Tribals Plea Against Vedanta: ‘Green’ Court to Give Verdict

Outlook India Even as the government is yet to decide the fate of Vedanta’s controversial mining project in Orissa, a ‘green’ court is likely to deliver its judgement next month on the plea of locals seeking to quash environmental clearance given to the company. The National Environment Appellate Authority has reserved its order after hearing the plea of tribals... Read More

Govt expands scope of panel for Posco project Read more: Govt expands scope of panel for Posco project

The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government has decided to widen the ambit of the Meena Gupta committee, which is looking into the Rs 50,000-crore Posco Integrated Steel Project to review the case not only for its compliance with the Forest Rights Act (FRA) and Forest Conservation Act. The panel will also be asked to investigate the compliance of the state government and the project... Read More

Land acquisition for Posco resumes

Economic Times PARADIP (ORISSA): Land acquisition for the Rs 51,000 crore Posco steel project near here in Jagatsinghpur district resumed today after a day’s halt following opposition to it. “Acquisition of land in some areas under Gada Kujang gram panchayat was resumed with the consent of the affected people,” Additional District Magistrate (ADM), Paradip, Saroj... Read More

‘Judiciary will not save this country… only public opinion will’

It sounds ironical — almost shocking — when you hear that from someone who has been a part of the judiciary. But retired Justice Hosbet Suresh of the Bombay high court sticks to his guns.Justice Hosbet was speaking at the Anti-Posco Struggle Solidarity Front in Mumbai  on May 31. He had traveled to the Posco site between May 24 and May 26 as part of a fact-finding... Read More

Scrap Posco steel project: fact-finding team

Special Correspondent The Hindu “Land acquisition violative of locals’ constitutional rights” ‘May 15 police attack on peaceful protesters totally uncalled for’ ‘Orissa violated international norms on treatment of the injured, by not providing medical help’ BHUBANESWAR: A fact-finding team, which visited several villages at the site selected for the controversial... Read More

CPI Seeks PM’s Intervention in POSCO Case

Outlook India CPI today sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention in withdrawing the Centre’s permission to the Rs 54,000-crore project being set up by South Korean steel major POSCO in Orissa. In a letter, CPI National Secretary D Raja urged Singh to instruct the Environment Ministry to withdraw the “illegal forest clearance” granted for the project... Read More

Why Posco is in trouble in India

Rediff Business Desk published a Slide show about villagers’ fight against a POSCO, the Korean steel Giant, which is in the list of companies that will last for the next 100 years. Read it Here Share/Bookmark  Read More

Police made me sign at gunpoint, says slain tribal’s nephew

The Hindu Prafulla Das BHUBANESWAR: A tribal youth, from Chandia in Orissa’s Kalinganagar industrial area, on Saturday alleged that the police had assaulted him and obtained his signature at gunpoint on a plain paper, following the killing of his uncle in the May 12 police firing. Speaking to journalists here, Lalmohan Jamuda, 20, said the police whisked him away from his... Read More

BJP condemns ‘repressive measures’

Staff Reporter The Hindu ‘State protecting the interests of industrial houses only’ BHUBANESWAR: The State unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here on Saturday accused Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik-led government of “criminalising” State police force in the wake of violence in Kalinganagar and Jagatsinghpur where industrial projects were coming up. Addressing a press... Read More