Jurong to prepare master plan for Bengal auto park

October 3rd, 2009 BARASAT - Reliance Retail, part of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries, is looking at reviving its West Bengal projects "in a major way", a top official said here Saturday. "We are currently working on how best we can come back to the state in a major way.

September 22nd, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal will soon have its first Wetland Ecological Park in Sonarpur adjoining Kolkata where many of the animals from the Alipur Zoo will be housed, a top official said Tuesday. State Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Atanu Raha said the state government has taken up an initiative to develop the wetland park and identified a lowland area for it.

August 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - Protesting against the West Bengal Government's decision to ban auto rickshaws that were over 15 years old, auto drivers staged a demonstration here on Monday. The Save Auto Committee urged the government to allow drivers to convert their auto-rickshaws into LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) mode instead of stopping them from plying altogether.

July 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - Fast moving consumer goods major ITC Ltd., which has been scouting for land in West Bengal for quite some time has expressed its discontent over not getting land so far. "It is really frustrating.

July 21st, 2009 Magna to revive former Chrysler Corp. HQ in Mich.LANSING, Mich.

July 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - Singapore's Changi Airports International (CAI) will spend $20 million (Rs.100 crore) on the Durgapur aerotropolis project, an airport city in West Bengal housing aviation-intensive businesses, a top company official said here Thursday. "We have picked up a 26-percent stake in the company (Bengal Aerotropolis Projects) and have decided to invest $20 million in the Durgapur project," said CAI chief executive Wong Woon Liong at a press conference.

May 26th, 2009 KOLKATA - Cyclone Aila that hit the eastern Indian coast scared a Royal Bengal tiger out of the Sundarbans national park and into an inhabited area in the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest, according to information reaching here Tuesday. The tiger moved near Jamespur village in Satjelia island where it terrorised villagers for a whole day before returning to the protected forest area, said A.

April 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - Tarak Mistry, a promising Bengal under-19 cricketer, died of tuberculosis at a city nursing home Tuesday. Mistry, 18, a talented right-arm fast bowler who turned out for Bengal last season, was ailing for a week, nursing home sources said.

March 20th, 2009 KOLKATA - Throwing police into a tizzy, a motorcyclist intruded into the convoy of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Thursday. The incident occurred on the busy Park Street when the chief minister was on his way to the state secretariat, Writers' Building, police said.

March 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - After the Singur jolt, the West Bengal government is slowly making arrangements to house the state's first auto components park in Guptamoni in West Midnapore district. A special purpose vehicle (SPV), floated by the developers of the project, has now started buying land directly from land owners in Guptamoni, some 127 km from here, a top official of West Bengal Industrial Infrastructure Development Corp (WBIIDC) told IANS Friday.

February 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In order to support tea production and export, the government is going to set up a tea museum at the hill town of Darjeeling and a tea park at commercial centre Siliguri in West Bengal. 'The tea museum will be set up to showcase the development of the tea industry in India over the last two centuries,' Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh told the Lok Sabha Tuesday.

January 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - Four Bangladeshi nationals sentenced to the gallows for the 2004 murder of an Awami League parliamentarian and close associate of prime minister-designate Sheikh Hasina, have been arrested by the West Bengal police. The four, who fled Bangladesh after being sentenced to death, were nabbed by the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) late Sunday night from Kolkata's adjoining South 24-Parganas district.

January 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Two buses were set ablaze Saturday by protesting Trinamool Congress-backed auto-rickshaw operators protesting a court ban on ageing public transport vehicles in the city and to demand the release of 18 arrested protesters. Commuters were greatly inconvenienced as very few auto-rickshaws and taxis plied on the road in response to the Trinamool Congress-sponsored 12-hour strike.

January 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi Saturday deplored the destruction of public property and disruption of normal life by auto-rickshaw drivers protesting the implementation of the Calcutta High Court order phasing out air-polluting two-stroke auto-rickshaws. Describing the Calcutta High Court order as 'an unavoidable step', Gandhi said: 'The auto-rickshaw owners are in need of advice and assistance to implement the change.

December 23rd, 2008 PATNA - A Vadodara-based firm will prepare the master plan for the new capital area to develop Patna as a metropolitan city, a senior official said here Wednesday. According to Cabinet Co-ordination Principal Secretary Girish Shankar, the Bihar government has decided to appoint Vadodara's Karan Grover and Associates to prepare the master plan.