The Orissa government on Tuesday halted land acquisition for Posco's $12 billion project in Jagatsinghpur due to opposition from locals, an official said.

"We have halted it indefinitely following t

India on Monday gave final clearance to South Korean giant POSCO's proposed $12 billion steel plant in a deal seen as a test of the country's openness to foreign investment.

The Forest Rights Act, framed five years ago, has come to the aid of anti-POSCO agitators in Orissa in a big way and villagers in Jagatsingpur district where the plant is proposed to be built are well

The BJP on Tuesday slammed the UPA government at the Centre for according conditional clearance to Posco project in Orissa and demanded that a CBI probe should be ordered into the matter.

New Delhi: The environment ministry on Monday gave conditional clearance to South Korean steel major Posco's $12 billion project in Orissa, the biggest foreign direct investment in the country.

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New Delhi: The environment ministry's Forest Advisory Committee has recommended cancellation of the forest clearance given to South Korean steel major POSCO for its $12 billion project in Orissa, offi

The delay in clearance to the $12 billion integrated steel project in Orissa proposed by South Korea's Posco is unlikely to come up during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's engagements here nor is it im

Orissa Friday moved the Supreme Court against an Orissa High Court order that disapproved its grant of permission to South Korean steel major POSCO to mine iron ore in Sundergarh district, a state mi

The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Monday assured the Orissa government of faster clearances to various projects facing delays in the state, Chief Minister, Mr Naveen Patnaik, said.

The Orissa Chief Minister, Mr Navin Patnaik, will meet the Prime Minster here on Monday and may take up the issue of denial of clearances to multi-billion dollar projects of Vedanta Resources and Sout