissa government challenging decision on Vedanta
31 DEC 20101MINS

Orissa government challenging decision on Vedanta

... Vedanta's Aluminium mining project in Orissa but the state government is not giving up easy. It has sent a detailed reply to the centre recommending that the project be allowed to continue. ... The environment ministry had refused the forest clearance for the alumina mining at Niyamgiri hills...

Giving tribals jobs could have saved Vedanta
23 DEC 20101MINS

Giving tribals jobs could have saved Vedanta

...If it was the inability to resettle 450 families that sealed the fate for Korean steelmaker Posco in Orissa, the failure to give jobs to another 500 families in and around the Vedanta project in Niyamgiri put paid to the aluminium major’s plans...

Steel Guru : Sterlite Industries accused of unlawful deforestation <b>...</b>
20 DEC 20101MINS

Steel Guru : Sterlite Industries accused of unlawful deforestation <b>...</b>

... The Vedanta group had been in headlines recently after the Indian government denied it permission to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri hills in ...

Speedy closure of Cairn deal win-win for India: Agarwal
06 DEC 20101MINS

Speedy closure of Cairn deal win-win for India: Agarwal

...edanta is hoping that the deal with Cairn will be completed soon. The company’s chief Anil Agarwal has said that the speedy closure of the deal with Cairn is a win-win situation for India...

Vedanta decides against aluminium plant in Gujarat
19 NOV 20101MINS

Vedanta decides against aluminium plant in Gujarat

...Vedanta Resources does not seem interested in setting up an alumina refinery and an aluminium smelter in Gujarat. It has decided against an expression of interest as invited by the state owned Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation...

Tribal bodies move Orissa High Court against ban on Vedanta
16 NOV 20101MINS

Tribal bodies move Orissa High Court against ban on Vedanta

...At least eight leading tribal organisations from Kalahandi and Rayagada districts have moved the Orissa High Court against the recent verdict of the Union ministry of environment and forests to deny permission to Vedanta Aluminium’s plan to expand its refinery project in Lanjigarh, Kalahandi...

Sterlite Energy seeks rule relaxation for SEZ
15 NOV 20101MINS

Sterlite Energy seeks rule relaxation for SEZ

...Vedanta Group firm Sterlite Energy has sought relaxation in special economic zone (SEZ) rules to benefit its power plant in Orissa which needs to transport coal through Vedanta Aluminum's SEZ, a commerce ministry official has said...