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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: 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: 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: Business | Tags: 2G, 3G, 3G auction, 74%, 74% FDI, A Raja, Department of Telecommunications, DoT, FDI, FIPB, Global Telecom Companies.Global Telecom, Greenfield 3G, India, Indian market, Indian Telecom companies, market projections, minister, S Behura, Secretary, Telecom, Telecom minister |
Telecom Minister A Raja’s statement that 3G spectrum auctions will be concluded by October 2008 has virtually blocked out most new entrants, especially global telecom companies which are already disillusioned by the higher financial entry barrier. Partnering an existing operator to get over this hurdle doesn’t help global entrants either. Investments in Indian Telecom Companies [...]
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Posted on September 2, 2008. Filed under: Business, Economics | Tags: Business, Citi, Citigroup, Commerce, debt waiver scheme, Economics, election, fiscal, fiscal stimulus, fiscal tightening, GDP, GDP growth, GDP growth rate, Goldman Sachs, Growth rate, increasing interest rate, India, Indian Eco Flash, Indian Economics, interest rates, Investment, investment banking, Lok sabha, monetary policy, monetary tightening, News, rural employment scheme, wage hikes |
Citigroup has forecasted that investment trend and growth rate in India may weaken as the impact of monetary tightening sets in, with the current fiscal GDP projected at 7.5%. The investment banking giant Goldman Sachs is more optimistic about the situation. They have projected a GDP growth rate of 7.8% for the current fiscal year.
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Posted on August 31, 2008. Filed under: Business, Politics | Tags: African American Senator, America, American Companies, American Economy, Anti Outsourcing, Barack Obama, BPO, Business, Democratic Party, Democrats, Europe, India, India BPO, Indian IT, Indian Tech Firms, IT, IT Comapany's Revenue, IT Companies, Nasscom, News, Obama, Out Sourcing, Politics, Senator, Senator Barack Obama, Som Mittal, Tech Companies, US, US Tech Firms, USA |
Obama in his acceptance speech following his nomination as Democratic candidate for US presidential post said that he, unlike the Republican candidate John McCain, “will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship our jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.” If Obama indeed [...]
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Posted on August 31, 2008. Filed under: Business, Politics | Tags: Business, Commerce, Farmer agitation, Farmer's agitation, Government of West Bengal, Governor, Land acquisition, Mamata Banerjee, Nandigram, National Highway Authority of India, News, NH 2 Blockade, NHAI, Panchayat, People of Singur, People's Car, Politics, Ratan Tata, Shutdown at Singur Plant, Singur, Singur Plant, Singur Tata Nano Plant, Students Protesting, SUCI, Tata Motors, Tata Nano Singur Plant, Trinamool Chief, Trinamool Congress, West Bengal, World's Cheapest Car |
Trinamool Congress agitation in Singur is showing no signs of let up, even after the Honorable Calcutta High Court order to clear Durgapur Expressway (NH-2). Worried with the standoff, West Bengal Governor, Gopalkrishna Gandhi wrote to Trinamool Congress Chief, Mamata Banerjee, urging her to sit for talks. A copy of the letter has been sent [...]
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