PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Tuesday said in the Legislative Assembly that the government stood firm on the decision to scrap special economic zones (SEZs).

Bs Reporter / Mumbai August 28, 2008, 5:59 IST

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani today backed the Tata group's Nano car project, saying industry and politicians need to work together for the country's industrial growth.

"A fear psychosis is being created to slow down certain projects of national importance,' Ambani said, adding that the "political move' will be counter-productive for the country's economic growth, its global image as well as the ability to attract investments from across the world.

Bs Reporter / Kolkata August 28, 2008, 5:57 IST

A meeting scheduled between the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) officials and vendors of Tata Motors' Nano project at Singur for tomorrow, which was expected to break the continuing impasse, has been cancelled.

A vendor said that Tata Motors had sent a mail that a meeting with the West Bengal commerce and industry secretary was scheduled for tomorrow. However the meeting now stands cancelled, said another vendor. A Tata Motors spokesperson said that the company was not involved in the meeting.

P. S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE: Union Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath on Tuesday asked the developed bloc to get real about global trade issues.

He also expressed the Centre's willingness to play "a facilitating role' to prevent any adverse impact on the investment climate in West Bengal in the current context of a controversy over the Tata Group's Nano-car project there.

Bs Reporter / Kolkata August 27, 2008, 4:25 IST

No return of land to farmers, CM reiterates.

Buddhadeb BhattacharjeeIn a sharp deviation from his party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M), West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today described gheraos, the practice of disrupting work by intimidating managements, as "illegal and immoral' and said he was opposed to bandhs, or full-scale closure of state services.

SINGUR STALEMATE CONTINUES TO ROCK POLITICS AND ECONOMY
Shishir Prashant / Dehradun August 27, 2008, 0:38 IST

The B C Khanduri government seems to be in no hurry to provide concession on lease rent as well as some more land to Tata Motors at the Pantnagar industrial estate.

A high-level meeting, held yesterday, took no decision on the demands of the auto major and instead left it to the chief minister. However, top officials here said a positive note would soon be put before the state cabinet to take a final decision.

Bs Reporter / Kolkata August 27, 2008, 0:35 IST

Sajjan Jindal, vice-chairman and managing director of JSW Steel and one of West Bengal's most valued investors, said that he would have compensated unwilling farmers with double the land

Bangalore, DHNS:
The High Court has stayed the auction of a plot of land at K Gollahalli in Kengeri Hobli.

Following a public Interest Litigation by R Suresh and others, residents of Gollahalli village, the Court has stayed the auction of over four acres land, which was scheduled on August 27, 2008. The petitioners said that the land being an agro zone cannot be auctioned for any other purpose.

Cancellation

"Singur is an exceptional case and not a general feature of the State'

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said land at the Singur Tata Motors project site could not be returned without scrapping the project. Many industrialists present at a meeting here, however, urged the government to try and resolve the matter by talking directly with the farmers who are said to be demanding their land back.

Ready to discuss "anything' with her to solve problem: Buddhadeb
You cannot buy us and our struggle, Mamata tells Tatas

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday said discussions on the Singur crisis could be held only on condition that the land allegedly acquired forcibly for the Tata Motors project be handed back to farmers.