Paradip, July 16: Things were back on the boil today in Posco project area. Tension mounted in the zone as at least eight protesters, mostly women, were injured following an alleged use of force by police at Polang village. Officials engaged in Land Acquisition process for the steel plant project were forced to retreat with project-related work left grounded today amidst stiff resistance from landlosers. The Land Acquisition process and ancillary...

Tension prevailed in the villages where the Naveen Patnaik government is striving to acquire land for the proposed steel plant project of Posco. In Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district villagers protesting Land Acquisition clashed with police. Eight persons, including six women, were injured when police resorted to lathi charge to disperse villagers who came out of their homes to protest tree cutting by the men engaged by the district administration to acquire land near...

Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has proposed an “ACTIONS” plan as the guiding principle for the 12th Five Year Plan, putting off the Planning Commission's suggestion to axe Centrally sponsored schemes and give States a free hand to chart their path of development. After his meeting with Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Saturday, Mr. Ramesh told The Hindu of the discussion they had on...

THE Land Acquisition process for Posco in Gadag district of Karnataka has been called off by the Karnataka government owing to intensified opposition from the farmers. A day after Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddyurappa announced that Land Acquisition for Posco project in Gadag will be called off and the project will be shifted elsewhere, around 40 villagers from Halligudi met him in Bangalore on Thursday and expressed their willingness to give up...

-The Telegraph   The Tata Motors counsel today told Calcutta High Court that the “first attacks” on the company came in the form of public interest litigations that had questioned the process of Land Acquisition for the Nano factory in Singur. “In 2007, several PILs were filed in Calcutta High Court challenging the validity of the process of Land Acquisition in Singur. The government and the company were made respondents (in the PILs)....