Construction work for the proposed 12-million-tonne Posco steel plant resumed on Tuesday after remaining suspended for 10 days following protests by the local people, even as the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) asked the state government to immediately withdraw police forces from school buildings in the project area.

Over 12 lakh devotees from all corners of the country and even abroad on Sunday poured in here and took part in the grand spectacle of the annual car festival (rath yatra) of Lord Jagannath.

Five political parties — CPI, CPI (M), Forward Bloc, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party — on Thursday launched an indefinite dharna here in the state capital demanding withdrawal of security forces from Dhinkia, the proposed Posco steel project site near Paradip in Orissa.

DEPRIVED OF simple pleasures and comforts of childhood, about 1,200 children are slogging it out in about 34 quarries in Orissa’s Jajpur district and its nearby areas, digging stones holding heavy sho

Under mounting pressure from the Opposition, Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday referred the alleged “horse-trading” in the last year’s Rajya Sabha elections to the Election Commission of India.

Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), an umbrella organisation of anti-displacement forums, on Friday said it apprehended a “commando-type” operation by the Orissa police in the proposed steel plant site to evict the local people.

High drama took place in at Dhinkia, the proposed site for the `52,000-crore Posco steel project, in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district on Monday with eminent social activists Medha Patkar visiting the area and a leading pro-Posco leader Anadi Rout resigning from his post.

Infrastructure development activities, especially road construction and repair work, have come to a grinding halt in Koraput, one of the worst Maoist-infested districts in the state, seriously affecti

The Communist Party of India is now precariously positioned vis-à-vis the ruling Biju Janata Dal, its ally, in Orissa.
While the party does not want any displacement of local people in Dhinka, a part of the Posco project site near port town Paradip in Orissa Jagatsinghpur district, the BJD headed by CM Naveen Patnaik is hell-bent on pushing

Mining and mineral experts have called for scientific and planned exploitation of all grades of ores causing minimum harm to forest, damage to existing water resources, minimum displacement of local inhabitants and least disturbance of the environment.