-Live Mint Vedanta can mine bauxite in Orissa with gram sabha nod, some Karnataka iron ore mines to reopen Two key judgements passed by the Supreme Court on Thursday bode well for India's troubled natural resources sector, keeping alive Vedanta Resources Plc's hopes of mining bauxite in Orissa and promising an alleviation of raw material shortages at steel makers by partly lifting a ban on iron ore mining in Karnataka. The country's top...
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Niyamgiri mining ban to stay, SC says gram sabha will decide if project hits tribals' religious, cultural rights -Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Vedanta Group's bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa will have to get the gram sabha's clearance on whether it affects the cultural and religious rights of the tribals and forest dwellers living in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts. While the gram sabha's nod is compulsory under the Forest Rights Act, the court made it clear that the Act confers...
More »SC allows resumption of iron ore mining in Karnataka -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India The Supreme Court on Thursday lifted the omnibus ban on iron ore mines in Bellary, Chitradurga and Tumkur districts of Karnataka and permitted 81 lease owners, who had committed minor violations, to resume mining after compliance of stringent conditions laid down by the courts. Moving forward from its reference to illegal mining activity for decades under active political patronage as "a shocking state of depredation of nature's bounty...
More »Vedanta's alumina project in Odisha stuck as SC refers mining issue back to gram sabhas -Samanwaya Rautray
-The Economic Times Vedanta's alumina project in Odisha's Lanjigarh will be stuck for at least five more months, with the Supreme Court today referring the controversial issue of mining the nearby Niyamgiri hills back to the gram sabhas. A bench, comprising justices Aftab Alam, K.S. Radhakrishnan and Ranjan Gogoi, said that the issue of tribal rights, especially their religious rights, had not been determined before grant of permission to mine the hills...
More »Superior packaging can’t be used to raise prices: High Court to Sanofi SA -Maulik Vyas
-The Economic Times MUMBAI: In a setback to Sanofi SA, the Bombay High Court has dismissed the plea filed by the French pharmaceutical major saying 'superior' packaging cannot be the argument for higher pricing of drugs. The court order also clarified that fixing the prices of drugs in the country will remain in the domain of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority. In its argument, the pharmaceutical company had said it had relied...
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