Orissa

CONGRESS general secretary Digvijay Singh has said the environment ministry’s decision to disallow Vedanta to mine bauxite in Orissa will have no bearing on the company’s takeover bid for Cairn India, which awaits government approval. There is no question of the party or the government adopting an ‘anti-Vedanta stand’ and the two issues were unrelated, Mr Singh said.

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Ranju Sarkar / New Delhi September 8, 2010, 0:37 IST Given the serious allegations against the firm, did these members of the board fail in their duty to safeguard the interests of stakeholders? Vedanta Resources had environment clearance to set up a 1-million tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa. But, it went ahead with expanding its capacity six-fold without any approvals.

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Dilip Bisoi Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government is in no hurry to allot alternative mines to Vedanta Resources even though the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) has denied access to bauxite reserves in Niyamgiri hills of Kalahandi district. “There is no hurry on the part of the state government to allot alternative mines to Vedanta,” said state steel and mines minister Raghunath Mohan

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New Delhi: The government’s new-found zeal on environment protection — led by Jairam Ramesh with the backing of Rahul Gandhi — was sought to be tempered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday when he advocated a middle path by saying that while environmental concerns were important and needed to be heeded, that should not lead to ‘‘perpetuation of poverty’’ or a return to the ‘‘licence-permit

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BHUBANESWAR, 6 SEPT: Famous brackish-water lake Chilika is all set to find a place among the world’s five best managed ecosystems. In fact, Chilika is the only site from Asia selected for this prestigious filming project, which is being undertaken by National Geographic.

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Notwithstanding the “elephantine” efforts proposed by the Project Elephant in its elaborate report ‘Gajah’ to secure the future of jumbos in the country, “elephanticides” continue in Odisha.

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BHUBANESWAR: President of Utkal Bharat party Kharabela Swain today dared the Government to prove that Polavaram multi-purpose irrigation project will adversely affect the State. ‘’The ruling BJD is trying to divert the attention of the people from the Vedanta fiasco by raking up the Polavaram issue,’’ Swain told a media conference here after verifying facts with the Ministry of Environment and

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JAJPUR: Truant monsoon in the current kharif season has forced thousands of farmers in Jajpur district to use pump sets as an alternative to irrigate their paddy fields. Below normal rainfall in the district during July and August has also delayed cultivation of paddy. Wide cracks have developed in the agricultural lands sans sufficient water.

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BHUBANESWAR: IT will be difficult for Vedanta to get prospecting licence (PL) or mining lease of any bauxite mines in Orissa in the near future following rejection of stage-I forest clearance from the proposed mining project in Niyamgiri by Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. Steel and Mines Minister Raghunath Mohanty said though Vedanta is ready to take bauxite from any other altern

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