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Wait for Nano
Ratan Tata’s dream
project has run into rough weather and Tata Motors has been forced to
move out of Singur. The wait for the Rs 1-lakh car just got longer. Girija
Shankar Kaura from New Delhi, Subhrangshu
Gupta from Kolkata and Shiv Kumar
from Mumbai report on Nano’s troubled journey
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withstanding violent protests and attacks on staff and its small
car factory in Singur, West Bengal, for almost two years, Tata
Motors’ Chairman Ratan Tata has finally opted to abandon the
manufacture of the small car, Nano, in the state. The end result
has been that the opposition to the Singur plant, which was on
agricultural land acquired by the state government, forced the
Tatas to miss the Durga Puja deadline to give the country a Rs 1-lakh
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| A PROMISE IS A PROMISE: Tata Motors Chairman Ratan Tata announces the pull-out of the small car factory from Singur in Kolkata — PTI
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Untold
story of AIDS
HIV/AIDS was first found in
India among commercial sex workers of Chennai in 1986. The same year
an American patient was diagnosed with the virus in CMC, Vellore. The
story of HIV/AIDS in the country is the story of many pioneering
protocols in testing, counselling, campaigns and government
initiatives, writes Papri Sri Raman
Nearly
25 years after it crept into the subcontinent, the story of AIDS and
the virus that causes the illness, HIV, still remains hidden in the
corridors of a small town teaching hospital in south India.
An artist’s drawing of Albertonykus borealis (North America’s smallest dinosaur) at the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary. The dinosaur is 70 million years old, the size of a chicken and looks like an animal created by ‘Dr Seuss’ — Reuters |
A
refuge for mind and body
Dharamsala is steeped in
history and blessed by nature. Nestling in the Dhauladhar ranges of
Himachal Pradesh, it is one of the most important centres of Buddhism,
writes Mukesh Khosla
FOR
those in quest of a place for a peaceful holiday, Dharamsala can be a
perfect retreat. Since it is the seat of the Dalai Lama and the
Tibetan Government-in-Exile, the very presence of so many monks can
have a calming effect on the nerves.
Notes
from the past
Siraj Khan
THE
extended presence of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhonsle on the Indian
film music circuit ended the careers of many female singers. Yet, the
contribution of playback singers such as Shamshad Begum, Sudha
Malhotra, Kamal Barot, Usha Mangeshkar, Ruma Guha Thakurta and Mubarak
Begum is unforgettable.
Elephants
‘phone’ their friends
A
new research has shown that elephants use rumble vocalisations that
can transmit over one and a half miles, in an attempt to contact other
tuskers in their herd, which can be called as their version of
“phone a friend”.According to a report in Discovery News, the
finding helps to explain how elephants almost always find their way
back to their herd, even after they wander far off.
Cops
blaze a new trail
From V. Shantaram’s Do
Aankhen Barah Haath to Neeraj Pandey’s A Wednesday, men
in uniform continue to hold appeal, writes M.L.
Dhawan
MEN
in khaki have played the central role in many a Hindi film. The
cops are, at times, do-gooders, the kind who would brook nothing in
their call of duty.
I liked the final script of Three
Idiots: Chetan Bhagat
WRITER
Chetan Bhagat, whose book Five Point Someone is being made into
a film titled Three Idiots by the acclaimed director Rajkumar
Hirani, said he was not involved in writing the film’s script, but
he liked it.
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