Tata abandons cheapest car plant
BBC.co.uk
Work at the West Bengal plant was suspended in August
India's Tata group has abandoned plans to build the world's cheapest car in the eastern state of West Bengal.
Tata group chief Ratan Tata said: "We have little choice but to move out of Bengal. We cannot run a factory with police around all the time."
He was speaking after protests in a row over land acquired from local farmers.
The car, the Nano, is expected to cost about 100,000 ... Read More
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Tata abandons cheapest car plant
BBC.co.uk
Work at the West Bengal plant was suspended in August
India's Tata group has abandoned plans to build the world's cheapest car in the eastern state of West Bengal.
Tata group chief Ratan Tata said: "We have little choice but to move out of Bengal. We cannot run a factory with police around all the time."
He was speaking after protests in a row over land acquired from local farmers.
The car, the Nano, is expected to cost about 100,000 ... Read More
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Published in The Independent, it is definitely worth reading.
‘Since you were so kind as to greet us in London at Downing Street last month, the President would like to return the favour,” announces Major-General Rashid Qureshi, President Pervez Musharraf’s PR man over the phone. Only in Pakistan could the government’s head of spin be a retired major-general. He is referring to my last encounter with the President on 28 January – when, along with a 2,000-strong, placard-waving, slogan-jeering mob, I ... Read More
