Violence After the anti-Christian violence in Orissa and some other adjoining state now communal violence has escalated in the north-eastern state of Assam. Almost 25 persons have died till now in the clashes between Tribal Bodos and the illegal Bangladeshi migrants. 19 dead people belong to the minority Muslim community while the remaining 6 were Bodos. Four persons have died in the police firing . More than 50 people have been wounded in the violence related incidents. State government on Saturday, September 4 had issued the shoot-and-sight orders to prevent the further incidents and army has been deployed in the three violence hit districts. Incidents According the state officials, situation is under control but very tense. National Highway no.52 has been closed because of the attacks on the vehicles. Though state government has imposed indefinite curfew in the affected areas and police and paramilitary forces are staging flag marches, violence is taking place despite all this. First violence had took place in the Udalguri district but has spread to neighboring Mangaldoi and Sonitpur districts. Some cattle had been stolen from a Bodo village which is considered to be the reason of the violence. After it on Friday in Mohanpur(Udalguri), a minority community mob had killed the six Bodo tribesmen with arrows and sharp weapons who were the members of the village defense committee. In the overnight retaliatory violence more than 300 houses have been set ablaze and more than seven people had been killed. The state government has suspended a DSP and had transferred a deputy commissioner. Illegal Immigrants According to the unofficial reports minority community villagers have fled their homes and have taken shelter in various relief camps. They had fled their homes after the miscreants had attacked their villages and torched their homes or because of fear of attacks. It is being said despite the curfew large mobs of armed with traditional arms and country made guns are roaming the affected districts and are targeting the minority community villages. The situation has become tenser after some local Television channels had shown some movie clips of the Bangladeshi Flags being hoisted on the housed of minority community. It must be learnt that millions of illegal Bangladeshi migrants are living in India and for last many years local people of Assam are protesting against the illegal immigration.
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Tata Pulls Out Of Singur
October 4th, 2008 
Aman Announced October 3 turned out to be the black Friday for the people of the state of West Bengal as Tata Chairman Ratan Tata announced the pull out from Singur. He announced his decision after the meeting with WB Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Industries Minister Nirupam Sen on Friday. When he made the pull announcement he was looking visibly upset. It is evident from his statement that he has ‘taken a great pain’ too make the announcement which has ‘shattered many dreams’. But he legitimated his decision by saying that we are ‘doing the right thing’. It must be borne in mind that West Bengal has never been considered an industry free state because of decades of communist rule. When Tata had decided to set up the Nano plant in Singur, it had astonished the corporate world. Wire money online to India with Xoom.com for as low as $4.99. Investment Nano plant was not merely an investment but a dream. A dream of Ratan Tata, dream of the West Bengal government and people and also a dream of the lower middle class of India. Nano is considered to be the world’s cheapest car. With the pull out decision a wrong message has been sent globally about the anti-industry image of the state. Total investment of the Nano plant is 1500-2000 crore but state will loose more than 80,000 crore investment as some multinational companies were in talks with the state government but there are very few chances that they will take interest in talks now. Tata has announced that the cost of the car will remain around one Lakh despite huge loss because of Singur row. Agitation Despite the state Government many other sections of the Bengal society had repeatedly requested Tata Motors not to take such a decision. But Tata has taken the decision by taking into account he safety of its employees and to meet some set deadlines and pledges. It must be learnt that During the agitation led by Trinamool congress chief Mamta Benerjee, Tata employees had been assaulted by the violent agitators. Many times boundary wall of the plant had been broken and the machinery vandalize by the protesters. Tata chairman has blamed Mamta Benerjee for the sad development. Responsibility More than 10,000 farmers had willingly given their land to the government and only 2000 farmers had not excepted the compensation. [...]
