| Mamata Banerjee wins over Bengal industrialists | 22-AUG-09 |
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| Some of West Bengal’s biggest industrialists turned up today to be a part of Trinamool Congress leader and Railway minister, Mamata Banerjee’s interactive session to project an investor friendly image, almost a year after her agitation drove the Nano project from the state. |
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| Mamata for coach factory at Singur | 03-AUG-09 |
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| Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today said her ministry was prepared to set up a rail coach factory at Singur, provided 600 acres of the 1,000-acre land earlier acquired by the Tatas to set up the ‘Nano’ factory was made available to it. |
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| Pranab gets Mamata's 'good luck' call | 05-JUL-09 |
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| In the Railway Budget, Mamata Banerjee tried to appease the aam aadmi. And after the Budget, she tried to assure Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee that the General Budget that he would present on Monday would also be a “successful budget.” Before leaving for Kolkata on Friday evening, Banerjee called up Mukherjee and said, “Pranab da, don’t worry, your Budget will be very good. It will be very successful. We will be there to support your Budget.” The finance minister had a hearty laugh and said, “Yes, you all should be present in the Lok Sabha on Monday. And please reach Parliament early.” Mukherjee will present the Budget at 11am on Monday. |
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| Fares firm, freebies galore | 04-JUL-09 |
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| Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee while keeping the passenger fares untouched announced a bevy of concessions for the low-income groups, youth and journalists apart from tinkering with the tatkal scheme to make it marginally cheaper. |
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| RAILWAY BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS | 03-JUL-09 |
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| Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee announced a slew of measures, including the development of fifty world class stations and introducing double decker AC trains for inter-city travel, and left train fares and freights rates unchaged in the Railway Budet for 2009-10. She also announced a host new railway projects and new trains for her home state West Bengal. |
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| 'I agree with Mamata Banerjee on Nayachar' | 08-JUN-09 |
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| The West Bengal petroleum, chemical and petrochemical investment region (PCPIR) has been mired in controversy ever since the project was relocated from Nandigram following protests against land acquisition that turned violent after police fired on villagers in 2007. Nayachar, the new location for the chemical hub, is a virtually uninhabited island downriver from Nandigram. |
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| Different tracks | 29-MAY-09 |
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| Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee visited her office at Rail Bhawan for the first time today, and was quite unhappy about the state of things. The phone lines, she said, were not working and there was no one to even help her rearrange the furniture — when Banerjee was the minister during the NDA years, she sat in a particlular part of the office which her predecessor had changed. When reporters asked Banerjee if she was going to the Prime Minister’s dinner, she said she hadn’t been invited to it — ‘maybe because the phone is not working’, she said. |
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| Cong wants seven seats from Trinamool in south Bengal | 03-MAR-09 |
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| Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee might have to give up at least seven seats in her bastion in southern West Bengal to the Congress as the price of an electoral alliance. Top sources in the Congress told Business Standard that apart from the seats of the six sitting party MPs and the newly created Malda (North) constituency, the Congress is eyeing seven seats in southern Bengal. West Bengal has 42 Lok Sabha seats. |
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| Cong, TC tie up for LS polls | 02-MAR-09 |
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| The Trinamool Congress tonight formed an alliance with the Congress in West Bengal to contest the Lok Sabha elections against the ruling Left Front. The decision was announced after Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee met Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee here. |
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| Tata role may feature in new Singur plan | 24-SEP-08 |
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| Intermediaries have launched discussions on a new package in a last ditch effort to save the Tata Motors Nano project at Singur, closed since August 29.
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| TC threatens to resume Singur stir | 17-SEP-08 |
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| Mamata Banerjee today hinted that the Trinamool Congress and its allies could resume the agitation for return of 300 acres inside the 997-acre Tata Motors Nano factory at Singur, and another 100 acres |
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| Mamata-Buddhadeb talks collapse at second meeting | 13-SEP-08 |
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| Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee today spurned a new proposal placed by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, which entailed giving 70 acres inside the Tata Motors factory site. |
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| Nano vendors want Bengal govt to come clean | 11-SEP-08 |
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| After Tata Motors’ warning to the West Bengal government against taking steps that would disturb its commitment on the integrated nature of the Nano car factory at Singur, a group of vendors |
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