Shishir Prashant / Pantnagar (uttarakhand) September 12, 2008, 5:12 IST

Amidst deepening suspense over the future of the Nano car project at Singur, speculation is rife in this industrial town of Uttarakhand that Tata Motors will add a four-wheeler plant to its existing Ace truck factory here.

Tata Motors owns 1,000 acres in this rapidly industrialising town in the prosperous terai region of the state. About 30 per cent of it is learnt to be vacant.

Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 12, 2008, 0:09 IST

A committee constituted under the aegis of the governor of West Bengal, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, may seek more time to submit its final report on land to be provided to the agitating farmers.

After a three-hour meeting, Rabindranath Bhattacharjee, Trinamool Congress MLA and chairman of the committee, said that the committee could submit an interim report and then seek more time for its final report.

Nitish Sengupta

Press Trust Of India / Kolkata September 11, 2008, 0:50 IST

Admitting that the events in Singur have sent out a wrong message to industrialists and manufacturers, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said they formed an exception rather than the rule.

Q&A: Mohsina Kidwai
Bs Reporter / New Delhi September 11, 2008, 0:49 IST

Mohsina Kidwai, AICC general secretary in charge of West Bengal, talks to Business Standard on the Singur issue. Excerpts:

The Singur impasse continues. What is the Congress

Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 11, 2008, 5:03 IST

After Tata Motors issued a warning to the government of West Bengal (GoWB) on September 9 not to act unilaterally or take steps that would disturb its commitment on the integrated nature of the Nano car factory at Singur, 40km from Kolkata, a group of vendors attached to the Nano project reportedly urged the state government to brief them on whether it was taking any decisions or making commitments which could affect them.

Ishita Ayan Dutt / Singur September 11, 2008, 0:26 IST

Protestors to the Tata Motors project to make the Nano in Singur claim that more than 300 acres in the 997-acre factory site can be returned to unwilling farmers, even as West Bengal government representatives continue to claim that only 40 acres can be considered for return.

CALCUTTA: Indian farmers have threatened to resume protests that have blocked construction of a factory to build Tata Motors' low-cost Nano car unless talks aimed at resolving a dispute over land bring results soon.

Durgapur Expressway finally breathing easy on Monday. Picture by Pradip Sanyal
Calcutta, Sept. 8: If the Nano plant in Singur is allowed to run at full capacity, it will rank among the largest car-making facilities in the world, information culled from a government document suggests.

The document, released by the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC), outlines the terms of its agreement with Tata Motors for the lease of 997.11 acres and says the plant will make 250,000 cars a year working in two shifts.

No change in Singur plan: Govt

Statesman News Service
KOLKATA, Sept. 8: Twenty-four hours after the accord on the Singur small-car project between the state government and the Trinamul Congress-led Opposition, a letter from the Tata Motors managing director to the state industries minister expressing