Delhi Gang Rape Survivor Dies; India Deeply Saddened

By ONE Liners Agency
December 29, 2012

"2012 Ends With A Sad Note For Indians" - Sunil Sonkar, Editor: Asia Pacific News

"I am deeply distressed by the unfortunate demise of the 23-year-old girl who passed away early this morning in Singapore. She was a brave and courageous girl who fought till the very last minute for her dignity and her life. She is a true hero and symbolises the best in Indian youth and women." - President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee

"I want to tell them and the nation that while she may have lost her battle for life, it is up to us all to ensure that her death will not not have been in vain." - Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh

"The family is shattered by this development. At the same time, they realised that best possible medical attention was given. And in the end it was the scale of injuries that proved too much for the medical attention provided to her." - Indian High Commissioner in Singapore, T C A Raghavan

Comments on NYT

is (NYC)

An utter and horrible shame. My heart goes to this girl and all others who are physically or emotionally harmed. Where is the humanity in people. Why are we so cruel.

Julie (Ca.)

I'm not in favor of the death penalty or life imprisonment or 10 years in prison for the perps; all of those are too nice. I'm in favor of public castration -- in the town square -- for each of these men... by victims of rape. Unfortunately their victim can't do it to them, but other women can.

Prof.Jai Prakash Sharma, Jaipur, India

If the death of this brave girl, the victim of a gang rape, helps change the conditions women have had to endure for centuries in India, and leads to better sensitisation of the criminal justice enforcement system, her death, though unwarranted, would have served a much desired societal cause of gender justice, hitherto denied to the better half of humanity.

Comments in Straits Times

trustedcomments

May she rest in peace. I hope he walks his talk asap.

Comments in The Times of India

MPR Panicker (Cochin)

Oh God !!! Give her the best in heaven !!! Here is a girl who was a victim of the hunger driven scoundrals. She fought bravely for her life; but no one could help. Atleats in the next life let her have all good things in life. What else we can pray? And for such henious criminals "eye for eye", "head for head" has to be the law.They have to be erased for the society.

Comments in Hindustan Times

CalIdaGirl

What makes India think that any female tourist would even begin to consider coming to that Country? What absolute horror!

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December 29, 2012 | 3 comments

Darkest Night Of My Life: Baba Ramdev, After Midnight Detention

By STAFF Writer
SUNDAY, May 05, 2011

INDIA NEWS - The yoga guru of modern India, Swami Ramdev Baba, was detained in New Delhi for security reasons. The saint who went into a hunger strike for ending the widespread corruption in India, was forced to move out of the venue of his protest meeting Sunday in the Indian capital.

Ramdev was detained for security reasons but was later released, said the New Delhi Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat. Baba Ramdev then flew to his spiritual headquarters in Dehradunm Northern India.


The spiritual guru, along with tens of thousands of his followers, went on a hunger strike across India and several other cities and towns in Europe and America to bring an end to the corruption in India.

The police clash came after a agreement had been reached on the issue of corruption by both the Goverment and the Sadhu. The spokesman for the New Delhi Police said they had given permisson to Ramdev to hold a peaceful meeting with only 5000 followers. However, defying the police, 40,000 people came for the meeting. The police could not provide protection for the 40,000 people gathered at the venue in Ramlila ground.


The police forces used tear gas and canes to disperse off the crowd after sealing off the venue. More than forty bpeople were injured on the clash according to the press sources. However the police sources denied any knowledge of people getting injured.

As the police went to the dias to take away the yoga guru, he jumped among his followers but the police officials soon overpowered him.

The UPA Goverment, led by Manmohan Singh, has been severly criticised for these actions.

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June 05, 2011 | 0 comments

Who Gains Who Loses After Laden's Death

PERSPECTIVE
TUESDAY, May 10, 2011

US President Barack Obama - THUMBS UP

The US President has seen his dismal approvals surge by as much as 15 percent points. More usefully, killing Obama bin Laden has killed off Republicans claims he was a security wimp. But it isn't all politics. Obama has been just as determined as George W. Bush on destroying Al Qaeda.

Indian PM Manmohan Singh - SMALL UP

India gains because Pakistan is down. Sort of. India has been busy pointing out that the Pakistani military is in ca boots with every possible terrorist you can name. But Singh is too focussed on his peace drive to make much of what's happening in Afghanistan. Perhaps Kayani will be more realistic about his country's future - in which case the talks may actually be fruitful.

General Ashfaq Kayani of Pakistan Army - BIG DOWN

There is strong speculation the Pakistani army chief will be told to retire. Otherwise, Kayani was looking good. He had Hamid Karzai over a barrel, Manmohan Singh in a corner. The US was pumping in billions. He could still win Afghanistan but for many Pakistanis he will just bet the soldier who let the country's guard down.

Al Qaeda - BIG DOWN

Given that so many of its affiliates and members had sworn oath of fealty to Bin Laden himself the groups main problem will be keeping everything together. Al Qaeda needs some spectacular evil otherwise it may find itself overtaken by other, younger terror groups. We know one thing: Ayman al Zawahiri, the bookish number two, won't hack it when it comes to street cred.

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai - SMALL UP

After the Abbottabad incident, Karzai crowed how it had once again been shown that terrorism wasn't an Afghan phenomenon, it was a Pakistani one. But he still has too few options. He's being forced to seek talks with the Taliban and toe the Pakistani line. Bin Laden's death may help, but his problems are Af and Pak, not Arab.

Taliban - POTENTIAL UP

The Taliban are a cluster of Afghan militant groups. Their friendship with the Arab-dominated Al Qaeda made them the targets of the US military machine. They now have the chance to become bigger than everyone. If they play their cards right they could get the US to begin leaving Afghanistan. If they play them better they could end up ruling Kabul again.

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May 10, 2011 | 2 comments

India-Pak Cricket Paves Diplomatic Scripting Between Conjoined Twins

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INDIA / PAKISTAN NEWS - Is India-Pakistan's cricket world cup semi-final match in Mohali today a beginning of a careful diplomatic scripting that opens up later this week? The cricket match, of course, seems to have changed, overnight, the scope and possibilities of dialogue.
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The national teams of Pakistan and India advanced to semifinal round of the WC tournament and they are meeting today in India in presence of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani, who was invited as a surprise to watch the match.

What the two prime ministers will talk for hours while sitting together and watching the match? Can it be a breakthrough between the two conjoined twins?

One thing is clear from Dr. Singh's invitation that he has repeatedly tried to advance diplomacy with the neighbor. As seen, he had also invited Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, though he declined.

Analysts draw a mixed conclusion. Few says the invitation of Dr. Singh may push forward talks between the two countries while others say it is a political stunt which may risk the lower-level talks scheduled to start this week.

Strategic affairs analyst in the capital, Brahma Challaney, said: "It has caught everybody by surprise... In diplomacy, you have to do the preparatory work first if you want to have a result. This sounds like an impulsive move."

Earlier, the cricket diplomacy was tried twice. In 1987 Pakistan President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq attended the Indo-Pak match, but the relations soon deteriorated between the two countries.

In 2005, Dr. Singh invited the then Pak President Pervez Musharraf to watch together India-Pakistan cricket match in New Delhi, ushering in a period of secret back-channel talks that almost culminated in a breakthrough deal on Kashmir.

Whatever... Right or wrong this time.

Dr. Singh wrote in The Indian Express yesterday, "If the mood at Mohali turns out to be good, Dr. Singh and Gilani might help give the dialogue at the bureaucratic level a much needed boost."

India and Pakistan were founded in 1947. Since then, the two nuclear-power neighbors had fought three wars. The diplomatic progress of the two countries were shattered in 2008 after Pak mounted terror attacks killed more than 160 people in Mumbai.

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March 30, 2011 | 0 comments

Assam - 4 blasts, 8 killed, over 60 injured

INDIA NEWS (Asia): On the eve of India’s PM visit to Assam, terror struck. Assam rocked by 3 blasts and a grenade attack within 5 hours today. The terror attack killed 7 persons and have injured at least 63. All the terror attack was in the Maligaon area.

Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India is going ahead with his trip to the North-Eastern state tomorrow on Tuesday and he will address public meetings in Dispur and in Dibrugarh as a scheduled marking his entry into the poll campaign trail. The news comes from PMO sources in New Delhi. Manmohan Singh represents Assam in the Rajya Sabha.

ULFA and another group is suspected for the spate of attacks that came a day before the 30th 'foundation day' of ULFA.

According to The Times of India, Assam DGP G M Srivastav said 7 people were killed and 56 injured when a powerful bomb blast went off in a crowded market in Maligaon in Dishpur, capital of Assam, at around 2:00 pm (IST). The explosion sparked a fire in which 2 cars and 20 motorcycles set ablaze and spread to a 3-storey building housing the area police station.

6 people were killed at the blast site and 1 succumbed to injuries after jumping from an adjacent building which had caught fire. It is suspected that the bomb had been hidden in a car or a motorcycle parked adjacent to the Northeast Frontier railway headquarters.

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April 06, 2009 | 0 comments

India ‘fit’ PM says Varun Gandhi’s remarks unfortunate

INDIAN ELECTION NEWS: On the issue of Varun Gandhi’s communal speech, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh breaks his silence over the fresh effort of communalising politics in India on Thursday condemning the remarks that allegedly sought to target the minority community.

Manmohan Singh talking to media at the Defence Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan said, “It is unfortunate if Varun Gandhi had made these comments.”

Varun Gandhi is a BJP candidate from Pilibhit and is in a midst of a raging controversy over his alleged hate speech against minority.

In his brief to the press Manmohan Singh also sought to dismiss any apprehensions regarding his health. He said that he was fit to campaign for the party in the General Election.

Manmohan Singh is recovering after a cardiac surgery on January 24.

He further said: “The third front is our rival. It should not be underestimated. “The UPA (United Progressive Alliance) will win and I am confident that people will vote for UPA.

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March 19, 2009 | 0 comments