Kolkata, Sept 27 : West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said that Ratan Tata, the Tata Group Chairman has replied to his letter and wants to talk to him on Singur issue, and the two are scheduled to meet on Sunday.

West Bengal Industry Minister Nirupam Sen had earlier said, "A meeting between the state government and Tatas may take place on Sunday to discuss the issue."

Kolkata, Sept 25 : West Bengal Industries Minister Nirupam Sen on Thursday reportedly told the state Cabinet that there was little possibility of the Tata’s Nano car project taking off from Singur.

Few vendors were seen moving out their equipment over the past few days from the project site, where work has remained suspended for more than three weeks.

Sources said that equipment was carted out from the plant and the cargo is believed to have been moved to the company''s plant in Pantnagar in Uttarakhand.

Kolkata, Sept 23 : A green box apparently containing high-powered explosives was on Tuesday recovered at India’s busiest Howrah Railway Station in West Bengal by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) spreading panic across the city in the wake of the recent bomb blasts across the country.

According to Dilip Mitra, Additional Director General (Rail), West Bengal Police, the RPF’s sniffer dog Ceasar started barking furiously during a routine security check of the Up Bhadrak Express on platform number 21. The train had just come in from the car shed.

The green box was found in the luggage compartment of the train.

The box contained markings similar to that used by the Indian Army and read “10 bombs, 51 mm, highly explosive.”

Kolkata, Sept 20 : Despite global economic recession, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee feel India is going to emerge as a major economic player, as he said a balanced policy would help the economy to grow faster and will take care of the grievances of agriculturists.

He said the centre is taking steps to ensure food security, industrialisation and for creating employment opportunities for the unemployed in the country.

Mukherjee was addressing the annual general meeting of the Bengal National Chambers of Commerce and industry.

Kolkata, Sept 19 : Former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu on Friday requested the Singur protesters, who have been refusing to accept the land compensation package offered by the State Government, to accept it and allow resumption of work at the TATA Motors’ Nano car plant.

State Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxists) Biman Bose briefed Basu about the party’s state secretariat meeting earlier in the day at the party office.

Kolkata, Sept 17 : West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today once again appealed to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to accept the new rehabilitation package to resolve the Singur impasse.

Addressing a press conference in Kolkata on Wednesday''s evening Bhattacharjee also urged the farmers who have not taken the compensation so far to receive the same by Monday. 

The Chief Minister said that the TMC is misinterpreting the agreement, which was signed in the presence of Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi on the issue.