Archive for September, 2008
Posted on September 4, 2008. Filed under: Business, Politics | Tags: Abhirup Sarkar, Assocham, Assocham Study, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Farmer suicide, Farmer's agitation, Government, industrialization, Jindal, Kharagpur, Majority in favour of Tata, Mamata Banerjee, Nano Project, Radial Tyre, Ratan Tata, Singur, Singur Agitation, Singur Plant, State, Study, Tata Motors official, Tata Nano Plant, Tata Shutdown, Tatas exit, Tatas pullout, TMC, Tractors India Limited, Trinamool Chief, WB, West Bengal |
In two years since the land acquisition movement rocked Singur; the Trinamool Chief Mamata Banerjee had come to know well that there were people from among her own rank and file, who clutched on to the Nano Plant in Singur for their livelihood and prosperity. These TMC supporters have now turned against her. TMC dominated [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2008. Filed under: Business, Politics | Tags: Bengal, Brand Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Chief Minister, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, employee’s safety, GopalKrishna Gandhi, Government of West Bengal, Governor, Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi, Governor of West Bengal, land agitation, Left, Left Front, Mamata Banerjee, Nano Shutdown, neutral intermediary, Nirupam Sen, People's Car, pullout, Ratan Tata, Singur, Singur Agitation, Singur Plant, Singur pullout, State Industries minister, State of West Bengal, suspension of work, Tata leave West Bengal, Tata Motors, Tata Motors Shutdown, Tata Motors Singur Plant, Tata Nano Singur Plant, Tata Pullout, Tata Singur Plant, Tata's Ultimatum.Ultimatum, Tata’s, Tata’s suspension of work, TMC, Trinamool, Trinamool Chief, Trinamool Congress, Trinamool Congress Chief, WB, WB loses, WBIDC, West Bengal, West Bengal State Industries minister, West Bengal State Industries minister Nirupam Sen, World's Cheapest Car |
Disgusted with the “continued confrontation and agitation” at Nano factory in Singur, Tata Motors moved to the serious act on Ratan Tata’s threat to pull out his prestigious small car project from West Bengal. The Tata Motor’s statement said “This decision was taken in order to ensure the safety of employees and contract laborers, who [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2008. Filed under: Business, News, Science & Technology | Tags: browser, Business, calendars, Chrome, email, explorer, flawed web pages, flawed webpages, Google, Google Chrome, Google Inc., internet, Internet explorer, internet search engine, isolate flawed web pages, isolate flawed webpages, Microsoft, Microsoft’s Excel, Microsoft’s Word, Microsoft’s Word and Excel, most popular internet search engine, News, online search, search, search engine, Technology, web browser, web pages, webpages, word processing |
Google Inc., owner of the most popular internet search engine introduced a browser to challenge Microsoft’s decade long dominance of the market. The program, known as Chrome, will isolate flawed web pages so users can close them without shutting down the entire browser, and will make it easier to run other applications without downloading them [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2008. Filed under: News, Science & Technology | Tags: a sea ice specialist, deglaciation, Environment Programme, Glaciers, ice age, NASA, NASA's image, NASA's Satellite image, National Snow and Ice Data Centre, National Snow and Ice Data Centre in the US, News, Professor Mark Serreze, Professor Mark Serreze a sea ice specialist at National Snow and Ice Data Centre in the US, Satellite Image, Satellite Image of Arctic, Science, UN, UN Environment Programme |
NASA’s satellite images have revealed that the melting ice cap has facilitated the opening up of both the north-west and north-east passages, making it possible for the first time after Ice age 125,000 years ago, to pass through. In fact the images suggest the north-west passage opened last weekend while the final blockade on the [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2008. Filed under: News, Science & Technology | Tags: africa, African Buffalo, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh University’s School of Biological Sciences, elephants, forest, Global warming, grassland, Julian Derry, Julian Derry of Edinburgh University’s School of Biological Sciences, lakes, new species, News, Researchers, Researchers at Edinburgh University, rivers, Scotsman |
According to a report in the Scotsman, the future loss of lakes and rivers in
Africa would influence how species such as buffalo and elephants evolve. Large populations of animals, which need water to survive, could be divided and, over time, evolve into new species to cope their new surroundings. An isolated population of buffalo, unable [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2008. Filed under: Business | Tags: Business, Companies Act, Companies Act of 1956, Companies Bill 2008, Company Bill, corporate, Corporate affairs minister, Corporate affairs minister Prem Chand Gupta, corporates, ICAI, ICSI, industry bodies, JJ Irani, News, Prem Chand Gupta, SEBI, Union cabinet |
A liberal regulatory set up for corporates is on the anvil with the Union cabinet approving the introduction of new Company Bill that will replace the present archaic Companies Act of 1956. The Companies Bill 2008 also paves the way for the formation of a one person company (OPC) that would help start up entrepreneurs [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2008. Filed under: Business | Tags: Asok Bhattacharya, Bengal, Brand Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Dankuni, Dankuni Project, DLF, DLF Dankuni Project, Government of West Bengal, India, India’s largest Public-Private-Partnership, officials, PPP, Public-Private-Partnership, State Government, State government officials, West Bengal, West Bengal Government, West Bengal State Urban development minister, West Bengal State Urban development minister Asok Bhattacharya |
The real estate major DLF has threatened to pull out of the Rs 330,000 million project in Dankuni since no progress has been made in the case for months and the company is yet to get the possession of the land. West Bengal State Urban development minister Asok Bhattacharya said “The project is not making [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2008. Filed under: News, Politics | Tags: army, asia, Asif Ali Zardari, Asif Zardari, Benazir Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto’s widower, Congressman, Congressman Pete Hoeskstra, dementia, depression, Haqqani, Hussain Haqqani, London’s High Court, News, nuclear arsenal, Pakistan, Pakistan’s, Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, Pakistan’s US ambassador, Pakistan’s US ambassador Hussain Haqqani, Pete Hoeskstra, Poltics, post traumatic stress, post traumatic stress disorder, President, US ambassador, US Officials |
Disclosures about Benazir Bhutto’s widower Asif Ali Zardari’s mental health surfaced after his lawyer argued in London’s High Court that he was too ill to testify in corruption related cases. While Zardari’s spokespeople say he has been cured, US Officials, among them Congressman Pete Hoeskstra, ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee have expressed concern [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2008. Filed under: Business, Politics | Tags: agitation, Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Business, Chief Minister, Chief Minister of West Brngal, Commerce, Congress, Durgapur Expressway, Farmer agitation, Gandhi, Government of West Bengal, Governor, Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi, Governor of West Bengal, governor's intervention, I & B, land agitation, Mamata Banerjee, Manas Bhuniya, nano car, News, NH 2, NH 2 Blockade, NH2, Partha Chatterjee, People's Car, Politics, Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, Ratan Tata, Singur, Singur land agitation, State Congress Chief, State Congress Chief and Union Information and Broadcasting, State Government, Tata, Tata Nano, Tata Nano Factory, Tata Nano Plant, Tata Nano Shutdown, Tata Nano Singur Plant, TMC, Trinamool Congress, Trinamool Congress Chief, Union Information and Broadcasting minister, WB, West Bengal, World's Cheapest Car |
Mamata Banerjee is scaling down her defiance on the ninth day of the Singur agitation. She said on Monday, “We want work to resume in the factory. We are not against the Tatas. Let these there be talks to resolve the impasse.” Trucks were allowed to roll on Durgapur Expressway, as the agitators were asked [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2008. Filed under: News, Politics | Tags: ashram, ashram in Jalespeta, Christans, communal, Communal violence, CRPF, Government, Jalespeta, Kandhmal, Laxmanananda Saraswati, leader, News, Orissa, Politics, RDC, RDC Satyabrata Sahoo, rehabilitation, relief, relief arrangements, remote villages, Riots, Satyabrata Sahoo, security arrangements, State, State Government, State Government of Orissa, Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, Tikalbali, VHP, VHP leader, VHP leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, Violence |
A fresh wave of violence hit some remote villages in Orissa’s Kandhmal district on Monday, 1st September 2008. Five additional companies of CRPF were sent to tackle the situation. The State Government has sanctioned Rs 20 million for relief and rehabilitation of people who bore the brunt of recent communal violence that broke after the [...]
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