Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Bs Reporter / Kolkata August 27, 2008, 4:25 IST No return of land to farmers, CM reiterates. Buddhadeb BhattacharjeeIn a sharp deviation from his party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M), West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today described gheraos, the practice of disrupting work by intimidating managements, …
Tanzania plans to have about 300 cars running on a hybrid of petrol and compressed natural gas in Dar es Salaam by March 2009, a senior government petroleum official said on Tuesday. It also plans to build three gas filling stations in the same period. The east African economy has …
SINGUR STALEMATE CONTINUES TO ROCK POLITICS AND ECONOMY Shishir Prashant / Dehradun August 27, 2008, 0:38 IST The B C Khanduri government seems to be in no hurry to provide concession on lease rent as well as some more land to Tata Motors at the Pantnagar industrial estate. A high-level …
Bs Reporter / Kolkata August 27, 2008, 0:35 IST Sajjan Jindal, vice-chairman and managing director of JSW Steel and one of West Bengal's most valued investors, said that he would have compensated unwilling farmers with double the land
"Singur is an exceptional case and not a general feature of the State' KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said land at the Singur Tata Motors project site could not be returned without scrapping the project. Many industrialists present at a meeting here, however, urged the government to try …
Ready to discuss "anything' with her to solve problem: Buddhadeb You cannot buy us and our struggle, Mamata tells Tatas KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday said discussions on the Singur crisis could be held only on condition that the land allegedly acquired forcibly for the Tata Motors …
JAIPUR: Not to be left behind in what could now be termed the "Nano car race' among the States, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has offered land and all "necessary logistic support' to the Tata group to wheel in the small car project to this desert State after the company's …
(Reuters) - U.S. auto makers are expected to report big declines in August domestic sales despite stepped-up incentives, the Wall Street Journal said citing a report by J.D. Power & Associates. Industry-wide sales, however, will improve slightly from July, it said. The research firm expects sales in the closing days …
Bloomberg / Tokyo August 26, 2008, 0:18 IST Toyota Motor Corp, Japan's largest automaker, will raise prices on some models in the country for the first time in 16 years, paving the way for smaller rivals to pass on higher costs for raw materials to customers. The base price of …
Bs Reporter / Kolkata August 26, 2008, 0:37 IST Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee today rejected a fresh invitation from West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for talks to break the deadlock at the upcoming Tata Motors' Nano plant at Singur near here. Banerjee started an indefinite dharna at Singur …
Jayati Ghosh SUCH IS the power of the media that in recent months the very names of Singur and Nandigram in West Bengal have become synonymous with forcible land acquisition by the state all over India. This is truly remarkable, because in fact, no land was actually acquired for industrialisation …
Nandini Sen Gupta NEW DELHI THE Tata Motors top management has reportedly indicated internally that the company will pull the plug on Singur if the situation does not improve in the next fortnight. Sources said even though the company can dismantle its Singur plant and install it somewhere else, it …
Business Standard / New Delhi August 25, 2008, 0:57 IST Ratan Tata's threat to pull out of Singur, where Tata Motors is setting up a plant to manufacture the Nano, plunges West Bengal's industrial future into needless uncertainty. If the most visible symbol of the industrial revival of the state …
Shishir Prashant / Dehra Dun August 25, 2008, 5:58 IST Tata Motors may be facing an uncertain future over its Nano project in West Bengal. But in Uttarakhand, the auto major is seeking concession on lease rent as well as some more land from the state government in the Pantnagar …
Bs Reporter / Jalandhar August 25, 2008, 5:56 IST The Punjab government has decided to invite Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata to set up a plant in the state to manufacture Nano. The invitation comes on the back of Tata's threat to pull out of West Bengal if the political …
Bs Reporter / Singur August 25, 2008, 0:12 IST Allegedly owned by CPI(M) promoters, it is not cultivated, says Trinamool leader. Rally turnout lower than expected. Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee suggested earmarking 500 acres of land opposite the controversial Tata Motors factory site to make the "people's car', the …
Kozhikode: Industries Minister Elamaram Karim has said that the State government is not in the race for Tata Motors' Nano project. "The government is not in favour of snatching a project of another State. Our party [the Communist Party of India-Marxist] is trying to amicably settle the issue,' Mr. Karim …
Marcus Dam KOLKATA: Amid elaborate security arrangements, the Trinamool Congress and its allies on Sunday launched an indefinite agitation outside the Tata Motors' car project site at Singur in West Bengal's Hooghly district. "The
BY PARWEZ HAFEEZ KOLKATA West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said that the first Nano car will roll out in October. Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday reiterated that unless 400 acres of 1,000 acres, was returned to the unwilling farmers, she would not lift the siege …
BY SUBRATA CHATTOPADHYAY KOLKATA Apparently rattled by the huge success of Trinamul Congress-led siege of the Tata Motor's site at Singur, the ruling CPI(M) has come up with a plan B formula to offer the belligerent Mamata Banerjee. In its desperate bid to placate Ms Banerjee, the CPI(M) satraps are …
