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Articles 321 through 420 of 500:
- Mamata Agrees To All-Party Meet On Nandigram (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 10, 2007)
The protracted Nandigram crisis may soon be resolved with Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee agreeing on Wednesday to attend an all-party meet to discuss the issue. The date and venue are yet to be decided.
- Mamata Melts, Cm Matches (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 10, 2007)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Mamata Banerjee have agreed to walk the extra mile for the sake of Nandigram’s homeless.
- Mamata’S Formula On Nandigram (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 09, 2007)
Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee today offered a seven-point “compromise formula” for resolving the Nandigram crisis, which, she blamed, had been created by the CPM and the “arrogant Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee”.
- Nandigram: Left Front Conciliatory, Cpm Terse (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2007)
The CPM state committee in West Bengal on Monday virtually gave a clean chit to its party supporters for the continuing clashes at Nandigram even as the ruling Left Front...
- Left Discovers ‘Formula’ For Resolving Nandigram (Tribune, Subhrangshu Gupta, May 08, 2007)
The left front parties reached a consensus on the “formula” for resolving Nandigram problems at a meeting held at the CPI(M) Alimuddin Street party office here today.
- Drive To Normalise Nandigram (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2007)
The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government has set in motion an elaborate administrative process to try and restore peace in Nandigram.
- The Moderate Face (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, May 07, 2007)
Two years ago the RSS sarnsanghachalak K.S. Sudarshan had advocated that veteran BJP leaders Atal Behari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani should retire.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 04, 2007)
Government is supposed to prevent and punish murder and other homicides, not commit them.
- Liberated’ Zone (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, May 04, 2007)
The eruption of violence in Nandigram on Sunday in which two people were killed and several injured once again demonstrated that rule of law still evaded the remote West Bengal bloc.
- Race To Rashtrapati Bhavan Hots Up (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2007)
In the haze of the ongoing UPelections, at least one strand of thinking until recently held that President APJ Abdul Kalam could get a second term in the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
- Trinamool Congress For Manmohan, Governor's Intervention (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2007)
The Prime Minister's Office and the West Bengal Governor have been informed of the violence in Nandigram on Sunday and their immediate intervention was sought to restore peace, Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee said here.
- Lok Sabha To Pass Finance Bill On May 3 (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2007)
The Finance Bill will be passed on May 3 in the Lok Sabha and on May 5 in the Rajya Sabha but not without the BJP, and the UPA's supporting partner, the Left parties, first making an issue of it in what is billed as a tumultuous second phase of . . .
- A Quietly Ticking Political Time Bomb? (OutLook, Rajinder Puri, Apr 25, 2007)
If the Supreme Court strikes down the amended Office of Profit Law, the results could be devastating. The judgment would very likely come on the heels of the UP assembly poll results, but before the next Presidential election.
- Special Article (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Apr 25, 2007)
This scribe had criticised President Kalam for signing the Office of Profit Bill to make it law.
- Human Rights Commission To Visit Shut N Bengal Tea Gardens (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 25, 2007)
Failing in its earlier efforts to improve the condition of tea estate workers of north Bengal, state Human Rights Commission has decided to visit the place and conduct an on-the-spot enquiry.
- Nandigram: Trinamool Boycotts All-Party Meeting (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2007)
Left to continue peace efforts
Trinamool boycotted first all-party meeting convened on April 3
Several Nandigram villages remain out of bounds to administration
- Mystique Lies Shattered (Pioneer, Premen Addy , Apr 22, 2007)
The temperature was never far short of 40o C, the humidity was a murderous 95, but for all that pre-monsoon Kolkata was still a fascinating experience for a returning native.
- Mystique Lies Shattered (Pioneer, Premen Addy , Apr 21, 2007)
The temperature was never far short of 40o C, the humidity was a murderous 95, but for all that pre-monsoon Kolkata was still a fascinating experience for a returning native.
- Birds Of A Feather (Deccan Herald, Amulya Ganguli, Apr 18, 2007)
Voters, generally, want to teach the usually inept government a lesson by voting it out.
- Govt On Backfoot, Admits Cm (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2007)
The chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, during a meeting of the Cabinet core committee said today that his government was “on the backfoot” after the Nandigram incident.
- Mamata Renews Singur Campaign (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 12, 2007)
Says struggle will not stop till Government is forced to backtrack from the project
Asks authorities to return land to owners
Krishi Jami Raksha Committee stages sit-in demonstration
- On Reservations (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 11, 2007)
The substance of the CPM’s argument on implementation of OBC reservations in centrally funded institutions of higher learning is this:
- `Let Us Take Democratic Struggle Forward' (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Apr 06, 2007)
As a tribute to E.M.S., says Buddhadeb
What do Opposition parties know of land reforms, he asks
Says that to safeguard farm sector, industrial growth is inevitable
- Bjp Withdraws Controversial Campaign Cd (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Apr 05, 2007)
Leadership washes its hands of the affair
U.P. spokesman sacked
Poll official sends CD to Delhi
- Left’S Violent Legacy (Deccan Herald, Amulya Ganguli, Apr 04, 2007)
The violence in West Bengal is a continuation of what the Communists initiated before coming to power.
- Political Battle (Frontline, SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY, Apr 03, 2007)
The police firing and violence in Nandigram, which claimed 14 lives, are the culmination of disturbing activities since January.
- Biman Bose, Left Front Chairman (Frontline, SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY, Apr 03, 2007)
IN this exclusive interview with Frontline, Biman Bose, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member and West Bengal State secretary and Left Front chairman, gives his party's perception on the Nandigram incident.
- South Leaders Are Richer (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 03, 2007)
Most Indian political parties are led by millionaires, with at least three party presidents worth more than Rs 20 crores each. Interestingly, those from the South are richer than their counterparts from the North, or perhaps more accurate in . . .
- Buddha Meets Sonia, Seeks Policy On Sezs (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 02, 2007)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, accompnied by CPI-M Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury, met Sonia and told her that her that Congress party too favoured industrialisation for rapid growth of the economy.
- Buddhadeb: In The Thick Of It All (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Apr 01, 2007)
ONE may agree or not, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will go down in the history of the Communist movement in India as one who changed the inflexible believers in Marxist ideology to keep pace with changing times.
- Pro-Poor Project Turned Sour (Deccan Herald, Nilotpal Basu, Mar 30, 2007)
West Bengal’s effort at reindustrialisation cannot remain limited to small and medium scale industries.
- Behind The Events At Nandigram (Hindu, Brinda Karat, Mar 30, 2007)
There is a larger political game plan being played out in West Bengal. The real agenda of the "resistance" is not protecting the interests of farmers and the rural poor or saving the land.
- Nandigram Widens Split In Kerala Cpm (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 29, 2007)
The terror campaign by the police and the CPI(M) at Nandigram in West Bengal, in which at least 14 people have died, has widened the ideological rift in the Kerala unit of the party, which is even otherwise ravaged by faction war between hardliners . . .
- Cm Flags Off Drive For Peace (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 29, 2007)
Admitting mistakes and owning responsibility for Nandigram, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today initiated a reconciliation process and signalled the revival of the industrialisation campaign.
- Violence Erupts In Nandhigram (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 29, 2007)
After a brief lull, Nandigram witnessed fresh tension on Wednesday as Trinamool Congress supporters ransacked an office of the CPI-M party office at a marketplace after bombs were allegedly hurled at their procession.
- Buddha Scraps Nandigram Project, Mamata Demands Resignation (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 29, 2007)
In the wake of public outrage over the March 14 police firing and escalating unrest, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday announced the scrapping of a chemical hub in Nandigram and owned responsibility for the . . .
- Disrupted Inquiry (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Mar 28, 2007)
The Calcutta High Court's decision not to ask the CBI to immediately follow up on its preliminary inquiry into the March 14 atrocities at Nandigram, committed by policemen and Marxist cadre gone berserk, with a sustained investigation to identify . . .
- Nandigram Home-Truths? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 28, 2007)
The CPM’s fightback on Nandigram is not merely about trying to defuse the situation — which was what party General Secretary Prakash Karat and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee attempted to do with their assurances and press statements.
- Economics Trumps Politics? Mamata Men Get Tata Work Contracts (Indian Express, SUBRATA NAGCHOUDHURY, Mar 27, 2007)
Politics may have put economics on hold in West Bengal’s Nandigram but less than two hours away, in Singur, at the site of the Tata’s Rs 1-lakh car plant, it’ seems to be the other way around.
- Upa’S Ship Of State In Rough Weather (Asian Age, Arun Nehru, Mar 27, 2007)
Political accidents continue to hit the UPA government, and the ship of state enters a period of instability.
- Govt Affidavit 'Differs' With Fir On Nandigram (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 27, 2007)
There are contradictions in the affidavit filed by the Government in the Calcutta High Court and the FIR filed by the police post-Nandigram firing on March 14 that claimed 14 lives and left many others injured and missing.
- Nandigram: Probe By Executive Begins (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 27, 2007)
Inquiry headed by a divisional commissioner to be completed within 45 days
We have no faith in this inquiry: Trinamool
Nandigram discussed at meeting convened by Buddhadeb
- Profit Law: Mps Calls For Relief (Times of India, Dhananjay Mahapatra, Mar 27, 2007)
The Centre has defended in the Supreme Court the recent amendment exempting 40-odd offices from disqualification under Office of Profit clause saying it was necessary to protect MPs whose public activity had increased manifold, keeping pace with the . . .
- West Bengal Will Not Abandon Industrialisation Policy: Karat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 24, 2007)
But Government will protect and develop further agriculture
Says large-scale units, particularly in manufacturing, are necessary
West Bengal will not adopt Maharashtra type of SEZs
- Forcibly Acquired Land Must Be Returned: Mamata (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 24, 2007)
The land will have to be returned to the farmers, says Mamata
- Danger And Opportunity (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 24, 2007)
Calcutta was again in the grips of a bandh when I landed last Friday and drove home through deserted streets.
- Nda Requests President To Visit Nandigram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 23, 2007)
A delegation of the National Democratic Alliance led by Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani here on Thursday submitted a memorandum to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam requesting him to visit Nandigram in West Bengal "to comfort" the people "terrorised" . .
- Murder In Arcadia (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Mar 23, 2007)
If over-kill and pig-headedness hadn’t been the hallmarks of the CPI(M)’s re-conquest of Nandigram on March 14, conspiracy theorists may well have been justified in claiming that the incident was a diabolical ploy by the flat-earth society to . . .
- Nda Wants Prez To Visit Ground Zero (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 23, 2007)
After stalling Parliament over Nandigram for five days before it went into recess, the Opposition NDA, unwilling to let the issue die down, met President A P J Abdul Kalam on Thursday.
- Nda Seeks Kalam's Healing Touch For Nandigram Victims (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 23, 2007)
A delegation of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) MPs led by senior BJP leader LK Advani called on President APJ Abdul Kalam on Thursday requesting him to render his "healing touch" to the terrorised people at Nandigram in West Bengal.
- Opp Mulls Trust Move Against Halim (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 23, 2007)
Both Congress and Trinamul Congress are considering a no-confidence motion against the Speaker, Mr Hasim Abdul Halim in the current Assembly session for “protecting” Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s government on the Nandigram issue.
- Fresh Violence At Nandigram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 22, 2007)
CPI (M) office attacked with bombs and set ablaze
Shops ransacked in Tekhali Bazaar area
Two roads dug up on Tuesday night
- The ‘Political Assault’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 21, 2007)
While West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has tried to defuse the Nandigram crisis by taking the blame for it, his party continues to claim that their political enemies are using violence to regain ground after their defeat in last year’s state polls.
- Bedlam In Parliament Over 'State Terror' In Wb (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2007)
The Nandigram killings rocked Parliament for the fifth consecutive day on Tuesday with the Opposition's attempt to raise the issue of 'state terror' leading to frequent adjournments.
- Nandigram: No Land Acquisition (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Mar 21, 2007)
As the first step towards phased withdrawal of police from Nandigram in West Bengal, the State Government on Monday initiated moves to shift two police camps.
- Trinamul Asks Buddha To Step Down (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 21, 2007)
Relentless in its attack on the ruling Left over Nandigram "genocide" in West Bengal, Trinamul Congress MLAs renewed their demand for immediate resignation and the arrest of the "fascist" chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, disrupting the . . .
- Pot Calls The Kettle Black (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Mar 21, 2007)
When in power, veteran Marxist Jyoti Basu, who presided over West Bengal's decline and death, was as ruthless and callous as Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
- `Nandigram Stir Over Non-Existent Issue' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2007)
CPI(M) State secretary and member of Polit Bureau Pinarayi Vijayan said here on Monday that the farmers' agitation in West Bengal's Nandigram was over a "non-existent issue."
- Bjp Mp Tries To Snatch Fm Papers Amid Din Over Sez (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2007)
Parliament on Monday witnessed angry scenes, with members of the Opposition BJP and the ruling Congress virtually coming to blows over the Nandigram firing issue.
- Nandigram: No Land Acquisition (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Mar 20, 2007)
Two police camps being shifted; Government to hold executive inquiry
- Cpm To Back Buddhadeb (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2007)
“There is no question of replacing Mr Bhattacherjee. People of the state have elected him; he is the chief minister and he will continue to remain so,” CPM all India general secretary Prakash Karat has said.
- Cpi (M) Prefers State Govt. Judicial Probe (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2007)
The talk of land acquisition in Nandigram is baseless, says Karat
Firing incident cannot be considered in isolation
CPI (M) workers driven out, attacked
- India Strike Over Police Shooting (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2007)
A general strike called by opposition parties over the shooting by police of protesting farmers has paralysed life in the Indian state of West Bengal.
- Protest Against Farmers’ Killing: Indian Police, Protestors Scuffle (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2007)
Opposition workers and police clashed in India’s West Bengal state on Friday during a strike to protest the killing of 14 villagers opposed to a planned industrial hub.
- Sporadic Violence In West Bengal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2007)
Sporadic incidents of violence on Friday marked a Statewide strike called by the Trinamool Congress, the BJP, the Congress and the Socialist Unity Centre of India in West Bengal in protest against Wednesday's police firing in Nandigram that claimed . . .
- Bombs, Arson Rock Singur (Asian Age, Parwez Hafeez, Mar 17, 2007)
A day after Tata Motors managing director Ravi Kant voiced his confidence in Kolkata that the construction of the small car plant at Singur would progress smoothly, the project area was bombed, torched and vandalised on Friday.
- Bengal Shuts Down In Protest (Pioneer, Saugar Sengupta, Mar 17, 2007)
All of West Bengal went on an unprecedented strike on Friday to protest Wednesday's CPI(M)-sponsored police brutality in Nandigram that has left at least 14 men and women dead and many missing.
- Tata Motors Project Site Attacked On Bandh Day (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2007)
Members of a Trinamool Congress-backed body torched a police watch-tower and uprooted fence posts at the Tata Motors' small car project site here on Friday during a state-wide general strike called to protest the police firing in Nandigram.
- Deaths In Violence Unfortunate, Says Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2007)
"Security forces were sent to the area only to restore normality, peace"
Administration could not function at Nandigram
Police did not go there for acquiring land
- High Court Orders Cbi Probe (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Mar 16, 2007)
Violence broke out again at Nandigram in West Bengal on Thursday even as the Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI probe into Wednesday's police firing that claimed 11 lives.
- Lessons From Nandigram (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 16, 2007)
A gang-up of mainstream and extremist political elements on a matter that was considered troublesome but not explosive; political slowness in responding to the issues at stake and to the risks; and administrative mishandling of a volatile situation . . .
- Pressure On Sonia To Take Tough Stance On Nandigram (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Mar 16, 2007)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is faced with a dilemma on the party’s handling of the violence at Nandigram in Left-ruled West Bengal, having come under increasing pressure from party men to take a tough position on this issue.
- West Bengal Hit By Fresh Clashes (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2007)
There have been fresh clashes between police and villagers in an area of eastern India where police fired on protesting farmers on Wednesday.
- Cpm Captures Nandigram (Pioneer, Saugar Sengupta, Mar 16, 2007)
A day after Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's police 'enforced' the state's authority over Nandigram block in West Bengal's East Midnapore district, brutally crushing popular resistance against Marxist thuggery by killing at least 14 men . . .
- Nandigram: Court Orders Cbi Inquiry, Mob Violence Still On (Indian Express, SUBRATA NAGCHOUDHURY, Mar 16, 2007)
As the death toll in the police firing yesterday climbed to 14 and the Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI probe into the incident, a mob attacked and set fire to the Nandigram block development office, the CPM zonal party office and the CITU office.
- Nda To Send Team To Bengal, Stalls House Proceedings (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2007)
With the death-toll in Nandigram continuing to mount, the NDA stepped up its attack on the Left Front government in West Bengal on Thursday, deciding to send a delegation of MPs to the scene of violence in the state’s East Midnapore district and . . .
- Court Tells Cbi To Probe Sez Firing (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2007)
Twenty-four hours after Wednesday’s brutal crackdown in which at least 14 people were killed in police firing, the situation remained volatile at Nandigram on Thursday.
- Allies Criticise Cpm On Nandigram (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2007)
Sparks flew in the emergency Left Front meeting on Thursday when front constituents targeted chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for ordering the police action at Nandigram which resulted in a bloodbath.
- Nandigram Firing Echoes In Parliament (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2007)
The death of several persons in today's police firing in Nandigram Special Economic Zone in West Bengal rocked Parliament today as the Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day by the Chair.
- 12 Killed In Police Firing (Tribune, Subhrangshu Gupta, Mar 15, 2007)
At least 12 poor farmers were gunned down today at Nandigram by the police, which, accompanied by CPM cadres, went berserk in an attempt to capture two anchals from the possession of the Krishia Bachaoo Committee.
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