Volcano,Modi&Maoist

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Volcano eruption: A volcano eruption at Central Japan had resulted in 40 people left injured with seven missing. Around 250 people got stuck due to it in hilly areas. The rescue team had been unable to reach affected area.
The disaster management official had stated that it happened at around 12 noon in Mt. Ontake situated near to Nagano city. Along with explosion, smoke & dust had arosen to southern sides of 3,067 m long hill. Many mountain trackers are also stuck up at high altitudes. The Fire prevention officials had stated that few flights had to change routes. However, Japan airlines and Hanoda airport officials had denied any such change in route.
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M.K.Pachraiya
Original_app_mssg(1) Modi

NEW YORK—Madison Square Garden thundered with applause as thousands rose to their feet and chanted the name of an unlikely celebrity: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The grand reception on Sunday, filled with dance and Bollywood tunes, was a reflection of the mood among much of the Indian-American community that sees Mr. Modi as a once-in-a-generation leader who can at last fix the entrenched problems that have held India back while other Asian nations have sped ahead.

"I live thousands of miles away, but I know the things that bother you," Mr. Modi said to them in colloquial Hindi. "I will make the India of your dreams."

Elected in a landslide victory in May, Mr. Modi has vowed to kick-start economic growth and modernize India by building much-needed infrastructure and removing bureaucratic hurdles to business. His message has stirred hope among large numbers of Indian-Americans and expatriates, from entrepreneurs belonging to Mr. Modi's Gujarati community to students and young professionals, many of whom watched from afar with frustration as India's economy slowed and corruption scandals dominated the headlines.

This group understands India's potential because they have been so successful abroad. Indians are among the best-educated and highest-paid group of migrants in the U.S.

To them, Mr. Modi is an embodiment of how they want India to be seen: ambitious and resourceful.

"Modi can set India on a completely new path, truly bring India into the 21st century," said Pradeep Khosla, the Indian-American chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, who moved to the U.S. over three decades ago.

Mr. Khosla lamented that the "India story" had fizzled out, saying, "It's not a good feeling when you're not proud of your country."

The event marked a dramatic personal moment for the Indian leader, who was banned from traveling to the U.S. in 2005, a few weeks before he was to arrive in Florida to address a much smaller gathering of Indian-American hoteliers.

His visa was revoked over allegations that he didn't do enough to stop deadly riots in the state of Gujarat in 2002 when he was chief minister there, which he denies. The riots left at least 1,000 people, the majority of them Muslim, dead. A court last year said there wasn't sufficient evidence to prosecute Mr. Modi.

The prime minister's Hindu nationalist credentials have made him an unpopular figure among some Indian-Americans who see him as a religious strongman and a threat to India's multiculturalism.

Protesters outside Madison Square Garden said they wanted to draw attention to the Hindu nationalist groups that back Mr. Modi's party and their fundamentalist agenda.

"We want to make sure everyone knows that those celebrating Modi do not represent the entire Indian-American community," said Shaik Ubaid, a 52-year-old neurologist who is part of a group called the Alliance for Justice and Accountability.

There are more than three million Indian-Americans in the U.S. and among their ranks are heads of big businesses, entrepreneurs, acclaimed artists and scholars.

In a more than one-hour-long speech, Mr. Modi asked them to participate in India's development, saying their contribution was part of his vision for a "people's movement for development," modeled, he said, on Mahatma Gandhi's mass movement for freedom from British rule.

Mr. Modi is hoping to tap the diaspora to propel his economic agenda. He was set to address a large gathering of Indian-American businesses in Washington later this week.

Outlining his image of India, he promised to fix the things that have long frustrated Indians living abroad, from unclean streets to unending official paperwork. He announced eased visa regulations that will allow members of the community to travel to India more easily.

"India was seen as a country of snake charmers. You have changed that," he said.

The event Sunday was a big show of force by the community. Organized by 400 groups under the umbrella of the Indian American Community Foundation, it cost $1.5 million dollars. Over two dozen U.S. elected officials turned up, and were seated alongside a cast of prominent Indian-Americans.

The event was "a tribute to the Indian-American community and their profound contributions," said Cory Booker, a senator from New Jersey, which has one of the largest populations of Indians in the U.S. "It is a day of pride for the Indian-American community, but also for Americans."

How Mr. Modi and India are seen in the U.S. has a big impact on the Indian community, said Khyati Joshi, a second-generation Indian-American who has written a book about Asian migration.

If the news coming out of India is upbeat, and if U.S.-India relations are seemingly important, Ms. Joshi said, that shapes how diaspora Indians see themselves. If the news is centered on rape, corruption and bad roads, it affects their self-esteem and sense of identity, she said.

"Whether they are first generation or second, Indian-Americans are seen as Indian at some level, even if they want to identify as American," Ms. Joshi said. "Whether they like it or not, their racial and ethnic identity hits them in the face."

Munjal Shroff, a 40-year-old Indian-American psychiatrist in Atlanta, who watched Mr. Modi's speech from home, said the Indian elections this spring had garnered a good deal of coverage in the U.S. and piqued the interest of his American friends and colleagues. Mr. Modi's visit, he said, is doing the same.

"The American government at the highest levels engaging with the Indian government puts out powerful images," Mr. Shroff said. "It makes the Indian-American community feel more comfortable, more confident."

Part of Mr. Modi's appeal among overseas Indians is his meritocratic rise through politics and his noncorrupt image. His supporters point to his beginnings as a tea-seller at a railway station, and admire his discipline and work ethic, virtues also associated with the American dream.

Mr. Modi also enjoys a frenzied fan following among devout Hindus in the U.S.

Lalji Goswami, a 39-year-old IT consultant in Tampa, Florida who left India 13 years ago to look for better opportunities in the U.S., said he disliked India's "pseudo secular" politics that he said had "made Hindus reluctant to even say they are Hindus."

"Modi isn't shy or embarrassed by his culture and religion," Mr. Goswami said.

Original_app_mssg(2) Maoist

The CRPF has sent a large unit of its specialised anti-Naxal force CoBRA into the dense forests of Abujmaad in south Chhattisgarh searching for the rebels, following intelligence inputs that the banned CPI(Maoist) was holding its much-delayed 10th congress near Orchha in their so-called “liberated zone”.

The 10th congress, if the reports were to be believed, was scheduled from September 10 to September 21.

Sources said the security forces had strong intelligent inputs about the organisation of the event and the movement of Maoists from across the country as well as abroad to the designated place.

The operation has been planned to trap the participants as the suspected gathering was seen as a big opportunity to strike a major blow to the Reds.

It has been gathered that the idea was to allow the delegates to converge at their venue and then encircle the location to prevent them from escaping.

CoBRA or Commando Battalion for Resolute Action has been chosen for the operation as it is one of the few units of the CRPF which is specifically trained in guerilla warfare.

The security personnel have moved in from different directions and penetrated deep into the forests in a carefully planned manoeuvre. Till Wednesday, no report of any major action have come barring a skirmish with a group of Naxals somewhere in Narayanpur along the border with Maharashtra.

It also has been learnt that the security forces were equipped with sophisticated gadgets, including drones, and had carefully zeroed in on the places where they had planned to make advancements.

With no action reported for the last three days after the possible conclusion of the Maoists’ congress, there were doubts that the event had taken place. The last congress was held in 2007 and the 10th had been waiting due to security operations launched in 2009 under Operation Green Hunt.

ADG (anti-Naxal operation), Chhattisgarh, R K Vij while talking to The Indian Express confirmed that they had inputs about a large gathering following which an operation was launched from three sides, but nothing substantial has happened. The operation is likely to end in two-three days.