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The company on Tuesday challenged before the court the RTI commissioner’s competence to deal with the matter, with its counsel submitting before Justice Dipankar Dutta that the Right to Information Act was not applicable in case of an agreement involving industrial secrets. Justice Dutta has scheduled the matter for hearing on Friday.

It has not been a good drive so far this year for Tata Motors. The Singur standoff followed by the sales slowdown and now plant shutdowns these are hurting the company\’s prospects. Tanvir Gill and Anumeet Kaur Besen report that Tatas may have no choice but to hive off Jaguar Landrover into a separate company.

The West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, said here on Sunday that the West Bengal Government had received several proposals from a cross-section of industrialists keen to set up industries on the Singur land vacated by Tata Motors.

Not only has West Bengal lost the coveted small car Nano project to Gujarat, the long-drawn political stand-off between the State Government and the opposition over Singur has dented its industry-friendly image, industrialists and economists say.

In an open letter, Tata said the citizens should decide whether they wanted education and jobs or wants to stay as they are. Disputed projects | Tata moves out of Singur

Ratan Tata today drew flak from all quarters industry and political for his open letter to the citizens of Bengal, in the form of an advertisement in four newspapers, asking people to

The Railway Minister, Lalu Prasad Yadav, today said if Nano is facing trouble in Gujarat similar to that in Singur then it is welcome to Bihar as the State has lots of wasteland.

American investments in West Bengal are likely to suffer to a certain extent due to the Singur issue.

Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh along with Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banjeree met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday and apprised them of how farmers faced a tough time in Singur because of anti-farmer policies of the West Bengal government. He accused the Tatas of ditching people of West Bengal, especially Singur, over their failure to honour the terms of the agreement and leaving the state for Gujarat.

The Bench questioned the locus standi of APDR, which claimed itself to be an old human rights organisation of West Bengal, for taking up the cause of farmers whose land were acquired by the state government for Tata Motors’ Nano project. The project last week moved to Gujarat due to political protests led by Trinamool Congress.