A Bengali film has courted controversy after its director alleged political discrimination by the government. The Censor Board in Kolkata denied approval to 'Kangal Malsat', a film by Suman Mukhopadhyay. ...
11:59 PM, Feb 26, 2013
A Bengali film has courted controversy after its director alleged political discrimination by the government. The Censor Board in Kolkata denied approval to 'Kangal Malsat', a film by Suman Mukhopadhyay. ...
07:36 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Urging the restive farmers of Singur not to lose hope, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said she would keep her promise of giving back their land, acquired for a Tata Group plant. ...
12:56 AM, Feb 03, 2013
With Cyrus Mistry slated to take up charge as the new Tata Group chairman on Saturday, a West Bengal minister Friday hoped the change of guard would pave the way for an amicable solution to the Singur land row, which has entangled the automaker in a bitter legal battle with the state. ...
12:19 AM, Dec 29, 2012
Ratan Tata, who led the transformation of the Tata group from a conventional corporate house into a $ 100 billion global conglomerate with high-profile acquisitions abroad, will retire on Friday ending 50-year run in one of India's oldest business empires. ...
06:55 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Ratan Tata, who led the transformation of the Tata group from a conventional corporate house into a USD 100 billion global conglomerate with high-profile acquisitions abroad, will retire tomorrow ending a 50-year run in one of India's oldest business empires. Marking a generational change, Tata, who turns 75 tomorrow, will hand over the reins of the group to 44-year-old Cyrus Mistry, who was chosen his successor last year and formally...
12:24 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Mumbai: Singur was a "great disappointment" but Tata group may still go to West Bengal, hints outgoing Chairman of the group Ratan Tata. "Need not be Tata Motors. We have until the court decides this, the plant is still there. Whether it is Tata Motors or something else," he said in an interview. He was asked about his recent statement that some day Tatas will go back to West Bengal...
05:09 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Mumbai: Singur was a "great disappointment" but Tata group may still go to West Bengal, hints outgoing Chairman of the group Ratan Tata. "Need not be Tata Motors. Until the court decides, the plant is still there," he said. He was asked about his recent statement that some day Tatas will go back to West Bengal considering the fact that Tata Motors had to shift to Gujarat after a bitter...
08:32 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Kolkata: A day after a newly-appointed Bengal minister said the farmers of Singur "will decide what to do" if the law goes against them, state Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee on Monday said the government will respect court's verdict. "We have our full faith in the judiciary and will show our respect to it," said Chatterjee, in a damage control move, after Minister of State for Agriculture Becharam Manna's comments created...
12:26 AM, Dec 04, 2012
Singur: A West Bengal minister on Sunday assured restive farmers from Singur, the centre of the ruling Trinamool Congress' volatile movement against the Nano car plant in 2006-08, that the problem would be solved by January 2013. He also asked them not to allow into their villages, a section of the media "spreading lies" on the issue. Addressing a public meeting in this area of Hooghly district, newly-appointed Minister of...
01:55 AM, Dec 03, 2012
Kolkata: The Left Front on Saturday suggested to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to buy alternative plots from adjoining areas to return land to the farmers of Singur who had refused compensation for their land acquired earlier for an industrial project. "In the interest of farmers, if the state government buys 135 acres of land from adjoining areas and returns it to the unwilling farmers, the problem will be...
04:26 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Kolkata: Amid resentment among Singur farmers and a revolt by the legislator from the rural belt, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday will hold an administrative meeting in Singur, the very land which catapulted her to power. "We will hold the district administration meeting in Singur as a message to the people who stood up against oppression," Mamata said in Kolkata on Thursday. A section of Singur land-losers,...
03:05 AM, Nov 30, 2012
It has been just a year and a half that the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government assumed power in West Bengal and the fault lines within the party rank and file are already beginning to show. Influential party legislators from Singur and Rashbehari Avenue, Kolkata - Rabindranath Bhattacharya and Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay have raised the banner of revolt. The fact that West Bengal's new minister of state for agriculture Becharam Manna...
01:03 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Kolkata: A time will come when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will face steep opposition from the aggrieved people of Singur, CPM leader Gautam Deb said on Wednesday. "Mamata Banerjee will be gheraoed in Singur today or tomorrow. Today, the people of Singur opposed Becharam Manna. On Thursday, they will surely oppose her," Deb told a party rally in Kolkata The Trinamool Congress chief had led a strong anti-land...
02:25 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress cadres are engaged in extortion and the Chief Minister knows about it, said a disgruntled West Bengal minister who played a key role in Mamata Banerjee's Singur agitation, days after he was shunted to a low key department. He also alleged that Trinamool Congress leaders were involved in cash-for-job scandals. "Mamata Banerjee is claiming her party won't be involved in extortion. But party cadres are extorting money...
07:27 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee on Friday claimed the Singur land acquisition law framed by her government was 'valid'. "Singur law is valid and we are happy at the Supreme Court order," Banerjee said at the airport after returning here from Delhi. "This is a victory of the farmers and the victory of Ma-Mati-Manush (mother-earth-humanity)," she said after the Supreme Court sought the Tata Motors' response on a...
05:32 AM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Tata Motors on a petition of the West Bengal government challenging a Calcutta High Court order that held as unconstitutional its Singur land act to reclaim 400 acres given to the company. A bench of Justice HL Dattu and Justice CK Prasad, however, said the high court's interim order allowing the state government to keep the possession of the land...
01:40 AM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: In a relief for the West Bengal government, Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Calcutta High Court judgement which had struck down Singur act as unconstitutional. The Supreme Court sought response of Tata Motors on a special leave petition filed by the West Bengal government challenging the quashing of the Singur Land Acquisition Act by the state high court. Earlier, the Calcutta High Court had held the Singur...
11:42 AM, Aug 24, 2012
Mumbai: Two days after the West Bengal government moved the Supreme Court on the Singur issue, Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata on Friday said his company will not work against anybody's interests as long as it is within laws. The West Bengal government on August 7 moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court order, which struck down the Singur Land Act that allowed the state government to reclaim...
12:30 AM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal government on Monday approached Supreme Court challenging Calcutta High Court order which set aside Singur land acquisition act. The state government in its appeal says Singur act reflects the will of the people. "Singur Act is not in conflict with any central laws," it says. ...
08:42 PM, Aug 06, 2012
