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Tata Motors on Sunday told that their much awaited Nano car will be out in the market from its Singur facility by October this year in spite of the project was facing cost overrun.

“We have already sunk in Rs 2000 crore”’, the company’s Managing Director Mr. Ravi Kant said, adding earlier the project cost was pegged at Rs 1700 crore.

Mr. Ravi Kant, who met the West Bengal Chief Minister Mr. Buddhadev Bhattacharjee at Writer’s Buildings in Kolkata, told reporters that the entire project had been reworked at the plant site at Singur due to floods last year which had led to the cost escalation.

Mr. Ravi Kant had visited the Singur plant yesterday to review progress and discussed all the relevant issues with suppliers and vendors regarding the manufacture of the car

He sated that if everything will go according to the plans, Nano would be rolled out during Durga Puja. “We hope to start trial production during July or August and Nano will be produced out of West Bengal”, he said.

Mr. Kant had earlier stated that while the company’s focus would remain the domestic market for the first couple of years, Tata Motors was keen to take the car to Africa and Latin America as the global interest for the small car is increased meanwhile.

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Naxal attack in Orrisa on Friday late night left 14 police personnel and a civilian dead. Around 500 naxals attacked a police training school, armory and a police station in Nayagarh district of Orrisa. A huge cache of arms and ammunition was also taken away in a truck and a bus they had hijacked.

The victims included two from PTS, and six from the police station and armory, besides a civilian. Four policemen injured in the attack and the battle continued till around 12:15 am (Saturday). The police had put up a brave fight against the Naxals, but they were outnumbered as told by Manmohan Praharaj, Director State Intelligence Wing.

Before launching the attack, the Naxals which included women cadres announced that their target was the police only and would not harm the general public.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik visited the armory and the police training school at Nayagarh. Police sources said the Naxals who attacked the police were speaking in Hindi and Telugu and they suspect that the Naxals were from neighbouring Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.

Meanwhile, red alert has been sounded in the state and borders with Chattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Bengal and Jharkhand sealed.

This is the second naxal attck in Orrisa. Earlier, on March 24, 2006 more than 500 heavily armed naxals, including a large number of women, attacked armed police camps, and freed all 40 prisoners in the sub-jail in a replay of similar violence in Madhuban and Jehanabad in Bihar.

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