Bhubaneswar: Anti-POSCO leader Abhaya Sahoo has been arrested from the Bhubaneswar airport on charges of instigating violence at the POSCO site. Abhaya was about to board a flight in Bhubaneswar when he was arrested by the Jagatsinghpur police.
Abhaya is the chairman of 'POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti' which has been spearheading the anti-POSCO movement for the past eight years. He was earlier arrested on similar charges and was on bail.
Earlier on Friday, the Supreme Court gave a green signal to iron ore mining at POSCO.
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10:50 AM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday gave a green signal to POSCO to continue with iron ore mining in Odisha. The court quashed Odisha High Court's order, which had set aside the state government's petition to allot iron ore licence to POSCO in the Kandahar hills. The state government had granted a licence to POSCO in 2009, which had been set aside by the High Court in 2010. The...
11:17 AM, May 10, 2013
Paradip/Bhubaneswar: Land acquisition for the Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel project resumed in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district on Monday after being suspended for about two-and-a-half months. The restarting of the demolition of betel vines at Gobindpur village at the proposed plant site near Paradip coincided with Posco-India CMD YW Yoon meeting Development Commissioner JK Mohapatra at the state secretariat in Bhubaneswar. Though Yoon described the meeting as a courtesy call, sources...
12:24 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Though optimistic of setting up a mega steel plant in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district and commissioning it in five years, South Korean steel major Posco says it does not know about the fate of its proposed MoU renewal with the state government. "We do not know when the MoU with Odisha government will be revised," Posco-India CMD Yong Won Yoon said. Posco-India's MoU with Odisha government had lapsed in June...
10:29 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Bhubaneswar: With Odisha government all set to resume land acquisition for Posco's mega steel project in Jagatsinghpur district, anti-displacement bodies and Left parties on Friday staged demonstrations demanding withdrawal of force from the proposed plant site area. Demonstrations were held in various district headquarters in response to a call by CPI to observe All India Solidarity Day. Besides Odisha, demonstrations were held in other states, claimed CPI national executive member...
07:50 PM, Apr 12, 2013
The much delayed Posco mega steel plant in Odisha's Jagasinghpur district might be commissioned in 2018, the company said on Thursday. "Hoping to get the required land in this year, the first phase 8 MTPA Integrated Steel Plant may get commissioned in the early 2018," a press release issued by Posco-India said. ...
07:20 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Odisha government has asked 36 steel companies, including Posco-India and ArcelorMittal, which had signed MoUs to immediately submit their physical and financial progress reports, according to official sources. ...
01:35 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Anti-Posco protesters clashed with the police which left 12 persons injured at a project site village in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district, while no land was acquired on Thursday. The clash took place during a demonstration by anti-Posco protesters demanding withdrawal of the police force at Mangala Chak in Gobindpur village, which fell within the three kilometer radius, where prohibitory orders were clamped since the death on Saturday of three persons while...
05:50 PM, Mar 07, 2013
As land acquisition for Posco steel plant continued for second day on Monday in Odisha, Jagatsinghpur district administration clamped prohibitory orders in Patana area where three anti-Posco activists were killed two days ago while allegedly making bombs. Prohibitory orders under section 144 of CrPC were imposed in Patana to prevent any law and order problem as some political outfits opposed to Posco plant planned a meeting in the area, Jagatsinghpur...
07:50 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Suspecting foul play, relatives of those killed while allegedly making bombs in the proposed Posco steel plant area of Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha on Monday refused to take the three bodies. ...
05:40 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Amid tension in proposed Posco plant area where three anti-project activists were killed on Saturday night while allegedly making bombs, the Odisha government on Sunday resumed land acquisition for the mega steel project. Police on Sunday recovered the three bodies and materials like gun powder and blades used for making explosives. ...
06:20 PM, Mar 03, 2013
A day after three anti-Posco activists were killed while allegedly making bombs, tension gripped the proposed plant site in Jagtsinghpur district on Sunday as police recovered the bodies and materials used for making the explosives. Three persons were killed and another was critically injured in the blast when members of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) were making crude bombs, Jagatsinghpur SP Satyabrata Bhoi said today after reaching the spot. ...
02:46 PM, Mar 03, 2013
At least three people were killed and another seriously injured when a crude bomb exploded at the Posco site in Patana village in Dhinkia in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district on Saturday, police said. According to the police, the bombs were being made by anti-Posco activists and they went off while they were being made. ...
11:00 AM, Mar 03, 2013
At least three people were killed and another seriously injured when a crude bomb exploded at the Posco site in Patana village in Dhinkia in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district on Saturday, police said. According to the police, the bombs were being made by anti-Posco activists and they went off while they were being made. ...
09:36 PM, Mar 02, 2013
A few weather-beaten shipping containers, a swathe of sand and a bitterly divided village: that is all South Korea's POSCO has to show seven years after it announced plans for a $12 billion steel mill on a fertile strip in Odisha. Last week, the project took a step forward as land was taken over from farmers for the first time since 2011, and yet Posco is still a long way...
08:36 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Footage of a man protesting the Posco steel plant being beaten by a government land officer in Odisha has triggered outrage with activists and politicians on February 5 demanding strong action against the culprit. Sangram Mohapatra, a land officer with the state-run Orissa Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO), was seen mercilessly beating a protestor with a stick on February 3 near Jagatsinghpur district's Gobindpur village, about 100 km from here....
05:54 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Land acquisition for Posco's $12 billion steel plant in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district passed off peacefully on Monday under heavy police deployment, an official said. ...
01:20 AM, Feb 05, 2013
The land acquisition for the Rs 52,000-crore Posco steel project, which resumed amidst tight security at Gobindpur village in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district, continued peacefully today, the state government said. Chief Secretary BK Patnaik claimed people were offering their land and betel vines on their own. "There is no violence during the land acquisition. The district administration of Jagatsinghpur and the local police have been instructed to undertake land acquisition work...
10:50 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Land acquisition has begun for the second day at the proposed POSCO site in Jagatsinghpur in Odisha. So far the acquisition is going peacefully with heavy police deployment. ...
10:25 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Tension broke out at POSCO's plant in Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha after the police tried to forcibly acquire land for the steel giant that was allotted to farmers on Sunday. Betel farmers protested after the police dismantled seven betel vines. ...
08:44 AM, Feb 03, 2013
