Infosys asks for land for 2nd campus
Will the stalemate over the proposed second campus of Infosys at Rajarhat-New Town be resolved soon? The question has arisen following a letter sent by the Infosys authorities to West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corpor-ation (HIDCO) seeking physical possession of the land allotted to the IT major in Rajarhat-New Town. Confirming the development, HIDCO chairman Debashis Sen said, “Infosys executive co-chairman Krish Gopalkrishnan has written to us seeking physical possession of the land and asking us to start the procedure for the lease deed.”
Infosys was given 50 acres of prime land at Rajarhat-New Town by the previous Left Front government for `75 crores. The Infosys letter has rekindled hopes in the Writers’ Buildings that it may eventually agree to set up its second campus in Rajarhat. Infosys had earlier indicated that unless the proposed facility was granted the SEZ status, it would not go ahead with its project. The Mamata Banerjee government has also made it clear that it was totally opposed to SEZ status.
State commerce and industries minister Partha Chatterjee is going to Bengaluru on Thursday to hold talks with the Infosys bosses.
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SAILORS LOCKED THEMSELVES UP TO AVOID HARM
ATEEQ SHAIKH
with agency inputs
Mumbai, Sept. 5
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) confirmed that MT Abu Dhabi Star is a Singapore owned vessel ferrying fuel.
Twenty-three Indian sailors were on board the oil tanker operated by the Dubai-based company, Pioneer Ship Management Services LLC. Pat Adamson, the company’s spokesperson, told PTI that all the crew on the tanker are Indians.
“There was a call from one of the crew members to the management company saying the vessel was boarded by pirates but nobody was harmed,” he said.
IMB said the sailors had locked themselves in a safe room to avoid harm by the attackers, suspected to be oil thieves from Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.
The Nigerian Navy officers announced later that the sailors were safe and taken to a safe port.
After the Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Guinea is the second dangerous region to sail due to piracy cases.
The pirates here offload the cargo onboard and then sell the fuel in the vessel before deciding its fate.
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