Faced with acute shortage of bauxite to run its one-million-tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha, Vedanta Aluminum Ltd (VAL), an arm of London-listed Vedanta Resources, may issue a notice to the state government on Monday or Tuesday to shut down the unit.

Vedanta may shut Lanjigarh refinery

Business Standard

About 15 kms from the idyllic hilly town of Semiliguda in South Odisha&rsquo;s Koraput district, the stage is set for an encore of the Niyamgiri-type agitation, as the tribals gather at the foothills of Mali Parbat to protest against bauxite mining by Hindalco Industries Ltd in the area.

Odisha's tribals to take on Hindalco

After a long struggle of seven years, which saw more downs than ups, the $12 billion mega steel project of South Korea&rsquo;s Posco in Odisha may be nearing the end of its ordeal.

Posco readies for a final push

On June 1, Air India&rsquo;s evening flight from New Delhi to Bhubaneswar returned almost empty. The reason: most of the passengers booked on that flight could not make it to Biju Patnaik Airport because the only road leading to the terminal was jammed with a sea of people for a distance of one kilometre. Even Union Coal Minister Prakash Jaiswal, who had arrived on that flight on an official visit, had to wait more than three hours to exit the airport.

Dillip Satapathy: In Odisha, it's advantage Naveen

When the anti-Posco brigade celebrated the seventh anniversary of their agitation against the mega steel venture of the South Korean behemoth at Dhinkia near Paradip in Odisha last week, the noise they made against the project was drowned by the murmurs of a split in their ranks.

Chinks in opposition might hasten Posco land acquisition

Kalindi Das, 48, a labourer in this region where Korean giant Posco has proposed to set up its mega steel project, earned Rs 250 per day as wage till June last year. Today, he has no regular source of income.

Owners, workers of land lost for Posco project despair at latest stall

Doing business is not easy if you operate through the heart of darkness in India&rsquo;s now infamous Red Corridor. Ask Essar Group about it. It has gone back to the drawing board to secure raw materials from the region.

Dillip Satapathy