Re: Indian Army and Police Tied to Kashmir Killings - NYTimes Report
so, whats new?
Re: Indian Army and Police Tied to Kashmir Killings - NYTimes Report
The brutalization of Kashmiri’s at the hands of India’s security forces is getting worse day by day.
Police fired tear gas yesterday to disperse hundreds of people in Kashmir protesting the alleged killings of civilians in staged gun battles with security forces, police and witnesses said.
Re: Indian Army and Police Tied to Kashmir Killings - NYTimes Report
Many, many thousands of Kashmiri’s are missing.
The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons puts the number at 8,000 to 10,000 and alleges that most went missing in the security forces’ custody.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070207/asp/nation/story_7360355.asp
Re: India aims to end poverty by 2040
Which part of Bangladesh are you from then? :)
Is India regional bully or friend?
What do Pakistanis think?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6336229.stm
To many in the rest of the world India is an emerging economic success story and a working secular democracy.
But ask people in its neighbouring countries for their views and you may well get a much more hostile response.
Culturally, India and its neighbours are more similar than dissimilar. It’s hard to tell an Indian from a Pakistani, a Nepali, a Bangladeshi, or a Sri Lankan.
The food is similar, the music comes from the same scales, in films they have the same tastes. They even share holy places.
Many in Pakistan thought that Indian help during the October 2005 earthquake was a gesture of friendship. Others saw it as a ploy to gather intelligence over Kashmir.
To some India was capable of providing the solution to last year’s political crisis in Nepal. Others say India was the problem, interfering where it was not wanted.
India played an active role in the birth of Bangladesh. Today Bangladesh refuses to sell gas to India.
Back in the 1980s, the Indian army became involved in peace-keeping efforts in Sri Lanka which went badly wrong.
Should India’s neighbours still view it as a threat? Is Indian industry a big shark waiting to chew up the smaller fishes?
As part of the BBC’s India Rising week, the BBC Hindi Service is hosting a regional debate Indian television’s NDTV channel in both English and Hindi.
“India - Brother or Bully?” is the theme.
An audience comprising diplomats, politicians, artists, industrialists and students in Islamabad, Dhaka, Kathmandu and Colombo will join a panel in Delhi through satellite video-link.
The Indian panel will feature former foreign minister Yashwant Sinha and vice-chairman of telecom giant Bharti Enterprises Rakesh Mittal.
The radio broadcast will be on 11 February. It will be televised on 17 and 18 February. You can participate by sending in your questions or views for the panellists by 8 of February.
Use the form at the top right-hand side of this page. Below are a selection of comments sent so far.
Re: Congress defeated in India's richest state and city
It's sad to see hate Muslim rhetoric wins the votes of so many Hindu's in India.
Bangalore protests grow - backlash against Tamils
Protests gain strength in Bangalore](http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/08/stories/2007020814370400.htm)
**Cauvery protests continue **
Thousands of people, including farmers, in Karnataka yesterday resumed their blockade of a major highway and several other roads and also squatted on railway tracks to protest the state’s share of the Cauvery river waters. The protesters blocked the 160-km Bangalore-Mysore highway, bringing vehicular traffic on the busy road to a halt. Police were directing state road transport buses, private vehicles and trucks to take the old Kanakapura road, state additional director general of police (law & order) Shankar Bidri said. They also blocked several roads in Mandya, Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts, in protest against the verdict of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal that on Monday allocated 270 thousand million cubic feet of water to the state against 419 to Tamil Nadu. The Cauvery river flows through both states. The areas worst hit by the farmers’ agitation included Pandavpur, Maddur, Mandya. The protests also spread to Bangalore where police detained 150 pro-Kannada protesters in order to prevent further trouble. “Only peaceful protests, demonstrations and rallies are being allowed. Extra forces have been rushed to the three districts in the Cauvery river basin,” Bidri said. According to reports reaching the state police office here, the protestors were using huge boulders, burning tyres, and stationing tractors and bullock carts on the roads to block the highway and roads between Bangalore-Hassan and Bangalore-Tumkur.
Normal life was affected in several towns across the Cauvery basin region with farmers and social organisations calling for a protest shutdown. Train services in the southern parts of the state were affected with agitators squatting on the rail tracks at several stations between Bangalore-Mysore and Bangalore-Tumkur. "In Bangalore, though the situation is under control, there is uneasy calm in the sensitive areas where Tamil-speaking people are present in large numbers. Picketing and patrolling have been intensifed to prevent any untoward incident. There have been no reports of violence so far," city police commissioner N Achut Rao said. As a precautionary measure, the state government has ordered closure of educational institutions, including schools and colleges in Bangalore, Mysore, Mandya and Chamarajnagar districts.While flights from the city airport and train services from the three railway terminals remain unaffected, public and private bus services within the state and outside, especially towards Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, were scaled down. Several IT firms and private offices, though functioning normally, have reported drop in attendance. Essential services and supply of commodities, however, remained normal. Shops and business establishments in the central business district have decided to open late after seeing the situation. Cable operators continue to block Tamil channels in the city fearing attacks by Kannada activists. News and entertainment channels, which were blacked out on Monday, resumed since morning, giving respite to viewers. **Cinema theatres showing Tamil films have decided to remain shut till the weekend. Armed policemen continue to maintain vigil across the city and suburbs to control the uneasy situation from going out of hand. **
EU Parliament resolution - protection of Dalits in India is “grossly inadequate”
A pretty damning resolution on the state of human rights in India.
Atrocities, untouchability, illiteracy, inequality of opportunity, manual scavenging, underpayment of wages, bonded labour, child labour and landlessness continue to blight the lives of India’s Dalits
**MEPs say protection of Dalits in India is “grossly inadequate” **
Parliament adopted a resolution put forward by the Development Committee on the human rights situation of the Dalits in India. The resolution notes that implementation of laws protecting the rights of Dalits remains grossly inadequate, and that atrocities, untouchability, illiteracy, inequality of opportunity, manual scavenging, underpayment of wages, bonded labour, child labour and landlessness continue to blight the lives of India’s Dalits. The House nevertheless welcomes the various provisions in the Constitution of India for the protection and promotion of the rights of Dalits. The National Human Rights Commission of India has reported that the implementation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act remains very unsatisfactory, and whereas it has published numerous recommendations to address this problem. The European Parliament expresses its concern at the low rate of conviction for the perpetrators of such crimes and calls on the Government of India to improve its criminal justice system in order to facilitate registration of charges against perpetrators of crimes against Dalits, to increase the conviction rate for such perpetrators, to significantly reduce the duration of court procedures; and to take special measures for the protection of Dalit women.
The House calls on the Government of India to take urgent steps to ensure equal access for Dalits to police stations and all other public institutions and facilities, including those related to its democratic structure such as panchayat buildings and polling booths. MEPs urge the Government of India to engage further with relevant UN human rights bodies on the effective elimination of caste-based discrimination, including the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the UN Special Rapporteurs assigned to develop Principles and Guidelines for the Elimination of Discrimination based on Work and Descent. MEPs call on the Government of India to ratify the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and to take preventive measures to reduce the risk of Dalits facing torture, to take legal measures to criminalise torture in India, to take punitive measures to prosecute police who commit torture, to consistently provide rehabilitation and compensation for torture victims and to put in place an independent complaints mechanism for victims of torture that is accessible to Dalits. **The European Parliament notes with concern the lack of substantive EU engagement with the Indian Government, notably within the EU-India Summits, on the vast problem of caste-based discrimination. The European Parliament urges the Council and the Commission to raise the issue of caste-based discrimination during EU-India Summits and other meetings as part of all political, human rights, civil society, development and trade dialogues and to inform the committees concerned of the progress and outcome of such dialogues. **Lastly, the House urges the European members of the Joint Action Committee to develop dialogue on the problem of caste-based discrimination in terms of its discussions on democracy and human rights, social and employment policy and development cooperation.
Re: Congress defeated in India's richest state and city
And someone explain why this news item is of interest here? (I don't have a major issue, just want to know ... in the big scheme of things, how is this imprtant, what impact etc)
Re: Congress defeated in India's richest state and city
what is congress?
Re: Is India regional bully or friend?
Bully in my opinion
India is running high and mighty ever since Outsourcing, IT and since Shilpa Shetty's Big Brother escapades.
India thinks its better than Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
It does not respect the other countries but seeks to dominate them.
Re: Is India regional bully or friend?
^^though i do agree on bully part somewhat(going by its past records), but i dont agree that india wants to dominate lanka, bangladesh etc.
Re: Is India regional bully or friend?
Culturally, India and its neighbours are more similar than dissimilar. *It's hard to tell an Indian from a Pakistani, a Nepali, a Bangladeshi, or a Sri Lankan. *
The food is similar, the music comes from the same scales, in films they have the same tastes. They even share holy places.
Use the form at the top right-hand side of this page. Below are a selection of comments sent so far.
Maybe culture and the food but not racially at all. One can easily tell an Indian, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi from Pakistanis. Pakistanis are tall, caucasian looking and have sharp features like sharp nose, strong cheek bones. Indians, Bengalis and Lankans are kaley, chhotey and very bud-soorat. May Allah save us from these ugly looking people.
Re: Is India regional bully or friend?
and even pakistanis feel “better” than india/indians. isn’t it mercenary??? .. 
Re: Is India regional bully or friend?
India is trying to be a bully, I also think that India is trying to "control" its neighbors through increasing influence... Its perhaps why all these countries arent exactly enamored of India.
Re: EU Parliament resolution - protection of Dalits in India is “grossly inadequate”
India condemns European Parliament resolution on Dalits
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=India&month=February2007&file=World_News2007020471611.xml
Re: India aims to end poverty by 2040
This has to be the funniest thing an Indian (and a minister at that) has said since the posting of the following topic. :hehe:
**Will India destroy the United States? **
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showthread.php?t=240376
Re: India aims to end poverty by 2040
Its all crap.
Re: India orders Assam shutdown as military operation fails
Blast rocks India railway station
A bomb has exploded at a railway station in India’s north-eastern state of Assam, which is preparing to host the country’s national games. There were no casualties in the explosion at the Kamakhya railway station in the main city of Guwahati. No group has so far said it carried out the attack. Earlier this week, the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) withdrew a planned boycott of the games on the request of some top athletes. Ulfa is fighting one of India’s longest-running insurgencies to establish an independent homeland in Assam. The head of India’s ruling Congress party, Soni Gandhi, is due to open the country’s 33rd national games in Guwahati. More than 7,000 athletes and officials have gathered in the city for the event. Spike “The explosion was powerful, but with no passengers around the place a possible disaster was averted,” senior police official Rajen Singh told the AFP news agency. “We are not sure who was behind the explosion,” he said. There has been an upsurge in violence in Assam in recent months with officials pointing to the role of Ulfa. The group has been blamed for a number of bombings and shootings in which about 90 migrant workers were killed. The group, however, has said it would not disturb the national games.
Six Indian policemen killed in Manipur by separatist rebels
First Assam, now Manipur, as well as occupied Kashmir - India’s authority is being challenged in many places.
Six policemen killed in Manipur
At least six policemen have been killed and several others injured when their convoy was attacked by rebels in the Indian state of Manipur, officials say. They say that the incident happened in the state’s hilly Ukhrul district bordering Burma on Friday. Officials said the policemen were escorting polling officials carrying ballot boxes after the first phase of elections for the state assembly. The main separatist group in Manipur say they carried out the attack. Two rebel groups are thought to be active in the Ukhrul area. Stronghold Officials say that heavily armed rebels opened fire with automatic weapons as the convoy carrying election officials and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) men neared a sharp bend not far from the hill village of Chassad.
Six CRPF personnel died on the spot and several others were injured. Doctors say two are in a serious condition. Manipur’s leading separatist group, the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) claimed responsibility for the incident. UNLF spokesperson Tombi Singh told the BBC over the telephone from an undisclosed location that their fighters seized two assault rifles and two light machine guns from the ambushed convoy. Elections for 19 of the 60 seats of the Manipur state assembly were held on Thursday. The remainder of the seats will go to polls in two more phases on 14 February and 23 February. Ukhrul is generally thought to be the stronghold of the Naga separatist group, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) but the UNLF has made deep inroads into the area in recent weeks in locations close to the border with Burma. **The UNLF is one of north-east India’s oldest rebel groups. Formed in 1964, it recently called for a referendum in Manipur to ascertain whether people in the state wanted to stay in India or break away. ****Delhi rejected the UNLF’s plea. **