Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 9, 2008, 0:04 IST

Car-maker seeks clarity on vendor park, continues work suspension.

A day after an agreement was struck between the West Bengal government and the agitators led by the Trinamool Congress to break the deadlock over compensating unwilling land-losers at Singur, Tata Motors, which had suspended work at its Nano factory last week, said it was "distressed" at the "limited clarity" on the outcome of the discussions.

MUMBAI: Tata Motors said Monday that it would not start work at the site for the factory to build the low-cost Nano car model, where work was suspended last week, until it was confident of smooth operations and the continued viability of the project.

Indian companies are paying the price of the government

On any other day, the swanky Durgapur Express Highway is a picture of calm efficiency, with trucks rumbling down this four-lane expressway which connects West Bengal with India's main arteries. It's rare, say the locals, to see a car on the 4.5-km-long stretch that outlines Tata Motors' Nano facility, nestled amidst lush, green fields at Singur, some 40-45 km off Calcutta.

BY KAUSHIK PRADHAN
KOLKATA

After some last minute hiccups which could have derailed the whole peace process initiated by West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the Singur stalemate was finally resolved late on Sunday evening.

Panel Of 4 To Report In A Week, Mamata Flip-Flop Delays Truce
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Kolkata: Hope flickered, seemed to have been extinguished and then resurfaced

B. Muralidhar Reddy

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has offered all facilities, including land, to the Tatas to help relocate its Singur car project in the wake of the controversy relating to land acquisition in West Bengal. A spokesperson for the Sri Lanka

Nandini Sen Gupta & Chanchal Pal Chauhan

NEW DELHI

TATA Motors is going full steam ahead with its distribution and financing plans for its Rs one-lakh car Nano. And like its engineering, both the retail and financing models being worked out for the Nano are innovative too.

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