| Bengal govt unclear on people displaced by new projects | 17-NOV-09 |
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| The West Bengal government has earmarked 30,000 acres for industrial projects (around 7,000 acres has been allocated, the rest is at different stages of acquisition), but even as it faces one of the most violent battles for land rights, figures for displacement or project-affected persons are yet to be aggregated. |
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| Mamata sees a conspiracy theory now | 15-OCT-09 |
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| The Trinamool Congress lodged an FIR today after it found a car trailing the convoy of party chief Mamata Banerjee and claimed it was a conspiracy to kill her. “There was a conspiracy to kill Mamata,” party general secretary Mukul Roy said after filing the case. Earlier, Banerjee said the car with a press sticker chased her convoy last night and tried to dash against it while she was going home after attending a meeting at painter Suvaprasanna’s residence in Salt Lake. |
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| He came, he saw, he left | 23-SEP-09 |
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| What was slated to be a routine annual general meeting of the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce of Industry became sensational as the Union Minister of State for Shipping Mukul Roy,a Trinamool Congress leader, left in a hurry as soon as he found out that he would have to share the dais with West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister Nirupam Sen and Municipal Affairs and Urban Development Minister Ashok Bhattacharya. As he was leaving, Roy said, he got an urgent phone call and had to leave but later confirmed to television channels that he left after he saw the two Bengal ministers. The three ministers were invited, but one did not know that the other would be present. The two state ministers lost no time in calling the incident “unfortunate”. Sen said, “We always had cordial relations with the Centre, which seems to have changed. |
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| One step forward: Bengal to buy land for private projects again | 22-SEP-09 |
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| Stung by the public relations crisis caused by the scandal over private sector acquisition of land for the Vedic Village spa and resort on Kolkata’s outskirts, the West Bengal government has decided to repudiate a two-month policy and start acquiring land for private projects again. |
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| We'll return Singur land if state compensates us: Tata | 02-SEP-09 |
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| In the first faint signs of rapprochement since Tata Motors withdrew its iconic Nano small project from West Bengal last year, Chairman Ratan Tata said he would return the land in Singur if the West Bengal government compensated the company for the investment it made at the site and was open to considering an alternative project there. |
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| Ratan Tata to meet Nirupam Sen today | 01-SEP-09 |
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| Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata is likely to discuss the Singur issue with West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister Nirupam Sen tomorrow. |
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| CPI(M) active on Nayachar proposal again | 24-AUG-09 |
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| Despite facing resistance from the Opposition and a section within the party, the Left Front government in West Bengal is exploring ways of fast forwarding the proposal of Chemical Hub at Nayachar. The chief minister Buddhadeb Bhatatcharjee held a meeting of the core group to review the prospect of the project which was earlier put on the backburner after the ruling Left suffered a humiliating defeat in the recent general elections. |
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| Bengal tries to revive shelved Nayachar project | 21-AUG-09 |
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| Despite facing resistance from the Opposition as well as a section within the party, the Left Front government in West Bengal is exploring ways of reviving the shelved chemical hub project at Nayachar. |
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| Bengal banks on Lalgarh to salvage investor-friendly face | 03-JUL-09 |
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| The Maoists have been flushed out of Lalgarh in the West Medinipur district of West Bengal just three days ago, and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister Nirupam Sen considers it a shot-in-the-arm for investments in the state. |
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| LF's fingers crossed over Nayachar | 01-JUN-09 |
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| The Left Front government is hoping that the central government won’t go back on its earlier position and issue environmental clearance for the proposed chemical hub at Nayachar. |
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