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.

ANKUSH SINGH

Posers on canal project

Jamshedpur, Sept. 7: Four large and medium irrigation projects of the state water resources department in Kolhan have failed to take off in the absence of land clearance from the forest department.

While the Sunwa, Jharjhara and Natki projects fall under West Singhbhum, the Suru project is located in Seraikela-Kharsawan. When complete, these projects would provide irrigation facilities to more than 20,000 hectares in the two districts.

Panel To Fix Land Compensation For Farmers

Manisha Choudhury, Tamal Sengupta & Sutanuka Ghosal
KOLKATA

IN a move aimed to retain and secure mega corporate investments for the state, the West Bengal government announced on Sunday night that it has decided to give maximum land to Singur farmers in order to meet the demands of Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee.

Chandigarh, September 05 The Manimajra Farmers Welfare and Environment Protection Society reiterated their accusation against the Chandigarh Administration of having a biased attitude towards them.

In the executive body meeting of the society, the members said the Administration is misleading the people by suppressing and twisting the facts.

West Bengal Climbs Down On Land-For-Land Plan
Our Bureau KOLKATA

THE crucial governor-mediated talks between the West Bengal government and Trinamool Congress to resolve the Singur impasse on Friday closed unfinished but on a positive note. The Buddhadeb government, climbing down from its earlier resistance to land-for-land proposal, agreed to distribute land to farmers who have declined to accept state compensation. State commerce & industry minister Nirupam Sen said the government will purchase Trinamoolidentified land outside the Nano complex.

Siliguri, Sept. 5: Farmers whose plots on the outskirts of Jalpaiguri town had been acquired for setting up a circuit bench of Calcutta High Court have resumed cultivation on the land after it lay unused for the past six years.

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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:

The Tatas have sounded the Uttarakhand government on the possibility of shifting the small-car project to Pantnagar if they decide to leave Singur, a top government official said.

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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

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