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• 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.

• 4 killed in bomb explosions in Odisha village opposing Posco project

  Four people were killed when crude bombs exploded in Patana village of Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district today. The village is considered to be a stronghold of groups opposing Posco's mega steel project.

• Tension at Posco site after villagers protest against police action

  There was a fresh standoff between villagers and police in Odisha's Posco site today after the cops allegedly tried to enter the Gobindpur village.

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  Tension over land acquisition at Posco site, protesters clash with police

  After being halted for more than a year, land acquisition for the showpiece Rs 52,000-crore Posco steel plant in Odisha resumed today amid clashes between police and protesters.

• Tension escalates at Posco site

  There is tension at the proposed Posco site in Orissa over the construction of a new road that would connect the site with Paradeep port. Hundreds of people including women and children marched to the site and stalled the construction work.

• Patnaik says no tribals in Posco's plant site, but locals differ

  Korean steel major Posco’s (The Pohang Iron and Steel Company) troubles are far from over even though the Orissa government has said that 1253 hectares of forest land can be used for its steel plant. The state government has found that there are no traditional forest dwellers living in that area. But stiff opposition from villagers living ...

• No tribals in Posco's proposed plant site: Patnaik

  Orissa Government on Wednesday assured the government that there was no tribal inhabitant or any other traditional forest dwellers (OTFDs) living at the proposed plant site villages near Paradip. "We have submitted the assurance report to the union ministry of environment and forest. The state government maintained its earlier stand that th...

• 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.

• POSCO faces new hurdles at project site

  In fresh trouble for South Korean steel giant Pohang Steel Corporation (POSCO), the construction and tree-felling operation near Paradeep has been stalled for the third day following massive opposition from people who were earlier staunch supporters of the steel project.

• Posco project: Work halted, villagers claim police excess

  Work at the proposed Posco steel project site in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district could not be taken up today due to protest by locals who chased the police leading to a brief scuffle between them.

• Fresh trouble as police reach POSCO protest site

  The tension over POSCO land acquisition is once again simmering. The police force has marched into Govindpur, the area where protests against the land acquisition for setting up of the steel plant have been going on, asking the agitators to leave.Twelve platoons of police have been deployed and the administration has declared the human barricade fo...

• POSCO: No land acquisition today, but agitation continues

  Land acquisition by the Orissa government for POSCO's Rs 52,000 crore steel project in Jagatsinghpur district could not be resumed for the second day today due to heavy rains even as social activists and leaders rushed to the area to support the anti-displacement brigade."Like yesterday, heavy rains prevented acquisition of land today also. Our tea...

• POSCO agitation intensifies; women, kids at forefront

  Protests continue to intensify against land acquisition for the proposed 12 billion dollar POSCO plant in Govindpur in Orissa. After warning the government of dire consequences in a statement on Friday, five political parties including the CPI, CPM and even civil society activists reached Govindpur on Saturday to express solidarity with the protest...

• Tension at Posco site in Orissa, villagers oppose survey work

  The situation at the proposed Posco site in Orissa is extremely volatile.It's likely that the government will try to enter Dhinkia village, the stronghold of the anti-Posco agitators, on Tuesday for an exercise being described as a survey of land and homes that will need evacuation for the South Korean steel plant and port project in the area.Local...