Vedanta group has almost everything to make aluminium. Just one problem: it doesn’t have the raw material, bauxite, and now has little hope...

The rejection of Vedanta at Niyamgiri is not the first for a corporate in bauxite mining in India. Chances are, it won’t be the last.

Four days after Dongria Kondhs rejected bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills, villagers of Kesarpadi also opposed mining in the hills.