Warmonger Bush sends Rice to India and FBI SET into WORK! DUNLOP Closed and STRIKE in the JUTE GRAVEYARD in Bengal!

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Warmonger Bush sends Rice to India and FBI SET into WORK! DUNLOP
Closed and STRIKE in the JUTE GRAVEYARD in Bengal!

Direct foreign Interests hit has made the MUMBAI Attack an Avenue of
DIRECT US and ISRAELI interference in india. The Centre and state
governments as well as the Political parties affliated to Ruling and
Resistance hegemony are never concerned with public Grievances.
Marxist ruled West Bengal seems to be the best Example where GENOCIDE
Culture is quite dominant!


Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams: Chapter 116

Palash Biswas


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Police unaware about Israeli plane in Mumbai
1 Dec 2008, 1027 hrs IST, IANS
MUMBAI: Police in Mumbai on Sunday said they had no information on any
Israeli plane coming here with medical and forensic experts to
identify some
of the Israeli victims of the terrorist attack.

"No one has informed us about any Israeli plane arriving here, we just
do not know anything," Deputy Superintendent of Police Nisar Tanboli,
in charge of airport security, told IANS late on Sunday.

Nine Jews, some of them Israeli nationals, were among 22 foreigners
killed during the sustained terror attack at a Jewish centre at the
Nariman House and two five-star hotels in south Mumbai between
Wednesday night and Friday night.

Some of them remain to be identified and a section of the Israeli
media had reported that an Israeli Air Force plane had landed in
Mumbai Sunday with experts to help in the identification.
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Warmonger President George W Bush is sending Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice to India this week as a "further demonstration" of US
solidarity with New Delhi in the wake of terror attacks in Mumbai,
the White House announced Sunday. MUMBAI Terror Attack is considered
DIRECT HIT on US and ISRAELI Interests. Thus, Washington Posted
Chettiar Gang in Indian Home Ministry! Now nearly five years of
CONTINUOUS Failure on HOME FRONT India Incs promise a BETTER HOME
under Chidambaram!

Direct foreign Interests hit has made the MUMBAI Attack an Avenue of
DIRECT US and ISRAELI interference in India. The Centre and state
governments as well as the Political parties affiliated to Ruling and
Resistance hegemony are never concerned with public Grievances.
Marxist ruled West Bengal seems to be the best Example where GENOCIDE
Culture is quite dominant!

It is claimed that West Bengal industrial growth rate is higher than
national average amidst reports of CLOSURE in DUNLOP and STRIKE in the
Jute Grave Yard!Jute Industry played an important role in the
economic development of Bengal. At the beginning of the twentieth
century, Bengal could boast of only one manufacturing industry - jute.
It employed about a half of the total industrial workforce of Bengal.
In 1900-1, the export value of jute manufactures accounted for nearly
a third of the entire export trade of Bengal. The industry was
dominated at the beginning, by Europeans and later, by marwaris.
During most of its history, three-quarters of the labourers in jute
factories were non-Bengalis. Bengalis generally occupied only the
intermediate position in the industry. The raw jute for the industry
used to come from Eastern Bengal.

The proposed indefinite strike in Bengal’s jute industry from Monday
could pave the way for dilution of the mandatory packaging order for
food grains in jute sacks. However, Citu and Trinamul Congress trade
union wings are opposed to any strike to realise the demand for
payment of dearness allowance

Prior to the establishment of the first jute mill in 1855, handloom
weavers used jute fibre to make twines, ropes, coarse fabrics for the
poor, and also for fishing and for mooring vessels. Towards the end of
the eighteenth century, jute attracted the attention of the British
east india company, which sent a consignment of jute samples to
England in 1791 that were successfully spun by flax machinery. The
British also found out means to soften the hard and brittle nature of
jute fibre by adding oil and water. This made the fibre more pliable
and easily separable, and resulted in the production of a usable
thread.

Several historical events were responsible for the growth of the jute
industry. In 1838, the Dutch government specified bags made of jute
instead of flax for carrying coffee from the East Indies. At that time
flax was imported from Russia. But the Crimean War of 1854-56 led to
the stoppage of supply of flax from Russia and forced Dundee, the
famous jute manufacturing centre of UK, to look for substitutes. In
Dundee the flax mills were converted into jute mills. The American
Civil War (1861-65), on the other hand, gave further impetus to the
jute trade, as supplies of American cotton were much restricted. Since
then, the industry did not return to flax or cotton again. The main
reason for this permanent shift had been its comparative cost
advantage. The jute industry grew rapidly and jute mills were
established in many countries, including USA, Germany, France,
Belgium, Austria, Italy, Holland, Spain, Russia, Brazil and Bengal.
This led to a rapid increase in the demand for jute. The Bengali
peasants responded quickly to meet the world demand by increasing the
area under jute cultivation.

The outbreak of the First World War led to a rapid increase in the
demand for raw jute, since it was used to manufacture sandbags to
protect soldiers in trenches and to produce gunny bags for carrying
food grain for the army. Inevitably, the price of jute also rose
sharply.

Although Bengal, particularly Eastern Bengal, was the main producer of
quality raw jute, the first jute mill was established at Risraw near
calcutta on the bank of the hughli only in 1855, after 20 years of
mechanical spinning of jute in Dundee. The delay was due to the non-
availability of technical hands and power to drive machines. In 1854,
coal mines were opened at Raniganj. Attracted by the easy availability
of power, George Aucland, an Englishman established the first jute
mill. But he could not make reasonable profits and left the business.
In 1859, the Bornee Company founded the second mill with spinning and
weaving facilities. Unlike the Aucland mill, it started prospering
after its establishment. Within five years it doubled its plant size.
By 1866, three new mills were established. Between 1868 and 1873,
these mills made large profits. Five new companies started in 1874 and
eight more in 1875. Thus Bengal experienced a real boom in jute
industry towards the end of the nineteenth century.

With the establishment of jute mills, Bengal became a major exporter
of sacking bags. Calcutta appeared to be a strong competitor of Dundee
and successfully penetrated into Dundee's hessian market in many parts
of the world, including America, primarily because Calcutta had the
cost advantage in producing jute goods. Secondly, it was situated in
close proximity to the jute growing districts of Eastern Bengal and
Assam. Thirdly, it had cheap labour. Fourthly, the mills ran for 15 to
16 hours, and sometimes even for 22 hours daily. This led to a clear
advantage of Calcutta manufacturers in monetary terms. Moreover, they
could offer a finer quality of jute. In sixty years between 1880 and
1940, the number of mills increased by 5 times, that of looms by about
14 times, of spindles by 19 times, and of persons employed by 11 times
(see Table). The growth of the industry was significant during the 20
years between 1900 and 1920. During the Great Depression of 1929-33,
the jute industry was severely hit since the demand for jute goods
declined drastically throughout the world.

Major problems of the jute mills are: (a) increase in the cost of
production while the sales prices of jute goods remain at the same
level or even decline; (b) accumulation of huge losses and
consequently, of huge debts; (c) decline in exports of jute goods; (d)
electricity failures; (e) excessive wastage; (f) labour unrest; (g)
poor management that affects productivity; and (h) frequent changes in
government policies.

The performance of the private sector jute industry is also not
encouraging. privatisation itself has been a very problematic and slow
process. Resistance from workers/employees of the mills and lengthy
formalities forced the process to be slow. In 1998, out of forty jute
mills in the private sector, three were closed and two laid off. The
private sector jute mills run on a very low profile. Up to December
1999, the private sector jute mills have accumulated losses of more
than Tk 12 billion.


The Bengal government today withdrew police camps in West Midnapore’s
Lalgarh, Belpahari and Salboni even as tribals scaled up their
protests and dug up the road branching from National Highway 6 and
going to Jhargram, cutting off the town from the rest of the state.The
People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities had been demanding the
withdrawal of the police camp and police outpost from Ramgarh. But it
was not happy today. “Our main demand has not been met. The district
superintendent of police is yet to apologise to the villagers (for the
police action after the mine blast targeting the chief minister),”
said committee leader Chhatradhar Mahato.

The outfit had earlier decided to boycott the police and the civil
administration.

Tribals under the banner of Police Santras Birodhi Public Committee
(PSBPC) staged a demonstration outside Lalgarh police station in
Midnapore West for four hours today. They demanded that the police
camps housed at Lalgarh Ram Krishna High School and Lalgarh Saradamoni
Girls High School be withdrawn within 24 hours, failing which,
policemen would be socially boycotted, said Mr Chatradhar Mahato a
PSBPC leader.
The presence of police personnel in those schools has been
jeopardising studies since 10 November. Earlier, yielding to their
threat, 13 police camps including two from panchayat offices and one
from a girls high school in Lalgarh area were closed down on Thursday.
A five member PSBPC team led by the committee secretary Mr Sidhu Soren
and the president Mr Lalmohan Murmu, submitted a memorandum to the
officer-in-charge of Lalgarh police station, in this regard. The
leaders have also threatened to block the National Highway~ 6 at
Lodhasuli unless the district administration complies with their 11-
point charter of demand within four days, said Mr Mahato.
Mr R A Israel, the additional district magistrate will be holding a
meeting with the committee leaders at Lalgarh tonight as a last step
to sought out the month long Lalgarh imbroglio.

Work at Dunlop unit suspended!Dunlop India Limited declared on Sunday
suspension of work at its unit in Sahaganj in West Bengal’s Hooghly
district. The unit has a workforce of 1,171.Workers demonstrated
outside the factory protesting against the management’s decision to
suspend work that was brought to their attention through a notice
pasted on the gate.The announcement comes in the wake of failure of
several rounds of discussions between the management and labour
unions, following a decision by the former to temporarily suspend
production at the unit on November 17. Both the sides have also held
talks with the State government since then.

The industrial growth rate of West Bengal is 1.1 per cent higher than
the national average of 10.8 per cent (2006-07), and the State
continues to move ahead on the path to development and economic
progress, the Singur episode notwithstanding.


According to leading industrialists, the sectors like steel and
mining, chemicals and petro-chemicals, power, agro industries and food
processing, Information Technology (IT), real estate and retail have
been generating a lot of interest in West Bengal.

The State is a gateway not only to north-east India besides other
States like Orissa, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, but also to
countries like Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.

The growth and development is obvious in and around the capital city
of Kolkata. Major real estate players like DLF, Unitech, Singapore-
based Keppeland, Purvankara, Emaar Group, are all competing for a pie
of the new satellite township coming up at Rajarhat, near the
airport.

Besides housing estates, several budget and star hotels and conference
centres, cultural centres, shopping malls, multiplexes are being built
across the city.

Smaller towns like Durgapur, Haldia, Asansol, and Siliguri across the
State are developing. The steel sector, recently received a boost with
the foundation stone laying of the proposed Rs. 35,000 crore-Jindal
Steel Plant in Salboni, in West Midnapore District, approximately 240
kilometres from Kolkata.

The other sectors that have witnessed a lot of activity are metals,
mining and plastic.

With a sustained agricultural growth of over 8 per cent, the State is
also finding investors in the agro-industries and in food processing.

"There is great focus in potato, other vegetables and fruit
cultivation and processing. The entry of wholesale giants like Metro-
Cash-And-Carry signals well for this segment," says Dr. Rajeev Singh,
Secretary General, Indian Chamber of Commerce.

According to the city-based industrialist Sanjay Budhia, Chairman of
the Patton Group, Kolkata finds investors because of facilities like
low-cost housing compared to other metros, good sanitation and basic
amenities, best clubs in the country, culture and a literate working
class.

Sanjay says investors from Japan and Korean get bowled over when they
see the great golf courses the Tolly club and the Royal Calcutta Golf
Club (RCGC).

In the hotel industy, Kolkata has witnessed entry of big players. The
Apeejay Group is putting up a 300-room five star hotel spread over a
3.3 acre plot on the Eastern Bypass worth Rs 1.36 billion, as is the
Emaar Group.

The Bengal Shrishti Infrastructure Development is building a hotel in
Rajarhat worth Rs. five billion. The Hilton group has also made
enquiries.

According to Samit Ganguly, Director for Sales, Hyatt Regency,
Kolkata, has a corporate-driven hotel market, which is growing despite
seasonal downslides.

West Bengal today is the third largest economy in the country. Its IT
sector, which set off much later than other parts of the country, is
growing fast with big names like Wipro, TCS and IBM finding a place in
the IT hub at Sector V already.

The State, according to industry leaders, is on the right track. It
has garnered new projects worth two billion dollars in the last four
years. The government has offered the right incentives and even during
the recent global meltdown and recession, not many see much reason to
worry.

However, all emphasize that there is need for an environment for
industrial growth.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's government in West Bengal has shown the
political will towards taking the State forward industrially. However,
the state's merit as an investment destination and for industrial
development would ultimately be decided on the basis of its work
culture and the public will to see projects through.

ABOUT THE Jute INDUSTRY


There had been a rapid expansion of the jute industry in India around
Calcutta particularly during certain boom periods. From one mill in
1855 with no looms and another mill established four years later with
only 192 looms, towards the end of the first decade of the 20th
Century there were 59 mills with 30,685 looms. In the year 1918, the
loom strength was 39,401. During the period after the First World War,
there was a further advance in the productive capacity of the industry
and in 1919-20 the number of mills had increased to 76 with 41,000
looms. There had also come into existence three mills in Andhra
Pradesh part of the then Madres Presidency, and one in Uttar Pradesh
(formally United province). During 1919-20 fourteen mills ware
registered in India showing a great development in jute industry in
Bengal and according to the statistics available in the ‘Romance of
Jute` the loomage was well above 50,000 in 1927. The temp of expansion
continued unabated both in number of mills and in loomage irrespective
of the considerations of demand and supply till about 1939-40 when
there were 108 mills with 68,000 looms. There was very little
expansion of the industry during the years of the Second World War;
nevertheless, at the end of the war, i.e., in 1945, there ware 111
mills with an installed capacity of 68,542 looms. There has been no
significant expansion ever since and the number of composite mills has
now come down to 73 owing to amalgamation an closure of uneconomic
units. There has however been a reduction in the loomage also and it
now stands at 44162 looms. Besides these 73 jute mills, there are
about 30 spinning units manufacturing ropes and twines. The industry
has completed its hundred forty five years of existence. Its
productive capacity has increased from 1.2 million tones per year in
the first plan period to 1.4 million tons at the end of the Second
Plan period and 1.6 million tones at the end of this century. There is
an overwhelming concentration of he industry in West Bengal and only a
sprinkling of it is to be found elsewhere in India. The reasons for
this are not far to seek. Factors like an abundant supply of raw
material, proximity of cola fields of Ranigunge, navigability of the
Hooghly and the availability of the required type of labor in the
neighborhood were all responsible for the location of industry over a
stretch of about 60 mille on either side of the river Hooghly, from
Bansberia to Uluberia on the West bank and from Halisahar to Birlapur
on the east bank. Calcutta grew into greater prominence on account of
this industry and was developed as first class port, a network of
railways was laid, connecting Calcutta with the interior of the
country, giant electric power supply station came up and inland water
transport service developed.

Bengal and jute industry are inseparable and in fact there
is such a heavy concentration of the industry in this area that one is
apt to ignore the existence of the industry else ware. But due to
factors such as the availability of raw materials near about, cheap
labor or ready local market, small jute mills have come up in other
states too. Besides 59 composite jute mills located in West Bengal, 3
mills are located each in Bihar and UP, 4 in Andhra Pradesh, 1 each in
Assam, Orissa, Tripura and Madhya Pradesh. In addition there exist 3
exclusive yarn-producing units and about 30 mini jute-spinning units.
Six sick and closed units were nationalized in 1980 and placed under
the management of NJMC for their rehabilitation. Out of 73 composite
units, 6 belongs to public sector, 5 to state sector, 1 to co—
operative sector and 61 are private sector units.

Out of the country’s total loomage of 44162, only a mere
4429 looms are found distributed in places other than West Bengal.
Similarly, out of 6,35,096 Spindles installed in the country, 5,07,960
has been installed in West Bengal.

The annual production of jute goods was 15.96 lake tones during
1998-99. Sacking continues to be the largest segment of production
accounting for 52 percent. Hessian constitutes about 25 percent. One
significant change in the product mix is the remarkable increase in
production. Another welcome development has been the steady increase
in production of non-traditional diversified products.
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Palaniappan Chidambaram says will respond strongly to threats!

After union home minister Shivraj Patil, Maharashtra deputy chief
minister R R Patil quit on Monday in wake of the Mumbai terror
attacks and now chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh also appears to be
on the way out. Maharashtra governor S C Jamir has accepted the
resignation of the deputy chief minister. Chief minister Vilasrao
Deshmukh had forwarded Patil's resignation to the Governor, a Raj
Bhavan spokesperson said.

The anger against the political class in wake of the Mumbai terror
attack boiled over with slain NSG commando Major Sandeep DG, NSG,
Jyoti Krishan Dutt, along with colleagues pay their respects to NSG
men Sandeep Unnikrishnan and Gajendra Singh who laid their lives
fighting terrorists in Mumbai.

Unnikrishnan's father literally shooing away Kerala chief minister V S
Achuthanandan on Sunday!

The CM, who had been criticized for his delay in offering condolences
to the bereaved family, who hail from Kerala, tried to make up by
calling on the Unnikrishnans. But he failed to anticipate the
rejection he would meet at the residence of the fallen soldier. The
dead commando's father did not tolerate the CM's presence and shouted
at him to leave at once

The mood at special MCOCA court was sombre where Dayanand Pandey, an
accused in high-profile Malegaon case, was produced and sent to
judicial custody till December 12.

The case was being probed by Hemant Karkare, who fell victim to the
bullets of militants on Wednesday night on way to Cama Hospital, south
Mumbai.

An exhausted-looking assistant commissioner of police ATS, Mohan
Kulkarni brought Pandey, one of the main accused, before the Special
Judge Y D Shinde and did not press for his further police custody.

He was sent to judicial custody till December 12 in a brief hearing
which lasted not more than 10 minutes.

"We miss him (Karkare). We are not in a mental state to accept that he
is no longer with us," Kulkarni told reporters in a choked voice.

In his firm resolve, Kulkarni said the best tribute to Karkare would
be to bring culprits to justice.

Refusing to part with information on the controversial Scorpene
submarine deal, the CBI has said that any revelation of inputs
received
from foreign governments on the alleged payment of kickbacks in the Rs
16,000 crore deal will "adversely" affect India's diplomatic relations
with those nations which co-operated in the probe.

"Disclosure of the CBI report to public will not only be against the
interests of the nation but will also adversely affect the diplomatic
relations of India with the concerned country (which participated in
the investigation)," CBI director Aswani Kumar said in his affidavit
before the Delhi High Court.

"It is submitted that some of the information is information received
in confidence from foreign government and the disclosure thereof may
prejudicially affect the relationship of India with foreign states,"
Kumar said in his 13-page affidavit.

The Director mentioned various conditions imposed by the investigating
agencies of foreign countries pertaining to not disclosing the
information supplied by them to public.

The CBI claimed that its inquiry report is a "privilege" document
which could not be disclosed to public.

New Home Minister, appointed to the post after the Mumbai attacks,
said on Monday that the government would respond strongly to threats
posed to the country.

"I want to assure the people on behalf of the government that we will
respond with determination and resolve to the grave threat posed to
the Indian nation," Palaniappan Chidambaram said.

"I recognise that there is a sense of anguish and deep shock among the
people of India. This is a threat to the very idea of India, very soul
of India," he said, referring to the Mumbai attacks.


In New Delhi, it is RED ALERT as the Intelligence Bureau has also
sounded a fresh alert to Delhi Police asking them to step up security
at vital installations in the capital after an email, which police
sources said was signed by the "Deccan Mujahideen", warned of a repeat
of the Mumbai terror attack at Indira Gandhi International Airport and
the three major railway stations. Acting on the three-wheeler threat,
police are conducting random checks on autos, particularly around the
airport. During the last serial blasts in Delhi, a bomb had gone off
in an auto at Ghaffar Market in Karol Bagh. At that time too there had
been intelligence alerts on the possibility of key installations in
Delhi coming under threat from autos.

FED UP with LIVE TELECAST of TERROR STRIKE Indian ELECTRONIC Media may
hope to harvest on Continous High TRP as Pietersen and his teammates
are set to return to India by Friday to play the two-Test series, the
first of which would be shifted from Ahmedabad to Kolkata, according
to media reports in London. According to a report in 'The Guardian',
the English cricketers would return to India on Thursday or Friday and
the warm-up match, originally scheduled in Vadodara from Friday, is
likely to be shifted somewhere near Kolkata. Indian officials have
pointed out that the terrorists involved in Mumbai attacks were
trained in Pakistan.With India blaming Pakistan-based elements for the
Mumbai terror strikes, the US today said Islamabad must "follow
evidence wherever it leads" and lend "absolute" and "transparent"
cooperation in the probe as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice headed
for New Delhi.

President George W Bush has asked Rice to travel to New Delhi on
Wednesday amid apprehensions of tensions rising between India and
Pakistan in the aftermath of Mumbai blasts. The White House said US
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would visit India on Wednesday,
underscoring the seriousness with which Washington viewed the attacks
and the potential threat they had to regional stability. After union
home minister Shivraj Patil, Maharashtra deputy chief minister RR
Patil quit on Monday in wake of the Mumbai terror attacks and now
chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh also appears to be on the way out.


"I don't want to jump to any conclusions myself on this, but I do
think that this is a time for complete, absolute, total transparency
and cooperation and that is what we expect (from Pakistan)," Rice told
reporters travelling with her to London.

Warning that militants have the power to precipitate a war in the
region, President Asif Ali Zardari has asked India to "resist
striking out at his government" should investigations show that
"Pakistani militant groups" were responsible for the attacks in
Mumbai. The Pakistani President said his country should not be
punished for the three-day terrorist rampage in Mumbai that killed
around 200 people including foreigners.



2008: A saga of bruises for Ratan Tata

By: Madhu T & Reeba Zachariah, TNN

It's been a rough year for Ratan Tata so far. For the industrialist,
2008 started off in a grand way, with the acquisition of the iconic
British marquees Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR).

Coming on the back of the Corus acquisition, the JLR deal gave the
Tata group the necessary global credentials. But things started
skidding off-course when the Nano project had to be pulled out of
Singur, West Bengal.

Soon the global financial meltdown set in, hurting several group
businesses. And now, the devastation of the Taj Mahal Palace and
Tower, the jewel in the Tatas' hospitality crown.
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After attacks, PM battles for political life
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's political
survival may depend on finding a strong response to the attacks in
Mumbai as Indians clamour for answers and action to the country's
"9/11".

But if the track record of the quietly spoken "prime minister by
accident" is anything to go by, the Congress-led government may find
it hard to both appease voters ahead of general elections, and
persuade Pakistan to act against militants.

"We have a figurehead prime minister," strategic affairs expert K.
Subrahmanyam said. "There is an impression that the government is weak
and not able to deal with terrorism."
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Reuters Insight: Mumbai after attack
(01:30) Analysis
Dec. 1 - Less than a week after the deadly terrorist attacks that
rocked India's financial capital, Mumbai is creeping back to normalcy.
How will the high profile carnage affect the India story?


Phil Smith, Reuters South Asia Editor, gives us an analysis.

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NSG director speaks post attack
(02:27) Report
Dec. 1 - India's NSG commandos returned to New Delhi after a grueling
60 hour standoff with terrorists in two of Mumbai's elite hotels and a
Jewish center.


The Director General of the NSG spoke about the challenges his team
faced while in combat at a ceremony organized to pay tribute to those
commandos that lost their lives in the battle.

An ANI report.
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India lawmakers face Mumbai anger
(01:52) Report
Dec. 1 - After the deadly attacks in Mumbai, politicians are facing a
backlash for their poor handling of the situation.


The President of India, Pratibha Patil pledged tough action against
terrorism.

The residents of Mumbai are still coming to terms with what happened
in their city.

Paul Chapman reports.

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Patil resigns as home minister
(01:10) Report
Nov 30 - Shivraj Patil resigned as India's Home Minister on Sunday.

Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram was appointed to take over
Patil's job while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will handle the
finance portfolio for now.An ANI Report.
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Two women raped in India every hour
NEW DELHI: Every 60 minutes, two women are raped in this country.


What is more horrendous is that 133 elderly women were sexually
assaulted last year, according to the latest report prepared by the
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

A total of 20,737 cases of rape were reported last year registering a
7.2% increase over the previous year, with Madhya Pradesh becoming the
"rape capital" of the country by topping the list of such incidents.

Going by the NCRB statistics, two women are raped in the country every
hour.

Madhya Pradesh (3,010) accounted for 14.5 per cent of the total cases,
with West Bengal following with 2,106 such incidents. Records of high
incidence in other states are Uttar Pradesh (1,648), Bihar (1,555) and
Rajasthan (1,238).

The national capital had 598 cases in which 602 women were sexually
assaulted.

In its report 'Crime in India - 2007', the NCRB noted that offenders
were known to the victims in as many as 19,188 cases (92.5 per cent)
that included 6,902 incidents in which neighbours were involved.

Parents or close family members were involved in 405 cases while in
1,448 cases relatives were involved. "Everywhere in this country, over
90 per cent of the victims are raped by person known to them," a
senior police official said.

Women in the age-group of 18 to 30 years were the largest chunk among
the victims (11,984) followed by 3,530 victims in the age-group of
30-50 years.

While 617 victims were below the age of 10 years, 4,507 were between
10 and 18 years, the report said.

A total of 1,85,312 incidents of crime against women were reported in
the country as compared to 1,64,765 in 2006, recording an increase of
12.5 per cent.

Andhra Pradesh was at the top of the list of crime against women
accounting for 13.3 per cent of such incidents recorded in the country
followed by Uttar Pradesh with 11.3 per cent.

Molestation and sexual cases also increased by 5.8 and 9.9 per cent
last year.

Madhya Pradesh, which had the highest number of rape cases, registered
a record 6,772 incidents out of a total of 36,617 molestation cases
followed by Andhra Pradesh (4406 cases).

Andhra Pradesh shared the dubious distinction of having the largest
number of 3,316 sexual harassment cases followed by Uttar Pradesh
which had 2,882 cases. Total number of such cases in the country was
10,950.

Respect for women seem to be the most worst in Andhra Pradesh which
accounted for 83.5 per cent of cases under Indecent Representation of
Women (Prohibition) Act of total cases across the country. Out of a
total 1,200 such cases, Andhra had registered 1,005 incidents in this
regard.

There was a 20.3 per cent increase in cases of torture by husband and
relatives with Andhra Pradesh again leading the pack with 11,335 cases
out of the 62,128 incidents. West Bengal and Rajasthan were not far
behind in torturing women registering 9,900 and 8,170 cases
respectively.

According to the report, one-fourth of the dowry death cases were
reported from Uttar Pradesh (2,076 cases). Bihar came second in this
list with 1,172 cases while the national capital has 138 dowry deaths
last year.
PTI


Islamabad threat forces Delhi to boost LoC vigil


1 Dec 2008, 1305 hrs IST, TNN
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: With evidence mounting of Pakistani footprints
in the Mumbai strike, Islamabad has moved swiftly to pre-empt any
international
consolidation against it by threatening to withdraw one lakh soldiers
from the “war on terror” on its Afghan border and move them to the
Indian side if New Delhi makes any aggressive move.

In Washington, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani said
there is no movement of Pakistani troops right now, but if India makes
any aggressive moves, Islamabad will have no choice but to take
appropriate measures.

While the threat is clearly aimed at ringing alarm bells in the US,
Indian armed forces have cranked up their readiness and surveillance
levels by a few notches all along the western front as a
“precautionary measure”. But, as reported by TOI on Sunday, there is
no Indian move to mobilise troops on a large scale near the border, as
was done during Operation Parakram in the aftermath of the December
2001 terror attack on Parliament.

“There is no mobilisation... Routine troop movements and small
exercises are in progress in border areas. In any case, the army’s
operational philosophy has changed from the Operation Parakram days,
with long-drawn mobilisations giving way to the rapid ‘cold start’
strategy of strike units,” said a senior officer.

The army also debunked reports that the government had ordered it to
“break” the ceasefire—along the 198-km International Border in J&K,
the 778-km Line of Control and the 150-km Actual Ground Position Line
in Siachen—which came into force on November 26, 2003. Though
Pakistani forces have violated the ceasefire 65 times since then, with
35 of those breaches being reported this year alone, it has generally
held with the two sides not descending into the heavy artillery duels
of yesteryears.

Though Indian armed forces have so far not noticed any move by
Pakistan to redeploy its troops, they have spotted “heightened
military activity across the border”. “Consequently, the armed forces
and the BSF have stepped up their vigilance levels,” said an official.
But the situation is unlikely to progress into an “eyeball-toeyeball”
confrontation along the Indo-Pak border as it did during 2001-2002.

Such a Pakistani move would obviously undermine the US-Nato battle in
Afghanistan that would also be detrimental to India in the long run.
In the short term, the current Pakistani troop deployment is keeping
Islamabad engaged on its western front and minimizing infiltration in
Kashmir, allowing India to tackle the insurgency in the state.

In fact, some experts surmise that the terror strike on Mumbai may
have been aimed at precisely this—taking the pressure off Pakistan on
its Afghan front, where it is getting a battering from US predators
and causing a civilian uprising on its border, and allowing Islamabad
to return to its traditional hostile posture against India on its
eastern front.

Senior US officials have been in constant communication with their
Indian counterparts to deal with the complex situation.
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The industrial growth rate of West Bengal is 1.1 per cent higher than
the national average of 10.8 per cent (2006-07), and the State
continues to move ahead on the path to development and economic
progress, the Singur episode notwithstanding.


According to leading industrialists, the sectors like steel and
mining, chemicals and petro-chemicals, power, agro industries and food
processing, Information Technology (IT), real estate and retail have
been generating a lot of interest in West Bengal.

The State is a gateway not only to north-east India besides other
States like Orissa, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, but also to
countries like Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.

The growth and development is obvious in and around the capital city
of Kolkata. Major real estate players like DLF, Unitech, Singapore-
based Keppeland, Purvankara, Emaar Group, are all competing for a pie
of the new satellite township coming up at Rajarhat, near the
airport.

Besides housing estates, several budget and star hotels and conference
centres, cultural centres, shopping malls, multiplexes are being built
across the city.

Smaller towns like Durgapur, Haldia, Asansol, and Siliguri across the
State are developing. The steel sector, recently received a boost with
the foundation stone laying of the proposed Rs. 35,000 crore-Jindal
Steel Plant in Salboni, in West Midnapore District, approximately 240
kilometres from Kolkata.

The other sectors that have witnessed a lot of activity are metals,
mining and plastic.

With a sustained agricultural growth of over 8 per cent, the State is
also finding investors in the agro-industries and in food processing.

"There is great focus in potato, other vegetables and fruit
cultivation and processing. The entry of wholesale giants like Metro-
Cash-And-Carry signals well for this segment," says Dr. Rajeev Singh,
Secretary General, Indian Chamber of Commerce.

According to the city-based industrialist Sanjay Budhia, Chairman of
the Patton Group, Kolkata finds investors because of facilities like
low-cost housing compared to other metros, good sanitation and basic
amenities, best clubs in the country, culture and a literate working
class.

Sanjay says investors from Japan and Korean get bowled over when they
see the great golf courses the Tolly club and the Royal Calcutta Golf
Club (RCGC).

In the hotel industy, Kolkata has witnessed entry of big players. The
Apeejay Group is putting up a 300-room five star hotel spread over a
3.3 acre plot on the Eastern Bypass worth Rs 1.36 billion, as is the
Emaar Group.

The Bengal Shrishti Infrastructure Development is building a hotel in
Rajarhat worth Rs. five billion. The Hilton group has also made
enquiries.

According to Samit Ganguly, Director for Sales, Hyatt Regency,
Kolkata, has a corporate-driven hotel market, which is growing despite
seasonal downslides.

West Bengal today is the third largest economy in the country. Its IT
sector, which set off much later than other parts of the country, is
growing fast with big names like Wipro, TCS and IBM finding a place in
the IT hub at Sector V already.

The State, according to industry leaders, is on the right track. It
has garnered new projects worth two billion dollars in the last four
years. The government has offered the right incentives and even during
the recent global meltdown and recession, not many see much reason to
worry.

However, all emphasize that there is need for an environment for
industrial growth.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's government in West Bengal has shown the
political will towards taking the State forward industrially. However,
the state's merit as an investment destination and for industrial
development would ultimately be decided on the basis of its work
culture and the public will to see projects through.
http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=150965

Bachchan cancels Clinton invite after Mumbai terror strike
NEW DELHI: Superstar Amitabh Bachchan has cancelled an invitation of
former US president Bill Clinton to participate in his Clinton Global
Initiative after the terror strikes in Mumbai, saying he wanted to be
in the country during this time of crisis.

"I cancelled. I am NOT going to leave my country in this troubled hour
to travel to a foreign land to lend cause to a foreign initiative,
patronized and guided by a foreigner, for his benefit !! I need to see
initiative here in my country," he wrote in his blog.

The actor has also cancelled his participation in Live Earth concert,
which was organised for 6th and 7th December in Mumbai.

"I am NOT going to sing and dance at a time when my country and city
bleeds, even though the funds collected were going to be for charity.
They can keep their initiative to themselves," said Bachchan.

Taking a dig at the political system, Bachchan said, "Cynical and
provocative text come in describing the ridiculous utterances of the
system and those that run it. And actions to placate themselves of
dire circumstances, prevail among ruling governance."

The actor said he shared the anger and frustration of the countrymen
over the situation. "Never ever have I observed the extent of extreme
anger in each and every individual of this country towards those that
sit in the seat of authority and system and power," he wrote.

"This is a determined and definite citizen. A citizen that has decided
that everyone of them needs to become his own vigilante. For his sake
and for the sake of his country. "I endorse that sentiment," he said.
PTI


Top US lawmakers on Sunday pushed for aggressive and effective US
diplomacy in South Asia to prevent the further escalation of tensions
between Pakistan and India as a consequence of the Mumbai terrorist
attacks that have killed 183 people, including six Americans.

Appearing on various Sunday talk shows, these top law makers, cutting
across party lines, were worried that the escalation of tension
between the two nuclear-power South Asian neighbours, would not only
endanger its soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, but also badly hit its
war against terrorism.

With Afghanistan being a top foreign policy priority for the upcoming
Barack Obama administration, these lawmakers also welcomed the idea of
the president-elect appointing a special envoy for mediation between
the two countries.

"We're going to have to move very rapidly ourselves, the United States
of America, to make certain that our forces in Afghanistan, quite
apart from whatever we're doing in Iraq, are protected, while the rest
of this goes on, with two very high-level countries," Senator Richard
Lugar told the ABC News on its popular weekend show 'World This
Week'.

"Our presence there is going to be very important," said Lugar, who is
a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Pushing a strong diplomatic initiative from the US now, Lugar said:
"Everybody could have suspicions, at this point. My point is diplomacy
may try to unravel some of this, to try to keep things afloat."

Appearing on "Fox News Sunday", Senator McCaskill said: "We've got to
have aggressive and principled diplomacy between these two
countries."

A senior member of the Armed Services Committee, McCaskill said in
order to keep Americans safe, the US needs to make sure that "we hold
Pakistan accountable for the terrorist training activity that's
ongoing there".

The US has been giving Pakistan a lot of financial aid to root out
terrorism within their borders and frankly they haven't been as
accountable as they need to be for those dollars, he argued.

"So we need to continue to strengthen these relationships and do
everything we can to make sure these two countries work out these
differences in a way that does not involve a full-scale military
conflict," he added.

Democratic Senator Jack Reed said: "If there's a strong indication, on
both sides, that they're moving together, and that we can play a
productive role, yes. But I think you have to have the building blocks
in place."

Another senior Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill said: "The Obama
administration is very focused on making sure that we do not have a
full-blown conflict between Pakistan and India. Obviously, the
Kashmiri border has been a sticking point for these two countries for
a long, long time."

McCaskill said the Obama national security team is going to be looking
at how the US can strengthen the entire region and continue to focus
on where the terrorism threats are.

Two senior investigators said on condition of anonymity that evidence
from the interrogation of Azam Amir Kasav, the only gunmen of the 10
captured alive, clearly showed that Pakistani militants had a hand in
the attack.

The Live Earth India concert, scheduled to be held in Mumbai next
month, has been called off in the wake of attacks in India’s financial
capital that killed nearly 200 people, organisers said. American
musician Jon Bon Jovi, British rocker Roger Waters and Bollywood
superstar Amitabh Bachchan were to share the stage at the Dec. 7 event
to raise funds for lighting homes with solar energy in places where
people do not have access to electricity.

Two days after the last of the terrorists was gunned down by
commandos, the country's commercial capital limps back to normal with
the routine flurry of activities seen in almost all parts of the city.
The first signal of normalcy came when a couple of hours after the
operation at the Taj was over on Saturday, Jehangir Art Gallery, a
stone's throw away from the landmark hotel, was thrown open for art
aficionados.

On Sunday, Cafe Leopold, where the terrorists started their bloody
campaign, opened its doors to customers.

Government and corporate offices, courts, schools, and colleges have
also opened, and lakhs of Mumbaikars have resumed their daily
routine.

Investigators said on Monday the militants who attacked Mumbai had
months of commando training in Pakistan, adding to rising tensions
between the neighbours as recriminations mounted at home.

The fallout prompted a second top politician from the ruling Congress
party to resign, amid growing anger at intelligence failures that many
Indians believe allowed 10 Islamist gunmen to kill 183 people and
besiege India's financial capital for three bloody days.

The attacks, which struck Mumbai's two best-known luxury hotels and
other landmarks in the city of 18 million, are a major setback for
improving ties between India and Pakistan.


The seven-member team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has
started its assessment of the Mumbai terror attacks. The team arrived
in the city on Sunday and was in a day-long meeting with the Director
General of Police (DGP), Mumbai Commissioner of Police and senior
officials from the Crime Branch. The team is in the process of
examining evidence and remnants of explosives gathered from the
targeted places and the methodology used by the militants, official
sources said.

FBI would be investigating the case from their side as six American
nationals were killed in the attacks. It was not immediately clear
whether the FBI has also registered a case in the matter as they had
done in the hijacking of Indian airlines' IC-814 plane in 1999 which
carried a US national - Jennir Moorie.
The clean-shaven, 21-year-old with fluent English was photographed
during the attack wearing a black t-shirt emblazoned with the Versace
logo. He has said his team took orders from "their command in
Pakistan", police officials said.


Meanwhile,the United States has told Pakistan it expects nothing short
of complete cooperation in investigations into the terrorist rampage
in India, and Pakistan's response will be a test of the will of the
new civilian government, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on
Monday. Talking tough with Pakistan, the Ministry of External Affairs
in India has summoned the Pakistan High Commissioner after strong
links to Pakistan in the Mumbai terror attack emerged.

On the other hand, European and Chinese industry activity slumped in
November, Japanese officials said their economy was slowing rapidly
and US retailers slashed prices to lure shoppers as recession took a
grip. Underscoring the tightening grasp of the downturn, Bank of Japan
Governor Masaaki Shirakawa warned on Monday economic conditions were
deteriorating fast, and Japanese firms were finding it increasingly
hard to secure credit.



"What we are emphasizing to the Pakistani government is the need to
follow the evidence wherever it leads," Rice said. "I don't want to
jump to any conclusions myself on this, but I do think that this is a
time for complete, absolute, total transparency and cooperation and
that's what we expect."

At President George W. Bush's direction, Rice is cutting short a
European trip to visit India later this week. Attacks spanning three
days killed more than 170 people in the Indian commercial capital
Mumbai, including six Americans.

Indian leaders pointed fingers at "elements in Pakistan" although it
is not yet clear where the well-planned operation originated.

"We share the grief and the anger of the Indian people but of course
Americans were also killed in this attack and they were killed
deliberately because they were Americans," Rice said during a news
conference aboard her plane en route to London. "That makes this of
special interest and concern to the United States."

Attackers chose sites representing the city's wealth and tourism, and
reportedly sought out Westerners as victims. Rice will see Indian
leaders in New Delhi. She does not plan to go to Mumbai.

A previously unknown Muslim group called Deccan Mujahideen – a name
suggesting origins inside India - has claimed responsibility for the
attacks. But Indian officials said the lone surviving gunman, now in
custody, told authorities he belonged to a Pakistani militant group
with links to the divided Himalayan territory of Kashmir.

India has blamed "elements" from Pakistan for the 60-hour siege during
which suspected Muslim militants hit 10 sites across Mumbai.

Ashok Todi in judicial custody



Prime accused in the Rizwanur Rahman death case Ashok Todi on Monday
was sent to judicial custody till December 12 after he surrendered
before a city court here on the direction of the Supreme Court.

Todi, who had allegedly been evading arrest for some time, had moved
the Supreme Court challenging an arrest warrant issued by the
metropolitan magistrate at Bankshall Court. The apex court had
directed him to surrender before the magistrate.

Todi's counsel Pradip Ghosh prayed for bail plea before magistrate
Madhumita Roy claiming that he was ill and had been exonerated of any
accusation by Rizwanur, whose body was found beside railway tracks in
September last year, a month after he married the industrialist's
daughter, Priyanka.

He stated that as per the last letter of Rizwanur before his alleged
suicide, the computer graphics teacher had stated "I forgive my father-
in-law Ashok Todi because he is a father."

CBI counsel Partha Tapaswi opposed the bail plea submitting that Todi
was the main accused and as such should not be given bail. Appearing
for Rizwanur's mother, Kishwar Jahan, counsel Kalyan Banerjee made an
impassionate plea opposing the bail petition.

I was disinclined but answered to call of duty: PC

I was disinclined’ to move to the Home Ministry but in a situation
like this, "I answered to the call of duty", P Chidambaram said on
Monday on his portfolio being changed from Finance Minister to Home
Minister.
"When the Prime Minister conveyed the decision to me, I will be less
than honest if I do not say that I was disinclined," Chidambaram told
reporters here while winding up his duties with the Finance Ministry.

"But in a situation like the one we find ourselves, the final call is
taken by the party leader, in my case the Congress president and the
Prime Minister. I therefore answered to the call of duty," he said.

Chidambaram was appointed the Home Minister on Sunday after Shivraj
Patil resigned in the wake of terror strikes in Mumbai.

Demand for security system makers rise after terror attacks

Shares of security systems manufacturers picked up steam on Monday
after the recent terror attacks in Mumbai prompted companies to
enhance Women light candles during a vigil in Mumbai on Sunday. (AFP)

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their security.

Issues such as physical security measures, access control, frisking
and checking of baggage of guests, installation of gadgets like CCTV
cameras, door frame metal detectors, hand-held metal detectors and X-
ray baggage scanners took centrestage after the co-ordinated terror
attacks in the city.

Companies like Zicom Electronic Security Systems, Bartronics India,
Gemini Comunications and Bharat Electronics are among the few that
will gain on the markets, analysts said.

Zicom provides electronic security solutions in India for customers
from the banking, telecom, media and finance sectors among others. It
offers a range of products, including access control systems, closed
circuit television surveillance, fire alarm systems, smart cards and
law enforcement products.

Hyderabad based Bartronics is engaged in providing automatic
identification and data capture solutions in India and
internationally. It also offers radio frequency identification (RFID)
solutions, smart cards, and point of sale solutions. The company's
products are used in various applications, such as access control,
building management, crowd management, patrol management, application
tracking, vehicle tracking, siren management and fleet management
apart from others.

Gemini Comunications, which is based in Chennai, together with its
subsidiaries, offers security products and services like voice and
data copper cabling, fiber optics, and wireless solutions to
industrial and small and medium enterprise customers. It also provides
WAN infrastructures, and LAN/WAN solutions and support services.

The business unit offers security products, including hardware,
software, and chips; and security solutions comprising perimeter
security, unified threat management, nternal security, secured remote
access, employee Internet management, mail security, patch management,
and access control.

Bangalore based Bharat Electronics supplies products and turnkey
systems to the Indian Defense Services. It also manufactures various
civilian products and offers turnkey telecommunication solutions to
civilian market.

At 3pm, Zicom shares gained 4.9 per cent to Rs 49.20 and Bharat
Electronics climbed 2.46 per cent to 573. But shares of Bartronics
India pared early gains and were trading at Rs 59.50, down 2.86 per
cent while Gemini Comunications fell 0.85 per cent to Rs 17.50.


Pakistan denied it was involved and demanded evidence.

India has repeatedly accused Pakistan of complicity in terrorist
attacks on its soil, many of which it traces to militant groups
fighting Indian rule in Kashmir. The U.S. has tried to persuade
Pakistan to shift its security focus from India, with which it has
fought three wars, to Islamic militants along the Afghan border.

Rice said Pakistan's U.S-backed civilian president, Asif Ali Zardari,
has pledged to improve relations.

Zardari replaced President Pervez Musharraf earlier this year and has
established polite but distanced relations with Washington. Musharraf
was a military man and a Bush administration ally against terrorism,
but that closeness cost him support at home.

"It's a difficult task for this new Pakistani government," Rice said,
referring to the way Islamabad will respond to the attacks next door.
"They know this is a time to step up to the task."

Rice spoke Sunday with President-elect Barack Obama, their third
conversation about India in as many days.

PAKISTAN TRAINING

The training was organised by the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, and
conducted by a former member of the Pakistani army, a police officer
close to the interrogation said, on condition of anonymity because he
was not authorised to speak.

"They underwent training in several phases, which included training in
handling weapons, bomb making, survival strategies, survival in a
marine environment and even dietary habits," another senior officer
said.

The Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba made its name fighting Indian rule
in Kashmir but was also blamed for an attack on the Indian parliament
in 2001 that brought the nuclear-armed neighbours close to war.

Lashkar had had close links to Pakistan's military spy agency in the
past, security experts say, although the government in Islamabad
insists it too is fighting the group and other Islamist extremists
based on its soil.

New Delhi has not accused Islamabad's civilian government of
involvement but has expressed deep frustration that its neighbour has
been unable or unwilling to prevent militants using its soil to attack
Indian cities.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has appealed to India not to
punish his country for last week's attacks, saying militants could
precipitate a war, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

"Even if the militants are linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, who do you think
we are fighting?" asked Zardari in an interview with the Financial
Times.

Officials in Islamabad have warned any escalation would force it to
divert troops to the Indian border and away from a U.S.-led anti-
militant campaign on the Afghan frontier.

"It's part of the usual blackmail of the United States that Pakistan
does to take more interest in India-Pakistan issues," said B. Raman, a
former head of Indian intelligence agency RAW.

"NO ONE ACTED"

The leader of Maharashtra's main fishermen's union says he had tipped
off the government four months ago about militants using the sea to
land RDX explosives in Mumbai.

"No one acted upon our information," Damodar Tandel said.

A huge consignment of explosives and guns brought ashore in Mumbai in
1993 was used to set off a string of bombs in the city that killed 257
people.

Mumbai residents returned to schools and offices on Monday for the
first time since the attacks.

Candlelight vigils were held in New Delhi and at various spots in
Mumbai on Sunday, with people holding hands, singing and carrying
banners, some in remembrance of victims, others protesting over what
they saw as government inaction.

Candles and flowers were also strewn at the bullet-scarred Cafe
Leopold and at barricades in front of the Taj and Trident hotels,
where the gunmen holed up during the 60-hour siege.

Pentagon to reserve 20,000 troops for domestic emergencies: Report

The US Department of Defense plans to deploy 20,000 troops nationwide
by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to terror or
nuclear attacks and emergencies.

Citing Pentagon officials, the newspaper said the plan calls for three
rapid-reaction forces.

The first 4,700-strong unit, built around an active-duty combat
brigade, is based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and is already available
for deployment, according to General Victor Renuart, commander of the
US Northern Command, it said.

Two additional groups will later join nearly 80 smaller National Guard
and reserve units made up of about 6,000 troops to support local and
state authorities nationwide, The Post said.

They will all would be trained to respond to domestic chemical,
biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosive attacks.

The newpaper said that civil liberties groups and libertarians had
expressed concern that the plan could undermine the Posse Comitatus
Act, a 130-year-old law restricting the military's role in domestic
law enforcement.
A glimpse of Nariman House cost them their lives

They were not among the hostages inside the Nariman House where the
mindless terror game was on, but being around it even cost them
dearly.
Terrorists holed up inside the Jewsih building opened fire at those
trying to have a glimpse from their rooftops and balconies of what was
happening inside the structure.

Salim Harawala (62) and Maria Harawala (55) fell to the terrorists'
gunshots in the process. Their 28-year-old son, Mohammed Harawala, was
lucky enough to survive the attack as the bullet just passed above his
head. He was admitted to St George hospital with minor injuries.

Mohammed, on the fateful day, after attending a family function was
returning home along with his parents when a blast at a petrol pump in
Colaba occurred.

Fearing danger, they decided to go to their relative's place at Shivam
House adjacent to Nariman House.

The family heard some loud shots and they leaned out from the balcony.
Terrorists opened fire in the air and two bullets hit Mohammed's
parents, claiming their lives.

Tayeebi Gittsam, Mohammed's father-in-law, is in a state of shock.

"It is high time something is done to eradicate terrorism. How many
more innocent persons are going to lose their lives.

"These people (terrorists) just want to take revenge and they don't
think about the consequences and only have a motto of killing as many
people as possible," he said.

What's wrong with taking my son along? Asks Deshmukh

Brushing aside the criticisms on filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma being part
of his entourage to the terror-hit Taj hotel and other sites, Chief
Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday said there was "no bad intention
in it".
Asked what the filmmaker was doing at the site of a terror attack when
most people were not allowed inside, Deshmukh said, "There was no bad
intention in it. Many people come to such places. The television
footage of the visit was provided by the government."

Deshmukh also said there was nothing wrong in his actor son Riteish
accompanying him to the sites of the terror attacks.

"If my son is with me what is wrong in that? It was a big incident and
he wanted to see it," Deshmukh said.

The actor and the director were seen in the entourage which
accompanied the Chief Minister when he visited the Taj, the Oberoi and
the Nariman House in south Mumbai.

"If people speak right thing then the media does not show it. However,
I have complete respect for the opinion of all people of the state as
it is a democracy and they are entitled to it," Deshmukh added.

Slowdown deepens, attack clouds prospects

India's manufacturing industry contracted sharply in November and
economists said fallout from last week's attacks on its financial
capital risked deepening a deceleration already underway due to the
global financial crisis.
A survey showed activity reported by Indian manufacturing purchasing
managers shrank for the first time since the survey began 3-½ years
ago, although the rate of contraction was not as acute as in
neighbouring China. "It is a much larger fall than expected and
follows the more dismal Chinese PMI," said Robert Prior-Wandesforde,
an economist at HSBC. "Industrial output itself may also contract."

India's lending markets seized up in October as turmoil in the world's
major credit markets disrupted the flow of funds between banks and
their customers.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has slashed its main lending rate by
150 basis points to 7.5 per cent and released billions of dollars into
the financial system but evidence shows demand is still faltering.

Sales at India's largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki, fell 24.4 per cent
in November from a year earlier and TVS Motor, the third largest two-
wheeler maker, saw annual sales drop about 13 per cent.

Palaniappan Chidambaram, who moved from being Finance Minister to Home
Minister in a cabinet reshuffle on Sunday, said on Monday he still
expected the economy to expand 7-8 per cent in the fiscal year to
March.

Data on Friday showed the economy expanded 7.6 per cent in the
September quarter, slower than 7.9 per cent in the quarter before and
far below 9 per cent seen in all of 2007/08.

Prior-Wandesforde said the coming months would be extremely
challenging for the economy and growth was likely to soften more.

"It is up to the government to loosen fiscal policy now that the RBI
has already announced several measures, and I think further rate cuts
may be there," he said.

The trade deficit narrowed slightly to $10.54 billion in October
compared with $10.63 billion in September.

Imports rose an annual 10.6 per cent in the month, with oil imports up
22 per cent, and exports for the April-October period grew 23.7 per
cent from a year earlier.

The seasonally adjusted PMI output index slumped to 44.6 from 54.1 in
October, showing manufacturers have scaled back production on the back
of waning demand.

Almost all the indexes covered by the report, which tracks changes in
manufacturing business conditions by polling purchasing managers each
month, fell to their lowest in the series.


Economy to fall sharply from Q4: Nomura

India's economic growth will start falling sharply from the fourth
quarter of 2008 mainly due to a drop in investments, demand and
exports, Nomura Financial Advisory & Securities (Pte) said in a note.
Potential fallout from last week's terror attacks in Mumbai is an
added "downside risk," the Japanese financial group added.

Nomura also cut its estimate for India's gross domestic product growth
in 2008/09 to 6.8 per cent from 7.2 per cent, and expects 2009/10 GDP
growth to slow to 5.3 per cent from its earlier estimate of 6.9 per
cent, according to the note. There are increasing signs of non-linear
economic effects: vicious negative spirals from falling asset prices,
sagging confidence, rising job losses, tightening lending standards
and weakening demand, as well as increasing multiplier effects on
domestic demand from the slump in exports," Nomura said.

"We forecast inflation to ease sharply due to falling commodity prices
and rising economic slack, and consequently expect the RBI to embark
on an aggressive rate-cutting cycle," Sonal Varma, economist, said in
the note.

India's GDP grew by 7.6 per cent in the third quarter of 2008 down
from 7.9 per cent in the previous quarter, led by still-strong growth
in the services sector, but details confirm that the economy is losing
momentum, the bank said.

'Terrorism has the most fanatic followers'

Condemning the terror-attack in Mumbai, reel-life turned real-life
couple Ajay Devgan and Kajol said that terrorism is the only religion
that should be wiped off from the earth.
"If there is any religion that should be wiped off this earth, it is
terrorism. However, each religion is trying to wipe the other out.
Terrorism has no god besides terror and this religion has the most
fanatic followers," the duo said in a statement.

"A salute and hats-off to our armed forces who have showed such
courage and made us believe in heroes all over again. We pay our
tributes to the able officers who have laid down their lives so that
we can sit safe in our house today," they said.

The duo felt it was impossible to fight such fanaticism.

"How do we fight this new religion? Do we blame political parties or
do we start something on our own?" they asked.

"The crisis is over. At least that's what we would like to believe
till the next one props up, which could be tomorrow, day-after, today
or even right now," they said referring to the end of security
operations at the hotels held hostage by militants.

"This is their job and they have done it wonderfully, but have we done
ours? We pay tributes to them till the crisis is over but the next
working day, is exactly that, a working day. We forget all about them
till next situation comes up," the duo said.

A year Tata would like to forget

1 Dec 2008, 0227 hrs IST, MV Ramsurya, ET Bureau


Terrorists could have used 2 taxis, planted IEDs
MUMBAI: It has truly been annus horribilis for the Tatas. The mishaps
range from the trivial to the serious. Before the terrorist attack at
the
Taj, the greatest challenge confronting the group was a violent
agitation by the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamul Congress, which
eventually led to the shifting of the prestigious Nano car project
from West Bengal to Gujarat. It was also the victim of a series of
well-orchestrated forgery reports.

The 100-year-old Taj — the flagship property of the Tatas’ Indian
Hotels — accounts for almost 45% of the company’s revenues. Group
founder Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata built the Taj in 1903 after he was
reportedly refused entry at an ‘Europeans-only’ hotel.

The Tata Group, industry observers say, is sure to bounce back. It has
great leadership at the top and dedicated human resources across all
levels of the workforce. This became increasingly apparent during the
terrorist attack, where the Taj staff worked selflessly to rescue and
comfort the guests.

The terrorist attacks came a month-and-a-half after the group was
forced to move its small car project out of Singur following
widespread violent protests led by Ms Banerjee, who claimed that the
original owners of the land on which the Nano (a low-cost small car)
was to be built, had been forcibly evicted. The Tatas had invested
about Rs 1,500 crore in Singur.

“Our reason for leaving West Bengal is the continued aggression and
agitation by the Opposition with total disregard for the rule of law,
and not because of what the state government has done or not done,”
chairman Ratan Tata had said, even as a distraught West Bengal
government made fervent pleas to the Tatas to reconsider their
decision.

The small car project shot into the limelight ever since Mr Tata said
his group would offer a car at just Rs 1,00,000 to make a four-wheeler
accessible to the common Indian. The spike in crude prices and the
tightening liquidity situation didn’t impact the group’s deadline for
the car, but the agitation has caused a minor delay.

The Nano is now slated to roll out on Indian roads by March 2009 from
the Tata Motors’ Pune and Pantnagar facilities. “It was a big setback
for the group to move out of Singur at the last moment. It would
definitely have some impact on the schedule,” said a consultant
closely associated with the group’s operations.

Though trivial in comparison with what has happened now, the group has
also been the victim of hoaxes. In August, a forged press release said
group flagship Tata Steel had suspended work on an Orissa port. The
press release, which seemed to be from Tata Steel, said it was halting
work on the port as it could endanger the survival of the Olive Ridley
turtles.

The statement came as a big surprise to the market as only days
before, at its annual earnings meet in Mumbai, senior Tata Steel
executives including MD B Muthuraman had talked about quick progress
on the port project and the benefits of having a captive port on the
eastern coast.
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Sagnik Chowdhury
Posted: Dec 01, 2008 at 0926 hrs IST

Mumbai Nearly two days after the unprecedented terror attacks in
Mumbai were neutralised, police and Central security agencies are
struggling to piece together what is apparently a complex plot even as
questions remain if there are any attackers still on the loose and if
the blasts in the two taxis were intended for other high-profile
targets.
While police and government officials have gone on record to say that
10 attackers entered the city from the sea on a raft and nine have
been killed and one arrested, the blasts in two taxis — in Vile Parle
and near the Dockyard Road station — have sown doubts about the
presence of more men.

But police sources said they suspected the 10 men had used the two
taxis after landing in the city and left an IED each in the two
vehicles to be randomly triggered by timers later in the night and
cause chaos and destruction.

They said the driver and the passenger in the Vile Parle taxi and the
driver in the Dockyard Road station taxi, all of whom were killed, had
been identified and the nature of the explosives used was being
ascertained. More details are expected from the interrogation of Azam
Ameer Qasab, the lone attacker nabbed alive.

“We are still verifying whether they had any local assistance and how
they got information about the internal layout of the targeted areas.
We are also investigating explosions that took place in a taxi in Vile
Parle and Dockyard Road,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime)
Rakesh Maria.

“Qasab has told us that he is with Lashkar and along with the other
nine was trained at camps in Pakistan. Each terrorist was carrying
about 10 hand grenades. Qasab has given us the names of the other nine
men but they might be aliases and need to be verified.”

Maria denied reports that the terrorists were staying in the Colaba
area using Malaysian student identity cards and rubbished talk of two
hotel interns assisting the terrorists. He said that the three groups
of terrorists who held hostages captive at three different locations
in the city were not in touch with each other during the course of the
attacks.


Exports also fell an annual 12.1 per cent in October to $12.82
billion, the first year-on-year fall in nearly three years, as slowing
output at home and weakening economies in key overseas markets slashed
demand.

"Even as external demand shrunk, it appears that much more rapid
domestic demand destruction occurred in November," said Gaurav Kapur,
senior economist at ABN AMRO.

Mumbai, the financial hub, was gradually getting back to normal on
Monday after three days of paralysis last week with gunmen holed up in
three locations in a spate of attacks which left nearly 200 people
dead.

Nomura economists wrote in a client note economic growth was likely to
slow sharply in the coming quarters due to downturns in capital
expenditure and exports.

"Potential fallout from the terrorist attacks in Mumbai is an added
downside risk," they said in the note.

The ABN AMRO Bank purchasing managers' index, based on a survey of 500
companies, tumbled to a seasonally adjusted 45.8 in November, well
below October's 52.2.

A reading above 50 signals economic expansion while a figure below 50
suggests contraction.



With inputs from Smita Nair)
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Shivraj's tenure of internal insecurity
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Amitabh Sinha
Posted: Dec 01, 2008 at 0920 hrs IST

New Delhi: As Home Minister, Shivraj Patil presided over one of the
bloodiest periods in India’s recent history. The four and half years
of his tenure were laced with about 20 major terrorist strikes,
hundreds of deaths of innocent civilians in internal violence, and an
alarming increase in the spread of Naxal activities, to mention just a
few elements of internal security.
To be fair to Patil, he never got much of assistance from any of the
state governments, which are directly responsible for the maintenance
of law and order and also for collecting intelligence information at
the grassroots level. The states were quite happy to see the
responsibility and the blame being fixed on Patil.

But his own statements and actions never instilled any confidence
among the people who were at the receiving end of an endless cycle of
violence and mindless terror attacks.

There have been eight major incidents of terrorist strikes in this
year alone — including the latest attacks in Mumbai — in which more
than 400 people have lost their lives. But all that came out in
response from the Home Ministry was some inane statements that, to the
hapless victims, sounded hollow, repetitive and impotent, even comic.

Even as recently as last weekend, Patil did not forget to mention that
the incidents and casualties in the past four years was much less than
those that occurred in the previous four and half years. “Yet, the
impression created is that terrorism has increased and not reduced,”
he said at the annual conference of police chiefs.

“Even if one incident occurs or one person becomes a casualty, it
should cause us concern and should make us alert. However, it should
not demoralise us and give wrong information to the uninformed section
of the society,” he said.

True, there were a few meetings during which issues like modernisation
of police forces and improving the intelligence network was discussed.
True states were repeatedly being urged to fill up the burgeoning
vacancies in their police forces, to increase their spending on
modernising the forces and buy equipment, and to encourage
coordination of efforts by various policing agencies.

But these were not able to stop the almost predictable cycle of terror
attacks. Instead, his penchant for referring to terrorists and
Naxalites as ‘misguided brothers’, his ill-advised equation between
Mohammad Afzal and Sarabjeet Singh, his adamant opposition to the
promulgation of a tough anti-terror law and denying the same to the
state governments, all contributed to the perception that Patil was
soft on terror. He came to symbolise everything that was wrong with
India’s internal security mechanism.

So much so that he started getting attention for the number of times
he was changing clothes on a day when about 30 people had been killed
in a coordinated serial bomb blasts in Delhi.

Patil could have resigned — or sacked — after any of the numerous
terror attacks in the last three years. But he survived, probably
because — as Patil himself mentioned recently — “he had the blessings
of the Congress president”.

Unfortunately for him though, the Mumbai attacks just proved to be the
last straw on the camel’s back. As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
remarked at the all-party meeting on Sunday that Mumbai attack was
“different” from all the previous terrorist strikes.
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Wings for NSG could have saved lives

1 Dec 2008, 1304 hrs IST, TNN

NEW DELHI: Had the government heeded the National Security Guard (NSG)
proposal for a separate air wing for it, the paramilitary force could
have
reached Mumbai much faster and may have saved a few more lives in the
process.

Since the NSG is mandated to take part in commando operations anywhere
in the country, it had asked the home ministry three years ago to
procure at least two aircraft for it so that its crack anti-terrorist
team could reach the spot directly from its Manesar (Haryana) base.
But the government did not find merit in the proposal and deemed the
current system of getting aircraft from the Air Force and Aviation
Research Centre (ARC) of RAW good enough.

The system, however, did not work this time with NSG commandos losing
a crucial two-and-a-hours before boarding a plane (IL-76 ) to Mumbai.

It is clear from the sequence of events on Wednesday night that the
Quick Reaction Team (QRT) of NSG got ready within the mandated 30
minutes from the first call (at 11 pm) it received from the home
ministry . The team, however, had to travel to Delhi airport by road,
taking one hour.

Unfortunately , the commandos had to wait for another one-and-ahalf
hours (till 2 am) at the airport before taking off for Mumbai as the
IL-76 was to reach Delhi from Chandigarh and the ARC’s aircraft was
unavailable due to some technical snag. Since most of the hostages
were killed by terrorists in Taj and Oberoi hotels before the NSG
commandos arrived, it is clear that some lives could have been saved
had they not wasted so much time.

Without getting into a blame game, NSG director general of J K Dutt
said, “The NSG started its operations well in time. We received quick
help from the Maharashtra state authorities in launching operations at
all the places.”

What Dutt did not say was that the force had, in fact, got the message
from the home ministry at 11 pm — one-anda-half hours after the
terrorists struck Mumbai. The ministry had got the state’s request for
commandos only at 11pm when the chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh
finally grasped the enormity of the situation, an indication of how
poor coordination between Centre and states can play with the lives of
people.

Dutt, while addressing media on the occasion of welcoming his
commandos here for their successful operations in Mumbai, said the
force generally requisitions private jets for counter-hijack
operations but for the Mumbai operations, an IL-76 transport plane was
used.

“On the first day, when 192 commandos took the flight, an IL-76
transport plane was used,” he said.

Other officials later explained that it was only IL-76 type of
aircraft which could serve the purpose as it can carry a large number
of commandos and their arms, ammunition and other equipment in one go,
a requirement to launch such operations.

Dutt later said his commandos even utilised the travelling time in
chalking out their plans for the operation after receiving all
relevant information from the state police.

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Crack commando recounts being shot by Mumbai attackers
1 Dec 2008, 1509 hrs IST, REUTERS
MUMBAI: Indian commando Sunil Kumar Yadav spent nine hours searching
for militants inside Mumbai's vast Taj Mahal hotel before he was fired
on.


Yadav and his elite Black Cat commando squad, working in pairs, had
cleared three floors of the hotel, escorting frightened guests to the
fire escape through dark and smoke-filled corridors, when they came to
a door which would not open with a master key.
"It was locked from inside," the bearded, 29-year-old commando told
reporters from a hospital bed. "So we kicked down the door and charged
a grenade."

Smoke filled the room and instantly a hail of bullets was fired from
inside.

"There was one militant - fair, lean, about 20-25 years of age," said
Yadav, recalling returning the fire from his MP5 machine pistol. The
militant carried an AK-47 rifle and wore a vest of grenades.

"There was a fierce exchange of fire. We could see he was burned from
the fire started by the grenade," said Yadav.

"At some point I was hit on my legs."

Yadav was dragged to safety by Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who was
later fatally shot, the only casualty from India's elite commando
force during the operation.

The last of the militants was gunned down early on Saturday, almost 60
hours after they came ashore in a rubber dinghy and rampaged through
the city with grenades and assault rifles.

By government count, at least 183 people were killed in the frenzied
violence.

"The hotel was a maze of doors and corridors and you didn't know from
where the terrorists would emerge," said Yadav, lying on his stomach
because of his injuries.

"Everything was charred, everything was enveloped in a thick black
coat of soot."

The commandos were evacuating the hotel room by room, coming down from
the roof of the six-storey building, and all they could hear was the
sound of the militants firing and hurling grenades at security forces
outside, Yadav said.

One of those fired on was police Inspector Deepak Dhole, who was in
the same hospital being treated for burn injuries.

"They had the height advantage firing at us, from upstairs and
throwing grenades," said Dhole, a stout, balding man who has served in
the police for 23 years.

"The grenade bursts started a big fire on the second floor where we
were and it trapped us."

But reinforcements arrived soon and the gunmen were engaged by another
set of officers while Dhole was evacuated.

"I was hurt and in pain," he said. "But it was a greater pain to have
to leave the operation midway."

Keep up the spirit to fight
1 Dec 2008, 1249 hrs IST, Shashi Tharoor,

There is a savage irony to the fact that the horror in Mumbai began
with terrorists docking near the Gateway of India. The magnificent
arch, built
in 1911 to welcome the King-Emperor George V, has ever since stood as
a symbol of the openness of the city. Crowds flock around it, made up
of foreign tourists and local yokels; touts hawk their wares; boats
bob in the waters, offering cruises out to the open sea.

The teeming throngs around it daily reflect India's diversity, with
Parsi gentlemen out for their evening constitutionals, Muslim women in
burqas taking the sea air, Goan Catholic waiters enjoying a break from
their duties at the stately Taj Mahal Hotel, Hindus from every corner
of the country chatting in a multitude of tongues. Today, ringed by
police barricades, the Gateway of India — the gateway to India, and to
India's soul — is barred, mute testimony to the latest assault on the
country's pluralist democracy.

The terrorists, who heaved their bags laden with weapons up the steps
of the wharf to begin their assault on the Taj, like their cohorts at
a dozen other locations around the city, knew exactly what they were
doing. Theirs was an attack on India's financial nerve-centre and
commercial capital, a city emblematic of the country's energetic
thrust into the 21st century. They struck at symbols of the prosperity
that was making the Indian model so attractive to the globalising
world — luxury hotels, a swish cafe, an apartment house favoured by
foreigners.

The terrorists also sought to polarise Indian society by claiming to
be acting to redress the grievances, real and imagined, of India's
Muslims. And by singling out Britons, Americans and Israelis for
special attention, they demonstrated that their brand of Islamist
fanaticism is anchored less in the absolutism of pure faith than in
the geopolitics of hate.

Today, the platitudes flow like blood. Terrorism is unacceptable; the
terrorists are cowards; the world stands united in unreserved
condemnation of this latest atrocity. Commentators in America trip
over themselves to pronounce this night and day of carnage India's
9/11. But India has endured many attempted 9/11s, notably a ferocious
assault on its national Parliament in December 2001 that nearly led to
an all-out war against the assailants' presumed sponsors, Pakistan.

This year alone, terrorist bombs have taken lives in Jaipur, in
Ahmedabad, in Delhi and (in an eerie dress-rehearsal for the
effectiveness of synchronicity) several different places on one
searing day in the state of Assam. Jaipur is the lodestar of Indian
tourism to Rajasthan; Ahmedabad is the primary city of Gujarat, the
state that is a poster child for India's development, with a local GDP
growth rate of 14%; Delhi is the nation's political capital and
India's window to the world; Assam was logistically convenient for
terrorists from across a porous border.

Mumbai combined all the four elements of its precursors: by attacking
it, the terrorists hit India's economy, its tourism, and its
internationalism, and they took advantage of the city's openness to
the world. A grand slam.

Indians have learned to endure the unspeakable horrors of terrorist
violence ever since malign men in Pakistan concluded it was cheaper
and more effective to bleed India to death than to attempt to defeat
it in conventional war. Attack after attack has proven to have been
financed, equipped and guided from across the border, the most recent
being the suicide-bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, an action
publicly traced by American intelligence to Islamabad's dreaded
military special-ops agency, the ISI.

The risible attempt to claim ‘credit' for the Mumbai killings in the
name of the ‘Deccan Mujahideen' merely confirms that wherever the
killers are from, it is not the Deccan. The Deccan lies inland from
Mumbai; one does not need to sail the waters of the Arabian Sea to the
Gateway of India to get to the city from there. In its meticulous
planning, sophisticated co-ordination and military precision, as well
as its choice of targets, the assault on Mumbai bore no trace of what
its promoters tried to suggest it was — a spontaneous eruption by
angry young Indian Muslims. This horror was not homegrown.

The Islamist extremism nurtured by a succession of military rulers of
Pakistan has now come to haunt its well-intentioned but lamentably
weak elected civilian government. The bombing of Islamabad's Marriott
Hotel proved that Frankenstein's monster is now well and truly out of
that government's control. The militancy once sponsored by its
predecessors now threatens to abort Pakistan's sputtering democracy
and seeks to engulf India in its flames. There has never been a
stronger case for firm and united action by the governments of both
India and Pakistan to cauterise the cancer in their midst.

Inevitably, the questions have begun to be asked: ‘‘Is it all over for
India? Can the country ever recover from this?''

Of course the answers are no and yes, but outsiders cannot be blamed
for asking existential questions about a nation that so recently had
been seen as poised for take-off. India can recover from the physical
assaults against it. It is a land of great resilience that has
learned, over arduous millennia, to cope with tragedy.

Within 24 hours of an earlier Islamist assault on Mumbai, the stock
exchange bombing in 1993, Bombay's traders were back on the floor,
their burned-out computers forgotten, doing what they used to before
technology had changed their trading styles. Bombs and bullets alone
cannot destroy India, because Indians will pick their way through the
rubble and carry on as they have done throughout history.

But what can destroy India is a change in the spirit of its people,
away from the pluralism and co-existence that has been our greatest
strength. The prime minister's call for calm and restraint in the face
of this murderous rampage is vital. If these tragic events lead to the
demonisation of the Muslims of India, the terrorists will have won.
For India to be India, its gateway — to the multiple Indias within,
and the heaving seas without — must always remain open.

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Mutual funds to cut cash, eye large-cap shares
1 Dec 2008, 1814 hrs IST, REUTERS
MUMBAI: Indian shares, mainly large-caps and financial sector stocks,
are likely to attract domestic mutual fund managers in the next three
months
as they hope for a stock market rebound, a Reuters poll shows.

Three-fourths of the respondents in the Reuters Asset Allocation Poll
conducted between Nov. 21 and 25 said they would cut the amount of
cash they hold because they expect local stocks will rise during the
period.

Three of the eight fund houses polled said Indian shares are fairly
valued, while an equal number said they were undervalued.

All said they would raise exposure their to large-cap stocks.

"Based on historical earnings also if you see, it's more on the
cheaper side," said I.V. Subramaniam, chief investment officer of
Quantum Advisors Pvt Ltd.

The BSE Sensex has slumped more than 50 percent this year and now
trades at a 12-month forward price to earnings multiple of 9.8 times,
far lower than the over 20 times at the start of the year, Thomson
Reuters data shows.

The sharp drop in share values had forced diversified stock funds to
seek safety in cash, which rose to an average 15 percent of their
portfolios at end-October, the highest in several years, according to
data from fund tracker ICRA Online.

The trend is likely to change, fund managers said, as shares across
sectors such as banks, energy, metals and engineering, have fallen to
attractive levels and may rebound as India takes aggressive monetary
measures to revive its slowing economy.

"Now you require some confidence building for it to revive. Nothing is
wrong with the companies," said Subramaniam.

In October, stock funds raised exposure to financials, investing 16
percent of equity assets in them on hopes of rate cuts and moderating
inflation. Three-fourths of the respondents said they would invest
more in the next three months.

India's central bank has cut its key short-term lending rate by 150
basis points and cash reserve requirement by 350 basis points since
October to ease liquidity. Inflation dropped to 8.84 percent last week
from the earlier week's 8.9 percent.

Interest in metal and mining shares, which has been battered by a
sharp plunge in world commodity prices and the global economic
slowdown, is also likely to perk up. Half the respondents said they
plan to raise exposure to the sector.

The Reuters-Jefferies CRB Index, a global commodities benchmark, is
down a third this year while shares of metal companies in India have
plunged nearly 80 percent.

Indian funds cut exposure to such shares to 4.1 percent of equity
portfolio in October from 9.1 percent at end-December.

Jayesh Shroff, fund manager at SBI Funds Management, said the prices
reflected too much pessimism.

IT-BPO lobby to take up layoff issue with Nasscom

1 Dec 2008, 0129 hrs IST, Deepshikha Monga, ET Bureau


NEW DELHI: Unites Professionals India, the IT-BPO trade union, plans
to take up the issues of layoffs and training for the so-called
‘non-performers’ at its first meeting with apex software and services
association, Nasscom, on December 5. Such non-performers are usually
asked to leave by the employer.

In any IT-BPO company, about 5% of employees come under the category
of low or non-performers. “Why don’t we invest in them? They may not
be paid their full salaries for some time but their skills, teamwork
and other problem areas can be worked on,” UNITES Professionals India
general secretary Karthik Shekhar said.

UNITES stands for Union for Information Technology-Enabled Services
and has over 15,000 members among the two million IT-ITeS
professionals in India. It is a part of UNI, a global union for skills
and services, that claims to have 20 million members across the
world.

Apart from training for non-performers, the union will also discuss
the issue of layoffs in the IT-BPO industry. Large IT-BPO companies in
the country have denied any job cuts in the wake of slowdown in
projects from clients in the US and Europe who have been hit by the
global financial crisis.

Mr Shekhar says he’s aware that companies make employees resign and
pass it off as voluntary attrition. “We would like to see the data for
the last three years. How does the number of those who left their jobs
this year, voluntarily or not, compare to that last year? The question
is what will happen after January, ” he asked.

The union is in the process of filing a public interest litigation
(PIL) against IT companies making employees work for longer hours than
the mandated eight hours per day under the Indian Factories Act, 1948.
“It’s because companies have reduced their workforce that they are
making employees work longer,” Mr Shekhar reasoned.

Companies, on their part, say that employees work longer hours as they
follow a five-day week. Representatives from the UNI’s global
headquarters and India chapter will meet Nasscom vice-president Raju
Bhatnagar on December 5.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/ITeS/IT-BPO_lobby_to_take_up_layoff_issue_with_Nasscom/articleshow/3777429.cms


Attacks add to global crisis woes for IT industry

28 Nov 2008, 0430 hrs IST, REUTERS

BANGALORE: India's $52 billion outsourcing industry, battered by a
global financial crisis that is squeezing its business clients, faces
more Mumbai terror attack
Taj Mahal Hotel
Terror in Trident
Colaba attacked
Reactions
Main places of target
Latest from Mumbai
Armed Forces in action
Hemant Karkare
Terror attack on Nariman Bhawan
short-term challenges in the wake of attacks on Mumbai that killed
more than 100 people.

Industry officials said prospective overseas clients were likely to
put off planned visits to India because of the attacks, even though
most software and back-office services firms were operating normally.

"This will surely introduce some sort of concern among clients," said
Krishnakumar Natarajan, CEO of mid-sized software and R&D services
provider MindTree Ltd.

"There was some expectation clients would start visiting India from
January after the end of the annual holiday season. That will now get
pushed away for some more time."

The software and back-office services sector, which earns billions of
dollars from exports, is reeling from a global slowdown and turmoil in
the financial sector, one of its major markets.

The chief financial officer at Wipro Ltd, India's No.3 software
services exporter, told a Reuters India Investment Summit this week he
expected a pickup in growth in the first quarter as companies firm up
outsourcing plans, though many businesses will likely delay decisions
and tighten costs.

India's large pool of English-speaking engineering workers and cheaper
wages have helped attract outsourcing from western firms ranging from
Citigroup and Goldman Sachs to Cisco Systems Inc and Nortel.


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India's outsourcers compete against larger IT services firms such as
IBM and Accenture.

"We have to wait for things to settle. This is a temporary
aberration," said T V Mohandas Pai, a board member at Infosys
Technologies, India's No.2 software services exporter.

"If countries issue advisories, it means some travel will be deferred.
I think people will use technology or we'll go and visit our clients.
Business will go on," he said.

"We have seen terrorist attacks happen in different parts of the
world. It's unfortunate it has happened in Mumbai and I think business
is confident the government and authorities will get to the bottom of
it," he added.

How safe is outsourcing?
29 Nov 2008, 0015 hrs IST, ET Bureau

MUMBAI: A large global firm runs its trading desk out of Mumbai.
Bookings for a leading airline are happening out of another office in
a
neighbouring city, while the telecom infrastructure of an overseas
operator is being remotely monitored from another location in the
country.

A terror attack on any of these sites can have significant
implications for corporations in the US and other parts of the
developed world as India emerges as the world’s back-office.

For instance, if a trade is not squared off on time, the firm will
have to carry higher liabilities. Wednesday’s attack raises questions
about the vulnerability of these locations to terror threats and the
preparedness of firms and authorities to tackle them.

The issue assumes importance as nearly seven out of every 10
outsourced processes come to India, according to industry estimates.
While 6-7 years ago, business process outsourcing (BPO) mostly
involved basic data entry, a number of mission critical processes such
as airline bookings and investment research are now taking place out
of offices in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore.

In its strategic review, Nasscom, the apex industry body, notes,
“Indian BPO has undergone significant transformation since its
inception over a decade ago... The past few years have seen the scope
of these services expand progressively to include more complex
processes involving rule-based decision making and research requiring
informed judgment and domain knowledge,” the apex industry body
notes.

Indian firms also manage infrastructure worth over $3-4 billion
remotely for clients. Damage to these locations can bring down
desktops and servers, besides crippling entire sections of
organisations outside India. “After 9/11, there is a greater
appreciation of the risk arising from a terror attack,” admits KPMG
executive director Akhilesh Tuteja.

“But the level of preparedness even for mission critical operations is
below average,” he adds. The redundancy plan usually involves a backup
and mutiple service providers to ensure connectivity. But process
capability and an ability to swiftly execute the process at another
centre are not a reality in most cases.

“Disaster recovery plans are like an insurance you may never use.
There is now an awareness about the need to have them, but the
decisions are usually postponed because this is not an investment that
will result in growth. Firms usually make investments for growth,”
says PriceWaterhouseCoopers managing consultant Nikhil Donde.

Companies are saving costs amid the slowdown, as every bit can eat
into margins. Multinational parents are managing a majority of the
mission critical operations by way of captives. Ideally, 70% of the
process should be offshored and 30% retained at the onsite location to
minimise the risks, according to Mr Tuteja. But again there is a trade-
off on costs, with real benefits kicking in only when the process is
completly offshored.

In client contracts with third-party firms, it is not uncommon to find
clauses related to business process continuity (BCP). However, these
clauses rarely go into specifics and are usually interpreted in terms
of having a multi-locational presence, back-up capability and multiple
connectivity providers. Rarely do they consider whether the alternate
locations will have people with the necessary skills. And this is
really the biggest threat in a terror attack, when people at one
location can be killed, say the experts.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/ITeS/How_safe_is_outsourcing/articleshow/3770971.cms


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