Vedanta

Thoothukudi, Tuticorin, Sterlite copper, copper smelting, chimney stack, greenbelt, environmental impact assessment, air quality index, sulphur dioxide, SIPCOT industrial estate, SIPCOT, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, National Air Monitoring Program,

We Must Seriously Question Legal Impunities Enjoyed by the Likes of Vedanta

Sakshi Aravind 08/06/2018

The Thoothukudi episode is proof that our legal regime...

Police personnel baton charge at protestors who were demanding the closure of Vedanta's Sterlite Copper unit, in Tuticorin, on Wednesday. Credit: PTI

How Modi Government Helped Vedanta’s Sterlite Plant Bypass Environmental Norms

Nitin Sethi 24/05/2018

The NDA government made an interpretation to green regulations...

Children in Lakhapadar.

Odisha’s Niyamgiri Hills – and Its People – Are Still Under Threat

Valay Singh 23/04/2018

Vedanta’s alumina refinery in Lanjigarh village is creating water...

A scanning tunnelling microscope's image of the individual atoms making up the surface of gold. Credit: Erwinrossen/Wikimedia Commons

Were the ‘Atoms’ of Acharya Kanad a Product of Science or Speculative Metaphysics?

S.K. Arun Murthi 10/03/2017

Kanad's positing the idea of the atom did not...

A worker watches as a loader unloads coal at a yard on the outskirts of Ahmedabad

In Talks With Indian Government to Develop Clean Coal, Says Vedanta

Reuters 10/02/2017

Vedanta CEO Tom Albanese said coal is still needed...

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Why Was Environmental Activist Piyush Manush Arrested?

Janaki Lenin 15/08/2016

"I was sent to prison for 23 days for...

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Growth or Environment: A False Choice

T.N. Ninan 26/10/2015

In this excerpt from his new book, T.N. Ninan...