Kolkata, Sept 12 : West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, mamta banerjeeon Friday held talks with Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee to settle the Singur impasse.

The talks were held at Calcutta Information Centre.

The Chief Minister expressed the desire to hold immediate talks with Banerjee, on the basis of the "satisfactory progress" achieved on Friday''s meeting between the State Government officials and the Trinamool Congress.

Kolkata, Sep 11 : The West Bengal government on Thursday rejected Trinamool Congress demand for return of 300 acres of land from within the project area of the Tata Motors'' plant at Singur.

Emerging out of a two-and-a-half-hour meeting with West Bengal government representatives in the inspection committee WBIDC managing director Subrata Gupta and Hooghly DM Neelam Meena in Kolkata, Trinamool MLA Rabindranath Bhattacharjee said that his party''s demand for return of 300 acres to ''unwilling farmers'' from within the project site has been rejected.

The Trinamool seeks return of 300 acres from the project premises and 100 acres from outside it to farmers.

Kolkata, Sept 10 : Activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party staged a protest in Kolkata on Wednesday, against Bangladeshi immigrants in the country.

Scores of activists of ABVP took to streets chanting slogans to voice their resentment against the large number of illegal Bangladeshi nationals who are taking shelter in India.

Holding placards and banners the activists marched down the streets of the city demanding deportation of such Bangladeshi immigrants.

Kolkata, Sept 10 : Doctors attending on former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, who was admitted to a nursing home on Sunday, said on Wednesday he was examined by the medical board and also an eminent neurosurgeon.

Basu had suffered a head injury after falingl at his Indira Bhavan residence on Friday. He was hospitalised with a blood clot in his brain.

His condition is stable and keeping well. He had a normal diet," a medical bulletin issued by the hospital said.

Kolkata, Sept 10 : Kolkata chose to celebrate Ganesh Utsav in a different way this year.

They organized a football match which featured only pot-bellied players. Men with huge pot bellies, just like Lord Ganesh himself, ran around kicking the ball to the great amusement of spectators.

The pot-bellied players struggled hard to play the game on a marshy field.

Interestingly, only men with a waist size of above 42 inches were allowed to participate in the match.

Kolkata, Sept 10 : A four-member committee formed to discuss a land-based solution to compensate farmers in West Bengal will visit Singur today.

After inspecting the TATA Motors’ Nano car project site, the committee comprising of Trinamool Congress leaders Rabindranath Bhattacharya, Becharam Manna, West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) Managing Director Subrata Gupta and Hooghly District Magistrate Neelam Meena will hold a second meeting.

The committee had its first meeting in Kolkata on Tuesday.

The Committee will visit Singur to identify land in and around the project area, said State Commerce and Industries Minister Nirupam Sen after the meeting.