Won’t allow bauxite mining on Mali Hill: Agitators ransack meeting in Koraput village

The Mali Hill in Koraput is the source of several streams, home to medicinal trees and is an elephant corridor, protestors say

Mali Hill bauxite mine: Villagers resist project as Odisha govt extends Hindalco’s mining lease

The public hearing disrupted by protests has been rescheduled to November 22

Bauxite bully

Battling bauxite

Three persons were killed while protesting against mining operations in the tribal areas of Orissa

Probe completed

Feisty warrior

NGT issues notice to Odisha government for hiding fact about forest in bauxite mine

Details related to forest cover were kept secret to secure environmental clearance from MoEF

Orissa starts accepting forest claims of Kondh tribals

Fight against mining corporation Vedanta to continue, say Niyamgiri dwellers

Aluminium's birth defect

The extraction of aluminium from its ore is a highly polluting process

Malaysia bans bauxite mining for three months

The move comes after protests rose against environmental degradation in area near the mines

Not in sync

AP court stays bauxite mining

Land of sufferance

People of a village in Orissa wage a battle against mining companies to protect their lands

Sterlite protest is a call for Swaraj

The people's movement in Tuticorin against Sterlite and for a clean environment reinforces the ideal of Swaraj and democracy as envisioned …

Road not taken

Giving in

Orissa's tribals put Canadian company on the back foot

Vedanta, have faith; tribal belief is ecological

Tribal religious beliefs are codes to preserve resources critical to their people's survival. The recent Supreme Court order on the Vedanta …

CAG lists Nalco’s many environmental aberrations

The audit agency says Nalco is liable for legal action for violations of environmental clearance terms

Odisha Mining Corporation bats for Vedanta: questions rejection of bauxite mining proposal in Niyamgiri hills

Says Union environment ministry does not have powers to overrule Supreme Court which cleared the project

SC puts an end to OMC's bid to mine Niyamgiri

Apex court rejects the OMC-Vedanta joint venture in what is being seen as a decisive victory for the indigenous tribal group, the Dongria Kondhs

Life and times of Lado Sikaka

The forest will watch out for his children after he is long gone, believes a Dongria Kondh

Confrontation mine

The Paroja-Kondha tribe of southwest Orissa are waging a battle to save their forests and rivers from mining companies and a profit-driven government

Odisha Mining Corporation's fresh attempt to mine Niyamgiri

In May 2013, 12 gram sabhas surrounding the Niyamgiri hills had voted against mining in the region

Andhra Pradesh puts Eastern Ghats bauxite mining project on hold

The bauxite deposits fall in tribal areas protected by the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution and have been opposed by tribal groups right from …

Gandhamardan revisited

Fifteen years ago, BALCO made an abortive attempt to mine bauxite in one of India's richest biodiversity reserves, Gandhamardan in Orissa. Now …

Against the wall