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
Paradip: A man was killed and 25 others were injured on Wednesday in a clash between anti-Posco brigade and a private contractor over construction of a coastal road linking the steel plant site near Paradip. Jagatsinghpur SP S Devadutt Singh said crude bombs and other weapons were used by the clashing groups and a person, identified as Dijabar Swain (30) of Kujanga area, died in the violence. Two others, who...
09:12 PM, Dec 14, 2011
Paradip: Anti-Posco leader Abhaya Sahu was arrested in Tirtol area near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha, the police said. "Sahu, President of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), was held by a police team at Nuapokhari last night when he was returning from Bhubaneswar to his village," IIC of Tritol police station Debadutta Kar said. The police team stopped Sahu's car on Manijanga - Erasama road near the proposed project...
10:24 AM, Nov 26, 2011
POSCO hostage crisis may be over but the incident has put a question mark on the immediate construction work at the site. ...
11:54 AM, May 12, 2007
The three executives had gone to the area to negotiate directly with villagers to buy land for the project. ...
08:26 PM, May 11, 2007
