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Orissa HC reserves order on POSCO land acquisition

-Orissa Diary   The Odisha High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment on a petition seeking quashing of the land acquisition proceedings undertaken for the POSCO steel plant proposed to be set up at Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district. The two-judge bench of Chief Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice B N Mohapatra reserved judgment after hearing arguments from all sides on the land acquisition proceedings. The two-judge bench had reserved judgment on it on July...

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POSCO MoU renewal under cloud of uncertainty

-The Business Standard   Steel maker yet to submit its written response. The renewal of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Orissa government and POSCO India continues to be mired in uncertainty with the company yet to officially respond to the MoU renewal draft sent by the government one month back. The renewal of the pact for a 12 million tonne steel project in the state by the South Korean company that expired on...

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Anti-POSCO outfit chief takes on BJD RS member by Ashis Senapati

The POSCO Pratirodhaka Sangram Samiti (PPSS) president slammed BJD Rajya Sabha member Baishnab Parida on Saturday for commenting in the Parliament on Friday that large numbers of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh were hand-in-glove with anti-land acquisition leaders to oppose the proposed steel plant construction in the seaside villages of Jagatsinghpur district. "Not a single Bangladeshi is residing in three gram panchayats of Dhinkia, Gadakujang and Nuagaon areas," said PPSS president...

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Magsaysay award winner lends weight to anti-POSCO stir

-The Times of India   KENDRAPADA: Right to Information campaigner and Magsaysay award winner Aruna Roy has asked the state government to stop construction and tree felling works for the proposed steel plant of POSCO in the seaside gram panchayats of Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Gadakujang in Jagatsinghpur district and have a public debate on the issue. Roy visited the villages in the proposed steel plant site on Sunday in support of the...

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Green challenges by Praful Bidwai

Jairam Ramesh's removal as Environment Minister creates uncertainties for domestic environment policy and the deadlocked global climate talks. WHATEVER one may think of its overall impact, the recent Cabinet reshuffle was not exactly a damp squib. Its single most important component was Jairam Ramesh's replacement as the Minister of State with independent charge in the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) by Jayanthi Natarajan, a relative political lightweight with very little...

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