Polavaram fraud
The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forestland. Most of the people threatened …
Patnaik seeks truce with anti-POSCO activists
Survey of project-affected villages to continue peacefully BY ASHUTOSH MISHRA Bhubaneswar
SC asks Centre to decide on grant of iron ore licence to POSCO
Odisha government granted mining, prospecting leases to POSCO in Khandadhar hills by ignoring earlier applications of other claimants
Police register FIR against 32 people for 'encroaching' on POSCO land
POSCO says people have already been compensated for land acquired; residents say their land was taken at gun point and have no means of livelihood
Bomb kills 4 protesters at POSCO steel project site
Crude bomb was allegedly hurled by hired local goons at a group gathered in the backyard of a house to discuss land acquisition
Pre-dawn police crackdown on village at POSCO site
Move marks restart of land acquisition for steel plant; police say they were only protecting farmers who wanted to give land
Anti-POSCO leader loses in Odisha election
Does that mean people in the region are pro-industrialisation as claimed by victorious Biju Janata Dal candidate?
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
POSCO unplugged
Sayantan Bera travels to Jagatsinghpur in Odisha to find that villagers labeled ‘pro’ POSCO do not have a choice otherwise
POSCO gets final approval
Environment ministry endorses state government’s claim that there are no forest rights to be settled in the project area
Village at POSCO site seeks community forest rights
Reiterates demand against diversion of forestland for industry, under amended Forest Rights Act rules
Violence at POSCO site
Clashes erupt as government resumes construction of coastal road at Jagatsinghpur in Odisha
CAG blows lid off land grab in Odisha
Central audit report shows how state acquired land forcibly for Posco, Vedanta and other industries
POSCO project may kick off this year despite green tribunal order
India’s largest FDI might downsize initially, to get going
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
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
POSCO begins work on boundary wall at steel plant site in Odisha
Move violates stay order of National Green Tribunal, say protesting activists
POSCO clearance illegal: activists
Say the claims made by Odisha government are barefaced lies
POSCO gets green signal
Environment ministry goes soft on South Korean steel giant POSCO