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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Delhi, Oct. 5: Mamata Banerjee has caused a huge loss to Bengal, but she may still be a long way from winning anything for her “unwilling” landlosers.State industries minister Nirupam Sen today said there was no question of returning the acquired land in Singur, and that the government would not talk to the Opposition on the matter.“The present owner of the land is the state government....
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Calcutta, Oct. 4: Nirupam Sen has nothing to say on industrialisation any more.
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Calcutta, Oct. 3: Ratan Tata isn't the only one who wants out. Industries minister Nirupam Sen too would leave Bengal if he could.
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday
West Bengal Industry Minister Nirupam Sen has said there was no legal provision under which the state government could do that.
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
For Singur farmers, it was one unkind cut after another. Shortly after Rata Tata announced the Nano pullout, state industries minister Nirupam Sen declared that land acquired for the project will not be returned.
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MACHINIST.IN (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Kolkata/ Mumbai, October 3, 2008: In a meeting held with the Hon’ble Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Minister in Charge, Department of Commerce Industries, Mr. Nirupam Sen, Mr. Ratan N. Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons Tata Motors and Mr. Ravi Kant, Managing Director,...
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Times of India (Free subscription) | yesterday
... on her mates. ‘I got too abusive’ Ask her whether she agrees with the allegations levied by Sanjay Nirupam that the show is rigged and Sambhanva says in her inimitable forthright manner, "I really don't know, but one thing is for sure that the show is not scripted. I enjoyed the experience, but yes it also adds to one's stress levels. In those conditions, one tends to experience extreme...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | yesterday
... after Ratan Tata’s pullout declaration.In the first throes of disappointment, industries minister Nirupam Sen had said yesterday he was in no mood to think about industrialisation any more. But Bhattacharjee tried to look ahead through the gloom.“The Tatas have withdrawn the Nano project… just before the festive season. But Ratan Tata has assured me he is not leaving for ever and will reinvest...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | yesterday
... handshaking distance.Such dejection leaves you without the strength to get up. Or, as the minister Nirupam Sen said in the statement defining this state’s moment of despair, “I don’t want to live in Bengal”.Many, like possibly Sen, can’t afford not to live in Bengal. That includes the willing and unwilling landlosers of Singur who are at the bottom of the despair scale. No land, no work,...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Bhattacharjee to seek help.”The fears of Mal and Kamala may not be unfounded: industries minister Nirupam Sen today reaffirmed that the law didn’t allow the government to return the land.He added that the unclaimed cheques — which the government was begging the farmers to accept till the other day — would now be in custody of the courts where the acquisition is being fought.Mamata has vowed...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... Calcutta,” said Shah Rukh on the Science City stage, within 24 hours of state industries minister Nirupam Sen admitting that he no longer felt like living in Bengal.Timing played a key role with the Khan Dada of the Kolkata Knight Riders beating the festive drum, doing a few dhunuchi steps, grooving to the team anthem of Korbo, lorbo, jeetbo re and announcing: “It was my dream to share my...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Mamata Banerjee at the news conference on Saturday. Picture by Sanjoy Chattopadhyaya Calcutta, Oct. 4: If you thought the Singur agitation was now over, you had missed a little fact. Ratan Tata may have quit Bengal, and Nirupam Sen may be wishing he could, but Mamata Banerjee has still betrayed no sign she wants to leave the state. So, neither will her “movement”.The Trinamul Congress chief...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
... head. I think Ms Banerjee pulled the trigger.”It was not as if Bhattacharjee, industries minister Nirupam Sen and chief secretary Amit Kiran Deb had not expected such an outcome when they walked into the meeting with Tata and two of his aides. But the chief minister, especially, and Sen tried their best and failed to persuade Tata to give Singur one more chance.Tata, who said later he had...
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
... a closed-door meeting with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Industry Minister Nirupam Sen, Tata Group chief Ratan Tata announced here Friday that he would move the Nano car factory out of West Bengal.He said the decision to shift the project was taken following farmers' protests and was also in consideration of the well-being and safety of all employees and vendors working at the...
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Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
... a destructive role. The opposition acted irresponsibly and destructively," Industries Minister Nirupam Sen said here. "It is because of the opposition that this international project has gone out of the state," Sen said after Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata announced the withdrawal of the project from the state."We can't accept this. The people also can't accept. Among the 13,000 landlosers,...
