Bharat Rakshak

AjayKK wrote: We have various states reserving a percentage of seats for religious minorities.

Thankfully in AP courts have come to the rescue. Looks like the same can be put up against the WB Govt. move as well.

In Kerala, an Islamic Bank was to be launched.

This plan has been scuttled as well. Kerala Govt. was even ready to make the directors of this bank to report to the Sharia Council. The court again intervened and said that there are Reserve Bank guidelines on how banks needs to operate in India. And they are totally different from the guidelines made up at AKG Centre, Thiruvananthapuram.

Honestly these "minority appeasement" measures are only going to split the whole nation's mind set, and now even gullible Hindus (who felt that Muslims deserve the special provisions) will now be challenged with evidences. And when these Hindus realise that they have been taken for a jolly ride for quite some time, then their anger is going to be even more.

Sachin wrote:And when these Hindus realise that they have been taken for a jolly ride for quite some time, then their anger is going to be even more.

They will be silenced by the media in the name of Hindu Taliban. Not to worry.

Politics party speculates on potential for early TN state elections to coincide with Bihar elections.

http://www.politicsparty.com/tamilnadu_poll.php

I recommend this article on Politics Party website.

This article presents the need for an able national leadership and good governance in India.

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Chidambaram no to return of Sikhs from PoK fuels anger in Punjab
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Wow! So GOI has a policy on selecting returnees based on religion?

RayC wrote:Why are people forgetting the East?

This is where they are pissed off.

All think India is North and South India. East is a forgotten land!

Should there be a Gorkhaland?

What about Kamatipura or Bodoland?

Sir,

It is you and probably others like Singha, Rahul M, who have to take the lead and educate us all on various aspects of these demands.

ravi_ku wrote:

RayC wrote:Why are people forgetting the East?

This is where they are pissed off.

All think India is North and South India. East is a forgotten land!

Should there be a Gorkhaland?

What about Kamatipura or Bodoland?

Sir,

It is you and probably others like Singha, Rahul M, who have to take the lead and educate us all on various aspects of these demands.

My aim was different.

There is a real feeling of alienation in the East including Orissa from the rest of India, more so as to go East.

The frustration gets transferred to divisions amongst the various communities and that is what is dangerous to the unity of India. One has to just visit the East to feel the palpable alienation.

RayC wrote: My aim was different.

There is a real feeling of alienation in the East including Orissa from the rest of India, more so as to go East.

The frustration gets transferred to divisions amongst the various communities and that is what is dangerous to the unity of India. One has to just visit the East to feel the palpable alienation.

Sir,

You are right. That is why I wanted people from that location to take the lead in explaining situations to us.

What is there to explain.

The people are finding their roots and differences and so they want to consolidate their roots.

After a few years, they will find their religious differences and want a separate State congruous to the religious differences and so it goes on narrowing to other difference.

However, if economically people get empowered, they will not bother about these difference. Sadly for politicians if that happens, they will have no plank for election rhetoric.

Many of you have not liked my examples of the Army being a model for Unity in Diversity, but because the Army training, motivation and more importantly, well being is taken into consideration, the narrow divides dissolves!

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However, if economically people get empowered, they will not bother about these difference. Sadly for politicians if that happens, they will have no plank for election rhetoric.[/quote]

Saar,

It is this very economic empowerment that has caused more problems in SRK and many coastal areas.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 597356.cms
I-T officer is off Koda probe just before hitting paydirt

Ujjawal Chaudhary, senior Income Tax (I-T) officer, who led the probe into the multi-crore Madhu Koda scam, may have been on the verge of unravelling the link between politicians and hawala traders when he was abruptly shifted this week.

Sources said the team led by Chaudhary, who has been taken off the Koda probe and moved to the assessment wing, had gathered strong evidence linking politicians and others to hawala operators engaged in laundering black money
abroad. Chaudhary was transferred when raids were still continuing at Chaibasa in Jharkhand.

The official and his colleagues are learnt to have hit a `jackpot' during their raids on Pune-based businessman Ajay Bafna, who was under surveillance since October last year when the first indication of his dealings with Sanjay Chaudhary, close associate of the former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, surfaced.

The team struck gold also while raiding two hawala traders in Delhi. The search of the business premises of one Vipin Kapoor, a hawala operator based in Karol Bagh, yielded details of accounts
of banks in Switzerland and other countries which seem to belong to politicians.

In one particular instance, the team stumbled upon payment of Rs 4.6 crore allegedly made by cheque to functionaries of the Koda administration by an Andhra Pradesh-based construction company. In return, the company was allegedly allowed to inflate the cost of the project it was assigned under the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana.

http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?264318

Numbered connections Koda (left) and Kripa Shankar Singh
The Charcoal Footprints
Congressman Kripa Shankar Singh may find it hard to delink himself from Koda

Last week’s raids by the Income-Tax department and the Enforcement Directorate in the Rs 4,000-crore Madhu Koda scam have ringed Kripa Shankar Singh, Mumbai chief of the Congress, too close for comfort. Investigators are examining, among his other assets, savings bank accounts of his family that show disproportionately large transactions between 2006-07 and 2008-09, and several discrepancies in documents that suggest forgery.

The timeline is crucial. One, it covers the period when Kripa Shankar was All-India Congress Committee (AICC) observer for Jharkhand, exactly when Koda, an independent MLA then, was sworn in CM with Congress support. Two, Narendra Mohan married Ankita, daughter of Jharkhand politician Kamlesh Singh, in April ’08. Kamlesh Singh was water resources minister in the Koda government and is a key accused in the scam.

However, a considerable sum of scam money may have been diverted through his daughter, son-in-law and the latter’s father, Kripa Shankar. It’s a trail agencies are now unravelling.

The three dedication ceremonies of the newly-built majestic Golden Pagoda (Buddist Temple) – known as ‘Poi Lu Kongmu Kham’ in Tai-Khampti dialect concluded today with thousands of devotees of Lord Buddha from various parts of the country and from Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, etc. attending.

Thailand’s Ambassador to India, Krit Kraichitti along with his wife and a cultural and business delegation also attended the ceremony. Kraichitti said that the coming up of the Pagoda in such an interior place will extend India’s socio-cultural relationship with Thailand. He released a souvenir published on the occasion and also unveiled a Tai calendar during the ceremony.

Arunachal's Golden Pagoda

Arunachal Buddhists against conversion

Hundreds of Buddhist devotees from the country and abroad had congregated for the dedication ceremony of the pagoda (Buddhist Temple), known as Poi Lu Kongmu Kham in Tai-Khampti dialect. The assembly was moderated by Navindra Mahathera, the president of Arunachal Pradesh Bhikkhu Sangha.

He said, “Conversion has been going on, particularly in the eastern districts of Arunachal Pradesh like Tirap, Changlang and Lohit, at a rapid pace. People are losing their language, culture, tradition, custom and identity with forced conversion. The time has come for the government to take tough measures against such forceful conversion.” The monks’ assembly also resolved to urge the government to re-introduce Sanskrit in the schools of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.

Attempt to stoke communal fires in Himachal

But the patience of peace-loving Hindus was tested again by a group of Muslims when they slaughtered a cow in the far-flung area of Nerwa in Shimla district on the eve of Maha Shivratri, the biggest religious festival of this hill state.

This news sent shockwaves in the region. The very next day, thousands of local people in Nerwa gathered and the angry mob set ablaze three mosques and a madarsa. The police have arrested the mastermind of this heinous crime named Abdulla alias Abdul Rehman along with six other accused. A one-day bandh was observed in Shimla district against the killing of the cow.

^^^ OMG. Are these muslim troublemakers in Himachalindigenous ones or migrants from J&K?

Most of the porters are Kashmiri muslims..so that could be it.
But is killing a cow such a big deal ? Lots of cattle are killed in J&K. If it such a big "heinous crime", why not burn the mosques and lynch cow-killers there too?

Cow slaughter is a punishable offence in many Indian states like Himachal. It is also prohibited in J&K.

^^ These kind of news never get reported in the engleeese media

There is very less indigenous Muslim population in Himachal, and far less in far flung hilly areas. Most of these Muslims are migrants from Kashmir, and work as contract labor and coolies in major hill stations. The numbers have increased quite a bit in recent years. Once in Shimla you can see many of them carrying heavy luggages.

Shiv Ratri is the biggest festival for Himachali people, and the incident has angered people unlike anything before.I am totally sure that the culprits will be punished.

Airavat wrote:Cow slaughter is a punishable offence in many Indian states like Himachal. It is also prohibited in J&K.

Prohibited in name only I guess. I've read news reports about cattle carrying trucks being seized, but you can't stop people from eating beef if they want. Kashmiri muslims eat lots of cattle; bufaloes, cows included.
When you are eating meat then how are cows special ?

Violence over Taslima article in Karnataka, 2 killed

Two persons died and four others were injured in Shimoga district during violent protests against an article written by controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen in a Kannada newspaper.

One person died when police fired at a mob and another other succumbed to injuries sustained in stone pelting, police said. A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed in four places in old Shimoga, the hometown of Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.

A crowd of some 1,500 people on Monday took out a procession in Shimoga to protest against a translated article of Taslima published on Sunday in Kannada Prabha on burqa tradition.

The procession turned violent as some persons pelted stones on vehicles. At least 20 vehicles, including eight state transport corporation buses, were damaged.

Police officials said they opened fire because they feared the procession was getting out of control. Police said four others injured in stone-pelting have been hospitalised.

Prohibitory orders was also imposed on the entire city and additional reinforcements of police rushed, Superintendent of Police S Murugan said.

Hassan was also tense after 15,000 people held a protest rally and submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner. Several vehicles were damaged in stone pelting and some shops were torched, police said.

It is indeed prohibited only in name but people get enraged very easily on this issue. Years ago in Chandigarh I saw a Nigerian student of punjab university got caught by the Janta at sector-17 bus stand., they beat him black and blue for the offense of carrying beef in a bag., which he had bought in Delhi.

jamwal wrote:you can't stop people from eating beef if they want.

The law does not stop people from eating what they want. It punishes the wilful slaughter of cows, bulls, oxen, heifer, calves within that particular state. You can import beef for personal consumption:

THE HIMACHAL PRADESH PROHIBITION OF COW SLAUGHTER ACT, 1979

SBajwa wrote:It is indeed prohibited only in name but people get enraged very easily on this issue. Years ago in Chandigarh I saw a Nigerian student of punjab university got caught by the Janta at sector-17 bus stand., they beat him black and blue for the offense of carrying beef in a bag., which he had bought in Delhi.

how did they know its beef?

Nagaland sanitation award

Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, Minister for PHED Dr. Ngangshi Ao, Minister of Urban Development Dr. Shurhozelie, Parliamentary Secretary R. Khing and T Saku Aier and other officials posed with recipients of the Nirmal Gram Puraskar, in Kohima on March 16.

Nirmal Gram Puraskar (‘Clean/Healthy Village award’) was awarded to 42 villages in Nagaland in recognition of their efforts in sanitation and hygiene. Rio maintained that Nagaland can become a fully sanitized state ‘if we are committed and work together.’

Naga youth identity

Most of our young Nagas have been influenced by the pop culture of the west and it definitely leaves them to nowhere. We want to be like the westerns in the way they eat, live, dresses. You ask any young fellow the name of his or her grandfather and most likely you are going to get the reply that he doesn't know.

And Christianity is to be partly blamed for it. Most Naga Church leaders think that anything to do with our forefathers to be anti Christian. Many of us grew up to be confused Christians. With only our traditional attire to claim authentic Naga.

Now in the past few years we can see the Korean culture effect and hindering our culture thus making us confused of our identity. The state government and those SO Called SMART PEOPLE who are promoting Korean Culture and Making money out of it in Nagaland, Better stop promoting Korean culture.

The Naga youths are not confused about their identity as Nagas, but they are confused whether Nagas are under India or should be sovereign. The behavior of the so called National workers are turning off the younger generation and most of them feel it is better that Nagas remain under India.

Desh Gujarat

On his visit to Kutch, Rana Hameer Singhji said there are only Sodha Rajputs left in Pakistan now in Rajput branch of Hinduism, and therefore wedding in Rajputs is becoming difficult day by day. “There should be therefore easier visa process between the two countries, so that Indian Rajputs can mix up easily with Pakistan based Sodha Rajputs socially,” he added.

Rana was honored by Kutch District Rajput Samaj in Chandranagar village of Nakhatrana taluka of Kutch district in Gujarat. The village is named as Chandranagar to mark respect to late Rana Chandra Singhji if Amarkot (Umerkot now). A statue of Chandra Singhji and a village gate of Chandranagar named after him were inaugurated by his successor son Rana Hameer Singhji.

Late Rana Chandra Singh (1931–2009) was a Pakistani politician, a federal minister of Science and Technology, Revenue and Narcotics Affairs and the chieftain of the Amarkot (present day Umerkot) jagir. In 1990 he left PPP and formed his own political party, the Pakistan Hindu Party. He himself designed for his party a saffron flag bearing two ancient logos – Om and Trishool.

Bihar doing a Gujarat

Until 2007, a kidnapping and ransom industry was running a parallel economy in Bihar. Doctors, contractors and businessmen were the most hit, forced to pay ‘protection fee’ to one gang, yet risk being kidnapped by another.

Shah says he wouldn’t have taken up this partnership and opened a Rs 30-crore detergent plant in Hajipur if it was not for the restoration of law and order.

“HUL was scouting for a local entrepreneur for a detergent plant in Bihar since 1993. But no local player dared because it would have been asking for trouble,” says Mr Shah. Infrastructure is one sector where this change is most evident.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar says when he took charge, allocations were being returned by departments because no contractor was willing to start construction and risk being targetted. “Even traders and entrepreneurs went to other states, closing down their establishments here. So any talk of a growth story seemed farcical during that period. But then we cracked the whip, and the kidnapping industry was dealt with. Everything else then started falling in place,” he says.

Kumar has statistics on his side. In December 2009, Bihar topped the chart for cement consumption in the country with an annual growth of 36%. The state economic survey shows that the construction sector grew by 83.58% in 2006-07 and 43.85% in 2008-09. The new infrastructure being built, including roads, bridges and other public works, contributed 13.4% of the state GDP against 4.2% in 2003-04. Truck sales grew by 150% in the seven months till October 2009 on a Y-o-Y basis.

About time other states like Jharkhand, Orissa, Maya-land, and Commie-Pradesh look at what's happening around!

About time other states like Jharkhand, Orissa, Maya-land, and Commie-Pradesh look at what's happening around!

Please do not put Mayawati in the same league as the commies. Their bed mates are Lalu and other SP thugs. Mayawati has done a yeomen job in bringing the dalits to the table and getting their share of the cake. UP has lots of social issues to work out, other states are not impacted by this.

FYI.....If you notice, none of the Jholwala media sound very enthusiastic about her activities and project her actions as whimsical and wasteful. Her single of negating the recruitment of 17K policmen approved by SP has done good for internal security, not much about this in media, but the statue saga is never ending. They must be doing Yuvraj's bidding fir he cannot be allowed to fail.

Actually the only states that are laggards are the RNI states Kerala and WB...WB turnaround will be very painful. Bhadralok's ego will be pricked to admit they are last to get off the block. For a state whose middle class likes to think of themselves as the forward thinkers of India, they need a big pot of black coffee to get over the hangover for this party lasting 40+ years.

Now in the past few years we can see the Korean culture effect and hindering our culture thus making us confused of our identity.

korean culture ?

is hyundai making a push into nagaland or something

May be Korean EJs

sify

Now free emergency treatment at Assam's private hospitals
2010-04-03 12:20:00

Imagine a heart attack or a road accident victim being wheeled into a private hospital and the family members worrying not about the patient's health but about how will they meet the hospital bills.

In Assam, from now on anyone needing emergency treatment need not bother about the bills. The state government has made it mandatory for all private hospitals to provide free treatment for the first 24 hours.

This benefit is part of the Assam Public Health Bill, 2010, passed by the state assembly Thursday, the first such watershed legislation in the country guaranteeing the right to healthcare without a patient having to look for a government hospital in case of an emergency just because of financial constraints.

'The entire idea of this bill is to ensure quality healthcare facilities and making it easy for people, rich or poor, to avail themselves the best of treatment in the first 24 hours in an emergency situation,' Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told IANS in an interview.

'The persisting inequities and denials in the matter of healthcare in the state was a concern, and hence this bill.... We hear of people afraid to take a patient to a private nursing home in the case of an emergency because of financial reasons. Now this bill makes it mandatory for all concerned to treat free of charge,' the minister added.

'I would put the bill as a revolutionary step towards better healthcare in Assam. The idea for free treatment for the first 24 hours in all private hospitals is a very bold step,' Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) R.C. Deka told IANS over phone from New Delhi.

Not just that, the legislation also makes it mandatory for all new development projects in the state to pass a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) test.

'We know about environmental clearance in the case of a new project, but nobody bothers about the health hazards of such projects, and hence the mandatory HIA clearance provision kept in the bill,' the minister said.

The new legislation has been generally hailed.

'We are going to enforce the legislation in letter and spirit and hope the public sector cooperates with us,' the minister said.

But private hospital owners and shareholders are miffed with the legislation.

'The idea of free treatment for the first 24 hours could prove to be economically unviable for private hospitals,' said G. Buragohain, a private nursing home owner.

SBajwa wrote:
It is indeed prohibited only in name but people get enraged very easily on this issue. Years ago in Chandigarh I saw a Nigerian student of punjab university got caught by the Janta at sector-17 bus stand., they beat him black and blue for the offense of carrying beef in a bag., which he had bought in Delhi.

by Nishaant
how did they know its beef?

The nigerian student told them that it is beef that he had brought it from UP. Student was rescued but he left India with a huge lesson..

Gujarat to set up 810 new courts

Vadodara, Apr 11 (PTI) Gujarat has decided to set up 810 new courts for speedy disposal of pending cases, Law and Justice Minister Amit Shah said today.

"By setting up these courts, the government wants to ensure speedy disposal of cases within a year after their registration and take a lead in the country in doing so," he said at the inauguration of a Family Court here.

Shah said Chief Minister Narendra Modi wanted Gujarat to become a model state in achieving the target of settlement of cases within a year by 2011.

The government will consult the Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court for taking necessary steps, including providing infrastructure facilities, for creation of the courts, the minister said.

Article on Bihar's growth in NY Times ...

Turnaround of India State Could Serve as a Model

For decades the sprawling state of Bihar, flat and scorching as a griddle, was something between a punch line and a cautionary tale, the exact opposite of the high-tech, rapidly growing, rising global power India has sought to become.
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So when Bihar announced earlier this year that it had notched an 11 percent average growth rate for the last five years, making it the second fastest-growing economy in the country, the news was greeted as a sign that even India’s most intractable corners of backwardness and misery were being transformed.

“If even Bihar can change, then anywhere in India can change,” said Shaibal Gupta of the Asian Development Research Institute, an independent think tank here. “With good governance, good policy and law and order anything is possible.”

Bihar’s turnaround illustrates how a handful of seemingly small changes can yield big results in India’s most impoverished and badly governed regions. It also demonstrates how crucial the governments of India’s 28 states, many of which are larger than most countries, will be to India’s aspirations to superpower status. State governments are responsible for everything from schools to hospitals to policing to building and maintaining most roads. Failing states, especially large ones like Bihar and its troubled neighbor, Uttar Pradesh, could make or break those hopes.
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mostly because they got Lalu out of there.

Nitish starts blog with an eye on polls

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has turned to blogging to showcase the achievements of his government.

Aware of the power and reach of the internet, Nitish seems keen to use the medium to his advantage as the state goes to the polls in a few months.

He has created his own blog (www. nitishspeaks. blogspot. com) to get connected to the people of the state, including those living outside Bihar.

Nitish posted his maiden article on Thursday on the success of his pet project, Mukhyamantri Balika Cycle Yojna, launched three years ago.

He wrote that the scheme had brought about a real transformation in the field of girls' education and had been fairly successful in arresting the dropout rate in schools.

"Our government spent Rs 174.36 crore in the past three years to make 8.71 lakh schoolgirls proud owners of bicycles which they are using to educate themselves," he wrote.

He insisted that this was not mere statistics: "In Bihar, bicycles have now become a veritable instrument for social change." In an apparent bid to reach out to all sections, Nitish said the scheme did not exclude anybody on the basis of caste, creed or economic background.

"A remarkable aspect of this project is that this has benefited students from all sections of society," he wrote.

Nitish also revealed how he overruled bureaucrats to give money directly to schoolgirls for buying bicycles, instead of floating tenders for bulk purchase.

"I thought that purchase of bicycles through tenders might give rise to corruption in future. Instead, I was in favour of handing over money through cheques directly to the beneficiaries... (to) not only simplify the entire process but also make the scheme transparent." Nitish has found the blog an effective medium in the election year to send out the message about how his government has pursued a policy of all-inclusive growth in the past four-and-a-half years.

"This will be an ideal platform for the chief minister to directly interact with people on the web," BJP MLC and Nitish's close associate Sanjay Jha, who is looking after his blog, said.

Nitish's blog has already evinced interest from netizens.

Though it was launched without any fanfare, it had more than 250 visitors within hours.

"Given the initial response, I am sure it will be a big hit," Jha said. "We have plans to make it bilingual, in both English and Hindi." Nitish seems to have borrowed the idea of blogging from his bête noire Lalu Prasad. The former railway minister had also started his blog which ended up becoming a grievance cell of sorts for train passengers.

Excellent start! Great if the trend spreads.

Wonderful in fact to have our netaship cut loose from the DDM stranglehold and reach out directly to us citizenry. Bravo, Nitish sir!

US heaps praise on India's NREGA

India's National Rural Employment Generation Scheme has come in for praise from the US, which said the key innovation has been "successful" beyond the expectations of almost everyone and worth emulating.

The Obama Administration, which is keenly awaiting a briefing on the UPA government's flagship scheme from Union Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge, said there are lessons that are transferable to other countries at low and middle income levels.

Why is unkil heaping praise, I wonder.

And our mantri is going over to the viceroy's palace to give 'briefings' on the scheme? wow.

Hari Seldon wrote:
The Obama Administration, which is keenly awaiting a briefing on the UPA government's flagship scheme from Union Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge, said there are lessons that are transferable to other countries at low and middle income levels.

Why is unkil heaping praise, I wonder.

And our mantri is going over to the viceroy's palace to give 'briefings' on the scheme? wow.

That is a tool for social engineering. Check the Min