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Exodus of North East people continues from Karnataka -
Bangalore, Aug 17 - Appeals and assurances of safety by the Karnataka government notwithstanding, people from North East continued to flee the state in hordes for the third consecutive day today, driven by rumours of impending attacks. The exodus so far confined to Bangalore has now spread to some other parts with people of the North Eastern region living in Mysore, Mangalore and Kodagu arriving here in trains and buses and rushing to railway counters to buy tickets.
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Assam violence, Bangladeshis, and multiple states of denial -
R Jagannathan, First Post
The national-level panic created among north-easterners living in various metros and big towns of India and the renewed flare-up of violence in Assam has had one positive fallout: we all now know that the north-east exists (we can now find those teeny-weeny states on the map); and we have learnt to acknowledge that they are Indians like any of us (they are not Chinese, despite the shapes of their eyes or facial features). |
Illegal migrants responsible for attacks on N-E people: Gadkari -
New Delhi, Aug 16 - BJP president Nitin Gadkari today alleged that illegal migrants living in Assam and other parts of the country are responsible for the attacks on people from the North East and the recent violence at Mumbai's Azad Maidan. "The attacks in some parts of the country on people from the North East is unfortunate... These are being perpetrated by illegal migrants living in the country. There is a foreign hand in this. The Centre should deal firmly with such incidents," Gadkari told PTI.
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Large number of NE people flee Bangalore -
Bangalore/New Delhi, Aug 16 - As a large number panic-stricken people from the north east fled Bangalore after reports of attacks on some of them, the Centre today said there was no threat to anyone from the region living anywhere in the country and warned of strict action against rumour mongers. |
No threat to north east people anywhere in India: RK Singh -
New Delhi, Aug 16 - With people from north east in panic following rumours of attacks, Union Home Secretary R K Singh today said there was no threat to anyone from the region living anywhere in the country and termed the reports of violence as rumours. |
NE students prepare to leave Karnataka, PM speaks to Karna CM -
Bangalore, Aug 15 - Gripped by panic following rumours of attack on some of their compatriots, about 5,000 people of North Eastern States, including students, today prepared to return to their home towns even as Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar assured them of security. |
Modi slams PM’s doublespeak on infiltration, Mumbai violence -
Rathin Das, Pioneer
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of displaying dual standards regarding his reactions to incidents of violence in Assam and Mumbai. Addressing the State-level Independence Day function at the Police Parade Grounds in Junagadh, Modi demanded to know why the Prime Minister remained silent about the violence in Mumbai while he had expressed regrets for violence in Assam.
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Modi questions PM's silence on Mumbai violence -
Junagadh, Aug 15 - Terming Prime Minister's Independence Day speech as disappointing, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday questioned his silence on the Mumbai violence and asked him to clarify his government's policy on the issue of Bangladeshi infiltrators. |
Ensure security of NE people, Rio writes to Shinde -
Kohima, Aug 14 - Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio today urged Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to ensure security of people, particularly students, hailing from the northeast and working or studying in other parts of the country. In his letter, Rio expressed serious concern over reports of students and people belonging to the northeast being attacked and threatened in certain parts of the country, including Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore.
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Mumbai violence premeditated -
TN Raghunatha, Pioneer
Having arrested 23 miscreants — all belonging to the communally sensitive areas of the city — in connection with Saturday’s rioting at Azad Maidan and its vicinity, the city crime branch sleuths have strong reasons to suspect that the disturbances were “premeditated”. |
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