Dankuni: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wishes to set up a factory at 600 acres of land in Singur-the site of abandoned Tata Nano car plant, even as she on Monday attacked the central government for not providing West Bengal the much needed financial aid. "We had already acquired the land in Singur. But the matter is sub-judice right now. But after we get the verdict we would like a factory...
04:30 AM, May 29, 2012
Kolkata: Meet Nityananda Das, one of Singur's "unwilling farmer" who lost his land to Tata Motors. His family was allegedly tortured by the police and CPM cadres for refusing to accept the Left Front Government's compensation package. Despite a change of political guard, Nityananda Das and 2000 other Singur farmers are still waiting for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to fulfill her promise of returning their land. "We are...
09:40 AM, May 20, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister on Saturday described her first year in office as a success story barring her failure to return land taken from unwilling farmers for the Tata Motors project. "Our only disappointment is the inability to return the land to the unwilling farmers of Singur. As the matter is sub-judice, we cannot give back the land. This is the biggest pain and disappointment that I have," Banerjee...
02:28 AM, May 20, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who will complete a year in office on May 20, has claimed that her government has been able to restore peace in Junglemahal with not a single death reported so far this year. Citing statistics, the chief minister said that in 2010-11 when the Left Front government was still in power in the state, 139 civilians and 35 security personnel were killed in...
10:57 AM, May 16, 2012
Kolkata: Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday said the Trinamool Congress-led government was suffering from a sense of political intolerance. "They cannot tolerate political parties like the CPI-M and that is why they are divesting powers of the CPI-M-controlled zilla parishads to district magistrates," he told a Bengali news channel. He claimed that the TMC government was attacking newspapers and TV channels which is "another instance of...
10:48 PM, Apr 01, 2012
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted continuation of the stay of the trial court order validating the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act which has been challenged by the Tatas. The stay order passed by the high court means that West Bengal government cannot distribute land among farmers until the matter is heard. The court will hear the case from November 8 onwards. A division bench of justices...
12:38 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court is likely to take up Tata Motors Limited's (TML) appeal against upholding of the Singur Act by a single bench of the court on Thursday. TML moved a division bench comprising Justices PC Ghosh and MK Choudhury on Wednesday seeking continuation of a stay on application of the trial court's order which would expire during the day, and also the appeal against the order upholding...
04:10 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Kolkata: The Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday assigned the appeal of Tata Motors Ltd challenging a trial court order upholding constitutionality of Singur Land Act to a new division bench after the state questioned whether an earlier bench had jurisdiction to hear the case. Chief Justice JN Patel assigned the TML appeal challenging the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, to a division bench comprising...
12:59 AM, Nov 02, 2011
Kolkata: Tata Motors had challenged the order of the single judge of the Calcutta High Court, which had upheld the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, by which West Bengal government vested the land leased to the company at Singur, before a division bench of the Court. The Tata Motors has appealed against the order of Justice IP Mukerji which was passed on September 28 and gave a copy...
08:44 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Kolkata: There couldn't have been a better day to be Mamata Banerjee. On the day the West Bengal Chief Minister won her maiden assembly polls, the Calcutta High Court set aside the Tata Motors petition challenging the validity of the Singur Land Act which the state Assembly passed in June this year. The Act provided for taking over the 997-acre plot from the company and returning a portion to unwilling...
08:57 PM, Sep 28, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday described as a "historic verdict" the Calcutta High Court's order upholding validity of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011 by which West Bengal government vested the land leased to Tata Motors Limited. "Today's verdict is historic verdict. Agitation of the farmers in Singur has not only shown the path to other parts of India, but also to the whole...
01:48 PM, Sep 28, 2011
New Delhi: In a setback for the Tatas, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday upheld as constitutional and valid the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011 by which the West Bengal government vested the land leased to Tata Motors Ltd (TML). Justice I P Mukerji, while upholding the validity of the Act, directed that compensation be paid to TML if it makes an application for it while noting that...
10:57 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court is expected to pronounce its verdict on a plea filed by Tata Motors challenging the constitutional validity of the Singur Land rehabilitation act. The Supreme Court, on an appeal from Tata Motors, had stayed distribution of the land of the disputed factory site until further orders from the High Court. The judgement is scheduled to be passed at 10:30 am by the court of Justice...
07:49 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Kolkata: Tata Group will invest in West Bengal only if it is satisfied that the state government has no hostility towards it, the conglomerate's chairman Ratan Tata said in Kolkata on Tuesday. "There is a need for satisfying ourselves that there is no hostility towards us. When we feel that way, we will undoubtedly, like anywhere else, invest in the state," Tata said at the annual general meeting of the...
03:57 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Kolkata: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of misleading the masses by making false promises during her stint as railway minister and felt that she is still pursuing the politics of gimmicks in the state. "For two years she went on laying one foundation stone after another. Before the (April-May) assembly polls she started claiming repeatedly that she has made provision...
07:46 PM, Aug 21, 2011
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