Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Shivaji Chatterjee Vs Himadri Chemical & Others dated 16/01/2018 regarding pollution caused by Himadri Chemicals, Singur, West Bengal. The Applicant Shivaji Chatterjee prays for an interim direction for inspection of the unit by a Committee which …
Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 2, 2008, 0:26 IST Stronger indications of a solution to the land acquisition impasse at the Tata Motors factory complex in Singur emerged today after Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said at Writers
TRINAMOOL MEETS WEST BENGAL GOVERNOR Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 1, 2008, 0:27 IST The impasse at Singur caused by the indefinite protest in front of Tata Motors Nano-manufacturing plant by the Trinamool Congress and its allies under Mamata Banerjee seemed to have moved closer to a resolution today even …
The stage is set for a showdown in Singur with Mamata Banerjee followers who have laid siege around the Nano plant announcing they won't allow any employee to enter the factory from Friday. The announcement came from Naxalite leader Purnendu Bose, now one of the partners of the Krishi Jami …
Cutting Corners Ashok Mitra The acquisition of land by state agencies to meet specifications set by private sponsors of industrial projects has emerged as one of the gravest of national concerns. Industry without land to build it upon is inconceivable. Even so, in an overpopulated country where, despite six decades …
KOLKATA: The political agitation at Singur near the Tata Motors project site cast its shadow on the operations of another automobile company, that of Hindustan Motors Ltd. The C. K. Birla group company on Wednesday put up a notice at its factory gate shutting down its production for a day. …
Bs Reporter / Mumbai August 28, 2008, 5:59 IST Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani today backed the Tata group's Nano car project, saying industry and politicians need to work together for the country's industrial growth. "A fear psychosis is being created to slow down certain projects of national importance,' Ambani …
Bs Reporter / Kolkata August 28, 2008, 5:57 IST A meeting scheduled between the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) officials and vendors of Tata Motors' Nano project at Singur for tomorrow, which was expected to break the continuing impasse, has been cancelled. A vendor said that Tata Motors had …
P. S. Suryanarayana SINGAPORE: Union Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath on Tuesday asked the developed bloc to get real about global trade issues. He also expressed the Centre's willingness to play "a facilitating role' to prevent any adverse impact on the investment climate in West Bengal in the current …
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, …
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 …
Mosquito repellents used by policemen on night patrol along the expressway. (Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya) New Delhi, Aug. 25: If the Bengal government wants to return some of the Singur land to the original owners, it can bypass the legal difficulties by enacting a law in the Assembly, legal experts say. One …
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 …
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 …
