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An Indian tribe which worships its remote jungle mountain as a living god has inflicted a humiliating defeat on one of Britain’s wealthiest billionaires over his plans to open a vast aluminium ore mine on their land. <script src=”http://player.ooyala.com/player.js?height=315&embedCode=Q4dHB0ZDpsPps02yUSPlqGUfsv6CLG9k&video_pcode=RvbGU6Z74XE_a3bj4QwRGByhq9h2&width=560&deepLinkEmbedCode=Q4dHB0ZDpsPps02yUSPlqGUfsv6CLG9k”></script> By Dean… Continue Reading →
FPIC is now endorsed not only by human rights bodies it also has the vote of pro-business institution Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint This attitude to adivasis can be crudely summarized thus: they don’t know what’s good for them, and… Continue Reading →
Tuesday, Aug 6, 2013, 7:00 IST | Agency: DNA Garga Chatterjee You lifted one fistful of salt And an empire was shamed. Lift One fistful of rubble Now And pour it on our shameless heads. (by Gopal Gandhi on… Continue Reading →
फ़ैसल मोहम्मद अली बीबीसी संवाददाता, रायगढ़ा के बिश्मकटक से गुरुवार, 1 अगस्त, 2013 को 11:08 IST तक के समाचार लंदन में जब ब्रितानी कंपनी वेदांता के शेयर धारकों की सालाना बैठक की तैयारी हो रही है ठीक उसी… Continue Reading →
Jul 30, 2013 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) –By Biman Mukherji and BS London-listed Vedanta Resources PLC’s (VED.LN) plan to mine bauxite in eastern India’s Orissa state has hit a roadblock with a majority of village councils in the… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Sayantan Bera [1] Issue Date: 2013-7-30 Seven straight rejections means a majority of the 12 villages have said ‘no’ to proposed bauxite mining A Dongria Kondh tribal sitting outside the meeting venue reacts to the camera (photos: Sayanta Bera) Broken… Continue Reading →
The seventh palli sabha – at Vedanta’s darling CSR village, Phuldumer – has now cast its deciding majority vote and once again given a thundering NO to Vedanta’s Niyamgiri mine! This means more than half of the villages and the… Continue Reading →
Debabrata Mohanty : Kunakadu, Thu Jul 25 2013,IE Rainclouds hung over Niyamgiri hills, but the cloud of uncertainty over Vedanta Alumina’s 1 million tonne per annum alumina refinery plant at Lanjigarh, Kalahandi, deepened further after the fourth pallisabha on… Continue Reading →
Non-tribal Tadijhola rejects mining proposal at Niyamgiri Author(s): Sayantan Bera [1] Issue Date: 2013-7-23 Palli sabha takes a dig at Odisha government for lack of education and health facilities 87 year old Sugri Gouda returns home after attending the Palli Sabha… Continue Reading →
As the date for gram sabha meetings to decide the fate of mining in Niyamgiri hills nears, activists and Dongria Kondhs allege Odisha government conspiring to ensure no claim of religious rights is made over the proposed bauxite mining area… Continue Reading →