Vedanta subsidiary to benefit from gold rush in Goa?
The reported discovery of gold deposits in the Indian State of Goa has got gold miners a little worked up. Will local mining companies get the first rights to mine…
Vedanta: serial offending in Zambia too?
In November of last year, Vedanta’s Zambian subsidiary Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) was fined in court for polluting the very river it had poisoned four years earlier in the north…
Statement on the Saxena Committee Report on the Indian Forest Rights Act
…NC Saxena delivered a report on Vedanta’s alleged violations in Orissa which contributed significantly to the central government denying the UK company a permit for its Niamgiri bauxite mine. See…
Vedanta and market fundamentalism
…accidents in recent years. At least two policemen are among the last five years’ hundreds of fatalities, both run down by lorries serving Vedanta — an inspector in Lanjigarh, and…
Indian Supreme Court gives reprieve to Vedanta subsidiary's Tuticorin copper unit
Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd, a unit of the London-listed Vedanta Resources, can keep running its Tuticorin copper smelter unit for now. The Supreme Court overruled the Madras High Court’s earlier…