The tribals strongly opposed the bauxite mining proposal in the first, second and third Gram Sabha meetings held recently.

After two villages in Raygada district rejected a proposal of allowing bauxite mining atop Niyamgiri Hills, another village in Kalahandi di...

The villagers have made it clear that mining of bauxite at the Niyamgiri hills would adversely affect their religious, cultural life and th...

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs and local tribes have demanded conducting of gram sabhas in more villages and it has opposed the govt bid to...

Odisha government today instructed the district collectors of Kalahandi and Rayagada to initiate action within three months for completing ...

Odisha government today sought a clarification from the law department over the Ministry of Tribal Affair's (MOTA) guidelines on conducting...

The Apex court earlier in the day has stalled the bauxite mining in Niyamgiri Hills till gram sabhas in the districts have given their appr...

The ministry has sought two weeks time to submit its affidavit pertaining to the bauxite mining of Niyamgiri hills.

“Mining only leads to greater poverty,” Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of Rural Development explained to the tribals of Lanjigarh, Odisha at...

Anil Agarwal, on Wednesday, met Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik and sought his intervention for supply of bauxite to the Lanjigarh alu...

Seeking to steer clear of the controversial Niyamgiri mining project, Vedanta Group chief Anil Agarwal today asked the Odisha government to...

At least eight leading tribal organisations from Kalahandi and Rayagada districts have moved the Orissa HC against the environment ministry...

Vedanta Reources on Thursday sought the mineral from Orissa itself to feed its aluminium refinery at Lanjigarh saying importing the raw mat...

Denied permission to start mining activities in Orissa, Vedanta has proposed to state govt to allocate it an alternative source of bauxite.

Mining of Niyamgiri would be at the cost of huge environmental damage.

An amazing lack of socio-cultural sensitivity is provoking endless controversy and delaying much-needed investment in Kalahandi.

Kalahandi has always captured the national imagination, but never for the right reasons.