KOLKATA, 14 SEPT: Mr Toru Hashimoto, manager, International Technical Cooperation Division, City of Yokohama in Japan, along with the Japanese Consul General in Kolkata, Mr Mitsutake Numahata today
KOLKATA, 14 SEPT: Fiscal instruments do not figure in sectoral plans in Action Plan for Climate Change and its inclusion would enable better implementation of the goals set to mitigate and adapt to
JHARGRAM, 14 SEPT: Two spotted deer, one monkey and a camel died of infectious tuberculosis at Jhargram Deer Park in West Midnapore in the past two days.
Calcutta High Court today asked the West Bengal advocate general to inform him by tomorrow if the state government will challenge any move to pay compensation to Tata Motors Limited (TML) on the ba
The West Bengal government on Wednesday stuck to its stand of direct purchase of land for industrial projects, while finalising the state's land policy.
Kolkata In a significant development in the Tata Motors vs State of West Bengal case, the high court has said that it can lay down the basic principles of compensation based on section 23 and 24 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. It has also asked advocate general Anindya Mitra to find out whether the state will oppose any such observation.
She is contesting against Mrs Nandini Mukherjee of CPI-M, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering in Jadavpur University, in the by-election on 25 September.
Countering the State government's claims that the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, was legislated not to acquire property but merely to extinguish the lease given to Tata Motors, the company told the Calcutta High Court on Monday that the Act pertained to “nothing but acquisition” as West Bengal had not terminated the lease.
