Even as the government of Assam stands accused of bending over backwards to accommodate the interests of illegal Bangladeshi migrants, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh in the northeast are standing up against the influx, which has come to threaten the very existence of the indigenous communities in this region. The two states have fallen back on
every available legal provision to throw out illegals.
Setting a precedent – as opposed to the one set by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit, who said all Bangladeshis would be treated as guests in Delhi – Meghalaya has, especially after the serial blasts in Assam in October, decided to go on the offensive against the illegal migrants.
In November alone, Meghalaya pushed out more than 250 suspected Bangladeshis from its capital Shillong. Chief Minister Donkupar Roy did not mince words: “I have asked the district administration to push out not just Bangladeshis but also others who enter the state without proper identification papers,” he told the press. “Security concerns must not be limited to Assam alone but to the entire region,” he said, referring to the blasts that had left close to a hundred people dead, while injuring hundreds of others, in Assam on October 30.
States in the northeast, the worst affected by the Bangladeshi problem, have often shown varying and sharply contrasting responses to the migrants problem. The Assam blasts had been claimed by the Islamic Security Force (Indian Mujahideen), which is believed to have among its ranks illegal Bangladeshis from the northeast. Strangely, Assam’s Congress government has for weeks now, been in the dock, blamed for trying to place the blame on militant groups like National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), to avoid displeasing its alleged Bangladeshi votebank in the state.....Continue
every available legal provision to throw out illegals.Setting a precedent – as opposed to the one set by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit, who said all Bangladeshis would be treated as guests in Delhi – Meghalaya has, especially after the serial blasts in Assam in October, decided to go on the offensive against the illegal migrants.
In November alone, Meghalaya pushed out more than 250 suspected Bangladeshis from its capital Shillong. Chief Minister Donkupar Roy did not mince words: “I have asked the district administration to push out not just Bangladeshis but also others who enter the state without proper identification papers,” he told the press. “Security concerns must not be limited to Assam alone but to the entire region,” he said, referring to the blasts that had left close to a hundred people dead, while injuring hundreds of others, in Assam on October 30.
States in the northeast, the worst affected by the Bangladeshi problem, have often shown varying and sharply contrasting responses to the migrants problem. The Assam blasts had been claimed by the Islamic Security Force (Indian Mujahideen), which is believed to have among its ranks illegal Bangladeshis from the northeast. Strangely, Assam’s Congress government has for weeks now, been in the dock, blamed for trying to place the blame on militant groups like National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), to avoid displeasing its alleged Bangladeshi votebank in the state.....Continue
bai’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), the rebel Shiv Sena group, swooped down on impoverished migrants from Bihar & Uttar Pradesh.They came under attack everywhere: on the streets, and in local trains and buses and their property set wantonly ablaze. The mob frenzy was triggered by MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s statement about the migrants not deserving the state’s hospitality.
firms to appreciate the effectiveness of search advertising or the reach of the online medium. In an exclusive interview, Shailesh Rao, MD, Google India, tells B&E’s Debdeep Singh how the company is evolving new strategies, services and products to woo Indian customers. But Rao accepts that computing infrastructure has a long way to go in India.
the West was busy preaching lessons of liberal democracy to Russians. America’s ‘triumph over the evil empire’ was celebrated as the greatest moment of 20th century liberalism. Sixteen years down the line, where does Russia stand in global democratic industry? Not impressive, if one goes by standards of Western democracies. Well before the December 2 Parliamentary elections, liberal press had warned that President Vladamir Putin, who is leaving Kremlin in March, would use the results to tighten his grip over Kremlin. Despite widespread international campaign against Putin, his United Russia party emerged victorious with 315 seats, 14 seats more than the 2/3rd majority needed to pass constitutional amendments. The only opposition, United Russia would face in the Houses would be Communists. Putin had defeated the liberal opposition parties, Yabloko & the Union of Right, well before the elections, by increasing, the minimum requirement of percentage of total votes, for having a seat in Duma, to 7%.
IT majors like Sun Microsystems and IBM are organizing press conferences and creating their spaces within SL. CISCO and DELL (www.dell.com/secondlife) are already selling products in-world. TELUS Mobility (www.telus.com) opened a retail outlet offering replica mobile phones with SL specific features. Leo Burnett Worldwide has started a community for their globally dispersed staff to explore the possibility of opening up shop within SL. And last summer, American Apparel opened a branch with a lot of fanfare selling digital renderings of their actual collections. And since money is changing hands, banking as a business is flourishing in SL. Based on current estimates there are as many as fifteen odd banks in SL today out of which ten operate in-world only. This is raising questions of how such non-regulated entities should be managed.
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