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| Paan or POSCO? Banikanta Mishra, birendra Kumar Nayak lanes, a channel owned by the family of a prominent Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Member of Parliament (MP) sought its viewers’ opinions on the appropriateness of using children to form a human barricade. The |
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Paan or POSCO?
With a growing betel vine sector as well as thriving paddy cultivation and fishing, it is no wonder that villagers in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district have resisted the state government's forceful acquisition of land for the POSCO project. Political parties of all shades as well as the intelligentsia are increasingly coming together in support of the agitation. The future of the anti-POSCO movement looks bright, but will it put an end to POSCO's plan?
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