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JSW STEEL PROJECT REKINDLES WEST BENGAL'S INDUSTRY DREAM (LEAD)

Article from: The Hindustan Times Article date: November 02, 2008

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Salboni (West Bengal), Nov. 02 -- (IANS) Nearly a month after Tata Motors aborted its small car project in Singur, West Bengal Sunday sought to rekindle its fading industrialisation dream with the launch of the JSW Bengal Steel project in this Maoist-targeted area amid high security.Thousands of people, mostly supporters of the state's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), gathered at the venue, about 150 km from Kolkata, as Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee unveiled the foundation stone for the ...

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Protests Close Plant Making World's Cheapest Car

Posted Sep 2, 08 3:38 PM CDT in World,  Business 

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Source: AP Photo

(Newser) – Tata Motors has halted work at the Indian factory where it was producing its Nano model, billed as the world’s cheapest car. A 2-year-long land dispute escalated when West Bengal farmers trapped workers inside, the AP reports, and the company instructed employees to stay home this week. "A detailed plan to relocate the plant and machinery to an alternate site is under preparation," the company said today.

More about:  auto industry • business • protests • farmers • Tata Nano • West Bengal

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