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 the process of land acquisition for the project. "According to sources available with Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (the state's …
Debabrata mohanty Despite people from six villages opposing the land survey work by government officials for the 12 million tonne Posco steel plant at Jagatsinghpur district, on Tuesday the local administration started the survey work in a village in the area. After a clash between the agitating villagers and the …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO Finally South Korean Steel major Posco on Tuesday made tryst with destiny. Nearly five years after signing a memorandum of understanding with he Orissa government and battling serious anti-displacement protests by the ocals, the company officials along with the government authorities entered the project site at Kujang …
Dilip Bisoi Bhubaneswar: Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik may have initiated a political process to solve the Posco crisis, but party MLAs are playing spoilsport. While the state government has entrusted CPI, MP from Jagatsinghpur, Bibhu Prasad Tarai, to negotiate with anti-Posco groups to come to the talks table with …
PARADIP: The last-phase survey for crisis-ridden Posco project will get underway from Tuesday. This was decided at a meeting among district administration, United Action Committee (UAC), a purportedly pro-Posco outfit, and villagers likely to be affected by the project yesterday. It was also decided to finalise the compensation package after …
BHUBANESWAR: CPI MP from Jagatsinghpur Bibhu Prasad Tarai has demanded that the final phase of survey for the Posco steel plant project should be deferred till as negotiation process with the local affected is slated to start. In a letter to the Chief Minister today, Tarai praised him for the …
In a major development pertaining to the Rs 51,000-crore greenfield project proposed by Posco in Jagatsinghpur district, the Orissa government today asked the South Korean company not to insist on 300 acres of private land in Dhinkia village. This was decided at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik …
BHUBANESWAR: After recent clashes and bloodshed, the State Government seems to have a change of mind on Posco project. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, already under fire for the excesses, went soft today and said the Government would ask Posco not to insist on acquiring private land for its steel plant. …
Prafulla Das BALITUTHA (ORISSA): The agitation against the steel plant project of Posco-India got a shot in the arm with senior leaders of six Opposition parties joining hands with the villagers of three gram panchayats in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district on Wednesday. Addressing hundreds of men and women who gathered here …
NEW DELHI: Even as violence has broken out in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa, the only thing preventing the Orissa government from securing the 1,253.225 hectares of forest land for Posco's integrated steel plant, ironically, is the Forest Rights Act -- a legislation that many conservationists opposed initially and now find …
BHUBANESWAR: Former Congress MLA Umesh Swain today demanded a probe by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) into alleged police excesses at Balitutha, entry point to Posco site. Swain, who was arrested and later released at Dhinkia recently while leading a group of anti-displacement activists, demanded shifting of the plant …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Sunday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to review the mega steel project awarded to South Korean steel giant Posco in Orissa and urged him to immediately withdraw the environmental clearance accorded to the project in light of the continued …
Prafulla Das BHUBANESWAR: Several Opposition parties and mass organisations of Orissa on Sunday condemned the police action against villagers opposing the Posco-India's steel project in Jagatsinghpur district. They also warned the Biju Janata Dal government against using police force on innocent people to acquire land for different companies. Accusing Chief …
PARADIP: Police on Saturday fired rubber bullets and teargas shells to evict anti-Posco agitators, including women and children, from the entry point of the project site at Balitutha, leaving 30 people injured. The police ordered the 1,000-odd protesters, who are opposing land acquisition for the plant, to leave the area …
