Anti-posco

• Top anti-Posco leader arrested

  Anti-Posco leader Abhay Sahu was arrested today in connection with several cases including a bomb blast in the proposed steel project site in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district, the police said.

• Anti-Posco stir: women protesters strip to demand halt to land acquisition, withdrawal of police force

  The agitation against the proposed Posco steel project intensified in Odisha yesterday with angry women protesters stripping in public to demand a complete halt to the land acquisition by the government and withdrawal of police force from the site of the proposed plant.

• Anti-Posco protestors take out rally, land acquisition on

  Land acquisition for the Posco steel plant continued for the third day on Tuesday in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district as anti-Posco as protestors took out a rally defying prohibitory orders carrying bodies of three activists.

• Assembly of anti-Posco agitators declared 'unlawful'

  Orissa government on Friday declared assembly of anti-POSCO agitators at the entry point to Dhinkia area as "unlawful" after agitating farmers prevented movement of police and officials in the area, official sources said. The villagers, unwilling to give away their land for POSCO project, made a three-tier human barricade at the entry point...

• Tension at POSCO site, 20 injured

  In Orissa, at least 20 anti-POSCO protestors were injured as they were attacked by 200 lathi-wielding men near the proposed steel plant's site in Orissa.

• Anti-Posco agitators relent; agree to survey

  In a blow to the five-year anti-Posco agitation, villagers earlier opposed to the mega steel plant project of the South Korean company in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district on Tuesday approached the authorities and asked them to take up survey work in their area."Residents of Gobindpur village came to my office and submitted a written memorandum urgin...

• Orissa tense after police crack down on anti-Posco protesters

  Orissa is tense after Saturday's clashes between Posco protestors and the police, which left over 20 people were injured. Top police officials have told NDTV that the situation was still tense and prohibitory orders have not been lifted in the area. Five years after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with Korean steel giant Posco in Ori...

• Anti-Posco agitation: Police fire tear gas shells

  Police on Saturday fired tear gas shells to disperse anti-Posco protestors blocking the road in Orissa. Protesters retaliate by pelting stones and crude bombs on police. However, the state administration is determined to clear road blocks today.Earlier, CPI leader and MP Bibhu Prasad Tarai were arrested while trying to enter the proposed steel plan...