Any dilution of the rules under the Forest Rights Act, 2006, as being contemplated at the highest levels of the government, could lead to adverse impact in the ongoing Supreme Court case on UPA’s decision to cancel the bauxite mining rights for Vedanta in...
London’s renowned Chelsea Football team hasn’t been doing that brilliantly of late – it’s slipped to third place in Barclay’s Premier League. This may have given the club’s owner, Roman Abramovich, a spate of the blues as he pored...
Embattled Indonesian miner Bumi has decided to toss its lot in with the Bakries following a protracted shareholder dispute between the prominent Sumatran business dynasty and European financier Nat Rothschild. See...
He’s not the world’s wealthiest mining billionaire (Mexico’s Carlos Slim owns that dubious accolade). But he’s certainly its most notorious. Known from student days as “Toxic Bob” (probably referring to his alleged drug dealing at...
Hot on the heels of an announcement that it is closing its open-pit operations at Australia’s Ranger mine, Rio Tinto says it will sell its majority-stake in South Africa’s Palabora copper mining company to a South-African-Chinese consortium; along with this will go...
On 6 December, demonstrations were mounted in both Orissa and Britain, calling for the closure of Vedanta Resources’ Lanjigarh alumina refinery. Several thousand tribal people gathered at the site itself, while supporters threw mud onto the steps of...
