Tata seeking new sites for Nano

"  The Indian firm Tata says it is actively looking for new sites at which to build the world's cheapest car.  Work at Tata's plant in West Bengal state has been suspended since the end of August in a row...

India: West Bengal reaches solution to Tata conflict (updated)

" KOLKATA, India (AFP) - Tata Motors can go ahead with making the world's cheapest car at a factory in eastern India after talks yielded a compromise ending violent protests against the plant, officials said...

India: Last-ditch talks on Tata factory for Nano

As human reactions to the removal of a Tata factory in Singur- West Bengal- contiune to shock the Indian audience, the government and opposition hold an emergency meeting over the future of Nano. " By Joe Leahy in...

Critics claim Nano is reliant on subsidies

" By Joe Leahy in Kolkata Published: September 2 2008 01:29 | Last updated: September 2 2008 01:29 A much-lauded plan by India’s Tata group to build the world’s cheapest car, the diminutive Nano,...

Orissa, Bengal Protest to Soren's territorial demands

By Akhand in Bhubaneswar Jharkhand Mukti Morchha(JMM) supremo Shibu Soren's demand for a greater Jharkhand state by carving out three districts each of Orissa and West Bengal elicited heavy protest in the two states. All political parties excluding congress, which wants the...

Lessons From Nandigram Violence !

  Whatever happened in Nandigram is deplorable and ought to be condemned by all the civilized people of this country.But the detailed reports of the gory event is still awaited and one must not draw any premature inference from that unfortunate incident.Buddhdev...

In Nandigram CRPF seizes explosives Maoist literature

Kolkata in turmoil has returned to unease peace after the volatile clash between the police and minority community forum in the streets burning vehicles,pelleting of stones,police charging with batons,tear gas and...

Nandigram uproar stalls both houses of India's Parliament

Nandigam uproar stalls both houses of India's ParliamentThe issue of Nandigram in West Bengal state India on the acquisition of Land for economic development resulted where in orgy,violence has erupted in its peak on...

Eight annas

Bangladeshis with western degrees are the local army of the American empire: they legitimise American imperialism in their own country, in order to safeguard their academic connections with the "mother country": anything that threatens their career "over there", such as a...

A Coordinated Push to Raise Drug Awareness in West Bengal, India

With growing concern over the increase in drug trafficking through the area, and reports that West Bengal has become a major conduit for South East Asian drugs into the rest of Asia and Europe, concerned public and...

Learning to Provide "Spritual First-Aid" -- the Public Training Scouts of Wes...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of scouting, a program whose mission is "to help build a better world where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society," and which "promotes...

MiM MP Asaduddin Owaisi Speech at the Indian Union Muslim League Youth Confer...

MiM MP Asaduddin Owaisi Speech at the Indian Union Muslim League Youth Conference in Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerela Courtesy ( MiM Youth Media Outfit ).Kozhikode (Calicut), April 21 Muslims have fallen prey to...

Bengalis Worship Mother Goddess, But Their Widows Mother's Home Is Varindavan

Today on International Women’s Day I would to draw your attention on the status of neglected Indian widows, because In terms of prevalence of widowhood, India ranks among the highest in the world. Varindavan which is known as the City of Widows has 16,000 suffering...

Exporting cheap labour, importing AIDS

No escape from poverty hence no escape from death Migration, perhaps rustic people from East & West Medinipur, South 24 Parganas, Purulia and Bankura districts of West Bengal are finding it as the only way out to keep burning the oven of their home. Bankura and Purulia...

Changes in Weather Pattern and Industrialization May be Destructive for Agric...

Experts have warned of a possible food crisis in Asia in the coming decades due to population growth, changes in weather pattern, acquiring agriculture land for industries combined with lowered rates of food production.  Arrival of monsoon rains has been either delayed...

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