-PTI The Supreme Court today asked Tata Motors to make its stand clear on its leasehold rights over the Singur land in the wake of changed scenario as the company had already moved its car plant out of West Bengal. "The land was acquired for establishing a car manufacturing plant at Singur. Now the purpose is no more there as you have already moved out. Now you cannot say that you still...
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Where rape is a conspiracy -Prasenjit Chowdhury
-The Hindustan Times It is really sad for Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to accept that as per the latest figures released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) West Bengal recorded the highest number of crimes against women for the second year on the trot. The NCRB statistics said West Bengal recorded 30,942 cases of crime against women in 2012 - of which 2,046 were rape cases. Senior administrative and police...
More »Land return, eye on polls-Pranesh Sarkar
-The Telegraph Kolkata: The Mamata Banerjee government has decided to return nearly 10,000 acres from its land bank to 30,000-odd original owners by the end of the year with an eye on electoral gains, officials said. No one in the government would go on record but The Telegraph has seen a land and land reforms department order, sent to the departments holding the plots and the district authorities, to start the land-return...
More »Banks under fire for Saradha mess -Srikumar Bondyopadhyay
-The Times of India KOLKATA: It's not only Cobrapost that seems to be stinging public sector banks. State-owned banks have come under fire and are accused of being hand-in-glove with willful defaulters like Ponzi kingpin Sudipta Sen. In a 25-page statement that the CBI deems a confession, Sen has detailed how he acquired Global Automobiles, a company with a bank debt of Rs 186 crore. Formed in 2005, the company's owner Shantanu...
More »The Mamata Banerjee story is over...-Aditi Phadnis
-The Business Standard A trail of unfulfilled promises follow her in rural and urban Bengal The furious letter-writing since 2010 about the chit fund industry in West Bengal suggests that everyone knew the industry was going to implode. Bengal has one of the highest rates in small savings, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Somen Mitra wrote to the prime minister in 2011. The state buys the highest number of new life insurance policies, and...
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