Rayagada: With a number of demands like protection of Niyamgiri hills and shutting down of Vedanta company and the construction of CRPF camp in the area, hundreds of Adivasis took to the streets in a rally organised by Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti and Samajwadi Jan Parishad here on Monday. As per reports, the rallyists moved around […]
Rayagada: Healthcare services in villages located in Niyamgiri hills under Kalyansinghpur block are in a shambles because of poor road connectivity. As a result, patients are carried in slings and bamboo raft for more than 20 kms to Kalyansinghpur hospital at regular intervals. Though the Rayagada district administration has launched bike ambulance services in the […]
Lanjigarh: The anti-Vedanta protests reared head once again after the Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti staged a demonstration in front of the company’s Lanjigarh plant. Hundreds of tribals along with members of various forums took out a rally and staged a dharna in front of the plant. According to sources, the protestors also tried to break the […]
Kalyansinghpur/Narayanpatna: Maoists claiming to be from two different divisions put up posters at different places in Niyamgiri area of Rayagada district and erected red flags on hundred acres of land in Katulpeta and Aalamanda areas of Narayanpatna in Koraput today. At five places in Parasali under Kalyansinghpur including the Dongria Kondh Development Agency office and […]
Rayagada: Nearly a week after suspected Maoists attacked Doikalu railway station in the district and left behind posters protesting the proposed visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the state, the left wing extremists today once again issued fresh warnings to the people, especially tribals of Rayagada and neighbouring districts, through posters to oppose the […]
Rayagada: The dongria kondhs today torched a CRPF camp opposing construction of a road connecting Niyamgiri to Kalyansingpur in the district. The CRPF jawans were deployed there to guard the construction of the road. However, the local residents alleged that government has undertaken the road construction in order to provide bauxite to Vedanta company from […]
The district administration has decided to set up health camps at four villages in the Niyamgiri area where 10 people died because of Cholera till date
Rayagada: Police today seized six Maoist posters in Parsali panchayat of Kalyansinghpur block near Niyamgiri in Rayagada district. Besides the six posters found from Parsali village, a banner was also found hung near Dangaria Kondh Development Agency near Parsali panchayat office. In these posters and banners, the CPI Maoist Baghuna Divisional Committee has urged the […]
Hundreds of Dongria and Jharania tribals of Kalahandi and Rayagada districts residing in and around the Niyamgiri hills today congregated at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district under the banner of Niyamgiri Surakshya Samiti (NSS), a tribal outfit fighting for the protection of the hill they consider sacred, and shouted slogans against Vedanta Alumina and the police
Dangaria Kandh tribals of the Niyamgiri area spread across Rayagada and Kalahandi districts have vehemently protested the announcement of a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court to hear the petition filed by Odisha government seeking the reversal of the ban on bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills
Rayagada: Just a day after a combing operation at Niyamgiri forest near Dengamati village on Kalahandi-Rayagada border in which a Maoist was killed and two others seriously injured, two persons belonging to Dongaria tribe were abducted from the Niyamgiri area on Sunday. The two abducted persons have been identified as Shyama Sikaka of Dangamati village […]
Bhubaneswar: A Maoist was reportedly killed and two others were seriously injured in a fierce gun battle between security forces and Red rebels at Niyamgiri forest near Dengamati village on Kalahandi-Rayagada border early this morning. On a tip off about the presence of the rebels, security personnel, led by Rayagada Superintendent of police (SP) K […]
Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: Prafulla Samantara, the recipient from Asia of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize and the face of a determined people’s resistance against bauxite mining in an Odisha forest, has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “rethink” his corporate-friendly policies. The activist led a historic 12-year legal battle that affirmed the indigenous Dongria-Kondh’s land rights and […]
An Odisha minister on Saturday said that rejection of the mining proposal on Niyamgiri hills was 'unfortunate' and steps would be taken to alternatively source bauxite for Vedanta's refinery
Environment Ministry on Friday rejected Vedanta's controversial bauxite mining proposal in Niyamgiri, official sources said
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