The legislation revokes the original lease agreement signed between Tata Motors, the country's biggest automobile maker, and the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation.
While it is difficult to attribute any one single reason to this, low cost, less depreciation, easier loans, and ready availability of good models are some of the reasons behind this boom.
Trinamool congress MP and Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University Sugata Bose tells Kavita Chowdhury that there is a sense of fear and insecurity among our minorities.
Pre-election campaigns -- this one particularly -- are always about personalities, never about issues. Bashing one another is the best political parties can do. Or pandering to their constituencies -- religious, caste, economic or whatever. Best to just enjoy the show without expecting any electrifying performances, feels Sherna Gandhy.
After Desire 816, the expectations from HTC were quite high. Thankfully, HTC Desire 820 ticks all the right boxes, says Himanshu Juenja
Farmers are gettong ready for another agitation.
Trinamool sources indicated that invitations had been extended to Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata and several senior executives of the Tata group.
According to the lease agreement between Tata Motors and the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation, the lessor will have the option to terminate the lease if the land has not been used for three years or more, which will kick-in from October 2011. Tata Motors had pulled out of the Nano project in October 2008.
However, considered its high price of Rs 25k, Chinese smartphones like Xiaomi Mi4 and Oppo's One Plus One can dent the Japanese phone's popularity.
Cranfield University, UK & Chodankar Education Trust, Mumbai are offering a postgraduate degree course (MSc) in Ultra Precision Technologies, a one year full-time course.
Coming from the debacle of Xperia Z3+, Sony needed to bring out a product which would not only restore users' faith, but also get it back in the game with a bang. And the Xperia Z5 Dual does it remarkably well for Sony.
Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata was in Kolkata on May 18, 2006, the day Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee started his second innings as chief minister of West Bengal, to announce the Nano small car project.
The race among Indian automobile manufacturers to make cheap cars, initiated by Tata's Nano will further create pollution, road congestion, global warming and health problems, says a new book.
With a passable built material, and decent battery back up, the chances of the phone commanding premium price dwindled quite early. Anybody with a budge of thirty thousand plus will gladly go for something more worthy like Moto X Style
SBI had a tough journey in the last 40 years.
The chairmanship of Tata Motors and Tata Steel after Ratan N Tata steps down at the end of 2012 appears to be an open question. It will be up to the new Tata group chairman, Cyrus Mistry, whether he decides to succeed Tata in heading two of the largest group companies or opt for new chairpersons for them.
In fact, when it comes to engaging fans on social networking sites such as Facebook, Indian brands have done better than their global peers -- in terms of growth rate and in some cases, even in the absolute number of fans.
Car makers are reaching out to consumers in rural centres as high lending rates slow urban demand.
Honda, Bajaj, Yamaha and Mahindra are revving launch plans for the 200cc and above motorcycle segment.
Former President A P J Abdul Kalam kindly answered rediff.com's questions for an exclusive interview.
Based on the Tata Nano, the TataPixel - at just over three metres in length - is the most package efficient four-seater in the world.
Consider this: by 2015-16, nearly one of every three cars that roll out in the country could be from Gujarat. If that's not enough, in the next three-five years, half the installed capacity for making cars in India will be located in the state.
The much-awaited event is finally over. And here is what you need to know about it!
Announcing several measures to give a boost to the nanotechnology sector in Karnataka, Science and Technology Minister Anand V Asnotikar on Thursday said the government is mulling a policy for promotion of this rapidly developing field in the state.
Lamenting that India's higher education institutions are facing problem of quality, President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the country was far behind China and the United States in terms of innovation and pitched for 'drastic action' to reform the system.
Bogged down by the over month-long agitation by local people led by anti-nuclear activists, commissioning of the first reactor of the controversial Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project has been delayed by three months.
The first meeting of the group was recently hosted by Anil Diwan, president and chairman of Nanovirisides, in New York City.
The West Bengal chief minister did not have anything new to offer to Singur and its people, except that the site would be used for an industrial project.
A division bench of justices Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Mrinal Kanti Chaudhuri passed the order granting continuation of the stay till disposal of the appeal.
Appearing for West Bengal government's industries department, senior counsel Kalyan Banerjee claimed before the division bench that it did not have jurisdiction to hear the case.
When the world's cheapest car was launched to global fanfare at the 2008 Delhi Auto Expo, a Singaporean journalist asked Ratan Tata whether he had considered the traffic implications once the Nano hit the roads.
Drug maker Cipla always fought a lone battle to make drugs affordable in India.
Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt, who is accompanying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his trips to Russia and China, notes that Moscow and New Delhi work together professionally and via a shared common approach on crucial issues.
Gujarat has topped with a score of 71.14% on ease of doing business list.
India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on Wednesday successfully sent into orbit four satellites, including the Indo-French tropical weather satellite Megha-Tropiques.
The 50-hour countdown for the launch of Indo-French climate monitoring satellite Megha-Tropiques and three other nano satellites on board PSLV-C18 on October 12 from the spaceport of Sriharikota is progressing well, the Indian Space Research Organisation said.
With the much-talked about sarkari tablet PC set to be launched on October 5, we give you a low down on everything you must know about this little gadget.
"India and Indonesia can do much more in the changing world," Sharma said at a reception hosted by the India-Indonesian Chamber of Commerce last night.
At Rs 32,500, the 4G-enabled Samsung Galaxy A8 is only for dyed-in-the-wool fans, says Himanshu Juneja
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