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Protests and sand, but no steel: POSCO's fading India dream
A few weather-beaten shipping containers, a swathe of sand and a bitterly divided village: that is all South Korea's POSCO has to show seven years after it announced plans for a $12 billion steel mill on a fertile strip in Odisha.
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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.
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POSCO project: Orissa govt ready to hear villagers' voice
After fresh trouble at the proposed POSCO plant in Orissa, the ruling BJD has told NDTV it is ready for a referendum in villages around the site to find out what the people want. Speaking on the NDTV show The Buck Stops Here, BJD MP Jay Panda said that "Orissa government has learnt its lessons from West Bengal." India's largest Foreign Direc...
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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...
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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...
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Talks with agitators boost Posco hopes
The real bargain over the Posco project has just begun. After an hour-long meeting with Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, leaders of the CPI-backed group that has been demanding relocation of the steel plant project finally agreed to allow land survey work in their stronghold, the Dhinkia panchayat."Shifting issue remains non-negotiable but we ...
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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...
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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...
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Protests and sand, but no steel: POSCO's fading India dream
A few weather-beaten shipping containers, a swathe of sand and a bitterly divided village: that is all South Korea's POSCO has to show seven years after it announced plans for a $12 billion steel mill on a fertile strip in Odisha.
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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.
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POSCO project: Orissa govt ready to hear villagers' voice
After fresh trouble at the proposed POSCO plant in Orissa, the ruling BJD has told NDTV it is ready for a referendum in villages around the site to find out what the people want. Speaking on the NDTV show The Buck Stops Here, BJD MP Jay Panda said that "Orissa government has learnt its lessons from West Bengal." India's largest Foreign Direc...
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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...
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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...
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Talks with agitators boost Posco hopes
The real bargain over the Posco project has just begun. After an hour-long meeting with Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, leaders of the CPI-backed group that has been demanding relocation of the steel plant project finally agreed to allow land survey work in their stronghold, the Dhinkia panchayat."Shifting issue remains non-negotiable but we ...
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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...
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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...
