B. Muralidhar Reddy

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has offered all facilities, including land, to the Tatas to help relocate its Singur car project in the wake of the controversy relating to land acquisition in West Bengal. A spokesperson for the Sri Lanka

Nandini Sen Gupta & Chanchal Pal Chauhan

NEW DELHI

TATA Motors is going full steam ahead with its distribution and financing plans for its Rs one-lakh car Nano. And like its engineering, both the retail and financing models being worked out for the Nano are innovative too.

BREAKTHROUGH IN SINGUR
Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 08, 2008, 0:19 IST

Trinamool Congress (TC) leader Mamata Banerjee agreed to end her two-week-long protest in front of the Tata Motors Nano factory complex at Singur after the West Bengal government agreed to give farmers who had refused compensation land inside the 997-acre factory complex in return for what they had lost to the project. The state government will also finance the purchase of this land.

West Bengal

Marcus Dam

Governor requests Opposition to suspend agitation; traffic resumes near Tata Motors project site

A step forward: West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi with the former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court, Chittatosh Mukerjee (left) at the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata on Friday.

KOLKATA:

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Says they were held in a spirit of understanding and would be resumed today

KOLKATA: The much-anticipated talks between representatives of the West Bengal government and the Trinamool Congress to break the deadlock over the Tata Motors project at Singur were held here on Friday, six hours later than originally planned.

Though the three-hour discussions at the Raj Bhavan were inconclusive, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, who chaired the talks, described the exercise as

TOKYO/DUBAI: Custom-made Rolls-Royces, stretch Hummers and bright red Maseratis line the entrance to Dubai

Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 6, 2008, 0:33 IST

After a delayed three-hour meeting between the West Bengal government and the opposition in the presence of Governor Gopal Gandhi, a breakthrough in the impasse over compensating land-losers who refused payment for the land acquired for the Tata Motors Nano factory complex appeared more probable with

KOLKATA

The state govern ment has offered

BY SUBRATA CHATTOPADHYAY AND KAUSHIK PRADHAN
KOLKATA

Friday