Bangalore: On August 18, when three trains departed from the Bangalore City Railway Station with large number of people from the North east, as the fear of being eliminated or beaten up by antisocial elements caved in, many were not sure of their destiny.
However, when the entire government apparatus turned to their support, the confidence returned and from trickle to hordes, people are coming back.
Unfortunately, their problem does not seem to end yet. Many are now searching for jobs or making up for the classes missed. Today, many from North Eastern part of India are looming under the danger of unemployment.
Pranjal from the Assam Association in Bangalore tells City Express, "We came across two security guards from Assam who realised that they have been replaced by other employees as soon as they reached Bangalore. Now, 'Peace and Solidarity Forum', which was formed on August 20 to extend support to people of North East/Darjeeling/Nepal/Tibet origin, has come forward to give them their jobs back."...
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12:34 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Thursday revoked ban on bulk SMS with immediate effect. The ban on bulk sms was to expire on Friday. Ban on bulk SMSes and MMSes withdrawn with immediate effect, Home Ministry said in a statement. The ban came into force after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that spreading of rumours by miscreants had led to Indians belonging to the Northeast fleeing from Bangalore, Pune and...
04:01 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Imphal: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister R Ashok on Sunday appealed to students and workers from the Northeast, who had left Bangalore recently in the wake of "wrong" SMS messages on Assam violence, to return to the state and resume their work without fear. "The government of Karnataka has taken up full security measures to protect the people from the Northeast in the wake of wrong messages transmitted through SMS following...
11:16 PM, Aug 26, 2012
Imphal: BJP president Nitin Gadkari has likened the plight of people of the Northeast with that of the Kashmiri Hindus, alleging a foreign hand behind the exodus of Northeast students and workers from south India. Saying that the attacks on them appeared to have been perpetrated by illegal migrants living in the country, Gadkari described the exodus as "unfortunate". He also alleged that nothing was done to ensure the safe...
01:14 PM, Aug 24, 2012
While Twitter agreed to block fake PMO accounts, the Government is under the fire for blocking Twitter accounts of some journalists also. Meanwhile, the Home Ministry and Telecom Ministry seemed confused on whether to block sites or not. ...
11:14 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Even as the Government said there is no attempt to block individual Twitter handle, the micro blogging site is abuzz with comments against the Government. On Twitter, hashtags like #Emergency2012, #GOIBlocks, GOI, #twitter and #news became trending topics. "Ministers don't want to speak in Parliament, They don't want people to speak on Twitter," read a tweet. "They can block my Twitter, my FB, my Blog, my Email BUT...
11:10 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: Social networking site Twitter has agreed to cooperate with the Government in blocking six fake accounts "misrepresenting" Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, officials said on Thursday. Twitter has around 16 million accounts in India. "Twitter has agreed to cooperate in blocking the six fake PM accounts. and we welcome their cooperation. They responded to our complaint, saying we need to follow an internal channel to lodge a formal complaint...
09:42 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Tech Editor CNBC TV18 Suresh Venkat says the government is not active enough to monitor content on internet and social networking sites and generate a real-time response. ...
08:31 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: With Assam still tense following the communal violence in some of its districts, the Central Government is trying to block offensive content on social media websites, which it claims have been responsible for the hate campaign against Northeast Indians. The government has given the microblogging site Twitter and other social media websites a deadline of 12 hours deadline to remove the objectionable content or face a shutdown in...
12:52 PM, Aug 23, 2012
New Delhi: The government has confirmed that no accounts on the microblogging site Twitter have been blocked so far, sources said on Thursday. They claimed that the Ministry of Home Affairs' request for show cause notice to offensive and provocative handles was still pending with Twitter. In the wake of the mass exodus by Indians from the Northeast, the government had proposed cracking down on hate content on social media...
10:34 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Jamshedpur: In the ongoing crackdown against hate content on social media websites in the wake of the northeast exodus, a former journalist in Jamshedpur was arrested on Thursday for allegedly posting inflammatory messages online. The police seized his computer and hard disk. A probe is on. Meanwhile, 19 more suspects have been arrested in the Azad Maidan violence case. While two of them were produced in court on Wednesday and...
09:16 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Itanagar: Maharashtra government will make available chartered aircraft to take students of Northeast back to educational institutions in Pune or Mumbai from Guwahati. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan told a goodwill team from Arunachal Pradesh, led by MP Takan Sanjoy, on Tuesday that concessional chartered flights would be offered to students willing to go back. In a statement, Sanjoy quoted Chavan as saying, "If state governments send written requisitions, officials...
06:39 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: Twitter has promised to cooperate with the government after the Prime Minister's Office complained to it about objectionable content on six accounts resembling the PMO's official account. As the government blocked the six accounts after Twitter took no action, the social networking portal has communicated to the PMO that it would be locating the "unlawful content". It has told the PMO that it could not take action earlier...
04:58 PM, Aug 22, 2012
Union Minister Kapil Sibal has defended the government's decision to ban certain websites saying it doesn't amount to censorship but is a means to control the spread of hate messages. ...
01:51 PM, Aug 22, 2012
Washington: In the backdrop of appeals by India to remove hate posts, world's largest social networking website Facebook on Wednesday said it will remove content, block pages or even disable accounts of those users who upload content that incite violence or perpetuate hate speech. Comprehending the gravity, Facebook's stern warning to its users comes in the wake of the Indian government bringing to its notice the posting of contents, including...
12:32 PM, Aug 22, 2012
The Home Secretary of Assam GD Tripathi has claimed that the exodus by Indians from the Northeast has now ended and that people now want to return to Bangalore and other cities to earn their living. ...
08:43 AM, Aug 22, 2012
An SMS and social media rumour mongering campaign led to the exodus of almost 50,000 residents of Northeast India from their work places to their home towns. ...
11:58 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Pakistan assures action will be taken against inflammatory content. Special trains from the Northeast to bring back those who left from Bangalore. ...
11:55 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Bangalore: Some companies in Bangalore are doing their best to keep their employees safe in the IT capital only, even as the news of mass exodus of Northeast Indians dominates the media. But the fear is apparent, despite the effort to ebb the panic. "We were getting 100 phone calls from our parents," said a person from Northeast. "Have lived here (Bangalore) for ten years...Something like this is happening for...
11:46 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Three special trains have been scheduled from Guwahati to bring back those who fled Bangalore. ...
10:52 PM, Aug 21, 2012
