Call to solve Siliguri pollution problems
Concerned about the rising pollution levels in Siliguri, a voluntary organisation on Tuesday sought measures to be taken against the same. Members of the Green Forum also demanded that authorities concerned
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Trinamul activists protest against coal mine project
BARJORA, 4 APRIL: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to flag off coal production next week at a mine that supporters of her Trinamul have been opposing since 2004. The Trinamul’s opposition to the Trans-Damodar
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Mamata iterates Singur pledge
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today told the Assembly that her government was committed to return land to the unwilling farmers of Singur whose land was "forcibly" acquired by the erstwhile Left Front
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WB mulls incentives to woo industrialists
KOLKATA, 22 MARCH: The state government plans to offer incentives to encourage industrialists to set up their units in the state, commerce and industries minister, Mr Partha Chatterjee said here this today.
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Singur Act: HC seeks details of development scheme
KOLKATA, 21 MARCH: The Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today asked advocate-general Anindya Mitra for the details of the scheme to
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Bengal govt to take on Centre on foodgrain allocation
KOLKATA, 15 MARCH: In the middle of the ruckus over the hike in passenger fares in the Railway Budget, the Trinamul Congress has fired another salvo, instructing its Parliamentary party to take up the
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Bengal gets 20 new trains
KOLKATA, 14 MARCH: Even while choosing the collision course with his party boss Miss Mamata Banerjee over hiking of passenger fares, railway minister Dinesh Trivedi proposed some new projects and 20 new
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After acquisition of land, peasants have no stir right
KOLKATA, 13 MARCH: Return of land cannot come within the purview of public purpose as the peasants have no right to agitate after acquisition of land, the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and
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Budget rolls on, but Mamata’s Adra thermal plant doesn’t
PURULIA, 13 MARCH: Uncertainty looms over the 1320-MW Adra thermal power project, announced in 2010 by then railway minister Mamata Banerjee, even as the country prepares for another railway budget tomorrow.
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Land acquisition causes trouble for E-W Metro Project
KOLKATA, 7 MARCH: Land acquisition is a serious obstacle for the construction of the East-West Metro Project, Subrata Gupta, managing director, the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC), said today. Talking
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Singur case hearing
KOLKATA: If there is an omission on the part of the legislature in formulating an Act, the court can fill up the gap, advocate-general Anindya Mitra submitted before the Division Bench of Mr Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Mr Justice Mrinalkanti Choudhuri of Calcutta High Court today. Otherwise, if the statute is left unchanged, it will give rise to absurdity, it was submitted in defence of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, which has been challenged by Tata Motors Limited. This would have defeated the intent of the legislature, it was submitted.