Avijit Ghosal writes on economy, industry and politics from West Bengal. Has been doing so for more than 20 years.
Articles by Avijit Ghosal
Key flyovers won’t be ready in time for games
With just 14 months to go before the prestigious Games start — on October 3, 2010 — more than half the roads and flyovers being built for it run a risk of missing their deadline, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on Aug 11, 2009 01:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Delhi
A teacher’s dilemma — look for students or get marksheet
On Thursday morning Nirmal Patra faced the worst dilemma in his 25-year-old teaching career — whether to search for two of his students who were washed away by Cyclone Aila on Monday or try to procure marksheets of the 101 students who had appeared for the Madhyamik (Class X) examination this year.
Updated on May 28, 2009 11:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Disease, hunger rule Aila-hit villages
Jagannath Chatterjee was sheer lucky. On Wednesday morning he gathered two trunks of banana trees and bound them together with ropes. It became a ferry to transport the gruel to his family in the village school nearby. Two hundred families housed in the school were not so lucky – they got almost nothing to eat in the past 48 hours.
Updated on May 28, 2009 02:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Sunderbans
Reformer Buddha finds no place in CPM campaign
Many in West Bengal see the current Lok Sabha poll as a mid-term referendum on the reformist policies Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, 64, has been pursuing.
Updated on May 06, 2009 12:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Help pours in for HIV+ kids
Within a day of HT highlighting the plight of nine HIV+ children at a home near Kolkata, the Bengal government dispatched a team to Ananda Ghar on Thursday, with the promise of medical help within 48 hours.
Updated on Mar 06, 2009 12:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Kolkata dentists refuse to treat HIV+ children
For the past year, nine HIV+ orphans living in a privately run home for destitute children in Baruipur, adjoining southern Kolkata, have been enduring great pain due to dental problems.
Updated on Mar 04, 2009 11:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Citu strike hits Haldia Petrochem again
CPI(M)’s labour union, Citu, has struck HPL again. Last Friday, CITU stopped work at the plant’s bagging, loading and forklift sections, thereby crippling production at West Bengal’s leading manufacturing plant.
Updated on Feb 03, 2009 09:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Trinamool-led agitation at Dunlop gate
At the gates of the Dunlop factory , a formation of anti-mainstream trade unions is emerging fast under the Trinamool Congress, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on Nov 19, 2008 12:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Sahaganj
Tyre pioneer Dunlop screeches to a halt
India’s first tyre maker Dunlop has shut shop. The company has indefinitely closed down both its manufacturing units at Sahagunj in West Bengal and Ambattur in Tamil Nadu, citing a slump in demand.
Updated on Nov 18, 2008 01:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal and Jaidev Majumdar, Kolkata
Bengal stands to lose investment, employment and reputation
The decision to pull out will cost the Tatas Rs 1,500 crore, which they admitted to have already invested in the project. But the cost to the state of West Bengal seems to be incalculable at this point, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on Oct 04, 2008 01:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Rs 1-lakh dream may cost more
The shattered dream that the Tatas left behind in Singur will be worth at least Rs 2,000 crore, out of which more than Rs 250 crore have already been spent from the public exchequer.
Updated on Sep 25, 2008 09:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
‘Solution’ to Singur in Tata walkout?
Officials argue that if the Tatas push Singur on the backburner and proceed for alternative sites to produce Nano, it may lead to a situation that would test the patience of 'unwilling' farmers, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on Sep 19, 2008 01:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Battlefield Singur
Singur hasn’t woken up to a more tense dawn. Every morning at 6.30 the first shift begins at the plant. Two hours later, it’s time for the general shift. report Avijit Ghosal & Snigdhendu Bhattacharya.
Updated on Aug 24, 2008 11:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal & Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Singur
Salim Group wants to build deep sea port in Bay of Bengal
The Salims have stated their intention to build the deep sea port as delay in this crucial infrastructure can be fatal to the chemical hub, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on May 06, 2008 11:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
No takers for encyclopaedia
The book, which for much of its 240-year-old history signaled stature, class and intellectual pretension on the part of the owner, now finds very few individual buyers, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on Apr 17, 2008 01:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Bengal seeks report from Salims on deep-sea port
Irked by the slow progress that the Centre had made on the proposed deep sea port, the state government wants to hand over the project to private players, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on Mar 21, 2008 11:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Planning to buy a plane? ICICI will lend
ICICI Bank is about to tie up with a Kolkata-based firm that has inaugurated the era of cheap aircraft in this part of the country, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on Mar 02, 2008 09:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Buy a plane for the price of a Merc
Planning to spend Rs 50 lakh on a luxury car? Just wait a second. What if you get an aircraft for a lesser price? For Rs 40 lakh, you can bring home a four-seater, fully functioning aircraft. Avijit Ghosal tells us.
Updated on Feb 24, 2008 02:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Changi may get charge of new Durgapur airport
Changi Airport authorities may be given the charge of operating Durgapur’s proposed airport for the first year and a half, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on Jan 21, 2008 09:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Pawan Ruia offers Dunlop, land for IT SEZ
Ruia has offered to set up an IT SEZ on 50 acres of Dunlop land belonging to the Sahaganj factory labour colony, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on Jan 01, 2008 10:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Order a Jamini Roy classic
You can soon call your share broker to place an order for a Jamini Roy or Jogen Chowdhury classic. Sounds incredible? Well, no longer so. Avijit Ghosal tells us more...
Updated on Dec 13, 2007 09:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Wipro awaits Kolkata campus site
The state govt fails to identify a 40-50 acre piece of land that it promised to IT giant Wipro 3 years ago, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on Dec 06, 2007 10:03 PM IST
None | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Board charges rock Haldia Petrochem
Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL) is being ripped apart by charges of mismanagement made by its own board members, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on Nov 29, 2007 11:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Kolkata
Tagore Nobel insurance claim caught in haggling
It’s been more than three years since Rabindra Bhavan filed the claim for what they consider is the “pride of the nation”. But they are still waiting because National Insurance Company (NIC) thinks it’s too high, reports Avijit Ghosal.
Updated on Nov 28, 2007 02:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal, Santiniketan