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