Bush fires killed 32 people in central Mozambique this week, destroyed houses and made thousands homeless, a relief agency said on Friday.

The director of Mozambique's National Disaster Management Institute (INGC), Joao Ribeiro, said the fires were driven by strong winds and fuelled by high air temperatures and dry grass.
"People died because they could not run away," Ribeiro said.

Rapid economic growth and the protests over land acquisition for export promotion zones (EPZs), and now Singur, point to the maturation of the

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

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.

The Supreme Court on Friday gave environmental clearance to Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Power

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.

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.

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