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
Bhubaneswar: A deep depression over east-central Bay of Bengal, which moved westwards and lay centred about 520 km south-east of Paradip in Odisha on Sunday, is likely to take the shape of a cyclonic storm. The system would intensify further into a cyclonic storm and move slowly west-north westwards by Monday, the meteorological centre here said. The system is then expected to move west/west-southwestwards towards South Andhra Pradesh and North...
02:15 PM, Nov 18, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Seven people have been injured in a firing incident at the Paradip oil refinery in Odisha. CISF personnel opened fire at IOC workers at the oil refinery. The firing took place after clashes between the workers union and the CISF personnel. Most of those injured were the IOC workers. The reasons of the clash were unknown and more details were awaited. ...
02:10 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Paradip (Odisha): At least 27 workers were injured, 11 of them seriously, when the roof of a silo caved in at an Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative Limited (IFFCO) plant in Paradip on Monday. "The steel and asbestos structure in the shore-based IFFCO unit premises collapsed causing injuries to about 27 workers. Eleven of them sustained serious injury," Paradip additional superintendent of police Bijay Sahu, who supervised the rescue operation, said....
08:27 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Paradip: The barriers erected by villagers to cordon off South Korean steel major Posco's proposed steel plant in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district have been removed, paving the way for site preparatory activities to resume on the much-delayed Rs 52,000 crore project. Work at the project site resumed on Saturday, after a gap of 25 days, when locals removed two bamboo gates erected by them at Gadakujang and Nuagaon following talks with...
04:04 PM, Sep 11, 2011
