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Articles 421 through 520 of 500:
- At Least Eleven Killed Killed In Nandigram Violence (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2007)
At least eleven villagers were killed and several others including women and children received bullet injuries when police opened fire in Nandigram in East Midanpore district, about 150 km from Kolkata, on Wednesday morning.
- Nandigram Firing: Opp Seeks Probe Into Police Excess (Pioneer, Akhilesh Suman, Mar 15, 2007)
The police gunfire that snuffed out a dozen lives in Nandigram in West Bengal echoed in Parliament with the Opposition demanding a judicial probe and discussion in the brutal "CPI(M)-sponsored" police excesses.
- Tiananmen In Nandigram (Pioneer, Saugar Sengupta, Mar 15, 2007)
Buddha's police slaughter 15; scores injured
Mamata stopped on way to killing fields, gheraoed by CPM cadre in Tamluk; West Bengal bandh on Friday
- Nandigram Sez Turns Into War Zone As 12 Die In Police Firing (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2007)
The quest for FDI acquired a bloody hue on Wednesday. A 5,000-strong police force marched into Nandigram — the country’s symbol of problems associated with land acquisition for industry — and fired on protesting villagers and activists, leaving at . . .
- 11 Killed In Nandigram Police Firing (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Mar 15, 2007)
Eleven persons were killed and 34, including 14 policemen, injured when the police opened fire on a violent crowd in the strife-torn Nandigram area in West Bengal on Wednesday.
- Police Gun Down 18 In Nandigram (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2007)
At least 18 people were killed and 39 injured in Nandigram in West Bengal on Wednesday as police opened fire to quell mobs and retake the area they lost control of in January after unrest over acquisition of farmland for industry...
- Nandigram On Boil Again, At Least 11 Killed In Clashes, Police Firing (Indian Express, SUBRATA NAGCHOUDHURY, Mar 15, 2007)
A month after an intelligence official was lynched and a police team attacked by a mob, Nandigram was on the boil again today with at least 11 persons being killed and over 25 injured as political workers, spearheading a campaign to oppose . ..
- Police Moved To `Check Lawlessness' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2007)
Trinamool Congress activists stage demonstrations in Kolkata and suburbs
- Invoke Article 356 : Trinamool (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2007)
Chief Minister should quit, Prime Minister should intervene, says Mamata Banerjee
- Dmk, Left Mps Scuffle Over Varsity Site (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2007)
Lok Sabha on Tuesday plumbed new depths as marshals had to be called in to break up a scuffle between Left MPs from West Bengal and the DMK contingent over the decision to locate Indian Maritime University at Chennai.
- The Point Of Democracy (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Mar 13, 2007)
A couple of months ago, I spent some time in Luxemburg. I could not meet the Prime Minister because he was away in Brussels conferring with his fellow European Prime Ministers.
- Security Forces To Enter Nandigram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2007)
Mamata's warning to Government
"No response to all-party meet"
Communication facilities to be restored
- Full Marx (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 13, 2007)
A dangerous idea is gaining publicity. And repeated often enough it threatens to acquire the garb of certitude.
- Thirty Vs 235 ! (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 06, 2007)
Carefully handled, the happenings at Singur, Nandigram and Bhangar can force the CPI-M to loosen its stranglehold on West Bengal.
- Up Poll: Nitish Wants To Tie Up With Bjp (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 05, 2007)
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar now favours a respectable alliance with the BJP, the JD(U) and the Apna Dal to fight the UP elections which is being considered as the "mother of all Assembly elections".
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 04, 2007)
In getting tough-guy Dick Cheney to read the riot act and threaten to slash development aid to Pakistan, the Bush (mal)Administration has finally woken up to what just about everybody else had long-detected ~ Pervez Musharraf’s duplicity on terrorism.
- Violence In Court Over Killing Of Schoolteacher By Cop (Tribune, Subhrangshu Gupta, Mar 01, 2007)
Violence erupted today inside the CJM Court at Burdwan, about 90 km from here, over the killing of a Congress worker and school teacher Tuhin Samata in police firing. Samanta had allegedly been shot by Debojyoti Saha, Katwan OC. Katwa is union . . .
- "It Is High Time We Moved From Agriculture To Industry" (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Feb 27, 2007)
These are challenging times forBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee, West Bengal's Chief Minister. In an interview in Kolkata, he speaks of the absence of an alternative to the industrialisation drive his government has undertaken, the opposition he faces from . . .
- Court Gives Buddha A Jab (Pioneer, Saugar Sengupta, Feb 24, 2007)
The Calcutta High Court on Friday gave yet another rap on the Left Front Government's knuckles for forcibly acquiring land in Singur for the Tata Motors' small car project. Expressing doubt about the Government's claim that land had been acquired . . .
- A New Twist In Singur (Deccan Herald, Amulya Ganguli, Feb 21, 2007)
Agitations on the basis of ideology are understood, but when it takes a religious turn it is dangerous.
- What Karat Sez (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 20, 2007)
The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) has formally stated that there will be no Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Nandigram. In fact, it has even emphasised that farmers' land will not be allowed to be acquired for industrial projects.
- No Alternative To Setting Up Of Factories: Buddhadeb (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 16, 2007)
"It is the moral responsibility" of the Left Front Government to ensure the welfare of agricultural workers who earned a livelihood by working on farmland which has been acquired for the Tata Motors' project at Singur, Chief Minister . . .
- Mamata Asks Tatas To Shift, Buddhadeb To Retire (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2007)
Politically, the judgement is the single most major victory for the Left Front’s political opposition in the state, specifically Trinamool Congress.
- Mamata: A Defeat For Government (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2007)
Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee, on Wednesday, described the ruling of the Calcutta High Court quashing prohibitory orders recently issued by the local administration for imposition of Section 144 Cr.PC at Singur where work is on for the . . .
- Go Eat Green Bananas (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Feb 14, 2007)
Faced with mounting anger among the masses over the shortage of food that plagued West Bengal in the late-1960s, PC Sen, who succeeded BC Roy as the State's Chief Minister and led the Congress to its first . .. .
- A New Indian Tradition (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 13, 2007)
Beating The Retreat is an annual post-Republic Day ceremony with lots of brisk marching to the tune of stirring music against the backdrop of Rashtrapati Bhavan in the twilight.
- Sez Projects Put On Hold (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2007)
"The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee administration, which has been erecting concrete fencing around the acquired land at Singur, sent us an invitation for talks. But it amounts to sheer betrayal and there is no question of holding any dialogue with them," ......
- "No Talks Without Singur On Agenda" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2007)
"There can be no discussion [with the West Bengal Government] without including Singur" on the agenda, Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday.
- Nandigrammed! (OutLook, Smita Gupta, Feb 11, 2007)
Travelling through the embattled villages of Nandigram in West Bengal's East Midnapur district—earmarked for a chemical hub spread across 10,000 acres and a ship-building yard over another 2,500 acres—is not easy.
- Cpm Eats Humble Pie On Sez (Pioneer, Saugar Sengupta, Feb 10, 2007)
Days after backtracking on the Nandigram issue, saying the Left Front Government in West Bengal would not acquire land in areas where the people are opposed to it, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has once again reverted to his earlier stand.
- Buddhadev Offers Talks, Trinamool Refuses To Budge (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2007)
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday gave a fresh offer of talks to Trinamool Congress to resolve the raging row over farmland acquisition in Singur and Nandigram but the main opposition party set a pre-condition that . . .
- Profile Of Protest (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 09, 2007)
As feared, the incohesive anti-industrialisation rhetoric in West Bengal has finally found utterance in terror tactics of the mob. Across the Haldi river from Nandigram, protesters killed a policeman of the state intelligence bureau.
- Now, It's People's Struggle: Mamata (Pioneer, Saugar Sengupta, Feb 08, 2007)
In a move that seeks to carry a huge tactical value on the part of the Trinamool Congress in its "anti-land grab movement", party chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday took the party banner off the Singur agitation and invited all the . . .
- Lynch Mob In Land War (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 08, 2007)
The state government today said opponents of land acquisition are believed to have lynched a sub-inspector and dumped his body into a river in Haldia.
- Cop Lynched, Anti-Sez Stir Gathers Pace (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 08, 2007)
A state intelligence branch officer was feared killed, while five, including a police officer, were injured on Wednesday afternoon when protesters opposing the Salim Group's proposed multi-purpose SEZ at Haldia's Balughata in East Midnapore district . . .
- Forward Bloc Against Sezs In West Bengal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2007)
Forward Bloc is against any move to set up special economic zones (SEZs) in West Bengal.
- Tata’S ‘Reasonable’ Offer (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2007)
Breezing in to stand by Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in the middle of fresh land unrest, Ratan Tata today said he is ready for a “dialogue with reasonable parties”.
- Violence Erupts In Singur Again (Pioneer, Saugar Sengupta, Feb 05, 2007)
On yet another black Sunday for Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, blood spilt and smoke billowed from the backwaters of Singur that has hogged the limelight on account of farmers' resistance to the Government's alleged forced acquisition of . . .
- Back: Mamata & Bedlam (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2007)
A rested and rejuvenated Mamata Banerjee today picked up from where she left off after the fast, declaring a land war, adopting destruction of roads as a means of protest and scheduling a trip to Singur where clashes broke out in tandem with her comeback.
- Trouble Again In Tataland (Tribune, Subhrangshu Gupta, Feb 05, 2007)
Ms Mamata Banerjee’s re-launching of the second phase of agitation against the forcible acquisition of the farmlands for industries today coincided with the outbreak of a fresh violent incidents at Singur and several other places.
- 'From Agriculture To Industry' (Frontline, SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY, Feb 03, 2007)
Interview with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
- Muslims Will Be Hurt Most By Sezs (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 03, 2007)
Eviction of poor rural folk for industrialisation is anyway bad economics. But it hurts Bengali-speaking Muslims the most because they would be forced to migrate to places where they would be unwelcome
- 'Singur Project Will Create Jobs For 12k Families' (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 01, 2007)
CPI-M Politburo member Brinda Karat on Wednesday claimed the Tata Motors' small car project in Singur would create jobs for 12,000 families.
- Karat Supports Cpm's Pro-Reform Lobby (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, Jan 31, 2007)
Known for his hard-line views on economic reforms, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat has strongly backed West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's pro-reform agenda on industrialisation of the State and reprimanded both the . . .
- Fresh Clashes In Singur (Tribune, Subhrangshu Gupta, Jan 29, 2007)
Violence erupted again at Singur and several other adjoining places today when the police and Trinamool Congress workers and supporters were involved in pitched battles at least at four entry points over the construction of the Tata Motors plant . . .
- Agitators Clash With Police Near Singur (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 29, 2007)
Trouble broke out at different points leading to Singur in Hooghly district on Sunday when activists of the Trinamool Congress-led Krishi Jami Raksha (Save Farmland) Committee clashed with the police.
- For Your Information (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 29, 2007)
The fruit-seller from Fatehpur who wants to know whether the ration shop near his house can really deny him his ration.
- Keeping The Capitalist Roader At Bay (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Jan 23, 2007)
The ruling left fails to see the difference between the resistance it faced during its earlier land reforms and the one it is now up against in Singur and Nandigram, writes Ashis Chakrabarti.
- Playing With Fire (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 23, 2007)
And the inexplicable backtracking of the government
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 23, 2007)
The religious symbolism of a bhoomi puja marks an auspicious start of a construction project irrespective of whether the principal partner in the land deal happens to be a Marxist establishment of non-believers.
- Talks Offer To Mamata Holds (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 23, 2007)
The West Bengal Government's invitation to Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee for talks on compensation to those whose land has been acquired for the Tatas automobile project at Singur still stands.
- Weeding The Problem (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 23, 2007)
If the ongoing episode in West Bengal is any reckoner, the ‘industrialisation of India’ debate has entered the wrong furrow.
- Tata Motors Starts Work At Singur (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2007)
In the midst of political controversies and protests, the Tata Motors on Sunday began construction work of its car manufacturing plant at Singur in West Bengal after a brief ceremony and distribution of sweets.
- Dateline Nandigram (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 22, 2007)
I visited Nandigram on 9 January. People of this village as well as Haripur, Kharagpur and Bhangur are watching developments with grave anxiety. Fear and uncertainty have forced the villagers of Nandigram to run from pillar to post to protect their land.
- Tatas Begin Singur Work,mamata Says It’S Betrayal (Asian Age, Parwez Hafeez, Jan 22, 2007)
Taking everyone by surprise, Tata Motors on Sunday began construction work on its controversial small car plant at Singur in Hooghly district of West Bengal.
- Tatas' Singur Project Takes Off (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2007)
The Tata Motors small car factory project took off on Sunday with officials performing the bhoomi puja within the fenced off site at Singur. Officials also took possession of the site by constructing a small portion of the boundary wall near . ..
- Tatas Begin Work At Singur (Tribune, Subhrangshu Gupta, Jan 22, 2007)
Singur flared up again today during the Tata Motors “bhoomi pujan” when aggrieved farmers at Beraberi village uprooted some 20 pillars of the boundary wall of the plant site and burnt them to protest against the eviction and transfer of their farm . ..
- Kolkata Korner (OutLook, Editorial, Outlook, Jan 21, 2007)
By the time 2007 draws to a close, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee may well be tempted to declare the year as "annus horribilis", a la Queen Elizabeth II who termed the year of the Lord, 1992, as such.
- Nandigram Tense After Tu Leader's Death (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2007)
West Bengal’s East Midnapore constituency was tense on Wednesday after a trade union leader was killed on Tuesday night in Nandigram, where people have been resisting land acquisition for a SEZ.
- Left Sees Red (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 18, 2007)
The circumspection shown by the Left Front Government in West Bengal on the issue of land acquisition in Nandigram, East Midnapore, for the SEZ to be built by Indonesia's Salem Group is welcome, notwithstanding the fact that the decision to exert . ..
- Truly Barbaric (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 17, 2007)
When there was universal condemnation of the manner in which Saddam Hussein was taunted before being hanged, the US President said he wished that the execution had been conducted with more dignity.
- Buddhadeb Has Committed No Blunder: Yechury (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 16, 2007)
``Issue of compensation on national agenda"
Land acquisition is the sole right of the State Government
Affidavits filed by landowners do not fall under purview of acquired land
- Online List Of Those Consenting To Land Acquisition Released (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 13, 2007)
It contains over 17,000 names; 997.11 acres acquired for Singur project
- Turmoil In Bengal (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jan 13, 2007)
The simmering discontent over West Bengal government’s land acquisition plans for industry exploded into a major mayhem at Nandigram in East Midnapur resulting in half a dozen brutal killings.
- Pitchfork And Shovel (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 13, 2007)
You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs. As bandh-bound Calcutta writhed uncomfortably last Monday, it seemed as if people blamed not Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s objective of fast-track industrialization to make up for lost time, but the . . .
- Salim Group Undeterred By The Violence In Nandigram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 11, 2007)
"We are here... we will be continuing with all our projects"
- Turmoil In Bengal (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jan 11, 2007)
The simmering discontent over West Bengal government’s land acquisition plans for industry exploded into a major mayhem at Nandigram in East Midnapur resulting in half a dozen brutal killings.
- The Tilt In The Red Applecart (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Jan 11, 2007)
Successive victories by a party in a state do not mean the state has developed and this is true of West Bengal.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 10, 2007)
From Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s appeal for restraint to Benoy Konar’s sinister threat of a Keshpur-style reprisal in Nandigram, the party and the government have stumbled between a moderate and a hardliner.
- Extremists At Work (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 10, 2007)
If ever there was any doubt that Naxalites, Maoists and the like were behind the snowballing of the Singur issue and later the Nandigram problem, it has been blown away by the murder of a local CPI(M) leader in West Midnapur district of West Bengal . . .
- Haldia Authority's Notification Created Confusion: Buddhadeb (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2007)
"It is not competent to serve land acquisition notices in Nandigram"
Will talk to panchayats before finalising SEZ: Buddhadeb
Dasmunsi visits Sonachura area
- Farmers' Interests Will Be Protected: Cpi (M) (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2007)
Party alleges misinformation campaign by vested interests
Trinamool, ultra-Left elements accused of unleashing violence against CPI(M) cadre
No acquisition of land without taking all sections into confidence.
- Singur To Nandigram And Beyond (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Jan 10, 2007)
The West Bengal Government is set to announce a comprehensive policy on special economic zones to allay fears about land acquisition.
- Buddha Withdraws Nandigram Sez Notification (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2007)
Tuesday announced withdrawal of the notification issued by Haldia Development Authority for acquiring farmland for an SEZ at Nandigram in east Midnapore district.
- Night Of Horror (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jan 10, 2007)
The ghastly violence that has left at least six persons dead at Nandigram in West Bengal's East Midnapore district tells a grim story of Marxist cadre taking the law into their hands with the explicit purpose of coercing villagers into submission.
- No Acquisition Of Land For 3 Months: Buddha (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2007)
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said on Tuesday that there would be no acquisition of land for the next three months.
- Killing Fields (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 10, 2007)
From Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s appeal for restraint to Benoy Konar’s sinister threat of a Keshpur-style reprisal in Nandigram, the party and the government have stumbled between a moderate and a hardliner.
- The Worst Of Times (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Jan 09, 2007)
The lengthening shadow of Iraq, the crisis in Singur and the grisly abuse and murder of children in Noida paint a bleak picture of the times ahead.
- Hypocrisy Of The Cpi-M (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 09, 2007)
For the 1991 Assembly elections, I happened to draft the West Bengal Congress's election manifesto although I was not then or ever a member of that or any other party.
- Sezs: Bjp For All-Party Meet (Hindu, P.K. Bhardwaj, Jan 09, 2007)
Displaced farmers should be given stake in projects: Advani
He accuses Left of double-speak on economic issues, including Singur
Wants affected farmers to be given stake in the project or a regular income.
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