Posco Protests

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  Bengal Cabinet Okays Proposal To Set Up More Courts To Deal With Child Abuse Cases

  The West Bengal Cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod to a proposal to set up five more special POCSO courts in the state, taking the total number of such courts to 67 Minister of State for Finance Chandrima Bhattacharya said.

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  Protests In Kerala Over Acquittal Of 3 Accused In Sexual Assault, Murder Case

  Protests broke out at many places in Kerala on Monday over acquittal of three accused in the case relating to the sexual assault and murder of two minor sisters at Palakkad in 2017.

• 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.

• Odisha government resumes land acquisition in tense Posco project area

  Amid tension in proposed Posco plant area where three anti-project activists were killed last night while allegedly making bombs, Odisha government today resumed land acquisition for the mega steel project.

• 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.

• Odisha halts land acquisition for Posco steel plant, withdraws police force after protests

  The Odisha government has put off the land acquisition for Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district today after protests by local villagers since the process resumed last week.

• Outrage after Odisha govt officer allegedly beats up Posco protester

  Footage of a man protesting at the Posco steel plant being beaten by a government land officer in Odisha has triggered outrage with activists and politicians demanding strong action against the culprits.

• 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.

• Land acquisition for Posco plant begins in Odisha

  Land acquisition for the Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel plant today started in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district after a gap of more than one year amid allegation by anti-project activists that protesters were lathicharged and detained by police.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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...

• 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 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...