New India thread.

[JasonJ]

Don't know the story but came across 'em, chuckled, so postin 'em. The earlier India thread doesn't seem to have made it past the 2019 adjustment.

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

[Soren Ras]

Yikes. I sure hope no one was in the car at the time.

Imagine being the owner coming back, asking "hey, didn't I park here?", and someone says "it's right there" and then seeing where the person is pointing...

This would not have happened to a Ford Expedition is all I can say. Bigger cars FTW.

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Soren

 

[Ssnake]

All it takes is a bigger sinkhole.

[Stuart Galbraith]

1 hour ago, Soren Ras said:

Yikes. I sure hope no one was in the car at the time.

Imagine being the owner coming back, asking "hey, didn't I park here?", and someone says "it's right there" and then seeing where the person is pointing...

This would not have happened to a Ford Expedition is all I can say. Bigger cars FTW.

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Soren

 

They showed someone hauling it out later, there was apparently nobody in it. I guess the poor guy parked, the ground started cracking and he got the hell out. So I guess it could have been worse.

Supposedly it was an old well that people had just built over. Such is the wonders of India, where the past is never really past at all.

[BansheeOne]

4 hours ago, Ssnake said:

All it takes is a bigger sinkhole.

Meanwhile, man races along tracks to save kid who got away from visually impaired woman from oncoming train. 

 

[BansheeOne]

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Date 14.10.2021

Author Roshni Majumdar (Mizoram)

India: Why violence keeps flaring up at the Assam-Mizoram border

Deadly clashes between the police forces of neighboring northeastern Indian states in July highlight the urgency to resolve their border dispute. DW visited the site of the bloody confrontations.

The police forces of two northeastern Indian states clashed at a contentious border area on July 26. The clashes between Assam and Mizoram police left six Assamese policemen dead and more than 70 people injured, prompting widespread anger among the Assamese people.  

In response, some Assamese residents blocked trucks transporting essential supplies, including medicines to treat COVID-19 patients, from entering Mizoram.

The incidents caused a major embarrassment to the federal government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which has deployed a "neutral force" at the frontier of the two states to prevent tensions from escalating.

Officials claim that the deadly incident was "in the past" and that tensions have died down, but, when visiting the border area, DW crew members noticed that tensions remain palpable.

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How clashes turned deadly

Mizoram, a landlocked mountainous state of 1.1 million people, was part of Assam until 1972 and became a state in its own right in 1987. Assam is the region's largest state with over 30 million people.

Mizoram and Assam have been wrangling over their border for decades, but deadly escalations are rare.

The clashes turned deadly this time round because tensions had been simmering for a long time.

Though officials from Mizoram say Assam has encroached on the state's territory, their counterparts in Assam accuse Mizoram villagers of encroaching instead on reserve forest land.

At the time of the clashes, ministers from both states staged rival social media campaigns, sharing videos showing civilians armed with batons clashing with police and other violent scenes.

Vanlalfaka Ralte, a Mizo police officer in the district where the fighting took place, told DW that about 200 Assamese police personnel had come up "all of a sudden" on July 26 and pushed their way past security checkpoints.

Word spread and Mizo residents went to that checkpoint. They were met with violence there, according to Ralte.

British demarcation source of disagreements

The boundary dispute between Assam and Mizoram dates back decades.

Mizo officials argue that their state's boundary dates back to an 1875 notification that clearly demarcated Cachar plains in present-day Assam and Mizoram, which was then known as Lushai Hills.

But, according to the Assam government, the boundary between the states was established by a map drawn later by a British survey of India.

In 1933, the British demarcated the region into separate districts based on cultural, linguistic and tribal lines, leading to a new boundary separating Lushai Hills (present-day Mizoram), Cachar (Assam) and present-day Manipur.  

The Mizoram government rejects the 1933 demarcation, saying it was not done in proper consultation with Mizo leaders and that many of the Mizo-speaking districts went to Assam.

Dr. Charvak, a professor at the Assam University, said the "difference in perspective" between the sides "is the first root cause of the conflict."

Region a hotbed of ethnic tensions

Following the deadly confrontations, the chief ministers of both states tweeted that they would seek an amicable approach to the dispute.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma belongs to Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga heads the Mizo National Front — an ally of the ruling BJP alliance.

The border disputes in northeastern India, however, are not limited to Assam and Mizoram. Borders between the region's seven states are not clearly demarcated, and there are regular disputes over land and assets.

The resource-rich region has been a hotbed of ethnic tensions over the past few decades.

https://www.dw.com/en/india-why-violence-keeps-flaring-up-at-the-assam-mizoram-border/a-59508832

[Ivanhoe]

TMK, nobody has mentioned the India/China border conflict of late (might have missed mention in MilCurrEv).

 

[bojan]

It was with the sticks, not with the mushroom clouds, so nobody cared.

[DB]

it was discussed, briefly, with the emphasis on the Chinese chasing down Indian soldiers and beating them to death.

[BansheeOne]

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Cricket: Kashmir students who cheered for Pakistan face India terror law

By John Silk | 12h ago

Several students are being investigated for celebrating Pakistan's victory over India at the T20 World Cup. An anti-terror law was amended in 2019 so that a person can be held for six months without any evidence.

Students in India-administered Kashmir are being investigated for celebrating Pakistan's T20 World Cup victory over India, officials said Tuesday.

The students and staff at two medical colleges are being probed for violating an anti-terror law.

The law was amended in 2019 to allow the government to designate an individual as a terrorist.

Police have the powers to detain someone for six months without producing any evidence and the accused can be sent to prison, with a sentence of up to seven years.

Human rights organizations have described the legislation as draconian.

How did the students celebrate?

Police said some students and staff at the government-run colleges cheered and shouted pro-Pakistan chants during Sunday night's encounter, which took place in Dubai between the two cricketing rivals.

Police described their behavior as "anti-national," The Associated Press news agency reported.

Pakistan thrashed their archrivals by 10 wickets, earning their first-ever victory over India at a World Cup across all disciplines of cricket.

Minutes after the match ended, hundreds of people in Kashmir danced in the streets, lit firecrackers and shouted "Long live Pakistan." 

The celebrations came as India's home minister, Amit Shah, visited the disputed region for the first time since New Delhi stripped Kashmir of its semi-autonomous status in 2019.

In doing so, it also dispensed with Kashmir's statehood and took away inherited protections on land and jobs.

[...] 

https://m.dw.com/en/cricket-kashmir-students-who-cheered-for-pakistan-face-india-terror-law/a-59631844