-The Economic Times   West Bengal government on Monday filed a caveat in Supreme Court so that no petition by Tata Motors Ltd (TML) over the Singur land issue is heard on ex-parte basis. The move was made subsequent to TML counsel Samaraditya Pal's efforts to (a) first get an exparte ad-interim stay on land distribution at Singur which was turned down by Justice Soumitra Pal (b) then appeal to a...

-The Times of India   The Tatas moved Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging the Calcutta High Court refusing to stay distribution of land to owners at Singur. The apex court will hear the petition on Wednesday. The Calcutta High Court had on Monday refused to pass an interim stay on the Tata Motors Limited plea expressing fears that the state government would start distributing their land in Singur to the farmers. ...

-PTI   The West Bengal government today submitted before the Calcutta High Court that it was not against the Tatas but in favour of farmers and employment generation. Contesting the Tata Motors Ltd prayer that the Singur Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011 be declared unconstitutional, senior counsel for the government Saktinath Mukherjee submitted before Justice Saumitra Pal that the government was answerable to the people as 1000 acres of fertile land was...

Even as the number on attacks RTI activists in the state have become frighteningly routine, political leaders who have come under the scanner, mostly from the ruling BJP, are still untouched. In the latest incident in which Porbandar-based advocate and social worker Bhagu Devani was stabbed on last Friday, police have arrested Laku Odedara, brother of former Porbandar Nagarpalika president Vikram Odedara, along with three others but former irrigation minister Babu...

  Can we agree in this country on a floor of human dignity below which we will not allow any human being to fall? No child, woman or man in this land will sleep hungry. No person shall be forced to sleep under the open sky. No parent shall send their child out to work instead of to school. And no one shall die because they cannot afford the cost of...