NEW DELHI: A state government announces it is going to acquire land for 'public purpose'. The public purpose is to hand over the land to a specific private company.

Jagatsinghpur: Seven policemen were held hostage by a group of villagers opposing the Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel plant for nearly five hours on Saturday before being set free in Jagatsinghpur district.

Seven policemen and the driver of police jeep which entered Patana village in Dhinkia panchayat were stopped by villagers, mostly women and were held captive, Additional Superintendent of Police

SHILLONG, Residents of Mawshynrut, West Khasi Hills were prompted to rise up in unison against the setting up of the ferro alloy industry by Meghalaya Ferrous Limited near the Wah Blei river in view of the alleged connivance of the traditional heads with the industrialist who completely disregards the environmental and agricultural factors.

A day after the public and members of social organisat

ArcelorMittal says it is awaiting Jharkhand government

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government is struggling to assure the Union environment ministry in writing that diversion of forest land for the Posco steel project will not infringe on the Forest Rights Act.

Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh cleared the project on January 31 and the Naveen Patnaik government in Orissa was to send the crucial assurance by the second week of February.

Clearing a protracted uncertainty over India

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POSCO's Indian steel project

INDIA needs steel, ports and investment. POSCO, a South Korean steel giant, wants to invest 545 billion rupees ($12 billion) to build a steel plant with a port in Orissa, a poorish state with lots of iron ore. It would be the single biggest foreign investment in India ever, and yield 12m tonnes of steel a year.

THE Orissa government on Wednesday asserted that Posco would not pull out of the state despite halting of work on the Korean company's proposed Rs 51,000-crore steel project, following allegations of violation of green norms.

 

The environment and forests ministry must speed up clearance to greenfield projects of Posco India and ArcelorMittal, which are of national importance, steel minister Virbhadra Singh said on Friday.

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