Mamata government reactivates Singur movement panel
June 23rd, 2012 - 11:41 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) A day after the Calcutta High Court struck down the law undoing Singur land acquisition, the Mamata Banerjee government Saturday kickstarted a damage control exercise, ... Read more...
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Left leaders meet PM, accuse Trinamool of ‘reign of terror’
August 25th, 2011 - 8:14 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Left Front leaders from West Bengal Thursday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought his intervention over the "reign of terror" unleashed on its ... Read more...
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Left Front to protest ‘atrocities’ in Bengal
July 7th, 2011 - 9:57 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) Alleging that efforts were on to snatch lands tilled by marginal farmers in parts of South 24-Parganas and Bankura districts, West Bengal's main opposition Left Front ... Read more...
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Buy land directly from farmers, says West Bengal’s draft policy
June 15th, 2011 - 11:17 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 15 (IANS) Industrialists planning to invest in West Bengal would have to buy all the land they require from land owners and the government would provide ... Read more...
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Bengal’s ‘red fort’ faces challenge as voting begins Monday
April 17th, 2011 - 3:31 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 17 (IANS) Will West Bengal's 34-year-old "red fort" crumble in a combined Trinamool Congress-Congress charge? Over 56 million voters will provide the answer when the state ... Read more...
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Bihar’s landless march for land reforms
December 24th, 2010 - 2:45 pm ICT by IANS
By Imran Khan
Patna, Dec 24 (IANS) Ignoring the freezing winter winds and away from whatever warmth their thatched huts provide, hundreds of poor and marginalised men and women in Bihar are ... Read more...
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I am against forcible land acquisition: Mamata
November 4th, 2010 - 4:02 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Nov 4 (IANS) Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has said she is against forcible land acquisition but in favour of amicable settlement with regards to land requirement ... Read more...
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Farm tenants’ rights, caste issues on test in Bihar poll (Curtain Raiser, 4th round)
October 31st, 2010 - 6:58 pm ICT by IANS
By Imran Khan
Patna, Oct 31 (IANS) Development, new caste arithmetic, bataidari (sharecropping) and the minority card will be the main issues on test as 42 constituencies, nearly a dozen of ... Read more...
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Rebel JD-U MP warns against Nitish’s return to power
October 20th, 2010 - 1:47 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Oct 20 (IANS) A day ahead of the first round of the six-phase Bihar assembly elections, a rebel leader of the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) Wednesday appealed to farmers not to ... Read more...
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Nitish Kumar threatened for wanting to protect sharecroppers
February 19th, 2010 - 2:19 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Feb 19 (IANS) An upper caste leader of Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U), Prabhunath Singh, has warned Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to reject a new law that would protect sharecroppers in ... Read more...
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Jyoti Basu neglected industry initially: Economists
January 18th, 2010 - 4:51 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) For the bulk of the 23 years as West Bengal chief minister, Jyoti Basu led the state to great achievements in agriculture, even as militant trade unionism ... Read more...
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After Nitish, now Modi under attack on land reforms
November 5th, 2009 - 8:04 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Nov 5 (IANS) After Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi is facing heat on the state government's much-publicised land reforms and Thursday had to clarify that credit ... Read more...
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Left parties in Bihar to agitate for land reforms
November 1st, 2009 - 1:59 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Nov 1 (IANS) The Left parties in Bihar plan to launch a state-wide agitation against the Nitish Kumar government's "failure" to implement land reforms in the state, an official said.
"The ... Read more...
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No plans for new law favouring sharecroppers: Nitish
October 19th, 2009 - 9:06 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Oct 19 (IANS) In a move to placate upper castes, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday assured them that their lands were safe and his government has no plans to enact ... Read more...
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Great Depression was one of the great creative periods
December 7th, 2008 - 1:07 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 7 (ANI): The Great Depression era from 1930s or early 1940s has been a critical period in history, which gave birth to some of the great creative works, according ... Read more...
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Buddhadeb urges opposition to withdraw Singur protest
September 21st, 2008 - 10:02 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 21 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday appealed to all opposition parties in the state, who are demanding the return of 400 acres of land to farmers, to ... Read more...
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Buddha appeals to opposition to accept Singur package
September 14th, 2008 - 9:33 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 14 (IANS) Appealing to the Trinamool Congress-led protesters to accept the latest compensation package announced by the West Bengal government, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday exuded confidence that the world's ... Read more...
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Bengal government now looking at people’s support on Singur
September 14th, 2008 - 6:01 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 14 (IANS) The West Bengal government Sunday splashed advertisements in local dailies to earn public favour for the latest compensation package for Singur farmers whose land has been acquired for ... Read more...
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Singur land ownership issue complex: Amit Mitra
September 3rd, 2008 - 9:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) The land ownership issue at Singur is complicated, according to Amit Mitra, general secretary of industry lobby Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.“The matter is ... Read more...
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United Bank to continue agricultural financing policy
June 17th, 2008 - 8:25 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 16 (IANS) United Bank of India (UBI) said Monday that it would continue giving special focus on agricultural financing in West Bengal to help the sharecroppers and tenant farmers. "Banks ... Read more...
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