PARADIP: Giving the battle cry, Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti (PPSS) today organised a 'Maha Samelani' at Dhinkia to intensify antiPosco stir. Antiland acquisition leaders from the State and outside congregated in the village and vowed to step up the agitation till the shifting of the steel project. They also burnt Posco package in effigy to vent their ire.
BHUBANESWAR: The Union Environment Ministry has formed a fresh panel to look into the alleged violation of forest rights of tribals in Niyamgiri hills, where it has held up clearance to the bauxite mining project of Vedanta Resources.
Lucknow: The National Forest Rights Act Committee (NFRAC) formed jointly by the Union ministry of environment and forest and Union ministry of tribal affairs to review implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) will visit west UP on May 31.
PARADIP: The much-awaited Posco survey, stalled for two years, got underway at Nuagaon and Gadkujang panchayats after obtaining clearance from the United Action Committee, a pro-Posco outfit.
NEW DELHI: Even as violence has broken out in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa, the only thing preventing the Orissa government from securing the 1,253.225 hectares of forest land for Posco's integrated steel plant, ironically, is the Forest Rights Act -- a legislation that many conservationists opposed initially and now find is the only point of defence left for the three villages in the eye of t
