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Tata Nano Singur Controversy
The Tata Nano Singur controversy was a controversy generated by land acquisition of a proposed Tata Motors automobile factory at Singur in Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. The factory would have been used to build the compact car Tata Nano. The Left Front (West Bengal), erstwhile state government of West Bengal created the controversy by citing the 1894 land acquisition act rule to conduct an eminent domain takeover of of farmland on which Tata Motors was supposed to build its factory.The Economist 30 August 2008 edition. U.S. Edition.Nano wars. Page 63. The rule is meant for public improvement projects, and the state government wanted Tata to build in its state. The project was opposed by activists and opposition parties in West Bengal. Leadership positions within the ''Singur Krishi Jami Raksha Committee'' (SKJRC - The Committee to Save the Farmland of Singur) were held by the locally dominant Mahishya community, who are the ''chasjami malik'' (landholder) or owner-culti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tata Motors
Tata Motors Limited is an Indian Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive company, headquartered in Mumbai and part of the Tata Group. The company produces passenger cars, cars, trucks, vans, and busses, buses. The company's notable subsidiaries include British Jaguar Land Rover and South Korean Tata Daewoo. Tata Motors has joint ventures with Hitachi (Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery) and Stellantis, which makes vehicle parts for Fiat Chrysler and Tata-branded vehicles. Tata Motors has auto manufacturing and vehicle plants in Jamshedpur, Pantnagar, Lucknow, Sanand Plant (Tata Motors), Sanand, Dharwad, and Pune in India, as well as in Argentina, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Thailand. It has research and development centers in Pune, Jamshedpur, Lucknow, Dharwad, India and South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Tata Motors is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, BSE and National Stock Exchange of India, NSE, and is a constituent of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aparna Sen
Aparna Sen (; ) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema. She has received several accolades as an actress and filmmaker, including nine National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards East and thirteen Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards. For her contribution in the field of arts, the Government of India honoured her with Padma Shri, the country's fourth highest civilian award. Early life and education Sen was born in a Bengali Baidya family in Kolkata. Her family originally hailed from Cox's Bazar in Chittagong District (now in Bangladesh). Her father was the veteran critic and filmmaker Chidananda Dasgupta. Her mother Supriya Dasgupta was a costume designer and earned the National Film Award for Best Costume Design for Chidananda's directorial venture '' Amodini'' (1994), at the age of 73. Sen is a niece of Bengali poet Jibanananda Das. Sen spent her childhood in Hazaribagh and Kolkata and had her schooling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Press Conference
A press conference, also called news conference or press briefing, is a media event in which notable individuals or organizations invite journalism, journalists to hear them speak and ask questions. Press conferences are often held by politicians, corporations, non-governmental organizations, and organizers for newsworthy events. Practice In a press conference, one or more speakers may make a statement, which may be followed by questions from reporters. Sometimes only questioning occurs; sometimes there is a statement with no questions permitted. A media event at which no statements are made, and no questions allowed, is called a photo op. A government may wish to open their proceedings for the media to witness events, such as the passing of a piece of legislation from the government in parliament to the senate, via a media availability. American television stations and networks especially value press conferences: because today's TV news programs air for hours at a time, or ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bengal Government
The Government of West Bengal, also known as the West Bengal Government, is the principal administrative authority of the Indian state of West Bengal, created by the National Constitution as the state's legislative, executive and judicial authority. The Governor acts as the head of state and is the highest nominal authority of the state power, however, it is the Chief Minister who is the chief executive authority and head of government. The Chief Minister is the head of government and is vested with most of the executive powers. Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, houses the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. The temporary secretariat is located in the Nabanna building in the district of Howrah, adjacent to the state capital. The Calcutta High Court is located in Kolkata, which has jurisdiction over the whole of West Bengal and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The present Legislative Assembly of West Bengal is unicameral, consisting of 294 Member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tata Management Training Centre
The Tata Management Training Centre (TMTC) was established by JRD Tata in the year 1966. Located in Pune, it was awarded the ''Golden Peacock National Training Award'' (2007–08) in the field of Training & Development. TMTC focuses on Management and Development. It has disseminated over 50 publications including management briefs, manuals, research papers, and case studies. History TMT Center is designed by architect George Wittet, in 15 acres of land surrounded by trees, lawns, pathways and flower beds, which once belonged to F. E. Dinshaw. In 1918, Dinshaw acquired the services of Wittet, the consulting architect to the Government of Bombay, to build him a country home. Later, additional suites were designed and constructed by Daraius Batliwala and Rustom Patell of Patell Batliwala & Associates. In the 1960s, it was restored and turned into a residential training center keeping the original layout. The institute can house 60 people within its residential facilities. It a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gujarat
Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories of India by area, fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the List of states and union territories of India by population, ninth-most populous state, with a population of 60.4 million in 2011. It is bordered by Rajasthan to the northeast, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu to the south, Maharashtra to the southeast, Madhya Pradesh to the east, and the Arabian Sea and the Pakistani province of Sindh to the west. Gujarat's capital city is Gandhinagar, while its largest city is Ahmedabad. The Gujarati people, Gujaratis are indigenous to the state and their language, Gujarati language, Gujarati, is the state's official language. The state List of Indus Valley civilisation sites#List of Indus Valley sites discovered, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanand
Sanand is a city and a municipality in Ahmedabad district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Gujarat. It is a major industrial hub of Western India, with manufacturing plants of major domestic and foreign companies. History Sanand was a small princely state ruled by the Vaghela (Gurjar clan), Vaghela clan. Maharaj Jaywant Singh Vaghela of Sanand was a music connoisseur. In 1946, he had invited Jasraj, who was still very young, and his family to Sanand. Now, Sanand is a Satellite city, satellite town of Ahmedabad city. Geography Sanand is located at . It has an average elevation of 38 metres (124 feet). Demographics India census, Sanand had a population of 41,530. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Sanand has an average literacy rate of 72%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 65%. In Sanand, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age. Economy Sanand is part of the dedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratan Tata
Ratan Naval Tata (28 December 1937 9 October 2024) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He served as the chairman of Tata Group and Tata Sons from 1991 to 2012 and he held the position of interim chairman from October 2016 to February 2017. In 2000, he received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour in India, followed by the Padma Vibhushan, the country's second highest civilian honour, in 2008. Ratan Tata was the son of Naval Tata, who was adopted by Ratanji Tata, son of Jamshedji Tata, the founder of the Tata Group. He graduated from Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University College of Architecture with a bachelor's degree in architecture. He had also attended the Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School (HBS) Advanced Management program in 1975. He joined the Tata Group in 1962, starting on the shop floor of Tata Steel. He later succeeded J. R. D. Tata as chairman of Tata Sons upon the latter's retir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All India Trinamool Congress
The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a breakaway faction from the Indian National Congress and rapidly rose to prominence in the politics of West Bengal under her leadership. Presently, it is ruling the state of West Bengal beside being the third-largest party in India in terms of number of MPs just after the BJP and INC. The party won a historic victory in the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election by defeating the 34-year-long Left Front rule, world's longest democratically elected communist government. It has won a three-time majority in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and has been the ruling party in West Bengal since 20 May 2011. AITC is led by Mamata Banerjee as the chairperson of the party. History Founding After being a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subhaprasanna
Subhaprasanna Bhattacharjee is an Indian artist, born in Kolkata in 1947. He graduated from the Indian College of Arts ( Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata) in 1969. He was an active member of the Calcutta Painters group. He married to artist Shipra Bhattacharya. Subhaprasanna was the student of the famous painter Debdoot Sheet. Paintings The city of Kolkata has always figured prominently in his work. His themes come from personal interactions with its urban milieu - its sickness and sordidness, violence and vulnerability, and all that compounds its existential agony. In the 1960s and 1970s, his work was influenced by the turbulence and political violence of Kolkata. Subhaprasanna has depicted varying moods of the city and its people, its places, and all its facets that make it distinctive. He states, "There isn't another city like Kolkata anywhere in the world. In the heart of it, I find innumerable themes, subjects." He does not merely portray reality as a 'matter of fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabir Suman
Kabir Suman (; born as Suman Chattopadhyay; 16 March 1949) is an Indian singer-songwriter, musician, music director, music composer, writer, actor, politician, and former journalist.Kabir Suman profile india.gov. Retrieved 11 December 2011 He shot to fame in the 1990s with Bengali albums such as ''Tomake Chai'' (''I Want You'') and ''Boshe Anko'' (''Sit-and-Draw''). Suman has won a National Film Award for Best Music Direction for his work in '' Jaatishwar'' (2014). From May 2009 to 2014, he was a member of parliament of India in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
