<keyword id="19896626" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kolkata" source="keywords">Kolkata</keyword>: The mortal remains of former <keyword id="19896517" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="west-bengal" source="keywords">West Bengal</keyword> chief minister <keyword id="22710457" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Buddhadeb-Bhattacharjee" source="keywords">Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee</keyword> will be kept at the CPI(M) state headquarters here for leaders and members of the public to pay their last respects before embarking on the last journey to <keyword id="22722995" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="NRS-Medical-College-and-Hospital" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="NRS Medical College and Hospital" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="NRS Medical College and Hospital">NRS Medical College and Hospital</keyword> on Friday. <keyword id="20460160" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="bhattacharjee" source="keywords">Bhattacharjee</keyword>, who died at his south Kolkata residence on Thursday morning after suffering from prolonged illness related to respiratory issues and old age, had pledged his body. The former chief minister's body, kept overnight at a mortuary here, will be taken to the state assembly, where it will be kept for half an hour from 11 am, a CPI(M) official said. His mortal remains will reach CPI(M) state headquarters at Muzaffar Ahmed Bhavan here at 12 pm. It will be kept there till 3.15 pm for leaders, supporters and members of the public to pay their last respects to the departed leader, whose simplicity drew admirers from across party lines and political ideologies. The body will thereafter be taken to the state headquarters of DYFI, of which he was one of the founding members, and will be kept there for 15 minutes from 3.30 pm, the party official said. Bhattacharjee's mortal remains will embark on the last journey from there to the state-run NRS Medical College and Hospital, where it will be handed over for research work.

Ex-West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's mortal remains to embark on final journey

<keyword id="96963" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Former-West-Bengal-chief-minister" source="Orion">Former West Bengal chief minister</keyword> <keyword id="22710457" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Buddhadeb-Bhattacharjee" source="keywords">Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee</keyword> died on Thursday at his <keyword id="19896626" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kolkata" source="keywords">Kolkata</keyword> home, CPI(M) state secretary Mohd Salim said. He was suffering from old age-related ailments. The former chief minister was 80 and is survived by his wife Mira and daughter Suchetana. A party official said Bhattacharjee died at around 8.30 am. The veteran CPI(M) leader took over as the chief minister of <keyword id="19896517" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="West-Bengal" source="keywords">West Bengal</keyword> in 2000 from party senior Jyoti Basu. Bhattacharya lost the 2011 assembly election to Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress and the CPI(M)-led Left Front's 34-year-long rule in the state came to an end that year. His tenure was marked by agitations over the acquisition of land for industries led by present Chief Minister <keyword id="19909056" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mamata-Banerjee" source="keywords">Mamata Banerjee</keyword>. Bhattacharya stepped down from the CPI(M) politburo and central committee in 2015 and gave up membership of the party's state secretariat in 2018. Over the last few years, he mostly stayed away from public programmes and remained confined to his two-room government apartment at Palm Avenue in south Kolkata.

Ex-Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee dies at 80 after suffering from old age-related ailments

<keyword id="42747" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="tata-motors" source="Orion">Tata Motors</keyword> Limited (TML) on Monday informed that the National Stock Exchange (NSE) that a three-member Arbitral Tribunal has directed the West Bengal government to pay a compensation of Rs 765.78 crore in additional to an interest at the rate of 11 per cent accrued on it since September 2016 as compensation to the company for the closure of its Nano car project in Singur. "In respect of the arbitration proceedings between Tata Motors Limited (TML) and West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation Limited (WBIDC), in relation to TML's claim of compensation from WBIDC under various heads, on account of the loss of capital investments, with regard to the automobile manufacturing facility at Singur (West Bengal), this is to inform that the aforesaid pending Arbitral proceedings before a three-member Arbitral Tribunal has now been finally disposed of by a unanimous Award dated October 30, 2023 in favour of TML," Tata Motors said in an exchange filing. However, according to legal experts, the stategovernmenthas the option of challenging the tribunal order at a higher court. The officials of the WBIDC have claimed that till Monday evening, they have not received any information in this matter. There was no reaction from the ruling Trinamool Congress till the time of filing of this report. To recall, after coming to power with a thumping majority in 2006, the then Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led Left Frontgovernmenthad announced the Nano project atSingurbyTML. Accordingly, the work for setting up of thefactorystarted there after the stategovernmentfinished the process of land acquisition for the project. However, the problem started after a small section of the land-owners refused to accept the compensation cheques and started agitating against the land acquisition. The Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee, the principal opposition party at the time, started a massive agitation atSinguragainst the land acquisition. In face of the agitation, Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata finally withdrew from Singurand Sanand in Gujarat became the new site for the Nano project. After coming to power in 2011, the first decision of the Mamata Banerjee-led Cabinet was to promulgate a new law for return of land atSingurto all the land-owners. Political observers feel that the development has come as a major setback for the WestBengalgovernmentjust before theBengalGlobal Business Summit, the annual event of the stategovernmentto showcase Bengal as an ideal investment destination. While the Trinamool has remained silent so far over the tribunalorder, the opposition parties have attacked the stategovernmenton the issue. "This is a penalty that the Trinamool Congress will have topayfor ruining the dreams of thousands of educated youth in the state. I wonder how the stategovernment, which is already saddled with huge accumulated debt, willpaythis penalty," said CPI(M) state Secretary and politburo member, Md Salim.

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