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Posted by Praful on May 6, 2008
Jaipur, May 14 (ANI): Curfew has been imposed in 15 to 16 police station areas of Jaipur hours after eight serial blasts rock Jaipur, claiming the lives of 70 people and injuring over 200 others.
The curfew has been imposed between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Schools and offices have been closed for the day.
A shutdown has been called across Rajasthan in protest against the blasts which took place at Manas Chowk, Johari Bazar, Tripolia Bazar, Badi Choupal, Choti Choupal, Kotwali areas of Jaipur’s Walled City.
The banned Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HuJI), which operates from Bangladesh, is believed to be behind the blasts, which took place at intervals spread over 15 minutes.
The bombs were made of iron ball bearings, and alarm clock circuits and were planted in new bicycles.
A team of the National Security Guards (NSG) has reached Jaipur for further investigations.
Minister of State for Home, Sri Prakash Jaiswal, described the serial blasts as part of a major conspiracy.
“We are ready to extend all help to the Rajasthan government. Security has been beefed up across the country, especially in the neighbouring States of Delhi and Haryana. We are capable of handling any terrorist misadventure,” he said.
A state of high alert has been declared in Delhi, Mumbai, Karnataka, Bihar, Hyderabad and Maharashtra, all areas that have experienced bomb explosions in the recent past.
Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel were deployed across Jaipur to help deal with the situation.
The State Government has announced an ex-gratia of Rs five lakh for the family of those killed in the explosions, Rs one lakh for the seriously injured and Rs 25,000 for those injured.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has declared a state mourning today in honour of the victims.
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night spoke to Raje and offered all Central support to the State Government in dealing with the situation.
Dr. Singh also spoke to Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who is on a two-day visit to the north east.
Condemning the dastardly attack, Dr. Singh urged the people of Jaipur to remain calm “at this difficult moment”.
President Pratibha Patil expressed grief over the loss of lives and condemned the attack.
The last terror strike in Rajasthan occurred on October 11, 2007 at the Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, leaving two persons dead and 17 injured. (ANI)
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Cities like Hyderabad and Ahmedabad have what some people call ‘mini-Pakistan’ — Muslim majority settlements in the old city. When two bomb blasts shook Hyderabad within three months of each other, the police machinery turned all its attention and force towards the Old City, drawing criticism for gross human rights violation.
Jaipur also has its own ‘mini-Bangladesh’ — Bagrana.
And after the blasts, the Rajasthan police have turned their attention towards this transit camp mostly comprising Bangladeshi migrants.
Two days after the serial blasts, Bagrana, which lies eight km from the city on the Agra [Images] highway, is teeming with police vehicles. The police now focus on Bagrana because initial investigations indicated that one of the perpetrators, who bought a cycle used in the blast, spoke Hindi with a Bengali accent.
A police team arrived on Thursday morning and began checking the credentials of those in the basti.
“We have been asked to find out if any new person has come here. We have a door-to-door checking with the help of photo IDs. Those whose names are not on our records will be taken for questioning,” Jeevan Ram Bishnoi, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Jaipur rural, said.
The photo IDs he is talking about are the ones taken five years ago, when a large number of Bangladeshi migrants were relocated here from inside the city. Till then they were living in shanties outside the Jaipur railway station. The locals protested the presence of encroachment within the city and they were moved to Bagrana.
“Three months before we moved, the authorities came to us and asked what we lacked. We said we did not have a roof over our heads and there was no electricity. The authorities promised to give us both if we relocated en masse to Bagrana. True to their word, they provided us kuchcha houses and electricity supply,” Mohammed Dabloo Miyan, a Bangladeshi who migrated to India 17 years ago, said.
Though officially, the Bagrana transit camp has 5000 people, many say the number may be high. But the policemen are not deterred.
“Our brief is to check everyone’s credentials and find out if anyone had come here recently, including those who were visiting relatives,” Bishnoi said as his men went from hut to hut with a community leader in tow.
Though the police are here only after the blasts, the intelligence department has always had its ears to the ground. The CID even has a dedicated junior officer tending to the basti.
“I have been monitoring this place for two years. It is a pain to keep tab of what is happening in such a huge population, especially when people are very reluctant to help,” the officer, who did not want to be named, said.
Explaining how it is difficult to keep a tab on new entrants, he said: “Only three days ago, we found out that a new family had come in. Since I know the people, I identified the girl as someone from the basti who had left it long time ago. She has now returned. We had to detain her anyway since she is an illegal immigrant and technically she has come here only now. Like this there are so many people who keep going out and coming in all the time. It is really difficult to keep a tab.”
The officer, however, claimed that the place is a hotbed of criminals.
“Most drug peddlers in Jaipur are from here. They are also involved in many other criminal activities,” he said, adding that the police even arrested a man who allegedly gone to Pakistan for six months for arms training.
“This guy came here one day and my sources alerted me to it. When we picked him up and interrogated him, we found out that he had just returned from Pakistan and had missed the phone number of the contact he was to get in touch here for an operation. That time, a major attack was foiled,” he said.
Another reason that makes it tough for the police and other agencies to monitor the transit camp is the disunity within the community. “The camp consists of both Bangladeshis and Bengali people. The two groups are always at each other’s throats. The Bangladeshi camp is a closed group and they never give out any information,” he said.
Residents, however, deny such charges.
“There are mostly rag pickers, rickshaw pullers and labourers. There might be one or two people who do wrong. But to blame the entire basti for that is not right,” one of the residents said.
They also said the police never harass them and it was only after the blasts that they were asked not to venture out of the basti.
“But then, there was a curfew in town also. I strongly believe if you have not done any wrong, nobody will harm you. I saw a youngster being picked up from the basti and taken to police station in connection with a crime. This boy was a labourer and he was innocent.”
“The moment a senior officer came in, he took one look at him and told the interrogators that he cannot be a culprit.
“Look at his face. He wouldn’t be involved,” that is the what the officer said. But the interrogators were not convinced and they thoroughly questioned him before realizing he was innocent and they let him off,” Dabloo Miyan said.
Beyond everything, at least for early settlers like him, India is like a motherland.
“We won’t go back to Bangladesh even if we are offered a comfortable life there. It is India that gave us a chance to earn a livelihood when there was nothing in Bangladesh and we will live here.”
“All my six children were born here and I want to see them grow up here and do well for themselves,” he said.
rohan said
@EKBHUMIHAR
what a fuck u r talking abt??
bahave yourself… violence will burn yr home also..remember that.. and u bloodyfool ,what was yr ancester (bapjada) doing for the freedom when yr BHUMIHAR RASHTRA ruling under mogals. They just ran away when the temples were demolished by Aurangjeb. so it is better to leave peacefully in the democratic india . otherwise we know how to take care of such assholes.
sachin said
@EKBHUMIHAR
what a fuck u r talking abt??
really behave urself………..
WE LOVE INDIA
AND PROUD TO BE INDIAN
INDIA GIVE U ALL THE THINGS
JUST OPEN UR EYES AND SEE
WE ALWAYS SUPPORT INDIA
i don’t think so it is good to explain u all things
hope u ppl will get good exp of india
& bad abt other (wht u said)
in fut
TIME WILL TELL, THT TIME DON”T FORGET THIS COMMENT
Bhumihar said
May 27, 2008 07:55 IST
Despite the slowdown and turmoil in financial markets, private sector employees have received or can look forward to an average salary increase of 15 per cent this year, roughly the same as the year before but lower in real terms because of the inflation rate, which is ruling at 8 per cent.
Still, this is better than most markets — 5.5 per cent in the US and 8 per cent in China, for instance — mainly thanks to the talent crunch and rapid growth in many sectors.
“Given the slowdown, companies are being cautious. Average increases will be 7 to15 per cent though top performers will still get 25 to 30 per cent, ” said K Sudarshan, managing partner (India) for executive search firm EMA Partners International.
HR firm Hewitt Associates, however, estimates average salaries in India rose 15.2 across sectors for 2008-09 in line with the increases last year (15.1 per cent) and better than the year before (14.4 per cent) despite slowdown in many sectors.
”The growth in salaries is due to lack of talent in the market while companies are growing at a fast pace (30 to 35 per cent in telecom, retail). The supply is not keeping pace with the demand. There’s a 10 to 15 per cent shortage of talent across various levels,” said Nitin Sethi, consulting leader, South Asia, Hewitt Associates.
At 15.5 per cent, salaries of people in junior management (up to seven years) rose the fastest, followed by middle management (seven to 12 years) at 15.2 per cent, senior management (12 years+) at 14.5 per cent while salaries of CEOs increased 13.6 per cent.
Some experts had predicted that salary increases will moderate but fast-growing organisations have not been able to control salary increases as the demand-supply situation hasn’t changed much, pointed out experts.
Unlike in developed countries, where the increases are linked to inflation (if inflation is 2 per cent, the increases are 3 to 4 per cent), in India there’s no such link.
For instance, take 2002-03, when inflation in India was 3 to 4 per cent, but the average salary hike was around 12 per cent, HR experts point out.
Salary increases are generally driven by the demand-supply scenario (shortage of talent) and the need for additional people thanks to rapid growth. With salaries rising sharply in the last few years, companies are doing their budgeting more carefully and opting for a higher percentage of variable pay (12 to15 per cent).
“Average salary increases are keeping pace with inflation but are a bit lower than last year’s, ” is all that Bruce Ashby, CEO for Indigo Airlines, is willing to say.
“Talent acquisition and retention is a key focus for us. We offer competitive packages, and our average salary increases this year were between 14 and 15 per cent,” said a spokesman for GE Money.
Five years back, there was a huge gap in salaries between India and what many could earn in West Asia.
“Gaps have to come down vis-a-vis what people earn globally. Salaries have to be very competitive. In retail, for instance, many Indians working abroad want to come back. So, companies need to benchmark globally, ” added Marcel Parker, chairman, IKYA Human Capital Solutions, a new firm started by HR professionals.