Re: Hindus burn train in Uttar Pradesh, India - Reuters
This was done by BJP supporters and that too elections are coming near. THe BJP/sangh leader was arrested and in response to that their workers did this
Congress defeated in India’s richest state and city
Maharashtra is the richest state in India, and Mumbai is the richest city. And Congress lost both these.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/sena-wins-cong-ncp-plays-blame-game/32632-4.html
Mumbai: Raj Thackeray and Narayan Rane’s exit was believed to have dealt near fatal twin body blows to the Shiv Sena until they bounced back with a thumping victory in the 2007 BMC elections on Friday.
While the Tiger is still roaring - the cubs have been left licking their wounds.
The celebrations that began outside Bal Thackeray ‘Matosrhee’ residence told the story for a party, which was being written off only weeks ago this was a turn around of sorts.
Predictably the heroes for the Shiv Sena were the father-son duo of Bal and Udhav Thackeray especially Udhav who had taken responsibility for the party’s campaign.
Manohar Joshi said, “Tendulkar and Udhav are the same. One is in cricket the other is in politics. "
By contrast the Congress headquarters outside the Bombay municipal corporation wore a deserted look.
It was clear that the break in the Congress-NCP alliance had benefited the BJP-Shiv Sena combine.
But instead of accepting their failure the NCP and Congress were busy blaming each other for the breakdown in ties.
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said, “We tried for 10 days to form an alliance. If we would have gone together thing would have been different. We did try for that.”
While electoral arithmetic benefited the BJP-Sena alliance, the Raj Thackeray factor did not seem to damage the Sena to the extent it had been imagined.
In the traditional middle class Maharashtrian areas the original Sena bastion the Sena managed to retain its hold.
Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam said, “The Marathi vote consolidated because Bal Thackeray made an emotional appeal to the Maharashtrains. But we failed in galvanizing the North Indian voters."
The other big loser - Chief Ministerial aspirant Narayan Rane, the man who had hoped to use a victory in Mumbai to stake claim to a higher office. By the end though it was the Sena, which Rane had deserted that had reason for hope.
This is clearly the season for comebacks, whether in politics or in cricket. For Udhav Thackeray, the man who was written off by one and all, the municipal elections have given him a second lease of life.
With the Sena likely to be once again in power at the country’s richest civic body, it’s the Congress-NCP alliance, which will have to ask itself some searching questions.
Re: Congress defeated in India's richest state and city
Congress Sucks!!!
Re: Congress defeated in India's richest state and city
Yes.
Re: Hindus burn train in Uttar Pradesh, India - Reuters
Now blame it on muslims and burn them alive
Re: Congress defeated in India’s richest state and city
Yes, it is led by Sonia Gandhi. Current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s goverment is Congress lead govt. with coalition from smaller parties. It is also called Indian National Congress (even before partition)
Mumbai is India’s richest civic body (BMC, Brihanmumbai Muncipal Corporation) and it’s results are extremely important. It’s like New York city elections.
India aims to end poverty by 2040
Alhamdulillah. I hope India’s neighbours are also able replicate such success.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6326629.stm
India’s finance minister has said poverty is fast declining in the country and could be wiped out by 2040.
In a BBC interview, Palaniappan Chidambaram attributed this to the fast pace of India’s economic growth.
“People will have homes, work, food, clothing, access to education and medical care,” Mr Chidambaram said.
But he also said that some 25% of all Indians - or more than 250 million people - were still living in “abject poverty”, earning less than $1 a day.
Mr Palaniappan told the BBC World Service Newshour programme that poverty “will continue to decline” in India.
"The faster we grow and the more inclusive that growth is, the decline in poverty will be rapid.
“I’m confident we can wipe out poverty by 2040.”
Mr Palaniappan admitted that the rapid economic growth in India in recent years could have widened the gap between the richest and the poorest in the country.
But he said that “at the same time those at the bottom of the pyramid have seen improvement in their lives”.
The minister also said more should be done to combat relatively low life expectancy rates and high mortality rates.
India has become a world economic power, with growth over the past three years averaging 8% - a rate approaching that of its booming neighbour, China.
Based on purchasing power parity, it is now the world’s fourth largest economy.
However, income per head in India today is just $720 (£365) a year.
India’s low costs and huge, English-speaking, workforce have made it popular with multinationals for work including manufacturing and call centres.
Re: Hindus burn train in Uttar Pradesh, India - Reuters
Burning thousands of Muslims got the Hindu vote, as we saw in Gujarat. Hopefully it will not be repeated in UP, though Hindu fanatics have won the elections in Maharashtra, after campaigning on a hate Muslim agenda.
Re: India aims to end poverty by 2040
what kind of minister is this guy? 2040? can he count that it is 33 years away?
Re: India aims to end poverty by 2040
Though i agree with your views, but the minister is thinking practically. I think he is realistic rather than other politicians who keep talking big big things just to create some sensation
Re: India aims to end poverty by 2040
Impossible (sorry to say). I think this person also needs to take into account that the population of India is drastically increasing - by the year 2050, India is expected to have the greatest population in the world (just a little over China's).
Re: India aims to end poverty by 2040
its impossible to predict what will happen 40 years from now
Global warming could cause ocean levels to rise flooding large parts of India
Diseases, wars, civil strife, etc....
Makes the world very un-predictable
Re: India aims to end poverty by 2040
Global warming could cause ocean levels to rise flooding large parts of India
Diseases, wars, civil strife, etc....
Makes the world very un-predictable
this also i agree!
Re: India aims to end poverty by 2040
Also, the thread starter who is wishing the same for Pakistan, anyone whose been to India as well as Pakistan can tell the diffrence, its too widespread and at a much larger scale in India!
Re: India aims to end poverty by 2040
If this is "success" then may God keep us away from such and keep in our current "failure" :p
Re: Hindu activists riot in Bangalore
Yet again Bangalore is tense, with authorities fearing Hindu v Hindu riots.
A virtual bandh in Bangalore
Minutes after the verdict was out on Monday afternoon, fearing trouble, the city shut down shops, business establishments. Theatres were closed, schools and colleges, IT companies, private offices declared a holiday. Cable operators blocked private TV channels. In many areas of the city, there was a cable blackout. The number of autorickshaws plying the roads also reduced towards the evening. Though Volvos were withdrawn, BMTC added 100 extra buses between 3 and 5 pm to facilitate the sudden surge of passengers. With citizens rushing home, there were traffic jams in most places. However, when the rush cleared, the roads wore a deserted look. Though the city was peaceful, rumours flew and anxious Bangaloreans called up newspaper offices wanting to know if it was safe to venture out. As if to allay their fears, police commissioner N Achuta Rao made use of cellphone networks and sent SMS: “Dear Bangaloreans, situation is peaceful in the city. Please do not panic or heed to rumours about untoward incidents.”
Additional policemen were deployed in hyper sensitive areas having a sizeable population of Tamil-Kannadigas. Armed policemen drawn from the CRPF, KSRP, CAR and RAF took positions on the roads identified as troublesome areas. Over 16,000 policemen were deployed to maintain law and order. Senior police officers constantly monitored the situation. Police officers are holding peace committee meetings in the mixed population areas. “If necessary, we will clamp prohibitory orders in the sensitive areas and we have been told to deal firmly with mischief makers and those indulging in rumour mongering,” police officials said. The city remained peaceful with sporadic incidents of stone pelting and burning of tyres in Rajajinagar and Magadi Road — the areas that are considered strongholds of Kannada movement. About 150 Kannada activists who came to the city railway station to stop the Chennai-Bangalore Shatabdi train were arrested and RPF and KSRP forces were deployed in large numbers. As a precautionary measure, incoming and outgoing Tamil Nadu buses were stopped. KSRTC stopped operating its buses to Tamil Nadu. Bangalore-bound buses from Tamil Nadu too stopped operations. Buses originating from Bangalore towards Mysore, Chamarajnagar, Kollegal were also withdrawn.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/A_virtual_bandh_in_Bangalore/articleshow/1565013.cms
Indian Army and Police Tied to Kashmir Killings - NYTimes Report
The world media is now highlighting the ongoing massive human rights abuses by the Indian army in occupied Kashmir.
Indian Army and Police Tied to Kashmir Killings
Amid a grove of poplar trees in a village just north of here, a grave was unearthed Thursday afternoon. Out came the body of a man, shot dead nearly two months ago, whom the Indian police described at the time as an anti-Indian militant from Pakistan. The police are examining five bodies buried near Sumbal. An elderly man, who had been searching for his missing son for nearly two months, was summoned for the exhumation. He stared at the horror dug out of the ground and told the police what he had refused to believe all this time. “He is my son,” he said. Then he sat on the bare ground and shook. As it turned out, the dead man, Abdul Rehman Paddar, was not a Pakistani at all, nor a militant. He was a Kashmiri carpenter from a village south of here. The Indian police are now investigating whether he was killed by some of their own men, for motives that could range from personal revenge to greed. A suspected militant’s body, after all, comes with a handsome cash reward. By Saturday, four police officers were under arrest in connection with Mr. Paddar’s killing. S. M. Sahai, the chief of police for Kashmir, said his investigators were looking into whether at least two other bodies were part of the same ring; setups like the killing of Mr. Paddar are known here as “encounter killings.” Each of the victims had been killed in operations conducted jointly by the police and either an Indian Army unit or a paramilitary force that operates under army command, he said. By the end of the day on Saturday, as the investigation snowballed, a total of five bodies had been exhumed, all in the area surrounding Sumbal, and their identities were being checked. The exhumations have not only unearthed a deep well of resentment among the people of Indian-administered Kashmir, but have also forced the Indian government to face anew long-simmering charges of abuse by Indian soldiers and the police.
Kashmiris have long accused the Indian authorities of disappearances and extrajudicial killings; one local human rights group estimates that 10,000 people have disappeared since the anti-Indian insurgency began here in 1989. Nor have civilians been immune to the savagery of militants; beheadings are among their favored tactics. India blames its rival and neighbor, Pakistan, for aiding and arming the insurgents. Pakistan denies the charge, and does not recognize India’s claim to Kashmir. Claimed by both countries, Kashmir has been a center of strife for nearly 60 years. While the violence has calmed considerably since a 2004 peace deal between India and Pakistan, it has hardly ended the bloodshed or diminished the presence of Indian troops here. India says troop reduction can begin only when the militants lay down their weapons. **Those troops have been blamed repeatedly for human rights abuses here, most recently by a 156-page report released last October by Human Rights Watch, which detailed dozens of cases in which, it said, the state had failed to hold its security forces accountable for suspected abductions, killings and detentions. Among the most infamous of those cases were the March 2000 killings in the southern village of Pathirabal of five men, whom the army identified as foreign terrorists responsible for a massacre of Sikh civilians. The men, whose bodies had been burned and badly mutilated, turned out to be civilians abducted by the army, according to relatives and a subsequent federal investigation. **In a rare instance of prosecution, five Indian soldiers were charged with the killings, but the case remains stuck in the courts nearly seven years later, and the accused remain on the job. The army insists that they be tried by an internal court martial, and not a civilian court. Human Rights Watch blamed the Indian government for what it called its “lack of commitment” to accountability and a series of Indian laws that shield soldiers in conflict zones like Kashmir. “This has led to a serious climate of impunity,” the report concluded. Indian officials have explicitly sought to use the latest cases of encounter killings to rebut accusations of impunity, pointing out that they have taken the lead in investigating army and police officials linked to what they call isolated abuses of power. “This is an aberration,” Mr. Sahai, the police chief, said in an interview in his office here in the summer capital of Indian-run Kashmir. “This is not the rule. We have not tried to suppress anything. Whatever are the facts of the case have come out in the open. If we are trying to set our house in order, that should increase public confidence.”
Re: Indian Army and Police Tied to Kashmir Killings - NYTimes Report
No shock here... India cant hide its dirty laundry forever.
Re: Indian Army and Police Tied to Kashmir Killings - NYTimes Report
This is nothing new Indian state sponsored terrorism is reported by (HRW) Human Rights Watch.. You won’t hear much in the western media as long as west is not the target.