Dengue cases on the rise in Bhubaneswar
BHUBANESWAR: Dengue positive cases are on the rise in the capital city. Though the state government claims that it takes several measures to control dengue disease, positive cases have crossed 650 mark
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Land acquisition for Posco resumes Wednesday
PARADIP: The district administration has decided to go ahead with land acquisition for Posco steel project on Wednesday despite protests from anti-Posco groups.
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Posco land acquisition move hits hurdle
Bhubaneswar: The decision of the Odisha government to resume land acquisition for the proposed steel plant near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district from Wednesday faced trouble on Monday with villagers supporting the project announcing non-cooperation and opponents demanding relocation of the proposed plant site from the fertile land. Though we want establishment of Posco steel plant here, we wil
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Five parties join crusade against Posco
BHUBANESWAR: With about a day to go before the State government resumes land acquisition for the 12-mn tonne Posco Steel Plant at Jagatsinghpur district, five political parties on Monday joined forces and vowed not to allow the process. Demanding a change in the site for the Rs 52,000-crore steel project, the CPI, CPM, Forward Bloc, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party staged a joint dharna
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Land acquisition plan for Posco hits hurdle
`We have urged the state administration not to go for land acquisition on Wednesday. If it does, it will face our non-cooperation,' UAC chief said.
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Land row: Pro-Posco outift warns non-cooperation
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the State government readies for land acquisition for the Posco steel project, the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), which is spearheading a movement against the project, has announced that it would oppose the process. To add to the woes, the United Action Committee (UAC), a pro-Posco outfit, has threatened not to cooperate with the Jagatsinghpur district administratio
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Medha favours dialogue
Social activist Medha Patkar on Monday expressed her support for the farmers' agitation against land acquisition in Uttar Pradesh, saying that the serving of
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Red signal on Posco land buy
Having got the green nod from the Union environment ministry for its mega plant in Odisha, South Korean steel major Posco will now be bracing for the next big challenge for its $12-billion project -land acquisition. This has been a sensitive and thorny issue in the mineral-rich state, where domestic steel giant Tata Steel is still struggling to get adequate land for its project announced nearly
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Land acquisition for Posco to be restarted soon
Bhubaneswar: A day after the Centre gave the final forest clearance to the South Korean steel major Posco
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State to take appropriate action on Ramesh's order on Posco
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday said that it would take appropriate action on Posco project after receiving the order of the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) which accorded final approval for forest land diversion for the proposed mage steel unit. We are yet to receive the order. We have just learnt from the media that such an order has been passed.
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POSCO gets Jairam green signal
The Environment Ministry on Monday gave its final clearance to the South Korean steel major POSCO to divert 1,253 hectares of forest land for its iron and steel project in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa, reposing