No Posco, but 3L trees axed for project
Bhubaneswar: As uncertainty prevails over South Korean steel giant Posco's proposed plant near Paradip, the state government on Tuesday informed the assembly that around three lakh trees were felled during
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Stir against Posco intensifies
Armed policemen accompanying officials return to their makeshift camps As the agitation continued to intensify over the Posco steel project, the Jagatsinghpur district administration on Tuesday did not acquire any land for the venture but continued the construction of a boundary wall on the land acquired earlier. While senior leaders belonging to the Opposition Congress and the Communist Party
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Posco steel plant faces fresh hurdle in India
South Korean steel-maker Posco should be celebrating, having at last secured regulatory approval for a long-delayed $12bn steel project in the Indian state of Orissa.
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The not-so-shining India
Doctor and human rights activist Binayak Sen, charged with sedition by the Chhattisgarh government, recently travelled to South Korea to receive an award.
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Anti-Posco protest with children illegal: Orissa govt
Bhubaneswar The Orissa government on Monday declared the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) dharna using children as human shields at Gobindpur unlawful after clamping Section 144 on the area.
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Posco agrees to job quota for project oustees
Bhubaneswar: Going by the reports that South Korean steel major Posco has agreed in principle to guarantee employment for locals in its project area near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district, one of the hurdles for renewal of the memorandum of understanding between the company and the state government has been overcome. It may be mentioned that the state government on June 22, 2005, had signed a M
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No more children at project site: Government
Sandwiched between the agitations by pro and anti-Posco activists, the Government has decided to tread cautiously but is determined to disperse the agitators. As the first step and with a stern message after a lull of more than two weeks, the State Government on Monday redeployed forces at the project site and declared use of children in the anti-Posco campaign as illegal.
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Who tilled my land and ate my pie?
States need to rethink their land acquisition policies One of the most prickly nettles for governments in India today is land acqusition for industry. The Centre is drafting a new Bill on the issue, but land is a state subject, and different states have different land acquisition policies. The Bill can at best provide an enabling framework.
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Posco: protesters detain officials, police
The officials were released by Balisahi residents with a warning that they should not return to acquire land In a dramatic turn of events, senior administration and police officials of Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district had a bitter experience on Monday when they went to carry out land acquisition for the proposed mega steel project of Posco. Women took the lead in expressing their anger when t
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Posco construction resumes on compensation assurances
<p>Steel plant Boundary wall construction and demarcation work for the Posco steel plant near Paradip resumed this afternoon on assurances from officials on compensation, after disruption in the morning by villagers and members of the pro-project United Action Committee (UAC), restive at non-fulfillment of their six-point charter of demands.