Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 04, 2008, 1:46 IST

Governor Gandhi to hold first meeting today.

West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi has convened a preliminary agenda-setting meeting between combating sides on the Singur issue on September 4 and a formal meeting at 10 am on September 5 in a bid to work out a solution to the problem of reconciling farmers who refused compensation for land they lost to the Tata Motors

TRINAMOOL MEETS WEST BENGAL GOVERNOR
Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 1, 2008, 0:27 IST

The impasse at Singur caused by the indefinite protest in front of Tata Motors Nano-manufacturing plant by the Trinamool Congress and its allies under Mamata Banerjee seemed to have moved closer to a resolution today even as Tata Motors indicated it would not send its workers and officers to the plant site on September 1.

while the Andhra Pradesh government is yet to recognize salt makers as farmers, two recent government orders mention

Fury over Vedanta, POSCO verdict the Supreme Court cleared two major projects in Orissa

Calcutta, Aug. 28: Landlosers will be compensated with land for the first time in Bengal.

The offer will be part of a package for building an airport in Andal, Burdwan

Mosquito repellents used by policemen on night patrol along the expressway. (Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya)

New Delhi, Aug. 25: If the Bengal government wants to return some of the Singur land to the original owners, it can bypass the legal difficulties by enacting a law in the Assembly, legal experts say.

One reason the state has cited to reject Mamata Banerjee's demand to hand back 400 acres to unwilling landlosers is that the law doesn't allow return of acquired land.

LANDING IN TROUBLE
Saubhadra Chatterji / Semrota (uttar Pradesh) August 22, 2008, 1:01 IST

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Bhupinder Singh Hooda should take heart. They are not alone in facing political storms over their governments' land acquisition efforts.

Congress' star general secretary, Rahul Gandhi, too, got the rough edge of his constituency's tongue when, during a free-wheeling interaction in Amethi, his voters berated him for eyeing their land, even if for development.