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(Daily Information Capsules for all those who want to fathom learning in all its depths)

Date: 5 November 2008

(To be used by faculty members AND a copy to be kept for students’ reference in the Library too)

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Pool of Knowledge

News in Brief: India

After a controversial stay in West Bengal, Tata Motors has decided to shift its Nano car project to Northcote Cattle Farm in Sanand, 30 km from Ahmedabad. The search for an alternative location arose after the Tata group announced that it would exit the 900odd acre factory complex in Singur, 40 km from Kolkata, following disruptions from protests by unwilling land losers led by Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress. The Gujarat government has handed over 1,100 acres of prime land for the project. The Tata group has bought 1,100 acre of prime land at around Rs 3.5 lakh an acre. The Tata group will invest Rs 2,000 crore to manufacture the Nano and its variants including an electric car and a CNG car. The Unlawful Activities (Prevention Act) Tribunal has quashed the Central notification banning the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). The tribunal has held that the government did not provide sufficient “grounds and facts” in the notification to keep the ban on SIMI in continuance. Simi was proscribed in 2001 and the ban extended thrice earlier. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flagged off the first ever train in the Kashmir Valley at the Nowgam station in Srinagar. In the first phase, it will cover 66 km from Anantnag in the south to Rajvansher in central Budgam district. The train is part of a Rs. 11,200-crore project, which will connect Kashmir with the rest of the country. Gujarat government's ambitious programme to reduce child and maternal mortality rate seems to have caught the fancy of other states in the country. As many as 8...