Anti-posco Agitators

• 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.

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...