KOLKATA

The state govern ment has offered

BY SUBRATA CHATTOPADHYAY AND KAUSHIK PRADHAN
KOLKATA

Friday

BY RINA CHANDRAN
NEW DELHI

A colonial-era law for land acquisitions in India has helped trip up several industrial projects, including Tata Motors

The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front government
in West Bengal had handled the acquisition of land from the peasants for the Nano car project of Tata Motors at Singur in a hopelessly insensitive manner. The Trinamool Congress, the main opposition party, has ever since tried to gain all it can from this failing of the communists. The CPI(M), in its anxiety to pursue industrialisation at all costs, should have known better than to be more concerned about the incentives for private industry than about livelihoods and asset security for the local populace. (Editorial)

BY SANJAY BASAK AND SUBRATA CHATTOPADHYAY
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA

West Bengal

Sandeep Joshi

Rising material cost puts pressure on pricing

KOLKATA: The ground has been prepared for Friday

Ratan Tata at an auto-makers

Bs Reporter / New Delhi September 05, 2008, 0:20 IST

The tussle within the Congress over the controversy in West Bengal

Subrata Nagchoudhury

Kolkata, September 4: To keep the Nano factory from moving out of the state, the West Bengal Government is ready with what it calls an

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