POSCO project may kick off this year despite green tribunal order

India’s largest FDI might downsize initially, to get going

Land is more than just that

Centre stops work at POSCO site

Committee reports violation of tribal and forest rights

Protest against POSCO continues; farmers rebuild destroyed betel vineyards

Cases have been filed against many farmers who re-erected their farms

Odisha government proposes fresh agreement to expedite POSCO steel plant

People protesting land acquisition for the project say they will intensify stir

Survey work for POSCO boundary wall begins amid protests

Authorities start GPS survey work for boundary wall of the proposed steel plant as angry villagers accuse government of siding with the company

Forest guards protecting Olive Ridley turtles to be exempted from poll duty

Decision taken after forest officials tell authorities that not exempting them would hamper conservation of wildlife and sea turtles

Mining giant offers peanuts

Villagers make a bonfire of POSCO’s offer in newspaper

Steel minister’s POSCO statement comes as relief to Odisha village residents

Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar had said that the steel giant will have to bid for iron ore reserves in an open auction

Verdict aftershock

Phailin intensifies into 'super' cyclone

Storm winds moving at speed of over 200 km/hr head to districts that bore the brunt of 1999 super cyclone

POSCO gets final clearance

Environment ministry sides with Odisha government, ignores people’s forest rights

POSCO’s port halt

South Korean company’s steel plant and port may impact coast, says expert panel

POSCO review body divided

Members differ on steel giant’s compliance with regulations

POSCO to get water from Mahanadi

People protest Odisha government's decision to allocate water from the Mahanadi and Hansua rivers, saying it will turn large tracts of farms …

How people weathered Phailin storm

Bitter lessons from 1999 cyclone and a prepared community helped reduce the impact of the night-long cyclonic storm that raged across coastal …

Police arrest anti-POSCO leader for bomb explosion that killed four

People insist it was pro-POSCO goons from the village who threw bomb at protesters

Heavy metal

Police clears way for POSCO

Batons and bullets chase agitators blocking access to steel plant site  

POSCO unplugged

Sayantan Bera travels to Jagatsinghpur in Odisha to find that villagers labeled ‘pro’ POSCO do not have a choice otherwise

POSCO begins work on boundary wall at steel plant site in Odisha

Move violates stay order of National Green Tribunal, say protesting activists

Land acquisition for Posco begins

Package POSCO

The Odisha government is trying to acquire land on a shoddily drawn compensation package

POSCO clearance illegal: activists

Say the claims made by Odisha government are barefaced lies

Odisha diaries: the struggle for community control over land, forests and natural resources

No matter how much compensation is promised, companies will need ‘a social licence’ to conduct business on the land of the people