POSCO unplugged

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

Virtual coast guard

Non-profits develop web application to monitor haphazard development along Indian coastline

1,620.361 ha of discontent

Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are …

POSCO, a better tomorrow?

Sayantan Bera captures the mood at Jagatsinghpur, Odisha (Photos from June 16 and 17)

Land is more than just that

POSCO: take land but give life

Orissa calling

Villagers see reason in protesting against POSCO

POSCO’s port halt

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

Spring of discontent

Mining in Odisha’s Khandadhar hills will dry out perennial water bodies

POSCO to withdraw investment from Odisha?

Bloomberg report says company has been trying to get government agencies to return the money it had paid

Forest panel rejects POSCO clearance

POSCO remains Orissa's choice

Nerves of steel

Ministry of Env. & Forests

POSCO enhances compensation package

Activists want steel plant to shift site

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

Anti-Posco villages in Odisha pin hope on tribal affairs minister Jual Oram

Oram is India's first tribal affairs minister and was elected in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1999

People refuse to give in to POSCO

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

Green tribunal questions two-stage forest clearance for POSCO

Raises hope of residents, activists who have been opposing the clearance given to the project

Agitated people dismantle POSCO's boundary wall, torch office

Gram sabhas of the area have not given their consent to the POSCO project till date

POSCO bags 1,174 ha forests

Villagers resist land acquisition for steel plant  

Green tribunal suspends POSCO’s clearance

The South Korean giant will now have to apply for a fresh environmental clearance

POSCO looms over Republic Day

Will diplomacy determine steel plants future?