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

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

BY SANJAY BASAK AND SUBRATA CHATTOPADHYAY
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA

West Bengal

The forestland in Joblakocha that was cleared for cultivation. Telegraph picture

Jamshedpur, Sept. 4: Sabars and Birhors, who would hunt and make ropes for a living, have now taken to agriculture.

With the help of an NGO, Socio Economic and Education Development Society (SEEDS), Sabar and Birhor tribes in Joblakocha and Tumangkocha villages at Mosabani in East Singhbhum district have started growing plants within an area of 7 hectares.

KOLKATA: The ground has been prepared for Friday

Ratan Tata at an auto-makers