SINGUR, India: Barely a month before the introduction of the world's least expensive car from a new factory on these former potato and rice fields, a peasant uprising has prompted Tata, one of the most powerful Indian conglomerates, to suspend work on the plant and consider pulling out.
SINGUR, India (Agence France-Presse) About 40,000 protesters on Sunday surrounded an Indian factory ready to produce the world's cheapest car, saying that land for the site had forcibly been taken from local farmers, the police said. Demonstrators blocked main roads near the Tata Motors plant at Singur, northwest of Calcutta, the state capital, as riot police officers protected the premises, the authorities said.
