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SEZs India has emerged as the second fastest growing economy after China and is the hot favorite destination for the foreign investment. For it, special economic zones are being made to attract more and more investment. It requires acquisition of land to establish economic zones which is mostly objected by the farmers. Recently, we have seen that at many places in India, where land has been acquired, state governments have to face stiff resistance from the farmers. In most of such chances farmers’ struggle turned out to be violent and all the related governments’ had to revoke their orders excluding some cases where farmers had agreed to give their land after the related state governments had increased the compensation packages.

Land One such example is of Sigur in West Bengal where Tata’s Nano project is being set up. Though people want industry in the state but they don’t want it at the cost of farmers. They want that agriculture as well as industry should co-exist. But some unwilling farmers want their land to be given back to them. All this issue has forced the Tata to stop the production of world’s cheapest car, Nano and to think about some other destination where it can be produced. Tata had not acquired the land directly but the state government. State government is responsible for whole of the issue as it ignored the plight of the farmers while it acquired the land. Now it has become the national issue which has triggered a now debate in the corporate world.

Maharashtra But farmers of Raigad Maharashtra are not as unfortunate as there Singur counterparts. They participate in the voting that was conducted to judge about their view about a special economic zone. In the voting more that 6000 farmers of 22 villages participated.  Even those farmers who had agreed to give their land, submitted anti-SEZ opinions. It must be noted that Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance group has planned to set up one of India’s biggest SEZ in the state for which it wants to acquire 10,000 hectares of land out of which 3000 hectares of land lies in 22 villages. Last month Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh had accepted the demand of the anti-SEZ committee to hold a referendum to know the views of the farmers.

Conspiracy After the Jamia Nagar(Delhi) encounter, in which two militants had been killed and one had been arrested, Indian security agencies has uncovered the deep rooted controversy hatched by Pakistan based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taeba. All the blasts were carried out by Indian Mujahideen and SIMI cadres. Till now it was being believed that  IM is a offshoot of SIMI but after the arrest of some more IM terrorists, Delhi police have revealed the link between SIMI and Lashkar. After the encounter police have seized the laptop of one of the killed terrorists which contains Al-Qaida related literature. Some pictures stored in hard disk of the computer has also established the link between various arrested IM and SIMI militants.

Arrests With it the truth has come to surface that serial bomb blasts were triggered by the SIMI and IM terrorists and many SIMI sleeper cells had worked in the conspiracy. It has also become clear that various SIMI cells knew about the blasts but did not know about the timing. Arrested militants have also revealed the exact details about the various serial blasts. It has been revealed that almost 15 terrorists are involved in the Delhi serial bomb blasts. On Sunday Delhi police arrested some more terrorists who revealed about their further planning. Police have arrested four terrorists who had planted bomb in Delhi. According to police sources they were planning to explode 20 more bombs at various important locations in Delhi.

Lashkar Hand Indian security agencies have discovered that SIMI and IM was provided with the logistic as well as financial support by the Pak based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taeba through Dawood Ibrahim. It is being said Lashkar had organized training camps to train the SIMI and IM cadres and had also provided two cars that were used in the serial blasts. ISI was under great pressure from western nations  for its relations with the Taliban terrorists. So it had distanced itself from the Lashkar-e-Taeba. So Lashkar proffered to train  more and more Indian people instead of directly participating in the terrorist activities. So SIMI and IM were the best suitable choice.

Saina Nehwal India’s Saina Nehwal, the quarter finalist of Beijing Olympic Games. Became the first ever Indian woman shuttler to win two Grand Prix singles titles when she won the final of the Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold badminton championship in Taiwan on Sunday. She defeated her Malaysian opponent Li Ya Lydia Cheah with the margin of 21-8, 21-19. She had shot to lime light after winning the Philippines Open in 2005. After that she could not do well but her performance in the Beijing Olympic Games had increased her confidence level a lot. She had missed an Olympic medal with a very narrow margin as she had lost to Indonesia’s Maria Kristin Yulianti in the quarter final. She is also a two time national champion.

Summary This second-seeded Indian and world ranked 14 played a very attacking game from the start and did not gave any chance to her opponent to reduce the points’ gap. Though in the second set her Malaysian opponent gave a tough fight to her but she could not match the experience of the Indian. Saina said ,”I guess this is perhaps my best performance so far.” She had reached the finals and semi-finals of various tournaments but had not succeeded to win a final. This victory is vary important for her as many top ranked shuttlers had participated in the tournament.

Tournament In this tournament she defeated Mingtian Fu of Singapore, Kwan Yi Monng of Hong Kong, Porntip Buranaprasertsuk of Thailand and Pia Zebadiah Bernadet of Indonesian to reach the final. After the pull out decision of top seed Xu Huaiwen of Germany she had become the hot favorite to win the tournament.

She had an opportunity to avenge her Olympic defeat to the third seeded Indonesian Maria Yulianti but the encounter could not materialize as Maria was defeated by Pia Zebadian Bernadet in the quarterfinal. Her quarter final encounter with Porntip Buranaprasertsuk was one of the longest and toughest matches of all of the matches played in the tournament. She won all the three sets of the match with a very narrow difference. She had showed maturity as well as full control in the decisive moments of all the sets and it had turned the match in her favor. Saina had defeated Porntip Buranaprasertsuk by 20-22, 21-12, 23-21.