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04CALCUTTA427	U.S.-FUNDED NGO TARGETED IN COURT [...] SUMMARY. The Indian Supreme Court has issued a notice to the West Bengal Government on a petition alleging that the NGO Sanlaap, in collusion with the police, has been running a racket to exploit minor girls as a means to obtain foreign donor funding, according to an October 28 report in the [...]	2004-10-28 12:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KCRM KWMN EAID IN

04CALCUTTA428	NEPALESE MINORS RESCUED FROM A CIRCUS IN EASTERN INDIA [...] SUMMARY: On October 6, the District Magistrate of Madhubani District in north Bihar handed over five minor Nepali girls to the Nepalese NGO Maiti Nepal. The girls were rescued from a circus performing in the district. This is the first instance in eastern India wherein an NGO, the state Lab [...]	2004-10-29 09:10:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM SOCI KWMN IN
04CALCUTTA445	OPPOSITION STRIKES IN WEST BENGAL LEAVE GOVERNMENT [...] SUMMARY: In the coming three weeks, starting on November 17, West Bengal will witness three general strikes planned by different political parties protesting the recent hike in petroleum prices by the central government. West Bengal's Left Front government, eager to establish its business-fr [...]	2004-11-16 15:07:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EINV ECON ELAB AMGT IN
04CALCUTTA449	MANIPUR: INDIAN ARMY PRESSURE NEAR BURMA BORDER [...] (SBU) On October 26, the Indian Army launched a counter-insurgency exercise in the Chandel and Churachandpur districts of Manipur, a Northeast Indian state bordering Burma. Remaining initially tightlipped, an Army spokesman finally announced on November 6 that more than 100 rebel bases had been [...]	2004-11-19 03:58:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MOPS PINS PGOV BM IN GOI
05CALCUTTA100	PRESIDENT'S RULE DECLARED IN BIHAR [...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 6 Governor Buta Singh concluded that no party or coalition had the numbers to govern in Bihar, and recommended President's Rule. President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam accepted the recommendation and imposed President's Rule on March 7. This marks the end - for now at least -- [...]	2005-03-10 13:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IN
05CALCUTTA101	ULFA BLASTS ACROSS ASSAM [...] (U) Over three days from March 8-10, a series of blasts rocked the Northeast Indian state of Assam. A senior Assam Police officer told Post that in a total of 17 violent incidents - bomb blasts and grenade attacks -- one policeman died, and three policemen and two civilians were injured. Th [...]	2005-03-10 14:08:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINS PGOV PREL BG IN
05CALCUTTA107	GOVERNMENT FORMED IN JHARKHAND -- TWO WEEKS LATER [...] On March 15 the National Democratic Alliance (NDA),led by Arjun Munda of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),won a vote of confidence on the floor of the Jharkhand Assembly, thereby establishing its governing majority. Munda had been Chief Minister prior to the elections and resumed the post o [...]	2005-03-15 10:57:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV IN
05CALCUTTA176	INDIAN REACTION TO ULFA TERROR DESIGNATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The addition of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) to the Other Selected Terrorist Organizations list in the 2004 Country Reports on Terrorism has been widely remarked by the press in India. A large majority of public comments, as well as reactions from our private cont [...]	2005-05-02 12:08:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV IN GOI
05CALCUTTA18	ARUNACHAL PRADESH: ISOLATED TRIBAL STATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Geographic isolation, historical misfortune and deliberate choice combine to make the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh India's most isolated and among it least developed. As home to 26 major tribal groups, Arunachal is something of an anthropologist's dream, but a politic [...]	2005-01-18 09:17:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI ECON ENRG PBTS PREF CH IN
05CALCUTTA206	BIHAR STATE ASSEMBLY DISSOLVED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the early hours of May 23, following Governor Buta Singh's recommendation, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Center dissolved the Bihar State Assembly. The State Assembly had previously been placed under a state of "suspended animation" (in which elected [...]	2005-05-24 12:51:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IN
05CALCUTTA246	INDIA'S NORTHEAST MILITANCY: AN OVERVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY. This cable provides an overview of the "alphabet soup" of ethnic insurgencies that have plagued India's Northeast throughout its history. The first three paragraphs provide a broad overview of the factors that have spawned these conflicts and should be of general interest to Ind [...]	2005-07-06 18:02:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINS PTER PGOV PREL SOCI IN
05CALCUTTA320	CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS CONCERNED BY MISSIONARY MURDER [...] (SBU) Summary: During CG's August 23-25 visit to Orissa, he met with Christian representatives to discuss developments in the January 1999 murder case of Australian Christian evangelist Graham Staines and his two sons. CG also inquired about communal relations in the State. The Christian r [...]	2005-09-09 12:37:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM KIRF SOCI CASC IN
05CALCUTTA330	WEST BENGAL COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER EXPRESSES PRO-CAPITALIST [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 6, CG met State Secretary of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) and Politburo and Central Committee member Anil Biswas. While focusing on the need for industrialization in West Bengal, Biswas said that foreign direct investment (FDI) is welcome from any co [...]	2005-09-16 09:38:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR ECON EINV IN BG NP
05CALCUTTA372	ETHNIC VIOLENCE FLARES IN ASSAM [...] (U) Summary: Between September 26 and October 18, ethnic violence in the Karbi Anglong district of the Northeast Indian state of Assam claimed 73 lives. Conflict over territorial control and retaliation between the insurgent groups of the Karbi and Dimasa tribals has instigated the bloodbath. [...]	2005-10-19 08:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KRIM CASC SOCI IN ASEC
05CALCUTTA373	BIHAR'S FIRST DAY OF VOTING OFFERS NO CLEAR WINNER AND NO [...] (U) Summary: On October 18, Bihar completed a relatively peaceful first day of voting in its State elections. Voting took place in 57 of Bihar's 243 constituencies. Television and newspaper exit polls were contradictory, making predictions difficult. Zee News television predicted an inde [...]	2005-10-19 17:32:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI CASC IN
05CALCUTTA418	ASSAM'S INSURGENT GROUPS QUIET FOR NOW BUT SOCIAL PROBLEMS [...] (SBU) Summary: November 5-10, CG made an introductory visit to the State of Assam, the gateway to India's Northeast. Ethnic insurgencies, poverty, drugs and economic stagnation have plagued Assam in recent history. However, some positive trends have emerged in moderating ethnic tensions and [...]	2005-11-21 12:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR ECON EINV EMIN ASEC SNAR IN BG
05CALCUTTA420	NDA DECISIVELY WINS IN BIHAR [...] (SBU) Summary: In November 22 voting results, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of the Janata Dal (United) (JDU) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) registered a landslide victory in Bihar's State Assembly elections, winning more than the 122 seats needed for a governing majority. The [...]	2005-11-22 15:13:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR ASEC IN
05CALCUTTA454	GOI SEES IMMIGRATION FROM BANGLADESH AS NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (U) Classified By: CG Henry V. Jardine for Reasons 1.4 (B, D) 2. (C) Summary: In recent meetings with Poloff, Indian security services in West Bengal described illegal immigration from Bangladesh as a serious national security threat. The three major areas of concern for the officials [...]	2005-12-16 12:38:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI IN XE PTER
05CALCUTTA68	THE COMMUNISTS WORRY ABOUT THE MAOISTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: West Bengal's governing Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) is concerned about the nascent spread of ultra-Left Maoist influence in rural West Bengal. The Party would prefer to tackle the Maoist challenge politically, by mobilizing the rural masses, but has not yet been abl [...]	2005-02-17 15:35:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS PTER SOCI IN
05CALCUTTA69	WEST BENGAL COMMUNISTS ACCEPT GLOBALIZATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The 21st triennial State Conference of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) concluded on February 12 after some lively debate on the Party's future road map - political and economic. The CPM expressed concern about the radical Left (Septel) and advised its cadre to begin pr [...]	2005-02-17 18:20:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON SOCI IN
05CALCUTTA7	SENIOR POLICEMAN AMONG SEVEN KILLED IN MAOIST BIHAR BLAST [...] Prior to the approaching state assembly elections in Bihar and Jharkhand, a district police chief of Munger in Bihar, K.C Surendrababu, along with six other policemen, were killed on Wednesday January 5th, when their vehicle was blown-up by a remote-controlled landmine. The landmine was alleged [...]	2005-01-10 05:56:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM IN
05CALCUTTA72	JHARKHAND POLLS HAND IN THE BALANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On February 23 India's newest state, Jharkhand, will hold the third and final round of its first State Assembly elections. Their outcome is anything but certain. Going into the elections the state-governing National Democratic Alliance (NDA),led by the Bharatiya Janata Party [...]	2005-02-22 12:33:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IN
05CALCUTTA97	INDIAN COMMUNISTS EMBRACE VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' March 5-6 visit to Calcutta provided West Bengal's Communist government an opportunity to show the world that the Left is still relevant - even if that relevance was expressed mostly through shopworn anti-imperialist sloganeering. Chavez appeared to [...]	2005-03-09 09:37:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EPET VE IN
06CALCUTTA100	INDIAN OFFICIALS REPORT NO PROGRESS IN CASE OF KIDNAPPED [...] (SBU) Post continues monitor the kidnapping case of the Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) Chairman and Kuki Christian Church Administrative Secretary Dr. Tongkhojang Lunkim (REFTEL). On January 17, the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) kidnapped Dr. Lunkim in the Senapti district of the Northeast [...]	2006-03-01 13:16:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM KRIM ASEC IN
06CALCUTTA101	WEST BENGAL LEFTISTS PROTEST PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) On March 1, demonstrators from the youth wings of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM),the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and the Students Federation of India (SFI),protested the impending arrival of President Bush to India in front of the American Center in Calcut [...]	2006-03-01 13:26:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC CASC CVIS PREL KRIM OVIP IN
06CALCUTTA103	ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS STILL STRUGGLING TO RECOVER FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over a year after suffering the tsunami disaster of December 2004, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands still have not fully recovered. The GOI's substantial mobilization of assistance, while initially laudable, has now resulted in a culture of dependency in which the population ap [...]	2006-03-02 12:32:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID SENV PGOV SOCI TPHY XD IN
06CALCUTTA105	ELECTION COMMISSION SCHEDULES WEST BENGAL ASSEMBLY [...] (U) Summary: On March 1, the Election Commission (EC) announced an extended five-phase polling schedule for West Bengal's (WB) upcoming state legislative assembly election. The phased schedule reflects the EC's intention to monitor polling closely in this state noted for vote rigging by the l [...]	2006-03-03 09:57:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI PTER IN
06CALCUTTA109	MAOIST INSURGENTS EXECUTE WEST BENGAL COMMUNIST PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: March 4-5 Communist Party of India - Maoist (Maoist) insurgents killed two Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) workers in separate attacks in West Bengal. These attacks come just a week after a Maoist-emplaced landmine killed three West Bengal policemen. The recent spate [...]	2006-03-07 07:07:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINR ASEC KRIM PHUM PGOV IN
06CALCUTTA123	KUKI LIBERATION ARMY RELEASE KIDNAPPED CHRISTIAN LEADER DR. [...] (SBU) On March 18, the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) in the Northeast Indian state of Manipur released Chairman of the Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) and Administrative Secretary of the Kuki Christian Church Dr. Tongkhojang Lunkim after two months of captivity. The KLA returned him in good [...]	2006-03-20 13:35:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM SOCI PGOV ASEC IN
06CALCUTTA134	PARTIES JOCKEY FOR POSITION JUST DAYS BEFORE ASSAM STATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 3 India's Northeastern state of Assam will begin its two-phased state assembly election. The second phase will be the following week on April 10. Even in the last hours of campaigning, the situation is still very fluid. No party has a clear majority and yet no formal [...]	2006-03-31 12:51:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC SOCI IN
06CALCUTTA137	BIHAR GOVERNMENT STRUGGLES TO ERADICATE POLIO AND FACES [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 23 CG had introductory meetings with recently elected Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his senior officials to discuss the new state government's economic development, public health and security initiatives. Kumar and other contacts expressed a strong interest in [...]	2006-04-03 10:02:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON SOCI ASEC KHIV IN
06CALCUTTA145	EXIT POLLS SHOW NO CLEAR WINNER IN ASSAM'S LAST ROUND OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 10, the Congress-ruled Northeast Indian state of Assam concluded its second and final phase of state assembly elections. Counting of votes and announcing of results will be on May 11. Exit polls indicate that the Congress Party will not retain a majority of over 64 se [...]	2006-04-11 12:48:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC SOCI IN
06CALCUTTA148	LEFTIST PROJECTED TO WIN WEST BENGAL STATE ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 17, West Bengal will hold its first phase of the state assembly elections. With only a few days remaining, main opposition parties the Trinamul Congress (Trinamul) and the Congress Party (Congress) have failed to unite against the ruling Left Front. The only "opposit [...]	2006-04-13 14:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC IN
06CALCUTTA173	INDIAN HIMALAYAN STATE SIKKIM SLOWLY OPENING FOR TRADE AND [...] (SBU)Summary: From April 13-19 CG visited the Himalayan state of Sikkim to assess its political, social and economic issues. An independent kingdom until its annexation by India in 1975, Sikkim offers an interesting contrast to its neighbors, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet, with which it shares many [...]	2006-04-28 11:25:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON SENV SOCI ETRD IN CH
06CALCUTTA195	COMMUNISTS SWEEP WEST BENGAL STATE ELECTIONS AND CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Initial May 11 state election results indicate that the Communist Party of India (Marxist)(CPM) and its Left allies increased their seats in West Bengal's 294-seat state assembly from 199 to 235. The CPM's victory is seen as a strong endorsement of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bha [...]	2006-05-11 14:10:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI IN
06CALCUTTA201	TREASURY U/S ADAMS MEETS WEST BENGAL FINANCE MINISTER AND [...] (U) Summary: May 2-3, 2006 U.S. Department of the Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs Mr. Timothy D. Adams visited Calcutta as part of his trip to India for the Asian Development Bank's Annual meeting in Hyderabad. During his time in Calcutta, U/S Adams met with West Bengal F [...]	2006-05-12 12:51:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EINV ECON SOCI ETRD IN
06CALCUTTA211	U.S. CORPORATIONS BEGIN EAST INDIA'S RURAL CONNECTIVITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: To bridge the digital divide between the India's high-tech urban centers and its vast rural hinterland, Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) is working with the GOI and state governments to establish Internet Technology (IT) connectivity in 100,000 villages around the country. Pil [...]	2006-05-18 12:37:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EINV SOCI PHUM IN
06CALCUTTA221	CONGRESS LOSES ITS MAJORITY IN ASSAM STATE ASSEMBLY AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The May 11 state assembly election results returned a diminished Congress Party to power in Assam that must now rule in a coalition with the tribal Bodo People's Progressive Front - Hagrama (BPPF-H). The recently established Muslim party Asom United Democratic Front (AUDF) spl [...]	2006-05-22 06:08:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PHUM PTER IN
06CALCUTTA244	WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER BUDDHADEB BHATTACHARJEE FACES [...] (SBU) Summary: In the April-May West Bengal (WB) state assembly elections, the Left Front emerged victorious for the seventh consecutive time with an overwhelming 235 out of 294 seats. The Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) under the leadership of Chief Minister (CM) Buddhadeb Bhattach [...]	2006-05-27 11:11:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EIND EINV SOCI IN
06CALCUTTA306	NORTHEAST INDIAN STATE MEGHALAYA STRUGGLES WITH SOCIAL AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: July 7-8, 2006 ConGen visited the Northeast state of Meghalaya to meet senior government officials and to attend a regional conference on trafficking in persons in the capital, Shillong. Meghalaya's persistent insurgency problem appears to have moderated, with the two dominant [...]	2006-07-18 09:28:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ECON KWMN EMIN ASEC IN BG
06CALCUTTA307	CALCUTTA EAC MEETING JULY 14, 2006 [...] (SBU) In response to ref. A, on July 14 post convened an EAC meeting to discuss the local security implications of escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. 2. (SBU) The Consulate has received no information indicating the possibility of violent protests or threats in Calcutta or [...]	2006-07-18 10:32:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC PTER PGOV IN
06CALCUTTA327	GOOD AND EVIL IN THE EDEN GARDENS CRICKET GROUNDS: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On July 30, two passions in West Bengal (WB),cricket and politics, collided in the voting for the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) presidency. The election took on a significance greater than normal for a local sporting association as the two candidates, former president o [...]	2006-08-01 13:44:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI IN
06CALCUTTA349	UNITED LIBERATION FRONT OF ASOM CONDUCTS DEADLY EXPLOSIVE [...] (SBU) In the run-up to India's August 15 Independence Day celebrations, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) conducted two deadly explosive attacks in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. On August 11, six policemen were killed when a landmine exploded under a police convey conducting [...]	2006-08-14 12:36:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINR ASEC CASC IN BG NP
06CALCUTTA362	LACK OF TRUST CONTINUES TO STIFLE PEACE TALKS IN ASSAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Local media reports that hurdles for direct talks between Government of India (GOI) and United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) have been reduced, with New Delhi agreeing to release five militant leaders and ULFA announcing a "cessation of hostilities" against the Indian Army. [...]	2006-08-23 08:56:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PINR IN XD NCTC
06CALCUTTA386	CHARGE PYATT MEETS W. BENGAL COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 29, Charge met with Government of West Bengal (GOWB) Minister for Commerce and Industry Nirupama Sen to discuss Communist Party of India - Marxist's (CPM) views on economic development in the state and CPM policy perspectives at the state and national level. Sen was [...]	2006-08-31 09:56:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD IN PREL EAGR EIND ECON
06CALCUTTA389	NORTHEAST INDIAN STATE OF MANIPUR EXPERIENCES ESCALATING [...] (C) SUMMARY. August 22-25 ConGen visited the Northeast Indian state of Manipur to assess the security situation and to follow the investigation of the August 16 grenade attack on the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) temple in Imphal (REFTELS). Manipur suffers from over 30 [...]	2006-09-01 13:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM ASEC CASC PGOV SOCI IN
06CALCUTTA401	JHARKAND'S GOVERNMENT BEGINS TO CRUMBLE, WITH LITTLE HOPE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The fate of the Jharkhand state government, led by Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Arjun Munda, has become uncertain with the resignation of four ministers. However, the shape of an alternative formation is still unclear, with major national parties like the Indian National Con [...]	2006-09-07 13:15:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IN PINR
06CALCUTTA411	COMMUNIST WEST BENGAL OPENS FOR BUSINESS BUT A LAND BATTLE [...] (U) SUMMARY: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has received a vote of confidence from industry in recent months with the announcements of various large investments totaling several billion dollars. Foreign and domestic corporations have publicized plans to construct new fac [...]	2006-09-13 07:13:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD IN ECON
06CALCUTTA412	COMMUNIST WEST BENGAL OPENS FOR BUSINESS BUT A LAND BATTLE [...] (U) SUMMARY: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has received a vote of confidence from industry in recent months with the announcements of various large investments totaling several billion dollars. Foreign and domestic corporations have publicized plans to construct new fac [...]	2006-09-13 07:14:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD IN ECON
06CALCUTTA413	SHADOW LINES - INDIA STRUGGLES WITH SECURITY ON ITS EASTERN [...] (C) Summary. Porous borders with Bangladesh and Burma present a serious threat to India's security that India so far has been unable to manage effectively. In West Bengal, politicians, intelligence, law enforcement, and academics all agree on the growing problem of Islamist infiltration int [...]	2006-09-13 12:11:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL BG IN NP PK
06CALCUTTA420	JHARKHAND'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE GOVERNMENT FALLS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 14 Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda resigned as independent party members defected from his National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition government to the opposition United Progressive Alliance (UPA). With the fall of the Bhartiya Janata Party(BJP)-led NDA govern [...]	2006-09-15 10:21:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI IN
06CALCUTTA423	CPM POLITBURO PLANS MORE OPPOSITION TO ECONOMIC REFORMS [...] (SBU) Summary: September 12-13, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) Politburo met in Calcutta to discuss its progress since the party`s 18th Congress in 2005 and aspects of the GOI`s economic reforms that the CPM intends to oppose. The CPM Politburo plans to force a change in the Spec [...]	2006-09-18 12:48:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV ETRD IN
06CALCUTTA425	JHARKHAND SWEARS IN A NEW CHIEF MINISTER [...] (U) Summary. On September 18, an Independent Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Madhukar (Madhu) Koda was sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Koda is Jharkhand's fifth Chief Minister since the state's creation in 2001. Three defectors from the previous government - Anos Ekka, [...]	2006-09-19 13:31:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IN EINV
06CALCUTTA430	NEPAL MAOIST LEADER RELEASED THEN DETAINED [...] (U) Summary: On September 18 in Chennai, W. Bengal police attempted to arrest Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPNM) Politburo member Chandra Prakash Gajurel upon his release from a Chennai prison after serving a three year term for passport forgery. The W. Bengal police action was in conn [...]	2006-09-21 12:53:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINR PGOV IN NP PTER
06CALCUTTA442	POVERTY IN THE EAST INDIAN STATE OF BIHAR FOSTERS INFECTIOUS [...] SUMMARY: September 6-7, ConGen visited the East Indian state of Bihar to assess its public health issues. Bihar, India's poorest state, presently has 19 polio infections this year, second only to its neighbor Uttar Pradesh (UP),which has 291 cases as of September 25. Local officials with t [...]	2006-09-26 11:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ECON KHIV SOCI KGLB KSCI IN
06CALCUTTA447	INDIA'S CEASE-FIRE WITH ULFA ENDS [...] (U) Summary: Citing continuing violence and extortion, the Government of India (GOI) on September 24 ended the six-week ceasefire it had with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). The GOI decision comes in the wake of ULFA's reluctance to commit in writing to taking part in direct peace [...]	2006-09-28 12:33:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER IN BT PGOV
06CALCUTTA453	TATA MOTORS TO GET LAND IN WEST BENGAL COME WHAT MAY, SAYS [...] SUMMARY: On October 4, 2006, an all-party meeting convened by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya failed to reach a consensus on the land acquisition policy for the Tata Motors Car Factory in Singur. With the leading opposition All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) boycotting the [...]	2006-10-09 08:12:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD IN ECON EIND
06CALCUTTA454	STATEWIDE STRIKE IN WEST BENGAL EXTENDS THE HOLIDAY WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 9, the All-India Trinamul Congress (AITC),the state's main opposition party, called a 12-hour general strike, forcing closed most business and government offices in West Bengal. The strike was called to protest the West Bengal's government's acquisition of fertile [...]	2006-10-10 12:27:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND EINV PGOV IN
06CALCUTTA463	DHAKA POL/ECON COUNSELOR DUNDAS MCCULLOUGH INTERACTS WITH [...] (U) Summary: On October 5, Embassy Dhaka Pol/Econ Counselor Dundas McCullough visited Calcutta to assess Indian perspectives on security and infiltration of terrorists from Bangladesh into India and for an overview of India's economic relationship with Bangladesh. The prevailing sentiment in [...]	2006-10-16 13:08:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS ECON IN BG NP PTER
06CALCUTTA464	INDIA'S LOOK EAST ECONOMIC POLICY - JUST LOOKING, NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: India continues to adopt a contradictory attitude in its trade relations with its Eastern neighbors, claiming to seek more bilateral trade agreements but placing severe limits and barriers to those agreements to make them essentially meaningless. The opening on July 1 of Indo-C [...]	2006-10-17 11:52:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV WTRO EIND IN NP BG
06CALCUTTA481	UPPER ASSAM `LIKE A BATTLEFIELD' AS INDIAN SECURITY FORCES [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 24, the GOI resumed its operations against the Assam-based United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). This resumption of hostilities came forty-one days after the Indian military unilaterally suspended its operations against ULFA. Though the GOI is calling the brea [...]	2006-10-24 10:23:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER PHUM PINR IN BT
06CALCUTTA495	INDIA'S COMMUNISTS LOBBY FOR CHINA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In anticipation of Chinese President Hu Jintao's November 20-24 visit to India, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) has been pressuring the GOI to conduct a more conciliatory foreign policy towards China. In its September Central Committee meeting, the CPM criticized the r [...]	2006-11-01 12:35:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON CH ETRD ENRG PBTS IN PGOV PREL
06CALCUTTA508	LEFTISTS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN'S DEATH [...] (SBU) In response to ref. A, on November 5, post convened an EAC meeting to discuss the local security implications of the death sentence verdict in the Saddam Hussein case. EAC had no indication of direct threats. However, local security and police were directed to be alert for possible prot [...]	2006-11-06 12:38:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC PTER PGOV IN
06CALCUTTA509	DEADLY BOMB ATTACKS IN ASSAM KILL 12 PEOPLE AND INJURE 50 [...] (SBU) Summary: Following Assam's bloodiest month of insurgent violence this year, November began with one of Assam's deadliest bombings in recent years. On November 5, two bomb explosions in Assam's capital Guwahati killed 12 people and injured at least 50 others. GOI and state law enforcem [...]	2006-11-06 15:54:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC MARR PTER PHUM IN
06CALCUTTA516	NO PROGRESS DURING LATEST ROUND OF TALKS ON NAGALAND [...] (U) Summary. October 17-19 in Amsterdam, another round of talks between the Northeast Indian insurgent group National Socialist Council of Nagalim - Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) and the GOI ended without progress. The Indian delegation met the rebel leadership to discuss "substantive issues" as a fo [...]	2006-11-12 11:24:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER IN BM
06CALCUTTA517	DAILY DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN DEATH SENTENCE [...] (SBU) The street in front of post's American Center continues to be the venue for daily demonstrations against the recent Saddam Hussein death sentence. A range of the usual Leftist groups have come out to express their opposition to the verdict but other political groups, such as the youth [...]	2006-11-13 07:35:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC AMGT CASC PREL IN
06CALCUTTA525	LAUNCH OF AN IT WORKERS UNION BRINGS OUT THE SPLIT IN THE [...] SUMMARY: On November 14, IT workers formed West Bengal's (WB) first IT workers union. Its creation has exposed fault lines within the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) and the Left over the role of labor and industrialization. The reforms-oriented Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattachar [...]	2006-11-16 09:20:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EIND ELAB ETRD IN
06CALCUTTA526	RULING COALITION LOSES 4 PARLIAMENT SEATS IN 3 DIFFERENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 6, Congress and its ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partners lost all four contested seats in Lok Sabha (national parliament) by-elections in Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam. In Bihar, the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won two seats, while in Jha [...]	2006-11-16 12:39:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IN
06CALCUTTA533	BOMBS ON TRAIN IN W. BENGAL KILL AT LEAST SIX [...] (U) Summary: On November 20, an explosion on the Haldibari-New Jalpaiguri passenger train in northern West Bengal killed at least 6 and injured more than 50 people. Unofficial estimates indicate the death toll may rise to 15. No Americans have been reported injured. Although no one has cl [...]	2006-11-21 12:22:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PTER IN
06CALCUTTA535	RESOURCE WEALTHY JHARKHAND FACES INSTABILITY AND RISING [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-24 11:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM IN PTER
06CALCUTTA536	INDIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE USD 70 MILLION AMPHETAMINE [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 14 officials of the Indian Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) seized an estimated USD 70 million in methampetamine precursor chemicals in a cargo shipping container at a warehouse in Calcutta. NCB officials arrested Indian national of Chinese origin Vincent Chang alia [...]	2006-11-28 08:05:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM SOCI ASEC IN CH CO
06CALCUTTA540	STRIKE CALLED IN WEST BENGAL AS OPPOSITION DESTROYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 1, West Bengal regional political party Trinamul Congress (TC) organized a12-hour general strike in the state, disrupting commercial activity and resulting in some violent incidents. One government official was killed and four people reportedly injured by crude bom [...]	2006-12-01 13:32:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IN EINV ECON ASEC
06CALCUTTA541	MUSLIMS LAMENT LACK OF JOBS, EDUCATION IN WEST BENGAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 8-9, Poloff visited the majority Muslim district of Murshidabad along the West Bengal-Bangladesh border to discuss socioeconomic and security concerns with district officials, local politicians, and journalists. Discussions echoed the findings of the Rajinder Sachar Com [...]	2006-12-03 17:03:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IN BG PGOV PTER
06CALCUTTA542	WEST BENGAL OFFICIALS TALK BANGLADESH, BORDER SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In light of recent political tensions in neighboring Bangladesh, post has engaged West Bengal state government officials on their views of the situation and the impact on the India-Bangladesh border. The government contacts had a general preference for the Awami League as they be [...]	2006-12-03 17:03:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PREF XD IN BG
06CALCUTTA543	TO KEEP CHINESE OUT, INDIA SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The GOI recently provided arms to Burma for use in counter-insurgency operations along the Indo-Burma border. The GOI hopes to stop the activities of especially violent insurgent groups the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the United Liberation Front (UNLF),but the GO [...]	2006-12-04 11:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER IN BM
06CALCUTTA555	WEST BENGAL LABOR SECRETARY PROVIDES CHILD LABOR STATUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 1, Government of West Bengal (GOWB) Labor Secretary Subesh Das met with Poloffs to discuss child labor and the state government's efforts to implement the national child labor ban enacted on October 10. Das recognized that implementation has been slow, but argued th [...]	2006-12-14 14:47:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KWMN SOCI KCRM PHUM PREL IN
06CALCUTTA556	GOVERNANCE, DEVELOPMENT, AND NAXALISM IN BIHAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After one year in office, expectations remain high for Bihar's Janata Dal United (JDU)-led government. During a December 4-6 visit to Bihar, state officials, journalists, and NGOs told Poloff, however, that the new state government has to start from scratch after fifteen years [...]	2006-12-15 08:40:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ECON PREL SOCI IN
06CALCUTTA558	ANOTHER STRIKE HURTS WEST BENGAL [...] (U) Summary: On December 14 the 24-hour all India bandh (strike) called by the Center for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) against the economic policies of the Central government brought the entire state of West Bengal to a grinding halt. Flights and trains to and from Calcutta were cancelled and [...]	2006-12-15 13:27:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SOCI EINV ETRD ASEC IN
06CALCUTTA561	NAGA INSURGENCY OFFERS NO EASY SOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary: December 4-7, ConGen met with government officials and contacts in the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland to discuss ongoing ethnic Naga insurgencies. During this period, representatives of the separatist National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) (NSCN-IM) factio [...]	2006-12-18 11:58:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PREL PGOV PHUM IN BM
06CALCUTTA574	ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS EXPERT IDENTIFIES AREAS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) Ecologist and Regulatory Program Manager Wade L. Eakle visited Calcutta November 1-7, 2006. Eakle met senior Government of West Bengal (GOWB) officials representing the different agencies involved in wetlands management and administration to explo [...]	2006-12-28 09:52:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON IN
06CALCUTTA578	WEST BENGAL: MAMATA STARTS EATING AGAIN, BUT POT STILL [...] (SBU) Summary: At midnight on December 28, Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee ended her 25-day fast to protest construction of a Tata car factory in the rural West Bengal district of Singur. Banerjee's health had been declining and two days earlier she had been put on oxygen. This e [...]	2006-12-29 13:39:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR PGOV PHUM IN
06CALCUTTA63	ASSAM POLICE SHOOT VIOLENT PROTESTORS DEMONSTRATING AGAINST [...] (U) On February 10, nine people were killed in the Northeast Indian state of Assam when police opened fire on demonstrators protesting the death of suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) supporter Ajit Mahanta while in Indian Army custody. On February 5, the Indian Army detained Maha [...]	2006-02-14 07:16:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI ASEC IN
06CALCUTTA66	MINERAL RICH JHARKHAND SUFFERS INSURGENCY AND POVERTY [...] (SBU) February 5-8, CG visited the Eastern Indian state of Jharkhand to assess the economic development, security, religious freedom and the political situation. A new state, established only in 2000, Jharkhand is still experiencing serious growing pains. The National Democratic Alliance (ND [...]	2006-02-14 12:20:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON ASEC EIND EMIN SOCI PHUM IN
06CALCUTTA71	ASSAM STARTS STATE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONEERING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 11 Congress Party Chairwoman Sonia Gandhi traveled to the Northeast Indian state of Assam to inaugurate her party's campaign for the May 2006 state assembly elections. Her presence reflected Congress' concern about retaining its hold on Assam, following recent setba [...]	2006-02-16 13:06:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PTER SOCI BG IN
06CALCUTTA93	KUKI LIBERATION ARMY ABDUCTS KUKI COMMUNITY LEADER DR. [...] (SBU) On January 17, the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) kidnapped Chairman of the Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) and Administrative Secretary of the Kuki Christian Church Dr. Tongkhojang Lunkim in Senapati district of Manipur state in Northeast India. While ostensibly fighting for an indepe [...]	2006-02-24 10:08:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PTER ASEC KCRM SOCI IN
07CALCUTTA10	ULFA GOES ON A KILLING SPREE AGAINST HINDU "OUTSIDERS" [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the January 5-7 weekend, ethnic insurgent separatists from the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) carried out a string of attacks in remote areas of Assam, killing more than 65 people. The majority of attacks targeted migrant Bihari workers from India's Hindi- speakin [...]	2007-01-08 12:02:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PGOV IN BG PREL PBTS PHUM PINR
07CALCUTTA11	SIX PEOPLE KILLED IN VIOLENCE IN RURAL WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: In the evening and early morning of January 6-7, six people were killed in fighting around the West Bengal sub-district of Nandigram. The violence occurred between local villagers opposing the state government's plans to develop a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the area and m [...]	2007-01-08 14:22:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC IN
07CALCUTTA16	ASSAM SITREP - JANUARY 10, 2007 [...] (SBU) On January 9, Defense Minister A K Anthony and Army Chief J.J. Singh met Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and local Army officials of the 4 Corps in Assam to review the security situation in the state. There are reports of a mass exodus of Hindi-speaking migrants from Assam following th [...]	2007-01-10 12:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM ASEC CASC MARR IN BG
07CALCUTTA17	WEST BENGAL CM TO PROCEED MORE SLOWLY ON SEZS AFTER VIOLENCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Nandigram remained quiet, but tense, after weekend clashes that left 6 people dead. Government of West Bengal (GOWB) CM Bhuddadeb Bhatacharjee indicated that his party will re-examine the notice of land acquisition for the SEZ that triggered the violence. Bhattacharjee and his [...]	2007-01-10 14:01:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EINV EIND ETRD ASEC IN PHUM
07CALCUTTA24	ULFA CONTINUES ITS WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN ASSAM [...] (SBU) Summary. The ethnic-Assamese terrorist group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) continued its wave of violence in Assam over the past week January 15-22, bringing total casualties to near 90. Assam Chief Minister Gogoi has been appointed head of the Unified Command, which includes arm [...]	2007-01-22 13:42:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER PHUM CASC MARR IN BG
07CALCUTTA6	SENATOR SPECTER'S VISIT TO ORISSA [...] (SBU) Summary: December 22-23 Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, accompanied by his spouse Mrs. Joan Specter, Colonel Gregg Olsen, staff aide Scott Bowen Boos and medical escort Dr. Needleman, visited Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa. While in Bhubaneshwar, Senator Specter met a range of [...]	2007-01-05 07:30:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM ETRD ENRG KNNP TRGY IN BEXP
07KOLKATA104	WHAT DOES NANDIGRAM MEAN FOR THE CPM? [...] (SBU) Summary: The March 14 Nandigram violence resulted in at least 14 deaths, badly damaged Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's administration and revealed the ruthless face of West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM). It also shifted the dynamics between the CPM and [...]	2007-03-29 11:52:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI PREL IN
07KOLKATA109	SUSPECTED NEPALI MAOISTS ATTACK VILLAGE IN INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Violence from Nepal's Terai region is spilling over to the neighboring Indian state of Bihar. On March 31, about 200 suspected Nepali Maoists attacked a small village block in the Sitamarhi district of North Bihar, killing one security guard and injuring a dozen civilians. Thi [...]	2007-04-04 06:57:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM IN NP
07KOLKATA114	ASSAM: ULFA BLAST DURING PM VISIT. PROSPECT OF PEACE TALKS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 8, a bomb carried by boys working for the secessionist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) accidentally detonated earlier than planned and killed one person in Guwahati, Assam. The explosion took place during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's April 8-9 to the state. [...]	2007-04-09 12:29:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER PHUM CASC IN
07KOLKATA116	EASTERN INDIA ALERT TO AVIAN INFLUENZA RISK FOLLOWING [...] (SBU) Summary: With the recent reported cases of Avian Influenza (AI) in Bangladesh and Burma, neighboring Indian states have alerted officials to monitor for possible outbreaks and have banned imports of poultry products from those two countries (reftels). On April 7, the "Hindustan Times" [...]	2007-04-10 05:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR TBIO KFLU CASC EAID AMED PGOV IN BM BG
07KOLKATA119	ARUNACHAL PRADESH: VETERAN CHIEF MINISTER OUSTED IN [...] (U) Summary: On April 9, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Gegong Apang was replaced by his Power Minister Dorjee Khandu. Dissident legislators in the state Congress Party compelled the Congress Party national leadership, already unhappy with Apang's rule, to effect the change. The shuffle may [...]	2007-04-10 09:49:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR IN
07KOLKATA126	KOLKATA PUBLIC AFFAIRS REACHES OUT TO EASTERN INDIA'S MUSLIM [...] (SBU) Summary. Students and faculty at Muslim schools (madrassas) in West Bengal are enthusiastic to interact with U.S. government officials generally and have been appreciative in particular with the outreach by the Kolkata American Center through participation in MicroAccess English-languag [...]	2007-04-18 06:30:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO KIRF KISL PHUM SOCI SA IN
07KOLKATA129	USTR AMBASSADOR SCHWAB MEETS WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 14 U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Susan Schwab visited West Bengal (WB) to understand local views on India's trade interests and the conditions of its agricultural sector. During her visit, Amb. Schwab met with WB Chief Minister (CM) Buddhadeb Bhattacha [...]	2007-04-18 10:24:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EAGR ETRD PREL PGOV SOCI EAID IN
07KOLKATA144	INDIA'S MAOIST MENACE GROWS [...] (SBU) Summary. Recent large scale attacks by Maoist insurgents in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and other states reflect growing Maoist strength and organization in India. Mostly operating under the banner of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist),India's Maoists now maintain a [...]	2007-05-03 12:43:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER SOCI PHUM ECON IN NP

07KOLKATA145	RENEWED VIOLENCE IN NANDIGRAM INDICATES A POLITICAL BATTLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two people were killed and five injured in Nandigram on April 29 in a recurrence of violence between supporters of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) and the Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee ("Committee to Resist Displacement from Land") (BUPC). While the fighting in [...]	2007-05-03 12:54:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV IN PHUM
07KOLKATA149	ASSAM ROCKED BY TWO BOMB ATTACKS, 26 INJURED [...] (U) On Friday May 4 and Sunday May 6 at least 26 persons were injured in two separate bomb attacks in India's Northeastern state of Assam. In both incidents, the bombs were improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The Assam Police suspect that ethnic separatist group the United Liberation Front o [...]	2007-05-07 11:25:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PTER ASEC IN
07KOLKATA152	YOUNG BOYS AND MEN SUFFER SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AS TRADITIONAL [...] Summary: A United Nations Development Program (UNDP) funded report entitled "Dancing Boys: Traditional Prostitution of Young Males in India" highlights the problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of "launda dancers" - young boys and men, who are hired to dance (in women's clothing) at marri [...]	2007-05-09 10:11:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM EAID TBIO KHIV IN
07KOLKATA154	ANTI-NARCOTICS OFFICIALS DESTROY THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF OPIUM [...] (SBU) On May 5, press reported a massive Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN) operation in West Bengal to destroy illicit and unlicensed opium crop in Murshidabad and Nadia districts worth Rs. 1,200 crore (USD 290 million). GOI awards licenses for legal opium cultivation in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya [...]	2007-05-10 06:31:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC SOCI EAGR IN
07KOLKATA157	POULTRY FARM IN NORTH BENGAL REPORTS LARGE NUMBER OF BIRD [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the first week of May, thousands of birds have died at a poultry farm in Siliguri, located in Northern West Bengal, near the border with Bangladesh. The Government of West Bengal (GOWB) has sealed the poultry farm. Preliminary health reports have found no evidence of an H5N1 [...]	2007-05-11 09:23:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU AMED EAGR IN BG
07KOLKATA164	EAST INDIAN STATES SEE PROTESTS AGAINST RETAIL AND MINING [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 12, two states in East India experienced several protests against investments by large corporations. In Jharkhand's state capital Ranchi, small scale food vendors attacked newly-opened Reliance Fresh supermarkets fearing that that the lower cost retail markets would destro [...]	2007-05-16 12:28:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND EINV EAGR EMIN ASEC IN KS
07KOLKATA166	TERRORIST GROUP UNITED LIBERATION FRONT OF ASOM KILLS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16, ethnic Assamese terrorist group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) gunned down three Hindi-speaking market traders in two different incidents in Golaghat district in Upper Assam. These attacks came soon after ULFA's killing on the previous day, May 15, of six H [...]	2007-05-17 05:36:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN BG
07KOLKATA167	INDIAN AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO DETAIN INDEFINITELY HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 11 Manipuri human rights activist Irom Sharmila was summoned to New Delhi to face charges of attempted suicide stemming from her six-year hunger strike against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Sharmila has been protesting the continued human rights violation [...]	2007-05-17 11:58:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KWMN PGOV SOCI PTER IN
07KOLKATA171	INDIAN MILITARY ENGAGING WITH BURMESE COUNTERPARTS [...] (SBU) Summary: During April and May, Senior Indian military officials appear to have undertaken a concerted effort to increase engagement with their Burmese counterparts. Several meetings have taken place both at political and military levels between officials of the two neighboring countrie [...]	2007-05-22 13:53:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR PHUM PGOV IN BM CH
07KOLKATA177	SIX DEAD AS VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN ASSAM [...] On Sunday May 27 six persons were killed and over 25 injured in a blast, suspected to have been triggered by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) at Athgaon in the capital district of Guwahati in Assam. A time device planted in an auto-rickshaw parked in a busy area went off around 10.4 [...]	2007-05-30 02:11:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN BG
07KOLKATA189	SIX KILLED IN ASSAM BLAST [...] (SBU) On June 23 six persons were killed and nine injured in a blast, suspected to have been triggered by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA),in the capital city of Guwahati in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. The death toll included two minors. The blast, which took place in t [...]	2007-06-25 11:47:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM ASEC KCRM IN BG
07KOLKATA191	MAOISTS BLOCKADE JHARKHAND TRANSPORT [...] Summary: (SBU) Beginning June 26 the two-day east India economic blockade called by the Communist Party of India-Maoist to protest against the setting up of special economic zones (SEZs),adversely affected the movement of all minerals from the mineral-rich state of Jharkhand. The majority [...]	2007-06-29 08:40:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV PTER PHUM ASEC KCRM IN
07KOLKATA195	NEW POLICE UNIT IN KOLKATA TO IMPROVE ENFORCEMENT OF HUMAN [...] (U) Summary. On June 28, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in West Bengal launched the state's first Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) at its headquarters in Kolkata in a concerted effort to combat trafficking of persons in the state. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee inaugur [...]	2007-07-03 10:54:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PHUM ELAB SOCI IN NP BG
07KOLKATA196	200 MAOIST INSURGENTS KILL SEVEN, INCLUDING FIVE POLICE, IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 30 an estimated 200 Communist Party of India - Maoist (Maoists) insurgents killed seven people, including five policemen, in separate but simultaneous attacks on two police stations in the Rohtas district of the eastern Indian State of Bihar. On the same day, the Bihar [...]	2007-07-05 11:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN
07KOLKATA197	VIETNAMESE PM LEADS LARGE TRADE DELEGATION TO KOLKATA [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 4, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived in Kolkata with a 172 member delegation to renew, what he describe as "an old and good friendship" with the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-ruled state of West Bengal and to strengthen economic relations. Dung' [...]	2007-07-06 12:00:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL EINV ETRD EMIN IN VM
07KOLKATA209	MEGHALAYA STATE POLICE SEIZE 5 KILOS OF HEROIN [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 6 in Northeast India, Meghalaya state police reportedly recovered 5 kilograms of heroin in the state capital Shillong. Two persons have been arrested in connection with the seizure. One suspect is an Indian federal government employee, the other is Moulvi (Muslim prea [...]	2007-07-12 10:25:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER SNAR ASEC KCRM IN BG BM
07KOLKATA215	URANIUM MINES IN INDIAN STATE OF JHARKHAND LACK PROPER [...] (SBU) Summary: As India seeks to develop its nuclear power industry, the GOI is expanding its uranium mines in India's eastern state of Jharkhand. The Jadugoda mines, located in East Singhbum district, are presently the sole fuel source for India's ten pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWR [...]	2007-07-19 13:48:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENGR EMIN ELAB SENV TRGY ASEC IN
07KOLKATA217	OFFICIALS IN NE INDIA INVESTIGATING POULTRY DEATHS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Between July 7 and 10, about 100 chickens died in a farm near Manipur's capital city of Imphal. The state veterinary department deployed rapid response teams to collect samples and sent these to the High Security Disease Detection Laboratory (HSDL) in Bhopal. The Health Depart [...]	2007-07-20 10:49:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO PREL PGOV SENV IN BM
07KOLKATA218	MAOISTS BOMB STATE GOVT OFFICE BUILDING TO "SPUR" POLICE [...] (U) Summary: On July 17th Maoists set off an explosion at a government office in Jharkhand's Bokaro district. A portion of the office building was damaged but no injuries were reported. A note left by the Maoists at the scene claimed that the explosion was in protest against the state governm [...]	2007-07-23 11:43:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PHUM IN
07KOLKATA219	GOI CONFIRMS AVIAN INFLUENZA IN DEAD POULTRY IN MANIPUR [...] (U) On July 25, the Chief Secretary of Manipur has confirmed the existence of avian influenza in poultry. In a government notice, the Chief Secretary said that the Government of India (GOI) informed the Manipur state government that, "Avian influenza in poultry is reported from a small unit i [...]	2007-07-26 03:31:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU SENV ECON TBIO EAGR PGOV IN NP BG BM
07KOLKATA220	AVIAN INFLUENZA - MANIPUR SITREP, JULY 23 2007 [...] (U) The National Institute of Virology in Pune reported that the virus detected in the samples taken from the dead poultry in Manipur is H5N1. The Manipur government has set up a control room as part of the GOI Action Plan for Preparedness, Control and Containment of Avian Influenza. Contac [...]	2007-07-26 12:22:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU SENV TBIO EAGR PGOV IN BM BG
07KOLKATA223	RESOURCE CRIPPLED BIHAR FIGHTS AGAINST POLIO [...] (SBU) Summary: The state of Bihar continues to see an increase in polio cases. As of the end of July 2007, 17 cases have been reported, compared to 13 during the same period last year. In 2006, Bihar reported 61 cases of polio out of a total of 660 in India, which was double the number from [...]	2007-07-30 11:37:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KHIV SENV PGOV IN
07KOLKATA227	AVIAN INFLUENZA: MANIPUR SITREP JULY 31, 2007 [...] (U) SUMMARY: As of July 31, culling operations continued in Manipur at over 34 locations in and around Imphal. Culling is scheduled to be completed by July 31 and an assessment taken on August 1. Although there is no news of the infection spreading, there are unconfirmed media reports of an [...]	2007-07-31 11:36:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO SENV EAGR IN BM BG PGOV
07KOLKATA228	LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS IN W. BENGAL MAY MEAN LEFT FRONT GRIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Left Front leaders welcomed the July 22 Haldia municipal election results as indicative of support for their policy of industrialization in W. Bengal. However, of the 26 seats up for grabs, the Left won 19 and the opposition 7, compared to the 2002 elections when the Left won [...]	2007-07-31 12:15:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAGR EIND IN
07KOLKATA230	FLOODING HITS INDIA'S EAST AND NORTHEAST HARD [...] (U) SUMMARY: Heavy rains since July 25 have flooded large areas in Assam, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura. Almost all the districts of Assam are flooded, killing 16 people and affecting 1.1 million people. Water levels in rivers across Assam have receded over the past 48 hours. Assam's [...]	2007-08-02 11:18:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI EAID PGOV AEMR AMED IN
07KOLKATA233	BIHAR SUFFERS WORST FLOOD IN THREE DECADES WITH 77 DEATHS [...] (U) SUMMARY: As of August 6, flood conditions in the East Indian state of Bihar remain serious, with a rising toll of now 77 deaths. However, water levels are stabilizing. The Indian Army and Air Force are supporting state government's relief and rescue efforts. Bihar officials say there is [...]	2007-08-06 11:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR MARR PREF IN
07KOLKATA234	MANIPUR FINISHES AI BIRD CULL AND 550 CHICKENS DIE IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 4 culling operations in response to the recent H5N1 Avian Influenza outbreak ended in Manipur, with an estimated 330,000 birds culled. Local authorities are now concentrating on surveillance and monitoring activities. Samples taken from four people living on the Chingme [...]	2007-08-06 12:32:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU EAGR TBIO SENV CASC IN BM
07KOLKATA242	ULFA AGAIN TARGETS HINDI SPEAKING MIGRANTS WHILE RESENTMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In the run-up to India's Independence Day on August 15, insurgents from the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) have killed at least 27 Hindi-speaking migrants in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. Simultaneously with thi [...]	2007-08-14 21:07:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM PINR IN BG
07KOLKATA249	KOLKATA: U.S. SPEAKER EDDY HARRIS SUPPORTS MUTUAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-21 03:26:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP SCUL KPAO IN
07KOLKATA250	ORISSA STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS CONCERNED OVER EPIDEMIC LEVELS [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 1, ConGen met with Orissa State AIDS Control Society (OSACS) officials to discuss the HIV/AIDS situation in Orissa. The interaction revealed worsening conditions in this eastern Indian state. The National Aids Control Organization (NACO) characterizes Orissa as a "h [...]	2007-08-21 11:30:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KHIV KWMN KGLB TBIO IN
07KOLKATA251	W. BENGAL'S NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING HEAD OUTLINES PLANS FOR THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: ON AUGUST 6 POLOFF SPOKE AT LENGTH WITH NEWLY-APPOINTED WEST BENGAL DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE (SPECIAL CELL) SANJOY MUKHERJEE. MUKHERJEE WILL RUN THE RECENTLY-CREATED ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING UNIT (AHTU) IN W. BENGAL. DURING THE MEETING, MUKHERJEE EXPLAINED IN DETAIL THE [...]	2007-08-21 12:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PHUM ELAB SOCI IN NP BG
07KOLKATA256	JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER VISITS KOLKATA TO BOOST ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL TIES [...] (U) ON AUGUST 23, JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER ABE ARRIVED IN KOLKATA ACCOMPANIED BY A MORE THAN 120-MEMBER BUSINESS DELEGATION. JAPAN HAS INVESTED HEAVILY IN THE STATE OF W. BENGAL AND PROVIDED MILLION-DOLLAR LOANS FOR PROJECTS IN THE CHEMICALS AND ENERGY SECTORS AS WELL AS INFRASTRUCTURE. ABE W [...]	2007-08-24 10:33:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL EINV ETRD EIND IN JA
07KOLKATA258	THE HIV/AIDS SCENARIO IN INDIA'S EAST AND NORTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary: In July, India's National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) released the results of an analytical exercise supported by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) that provided new, lower estimates of HIV prevalence in India. The exercise, conducted in 2006, found that [...]	2007-08-24 12:53:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KHIV TBIO KWMN SENV ELAB IN
07KOLKATA261	ORISSA CONTINUES TO GROW IN IT, INDUSTRY, ANDMANUFACTURING [...] (U) Summary: During a July 31-August 2 visit to the East Indian state of Orissa, ConGen met with a range of local politicians, bureaucrats, business people and media representatives to assess the present economic conditions in the state. The Orissa government has been intent on developin [...]	2007-08-27 10:45:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EIND EINV PHUM EMIN IN KS
07KOLKATA263	A FOURTH INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY CAMERA GOES MISSING IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 27, an industrial radiography camera containing radioactive iridium 192 was stolen from Tata Steel's manufacturing plant in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, the fourth such theft since August 2005. The first camera theft occurred on August 14, 2005 from the Industrial Radi [...]	2007-08-31 02:24:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM ENRG TRGY ETTC TSPL PGOV EIND SENV IN
07KOLKATA264	WEST BENGAL POLICE CONCERNED BY RISING OPIUM CULTIVATION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In the past three months, West Bengal Police have recovered 13 kilograms of opium worth USD 600,000, reflecting an apparent increase in illicit narcotic activity in the state. According to police officials, farmers in the state's Nadia district, lured by the prospect of higher [...]	2007-08-31 13:00:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SNAR KCRM IN BG NP
07KOLKATA28	MANIPUR STATE ELECTIONS LIKELY TO RESULT IN WEAKER CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Election Commission has announced three voting phases for the Manipur state assembly elections to be held on February 8, 15, and 23. The phased voting will help in managing the extensive security required, given the persistent violence from ethnic insurgencies in [...]	2007-01-25 13:23:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI IN BM
07KOLKATA289	INDIAN CONGLOMERATE RELIANCE SUSPENDS ITS WEST BENGAL RETAIL [...] (U) SUMMARY. Faced with violence against its facilities and growing political opposition to expansion of retail in India, the Reliance Group on September 13 suspended its billion-dollar agricultural retail project in West Bengal. The ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) and the W. B [...]	2007-09-18 04:34:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	BTIO EAGR ECON EINV PGOV IN
07KOLKATA291	NORTHEAST INDIAN STATE MIZORAM STRUGGLES WITH NEAR EPIDEMIC [...] (U) Summary: From August 28-30, ConGen visited the northeast Indian state of Mizoram to assess the state's social issues. The state borders Burma and has a relatively small population of around one million people. While literacy is high at over 88 percent, the state economy is weak and reli [...]	2007-09-19 14:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KHIV SNAR TBIO IN BM
07KOLKATA292	TEA, TIGERS AND TRAFFICKING GO HAND IN HAND IN BENGAL'S [...] (U) Summary: Located in a narrow strip of land between Nepal and Bangladesh, the N. Bengal city of Siliguri is a regional economic crossroad. People and goods intersect there, and as India's GDP growth nears ten percent, smaller cities like Siliguri are experiencing rapid expansion. This e [...]	2007-09-20 05:58:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PHUM KWMN SENV IN NP BG ELAB
07KOLKATA295	WEST BENGAL VILLAGERS WANT FOOD NOT IDEOLOGY: ATTACK [...] (U) Summary: On September 16, villagers in West Bengal's (WB) Left Front ruled Bankura district attacked local Communist leaders who had arranged a meeting to protest the U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement (referred to as the 123 agreement). The villagers insisted they wanted food, not sloga [...]	2007-09-21 11:37:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IN
07KOLKATA297	TEA, TIGERS AND TRAFFICKING GO HAND IN HAND IN BENGAL'S [...] (U) Summary: Located in a narrow strip of land between Nepal and Bangladesh, the N. Bengal city of Siliguri is a regional economic crossroad. People and goods intersect there, and as India's GDP growth nears ten percent, smaller cities like Siliguri are experiencing rapid expansion. This e [...]	2007-09-21 11:43:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PHUM KWMN SENV IN NP BG ELAB
07KOLKATA30	DALAI LAMA SPEAKS IN KOLKATA ON TIBETAN AUTONOMY [...] (SBU) On January 15 in Kolkata, the Dalai Lama spoke at the 40th anniversary celebrations of the of non-governmental organization Young Men's Welfare Society (YMWS). He made remarks on "Ethics in Human Development." During the question and answer period following his remarks, the Dalai Lama [...]	2007-01-29 10:06:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV SENV CH IN
07KOLKATA305	BURMESE MIGRANTS IN NORTHEAST INDIA FACE DISCRIMINATION: [...] (SBU) Summary: India's Northeast region is home to thousands of Burmese refugees and migrants who have fled political oppression and economic backwardness in Burma. Ethnic Chins are the largest group, estimated at 50,000 to 100,000, and are primarily in the India's Northeastern state of Mizo [...]	2007-09-27 16:04:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PREL BM IN
07KOLKATA31	DCM TALKS AGRICULTURE IN WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DURING HIS JANUARY 18-19 VISIT TO KOLKATA, DCM DISCUSSED FOOD-PROCESSING, FDI IN THE RETAIL SECTOR, AND LAND POLICY WITH COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA - MARXIST (CPM) AND GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL (GOWB) LEADERS. THOUGH GOWB OFFICIALS WERE GENERALLY POSITIVE ABOUT THE STATES PROSPE [...]	2007-01-29 12:22:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAGR ECIN EINV ELAB ENRG IN
07KOLKATA311	INDIA TIGHTENS SECURITY ON THE BURMA BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 2, Assam Rifles soldiers detained three Burmese individuals at Khudengthabi security checkpost in Manipur state in Northeast India, bordering Burma. India has not sealed its border with Burma. However, security at key crossing points has been increased. Peaceful de [...]	2007-10-11 02:04:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PREL BM IN
07KOLKATA323	VIOLENCE IN WEST BENGAL'S NANDIGRAM VILLAGES CONTINUES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past five days, sporadic violence has occurred in the Nandigram area of West Bengal's East Midnapore district. Supporters of both the Trinamool Congress-backed Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) have engaged in attacks, [...]	2007-10-30 13:01:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC SOCI IN
07KOLKATA324	MAOIST INSURGENTS TARGET FORMER JHARKHAND CHIEF MINISTER'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27 in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Maoist rebels shot and killed eighteen people after a football (soccer) match, including the youngest son of Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The attack occurred in the village of Giridih near the Jharkha [...]	2007-10-30 13:14:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV ASEC SOCI IN
07KOLKATA325	MAOISTS IN JHARKHAND STRIKE AT ANOTHER LOCAL FOOTBALL MATCH, [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27, Maoist rebels shot and killed eighteen people after a football match, including the youngest son of Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The attack occurred in the village of Giridih near the Jharkhand-Bihar border. The GOI and Jharkhand government [...]	2007-10-30 15:10:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC IN
07KOLKATA327	MAOIST INSURGENTS TARGET FORMER JHARKHAND CHIEF MINISTER'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 27 in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Maoist rebels shot and killed eighteen people after a football (soccer) match, including the youngest son of Jharkhand's former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi. The attack occurred in the village of Giridih near the Jharkha [...]	2007-11-01 07:57:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PGOV SOCI IN
07KOLKATA331	TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON TALKS TRADE AND INVESTMENT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 28, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson met with West Bengal Chief Minister (CM) and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) Politburo Member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to discuss economic development in India and West Bengal, and the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha r [...]	2007-11-04 11:09:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON ETRD EAGR WTRO IN
07KOLKATA336	IROM SHARMILA CONTINUES SIX-YEAR HUNGER STRIKE TO PROTEST [...] (U) Human Rights activist Irom Sharmila has been detained for six years in a government hospital in Manipur and force fed by local authorities as she maintains her hunger strike to protest human rights abuses in Manipur and to demand the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). [...]	2007-11-06 12:36:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KWMN PREL IN
07KOLKATA345	COMMUNISTS BRUTALLY CRUSH OPPOSITION IN RURAL WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: From November 6 to 11, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) activists conducted a brutal campaign to "recapture" the rural West Bengal area of Nandigram from the opposition Bhumi Uchhed Protirodh Committee (BUPC) (Committee Against Eviction From the Land). Following initial [...]	2007-11-13 14:56:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREF ASEC IN
07KOLKATA351	COMMUNISTS DEFIANT ON NANDIGRAM HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES [...] (SBU) Summary: During November 6-11, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) activists violently assaulted villages under the control of the opposition Bhumi Ucched Protirodh Committee (BUPC) in West Bengal's rural Nandigram area. CPM cadres, locally called "Harmad Bahini" (Portuguese pirates [...]	2007-11-19 12:01:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN IN
07KOLKATA353	A/S SAUERBREY MEETS WITH CHIN LEADERS ON ACCESS TO REFUGEES [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 7 stopover in Kolkata, Population, Refugee, and Migration (PRM) Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey discussed with Burmese Chin leaders the condition of the several thousand Chin migrants in India's Northeast. The lack of access by UNHCR to the Chins and other [...]	2007-11-20 04:36:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IN PREF
07KOLKATA355	KOLKATA'S CRISIS MANAGEMENT FOR CYCLONE SIDR: LESSONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 16, cyclone Sidr had only a moderate impact on West Bengal and Kolkata's consular district. However, to retain information on lessons learned regarding Post's planning and preparations for the cyclone, the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) and other post personnel co [...]	2007-11-20 13:14:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC AEMR AMGT CASC IN
07KOLKATA356	INDIAN ARMY DEPLOYS TO QUELL MUSLIM RIOTS IN KOLKATA [...] (U) Summary: On November 21, central Kolkata was rocked by violence as Muslim supporters of the All India Minorities Forum (AIMF) and Furfurasharif Muzadeddia Anath Foundation (FMAF) enforced roadblocks in Kolkata to protest the recent Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) attacks in Nandigr [...]	2007-11-21 13:20:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC AEMR CASC PHUM IN
07KOLKATA359	KOLKATA QUIET, TASLIMA NASREEN FORCED TO LEAVE [...] (U) Kolkata has remained quiet since rioting on November 21 by Muslim protestors required the Indian Army to be called in and a curfew imposed until the early morning of November 22. However, the Army is still deployed in central Kolkata as a precautionary measure. The November 21 violence st [...]	2007-11-23 12:39:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV AEMR PHUM IN
07KOLKATA364	CORPORATE KOLKATA HOPES NANDIGRAM WILL NOT AFFECT [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of recent violence in Nandigram, Post surveyed leading industry contacts to discuss the potential impact of the violence on investment in W. Bengal. Business owners and senior corporate managers generally believe that the recent government sponsored attacks in Nan [...]	2007-11-28 11:06:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EINV EFIN EIND EAGR IN
07KOLKATA367	RAMSEY CLARK AND HUMAN RIGHTS TEAM VISIT NANDIGRAM, [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 30, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark led a three-member delegation to visit villages in West Bengal's Nandigram district. Clark and his team came for an on-the-spot assessment of human rights violations by Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) activists a [...]	2007-11-30 09:23:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM IN
07KOLKATA376	CHINA AND INDIA DISPUTE BHUTAN BORDER: INDIAN SOLDIERS MOVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Against the backdrop of efforts to improve bilateral relations, India and China continue to jostle over territory along India's northeast border with China. On December 12, India relocated 6,000 soldiers of the 27th Mountain Division (units of the 164 Mountain Brigade) from Jam [...]	2007-12-14 13:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR CH IN
07KOLKATA378	KOLKATA HOLIDAY EAC MEETING [...] (SBU) On December 13, the Principal Officer convened an EAC meeting in Kolkata in response to reftel. Post is not aware of any threat information that is aimed at American interests in Eastern India. Post employees were reminded to provide their supervisors with contact information if traveli [...]	2007-12-17 03:14:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER CASC IN
07KOLKATA382	NAGA INSURGENTS SEEK UNITY PRIOR TO NAGALAND STATE ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Summary. December 3-7, ConGen and Embassy New Delhi PolCouns visited Nagaland and discussed with officials and contacts the Naga insurgencies and preparations for the February 2008 state assembly elections. While many decried the internecine violence among the insurgent factions, most [...]	2007-12-19 11:21:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PHUM ASEC BM IN
07KOLKATA383	ADIVASI TRIBALS IN ASSAM AGITATE; STATE CONGRESS GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Assam's "tea tribes" or Adivasis have increased their protests and agitations to pressure the state and national governments for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status under the Indian Constitution. In recent weeks, members of the Adivasi community have organized a violent rally in Guwaha [...]	2007-12-19 11:48:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ASEC PREF IN
07KOLKATA385	HINDUS AND CHRISTIANS CLASH OVER CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN [...] (U) Summary: Since December 24 one person has been killed, at least 30 persons injured and several churches have been damaged as tribal Christians and Hindu fundamentalists have clashed over Christmas celebrations in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. Trouble started on December 24, when a [...]	2007-12-26 09:25:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI ASEC IN
07KOLKATA386	MAOIST INSURGENTS IN EASTERN INDIA EXPAND INFLUENCE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Development projects in rural India including India's Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have provided the country's Maoist insurgents (or Naxalites) with an opportunity to solidify their base and to increase their reach into more semi-rural areas. In the extensive "red corridor" o [...]	2007-12-26 11:22:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM EIND ECON EINV ASEC IN
07KOLKATA388	TENSIONS REMAIN HIGH IN ORISSA FOLLOWING CHRISTMAS VIOLENCE [...] Summary: (SBU) Tensions prevailed in the curfew bound tribal-dominated Kandhamal and Phulbani districts of the Eastern India state of Orissa following violence which began on December 24. At least, one person has been killed and several have been reported injured during the violence. Propert [...]	2007-12-27 16:34:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI ASEC IN
07KOLKATA39	USG SUPPORT FOR ANTI-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS STRONG, [...] (U) Summary: On January 18, DCM visited anti-trafficking non-governmental organization (NGO) Apne Aap's shelter at Topsia, located in a Muslim neighborhood that is one of Kolkata's poorest slums. DCM interacted with Apne Aap leaders and spoke with Deputy Public Prosecutor Taj Mohammed about [...]	2007-02-06 09:40:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR IN
07KOLKATA391	KOLKATA EAC-BHUTTO ASSASINATION [...] (SBU) On December 28, the acting Principal Officer convened an EAC meeting in Kolkata in response to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The SD Team and Local Guard Force have been reminded to remain vigilant and to report all security anomalies immediately. 2. (SBU) Post reviewed exist [...]	2007-12-28 11:14:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER CASC IN
07KOLKATA41	WEST BENGAL'S LAND BATTLE HIGHLIGHTS CHALLENGES OF [...] (SBU) Summary: During the past six months, the Government of West Bengal (GOWB) and Tata Motors have found themselves embroiled in a political battle over acquisition of agricultural land in Singur district. The controversy has been fueled by a lack of transparency in the land acquisition pr [...]	2007-02-07 12:17:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EIND EINV PGOV IN
07KOLKATA50	NOBEL PRIZE WINNER DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS CONSIDERS ENTERING [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 12, ConGen spoke with Nobel Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus about his plans to enter Bangladesh politics. Yunus, on a two-day visit to Kolkata, expressed a strong interest to enter the political fray and said that he was reviewing his options. He expressed support [...]	2007-02-13 13:33:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI IN BG
07KOLKATA54	ITALIAN PM PRODI LEADS LARGEST EVER TRADE MISSION TO [...] (SBU) Summary. February 11-12, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi visited Kolkata with over 300 business representatives, Italian Commerce Minister Emma Bonino and other senior government officials as part of a "global strategy to open new markets in Asia." The delegation consisted mostly o [...]	2007-02-14 14:04:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAGR EFIN EIND IT IN
07KOLKATA56	CHINA AND RUSSIA MAKING THEIR PITCH TO EAST INDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DEMONSTRATING GREATER CHINESE EFFORT AT PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN EAST INDIA, ON FEBRUARY 12, FOREIGN MINISTER LI XHAOXING TRAVELED TO BIHAR TO INAUGURATE A NEW MEMORIAL HALL AT THE HISTORIC SITE OF THE ANCIENT NALANDA UNIVERSITY. A WEEK EARLIER, CHINA'S AMBASSADOR TO INDIA USED THE [...]	2007-02-15 12:10:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD PGOV EINV RS CH IN
07KOLKATA59	SECOND PHASE OF MANIPUR ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS OFFERS NO CLEAR [...] (U) On February 14, three valley districts of the Northeast Indian state of Manipur -- Imphal West, Imphal East and Bishnupur -- constituting 29 constituencies out of the 60-seat Assembly, went to the second phase of the state Legislative Assembly polls. The national-ruling Congress Party, pr [...]	2007-02-16 13:00:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC IN
07KOLKATA66	FORMULATION OF A NEW INTEGRATED ACTION PLAN TO COMBAT TIP [...] (U) Summary: On February 1-2 approximately 50-75, lawyers, judges, NGO activists, and government officials from West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, and Jharkhand participated in the "Eastern Regional Workshop to Discuss the Proposed Plan of Action to Prevent and Combat Human Trafficking" organized b [...]	2007-02-22 06:33:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN SOCI KCRM PHUM PREL IN
07KOLKATA67	LEFT PARTIES TO PUSH THIER AGENDA AND CHALLENGE UPA DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: India's Parliament's "budget session" opened on February 23 and is expected to last approximately eight weeks. During the session, India's Left parties, headed by the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM),plan to challenge the economic policies of the Congress-dominated Un [...]	2007-02-23 08:17:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI IN
07KOLKATA68	LEFT PARTIES TO PUSH THEIR AGENDA AND CHALLENGE UPA DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: India's Parliament's "budget session" opened on February 23 and is expected to last approximately eight weeks. During the session, India's Left parties, headed by the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM),plan to challenge the economic policies of the Congress-dominated Un [...]	2007-02-23 13:34:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD ENRG EAGR PGOV PREL IN
07KOLKATA69	LEFT OBJECTS TO CONSUL GENERAL'S MEETING WITH JAMIAT-E-ULEMA [...] (C) Summary: On February 24, ConGen met with West Bengal Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind (JUH) General Secretary Siddiqullah Chowdhury at the JUH offices to discuss Muslim issues and concerns in West Bengal. Chowdhury has come to local prominence recently in leading Muslim opposition to development of [...]	2007-02-26 14:21:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC PREL ECON SOCI IN
07KOLKATA71	AFTER TWO ROUNDS OF PEACEFUL VOTING, VIOLENCE HITS MANIPUR [...] (U) Summary: On February 23, Manipur held the third and final phase of its Legislative Assembly elections for the remaining 12 seats in the 60-seat legislature. Unlike the first two phases, this final round of polling was marred by violence and intimidation due to ethnic rivalries in the poll [...]	2007-02-27 11:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV PHUM IN
07KOLKATA72	CONGRESS RETAINS CONTROL IN MANIPUR AS LOCAL PARTIES FALTER [...] (U) Summary: The Congress Party gained control of the Manipur Assembly, winning 30 out 60 seats, and partnering with the Communist Party of India (CPI) to form an absolute majority. Local parties, including the Manipur People's Party, lost due to their extreme political stances that did not [...]	2007-02-28 11:08:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IN
07KOLKATA74	MAOISTS BRAZENLY KILL JHARKHAND PARLIAMENTARIAN DURING [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday March 4 Maoist rebels shot and killed Sunil Mahto, a Member of Parliament (MP) from the city of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and General Secretary of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) political party. The attack occurred at a football tournament in the village of Ghatshila, [...]	2007-03-05 12:38:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER PGOV IN
07KOLKATA84	ASSAM -- NATIONAL GAMES OVER, ULFA CONTINUES ATTACKS [...] (U) Summary: On March 9, the terrorist group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) continued its campaign of bombs and attacks in Assam, setting off a bomb in a crowded marketplace. The group also indicates that it will step up its attacks, including by targeting Congress Party officials, ho [...]	2007-03-13 04:57:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER PHUM CASC IN
07KOLKATA86	ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS RETAIN THE SCARS OF THE 2004 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. March 2-7, ConGen visited the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to assess recovery from the December 2004 tsunami and related issues such as the environment, economic conditions and strategic concerns. Two years after the tsunami devastated parts of the island [...]	2007-03-13 12:37:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID SENV PHUM ECON MARR IN BM TH ID
07KOLKATA88	RURAL WEST BENGAL AGAIN ERUPTS INTO VIOLENCE OVER LAND [...] (U) March 14, violence erupted again in the rural West Bengal district of Nandigram, located approximately 150 km southwest of Kolkata, when police fired on villagers protesting the state government's plans to acquire land for industrial development. At least five persons reportedly were kill [...]	2007-03-14 12:20:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ECON EAGR ASEC IN
07KOLKATA92	WEST BENGAL FACES FALLOUT FROM NANDIGRAM VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The rural West Bengal district of Nandigram remains tense but quiet following the March 14 violence between police, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) activists and local villagers, which resulted in at least 14 deaths and 71 injuries (REF. A). Chief Minister Buddhadeb B [...]	2007-03-19 13:32:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI ASEC IN
07KOLKATA95	RECENT DEATHS IN NANDIGRAM HIGHLIGHT WEST BENGAL'S VIOLENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The March 14 killings in the rural West Bengal district of Nandigram highlighted the truly violent nature of grassroots politics in the state (Reftels). Initially, the agitation was by local villagers opposed to the GOWB's plans to acquire their land for a Special Economic Zone [...]	2007-03-21 13:12:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ASEC SOCI IN
08KOLKATA1	PRESIDENT'S RULE IMMINENT IN BJP-CONTROLLED NAGALAND [...] (U) Summary: The Union Cabinet has recommended implementation of President's Rule in the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland, currently ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-backed Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) coalition and with Congress as the main opposition party. Current Chief [...]	2008-01-03 11:10:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IN
08KOLKATA100	LATEST ROUND OF W. BENGAL AI OUTBREAK SPREADS TO MALDA [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 18, the presence of H5N1 virus was confirmed in a state-owned large poultry farm in West Bengal's Malda town. Culling and disinfection of the farm has started along with human health surveillance. The West Bengal Animal Resource Department Minister admitted that his dep [...]	2008-03-19 12:12:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR TBIO PGOV SENV AMED CASC IN
08KOLKATA104	MAOISTS SEEK TO EXPAND PRESENCE IN WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 4 and 14, Econoff met separately with a journalist who reports on and interacts with Maoist insurgents, and the former GOWB Home Secretary, who was responsible for overall state security and for the state government's response to the Maoist threat. Both acknowledged [...]	2008-03-28 09:15:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PHUM PINR ASEC IN
08KOLKATA105	LATEST AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN WEST BENGAL SPREADS TO [...] SUMMARY: Avian influenza has spread to Northern West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district. A culler who fell sick in the AI-affected Malda district has shown no sign of H5N1 infection so far. The infection continues to spread as officials now put in place movement restrictions and culling. Village [...]	2008-03-28 13:49:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR TBIO ECON PGOV CASC AMED SENV IN
08KOLKATA106	LOCAL FARMERS PAID FOR ILLICIT POPPY CULTIVATION IN WEST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Illicit cultivation of poppy has been detected in a number of villages in West Bengal's North Dinajpur district. An unidentified group or organization is offering cash payments to farmers to grow illicit poppy. Poppy fields in this district are fragmented small plots, hidden [...]	2008-03-28 14:21:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM EAGR IN BG
08KOLKATA11	GOWB REACTS QUICKLY TO POULTRY DEATHS [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-14 12:36:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO SENV PGOV IN
08KOLKATA111	AVIAN INFLUENZA SPREADS TO TRIPURA AND NEW AREAS IN WEST [...] (U) SUMMARY: On April 6, the Northeast Indian state of Tripura confirmed an outbreak of avian influenza in three villages close to the India-Bangladesh border. In West Bengal, the H5N1 virus appeared in an administrative block in Nadia district. Experts told post that the West Bengal governme [...]	2008-04-07 11:55:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR SENV TBIO PGOV AMED CASC ECON IN
08KOLKATA114	DAS FEIGENBAUM HEARS PITCH FOR INVESTMENT IN WEST BENGAL, [...] (U) During his April 2 visit to Kolkata, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Evan Feigenbaum SIPDIS met with the Government of West Bengal (GOWB) Commerce Secretary and industry representatives, discussing investment opportunities in West Bengal, the business clim [...]	2008-04-09 12:09:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PREL EFIN EINV PGOV IN PHUM
08KOLKATA116	TIBETANS ARGUE OVER A THIRD RINPOCHE AS CALLS FOR A [...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 27-30 visit to Darjeeling and adjoining towns, ConOff spoke with the Tibetan community about the unrest in Lhasa, and attended an enthronement ceremony for a possible Third Reincarnation of the Domogeshi Rinpoche. ConOff also visited the Tibetan Self-Help Center [...]	2008-04-10 10:00:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF IN CH NP
08KOLKATA117	IN WEST BENGAL, LAND ACQUISITION FOR INDUSTRY (SLOWLY) [...] (U) Summary: As the Government of West Bengal (GOWB) continues its efforts to attract investment and industry into the state, the debate over how and where to acquire land continues in the run-up to May's panchayat (local) elections. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-led Left Front c [...]	2008-04-10 14:15:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON EINV PGOV EFIN IN
08KOLKATA123	AES EXPANSION PLANS INDICATE POWER SECTOR SUCCESS STORY IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AES India, the wholly-owned Indian subsidiary of the US energy major AES Corporation, will invest around USD 1.2 billion each in two 1,200MW capacity coal-based power plants in Orissa and Chhattisgarh over the next few years. Collectively, the USD 2.4 billion investment will be [...]	2008-04-16 11:43:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EMIN EINV BEXP PGOV IN SENV
08KOLKATA126	WEST BENGAL FARMERS' BUMPER POTATO CROP MEANS PROBLEMS NOT [...] (U) On March 17, Econoff traveled to Magra in West Bengal's Hooghly District (approximately 50 miles northwest of Kolkata) to tour a potato cold storage facility and discuss the wholesale market for the potato crop in the state. West Bengal is experiencing a glut in its potato crop market and [...]	2008-04-17 13:18:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON EFIN SENV IN
08KOLKATA127	MAOIST ATTACKS IN BIHAR AND JHARKHAND KILL SEVEN [...] (U) On April 13 and 14 Maoists in India launched attacks in the states of Bihar and Jharkhand leaving at least seven dead. On April 13 Maoists attacked the busy Jhajha railway station, located 150 km southeast of Bihar's state capital Patna, killing six people including four railway security pe [...]	2008-04-18 04:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PGOV PREL IN
08KOLKATA128	CONTIGUOUS INFECTED AREAS IN BANGLADESH MAY UNDERMINE THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Feedback from contacts and media reports suggest that Tripura responded well to the current H5N1 outbreak in the state. Rapid Response Teams completed culling on schedule, put in place effective restrictions on poultry movement, and villagers cooperated with the culling teams. So [...]	2008-04-18 13:40:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR TBIO SENV PGOV PREL IN BG

08KOLKATA131	RISING FOOD PRICES FOSTER STRIKES IN EAST INDIA [...] (U) The Trinamul Congress (TMC) and the Socialist Unity Center of India - both part of the opposition in West Bengal -- called a 12-hour bandh (strike) on April 21 to protest rising food prices. Public dissatisfaction has been building up with recent reports that annual inflation has more than [...]	2008-04-23 12:22:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR PGOV IN PTER
08KOLKATA134	THE EFFECT OF NEPAL'S MAOIST VICTORY ON INDIA'S LEFT [...] (SBU) Summary: Eastern Indian security officials are concerned about the implications of the Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist (CPNM)'s victory in the April 10 Constituent Assembly (CA) elections for regional stability. Indian leaders have sought to put the best face on the CPNM's success, [...]	2008-04-28 04:10:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PREF PGOV PINR IN NP
08KOLKATA136	BIRD FLU SPREADS TO NEW AREAS IN TRIPURA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The H5N1 virus has spread to areas another village in Tripura's two AI-affected districts. On the basis of outbreak location maps, Tripura officials and post contacts suggest -- off-the-record -- that the infection arrived from neighboring Bangladesh. The state government is wo [...]	2008-04-28 17:00:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV AMED CASC IN BG
08KOLKATA14	AVIAN INFLUENZA CONFIRMED IN TWO WEST BENGAL DISTRICTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Indian Ministry of Agriculture announced the presence of the H5N1 virus at two poultry farms in West Bengal. Reportedly, 20-30,000 birds have died since January 7. Beginning January 16, approximately 100,000 birds will be culled within a five kilometer radius from Birbhum, w [...]	2008-01-15 12:44:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO SENV CASC PGOV IN
08KOLKATA141	VILLAGE ELECTIONS - THE FOUNDATION OF LEFT POWER IN WEST [...] (U) Summary: "Panchayat" (rural local self-governance bodies) elections in West Bengal are scheduled in three phases in May. Violence between political supporters has flared in parts of the state and has reignited in Nandigram which has seen repeated classes between local villagers and Commun [...]	2008-05-07 11:54:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL IN
08KOLKATA145	AVIAN INFLUENZA FOUND IN WEST BENGAL'S DARJEELING DISTRICT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 9, the avian influenza (AI) virus spread to West Bengal's Darjeeling district, bringing the total number of districts affected in West Bengal to 18 out of 19. The spread of H5N1 outside of the normal migratory season suggests that the virus may be embedded in West Bengal's [...]	2008-05-12 18:33:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV AMED CASC IN NP
08KOLKATA148	WEST BENGAL LOCAL ELECTIONS INCLUDE CONTROVERSY AND [...] (U) Summary: On May 11, the first phase of panchayat (local village) polls took place in five districts of southern West Bengal. Violence and controversy in Nandigram dominated the day's events. Local Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) Member of Parliament (MP) Lakshman Seth attempted to [...]	2008-05-13 11:12:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM IN
08KOLKATA153	OVER 30 KILLED IN LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) Summary: Voting in West Bengal's Panchayat (local body) elections concluded May 18. The voting took place in three separate phases and was marked by violence and intimidation, resulting in approximately 30 deaths. Compared to the last Panchayat elections in 2003, where over 70 died, thi [...]	2008-05-20 11:53:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM IN
08KOLKATA159	INDIAN MILITARY PROTESTS CHINESE ACTIVITIES ON THE SIKKIM [...] (C) Summary: On May 15, during a scheduled Indo-Chinese division commander-level meeting at Sikkim's Nathu La Pass on the Tibetan border, Indian officers reportedly protested what they characterized as repeated Chinese intrusions into northern Sikkim's "Finger Area." Indian press has note [...]	2008-05-27 12:18:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MARR PGOV CH IN
08KOLKATA16	EXPLOSION DAMAGES BUILDINGS NEAR CONSULATE [...] (SBU) On January 16, at about 0950 hours, an explosion occurred on Kolkata's Shakespeare Sarani street, approximately one block or 200 meters from the U.S. Consulate. The explosion was in front of the Hindustan Unilever House; reportedly injuring five pedestrians, destroying signs and shatter [...]	2008-01-16 11:32:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC PTER IN
08KOLKATA160	CPM LOSES GROUND IN LOCAL ELECTIONS DUE TO THEIR VIOLENT [...] (SBU) Summary: West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) led Left Front suffered a serious setback in the local level "Panchayat" elections in the state. The CPM's control was diminished at all three levels of the Panchayat structure. While land acquisition for industry [...]	2008-05-28 06:42:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAGR EIND IN
08KOLKATA162	BRICKS, BAGS, AND CLOTHES -- THE TIP OF THE CHILD LABOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: In flagrant violation of the Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, garment, brick and leather goods manufacturing units continue to employ child laborers in West Bengal, a state where the government has shown little or no political will to deal with this problem. Between [...]	2008-05-30 11:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV KWMN SOCI PHUM SMIG ECON IN
08KOLKATA167	TRIBES NEAR INDIA'S URANIUM MINES SUFFER FROM CONGENITAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jadugoda, located in the mineral-rich Singhbum district of Jharkhand in Eastern India, supplies much of India's uranium needs. Mining uranium there, however, comes at a significant human and environmental cost according to a recent study by the non-government organization (NGO) [...]	2008-06-06 09:04:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENGR EMIN PGOV PHUM ELAB SENV TRGY ASEC IN
08KOLKATA17	AVIAN INFLUENZA IN WEST BENGAL: SITREP 3 - JANUARY 16, 2008 [...] (U) SUMMARY: January 16, the first day of poultry culling operations launched at Margram and Balurghat in West Bengal following the outbreak of H5N1 virus, was marked by confusion. Contacts told post that villagers were not cooperative and that some poultry was smuggled out of the affected ar [...]	2008-01-17 03:05:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO SENV PGOV CASC IN
08KOLKATA177	WEST BENGAL ALERTS THE INDIAN ARMY FOLLOWING GORKHA [...] (SBU) On June 12, the West Bengal government put local Indian Army units on alert to possibly control Gorkha and Bengali agitations in Siliguri and Darjeeling district, and adjacent areas in northern West Bengal. Darjeeling District Magistrate Rajesh Pandey told Post that the army may be requ [...]	2008-06-12 13:30:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM MARR KCRM ASEC CASC IN
08KOLKATA179	GORKHAS CALL FOR INDEFINITE STRIKE IN WEST BENGAL'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 16 the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha's (GJMM) called for an indefinite "bandh" or strike in the Darjeeling hills in its protest for a separate Gorkhaland state for ethnic Nepalis. Earlier, GJMM had called an indefinite strike on June 11 which was later relaxed on June 12 (re [...]	2008-06-16 16:15:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM CASC ASEC IN
08KOLKATA180	MUSLIM SUPPORT FOR WEST BENGAL'S COMMUNISTS ERODING [...] (SBU) Summary: One of the factors which contributed to the Communist Party of India - Marxist's (CPM) significant losses in the May panchayat (local, district and village-level) elections was the erosion of Muslim support. This growing Muslim disaffection was prompted by the 2007 Sachar Comm [...]	2008-06-18 13:15:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM SOCI ECON IN
08KOLKATA182	WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER COMMENTS ON STATE SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 9, ConGen made his farewell call on West Bengal Chief Minister (CM) Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. The CM was very engaged and candid during his discussion, commenting on his concerns about rising Islamic fundamentalism, his differing views on policies with his Party's natio [...]	2008-06-19 14:37:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ECON ASEC IN
08KOLKATA184	WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER COMMENTS ON STATE SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 9, ConGen made his farewell call on West Bengal Chief Minister (CM) Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. The CM was very engaged and candid during his discussion, commenting on his concerns about rising Islamic fundamentalism, his differing views on policies with his party's natio [...]	2008-06-20 14:06:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PREL ECON ASEC IN
08KOLKATA187	MIZORAM CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE WITH SEVERE FOOD CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: The eastern Indian state of Mizoram continues to experience serious food shortages and a senior state government official has admitted that although Mizoram received substantial aid from the GOI, the state government has been ineffective in its response to the food crisis. "Ma [...]	2008-06-26 08:34:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR SENV PREL SOCI IN
08KOLKATA19	AI IN W. BENGAL MAY BE SPREADING: SITREP 4 - JANUARY 17 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As of 1500 hours local time on January 17, reports of poultry deaths have come in from additional districts close to ground-zero (Margram) and in districts closer to Kolkata. Some poultry deaths have also been reported in neighboring Jharkhand state. The media, quoting GOI offici [...]	2008-01-17 12:53:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV PGOV CASC IN
08KOLKATA192	SUSPECTED ULFA BOMB KILLS 5 IN ASSAM AND INJURES 70 [...] (U) On Sunday June 29, suspected United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants triggered an explosion at the weekly market in Assam's Baksa district near the Bhutan border, killing five persons, including three women. About 70 persons were also injured from the blast. The bomb was plant [...]	2008-06-30 12:24:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER MARR ASEC KCRM PGOV IN BT
08KOLKATA193	MAOISTS IN ORISSA AMBUSH COUNTER INSURGENCY UNIT AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday June 29, 36 commandos from Andhra Pradesh's elite counter-insurgency Greyhound force were missing after Maoist rebels ambushed a boat carrying the group on the Balimela reservoir in Orissa's remote Malkangiri district. Also missing were three Orissa police escorts. A [...]	2008-06-30 13:10:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER MARR KCRM SOCI PGOV ASEC IN
08KOLKATA198	COMMUNISTS AGAIN SUFFER LOSSES IN WEST BENGAL'S LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 29, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) experienced another serious electoral loss in local elections, with the results from the local, municipal elections. This latest setback, follows bad results in the May panchayat (local government) polls (reftel). Of the [...]	2008-07-03 09:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI IN
08KOLKATA2	VIOLENCE SUBSIDES IN ORISSA BUT TENSIONS ABOUT RESERVATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 2, Federal Home Minister Shivraj Patil visited Orissa's riot-hit Kandhamal district and assured the victims of last week's violence of government protection and security. Patil also visited a Baptist church and some houses that were torched during the riots. On De [...]	2008-01-04 10:03:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI ASEC IN
08KOLKATA200	LARGEST INDIAN SUPERMARKET CHAIN GROWS IN HEART OF [...] (U) Summary. "Spencer's," India's largest supermarket chain, and member of the Kolkata-based RPG Group, continues to expand in West Bengal despite the problems faced by rival Reliance Retail. Spencer's Senior Vice-President, Operations Ramesh Menon attributed this success to the fact that hi [...]	2008-07-07 10:26:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EAGR PGOV IN
08KOLKATA202	KOLKATA-BASED CHINESE CONSUL GENERAL EXPRESSES PERSONAL [...] (C) Summary: On July 2, ConGen met with Kolkata-based Chinese Consul General Mao Siwei and discussed Chinese perspectives on the Indo-U.S. civil nuclear agreement, Chinese incursions across the border in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh and Chinese interest in developing the power sector in Indi [...]	2008-07-09 10:27:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL EINV PINR CH IN
08KOLKATA206	SUSPECTED MAOISTS KILL JHARKHAND LEGISLATOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-10 10:08:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER PGOV PHUM IN
08KOLKATA21	CPM SAYS THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO CAPITALISM [...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of recent statements, senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leaders appeared to endorse, or grudgingly accept, capitalism as a means for economic development and industrialization. Although they qualified their views as "the only way forward" given the "ne [...]	2008-01-18 07:38:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EINV EIND EAGR IN
08KOLKATA212	21 KILLED IN FRESH MAOIST ATTACK IN ORISSA [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 16, Communist Party of India - Maoist (Maoists) insurgents killed at least 21 people, including 17 policemen, by blowing up an anti-landmine vehicle in the Malkangiri district of the eastern Indian State of Orissa. This is the first time in Orissa an anti-landmine vehic [...]	2008-07-21 07:54:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER PGOV PHUM IN
08KOLKATA22	INDIAN STATE CRISIS MANAGEMENT NEEDS WORK [...] (SBU) Summary: Whether it is a fire that burns uncontrolled for five days, investigating explosions or containing avian influenza, recent disasters in W. Bengal highlight the poor quality of the GOWB's approach to crisis management. A lack of organization and a seeming disregard for the seri [...]	2008-01-18 09:47:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI IN
08KOLKATA227	NORTHEAST INDIAN INSURGENTS BOYCOTT INDEPENDENCE DAY [...] (U) On August 10, the United Liberation Front of Asom [Assam](ULFA) and three other insurgent outfits of Northeast India called for a boycott of the August 15 Independence Day celebrations and a "general strike" on the day. The ULFA, the North-Bengal based Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO [...]	2008-08-12 10:31:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER PHUM PINR IN BG
08KOLKATA23	AI IN WEST BENGAL - SITREP FOR JANUARY 18. [...] (SBU) Summary: Econ FSN traveled on January 18 to Margram in Birbhum district. As of the morning of January 18, approximately 24,852 birds had been culled in the districts of Birbhum and S. Dinajpur. Culling operations are slow because the villages and farms are spread out over a large distanc [...]	2008-01-18 12:07:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV PGOV CASC IN KHIV
08KOLKATA24	AI IN WEST BENGAL - SITREP 6, JANUARY 19-21 [...] (U) Summary: Avian Influenza continues to spread through the West Bengal. Over the January 19-21 weekend, the presence of H5N1 was confirmed in the Bankura and Malda districts of West Bengal, bringing the total number of affected districts to seven in less than one week. The seven affected [...]	2008-01-22 13:12:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV KHIV CASC IN
08KOLKATA245	ORISSA: COMMUNAL VIOLENCE SUBSIDES [...] (SBU) Summary: After a week of attacks on Christian communities in the Kandhamal district of Orissa, the violence appears to have subsided. Government of Orissa officials confirm ten fatalities and are investigating reports of one or two additional casualties. The government established relie [...]	2008-08-29 10:30:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV IN
08KOLKATA247	UPDATE ON ORISSA COMMUNAL VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The situation in Orissa's Kandhamal district still remains tense. Federal Home Minister Shivraj Patil was able to make a spot assessment of the situation in Orissa on September 3. At least 16 people have died in the communal clashes which began on August 24 and about 550 houses [...]	2008-09-03 13:17:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV IN
08KOLKATA25	WEST BENGAL OFFICIAL CLAIMS AVIAN FLU UNDER CONTROL AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 22, ConGen, Pol/Econoff and Econ FSN met West Bengal State Animal Resource Department (ARD) Principal Secretary Dilip Chakraborty to discuss GOWB efforts to control the spreading Avian Influenza (AI) in the state, which has gone from two districts to seven districts i [...]	2008-01-22 14:35:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO EAGR CASC SENV IN
08KOLKATA252	ORISSA: REPORTS FROM THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Two weeks after communal violence targeting Christians erupted in the Kandhamal district in the State of Orissa, increasing numbers of victims are being housed in government camps. Three new camps opened this week, bringing the total to ten camps housing over 12,000 people. This [...]	2008-09-04 12:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV IN
08KOLKATA253	TATA THREAT INTENSIFIES SINGUR TALKS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 3, Tata Motors announced that it has begun analyzing options to pull its Nano car project out of West Bengal. The opposition Trinamul Congress (TMC) appears to have been shaken by the threat, which came after several days of negative publicity and a growing public perc [...]	2008-09-05 11:40:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EIND ELTN IN
08KOLKATA26	AI IN W. BENGAL SITREP-8 - JANUARY 23: AI CONTINUES TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: On January 23, confirmed avian influenza (AI) virus cases moved to within 20 miles of Kolkata as the W. Bengal government (GOWB) started culling operations in Hugli district. GOWB also confirmed the presence of the virus in Cooch Behar district in Northern W. Bengal, along the In [...]	2008-01-23 12:21:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV KHIV CASC IN PGOV
08KOLKATA275	THE POLITICS OF SINGUR [...] (SBU) Summary: The conflict in Singur over land acquisition for the new Tata Motors Nano automobile factory has been the theater on which the ruling Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) and West Bengal's primary opposition party Trinamul Congress Party (TMC) have staged their latest epic ba [...]	2008-09-23 08:55:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV ELTN EIND IN
08KOLKATA277	KOLKATA EAC [...] (SBU) On September 25, 2008, the Consul General chaired a meeting of the Kolkata Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to discuss the recent bombings in New Delhi and their impact in Kolkata, and to review post's security for the upcoming Durga Puja holiday. In attendance were the CG, A/PAO, ARSO, [...]	2008-09-25 10:07:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC IN
08KOLKATA28	AI IN WEST BENGAL SITREP - 9: JANUARY 24: NO NEW DISTRICTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 24, for the first time in several days no new districts in West Bengal, beyond the present nine, reported cases of AI infection. The Kolkata city government implemented measures to block poultry from entering the city. However, no restriction on poultry consumption [...]	2008-01-24 13:44:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU EAGR TBIO CASC AMED SENV IN
08KOLKATA285	KANDHAMAL CONTINUES TO SMOLDER; CHANGING TREND IN VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Stringent measures employed by government forces in Kandhamal District in Orissa to quell the recent communal violence have created a backlash, with attacks now focused on the police. In Meghalaya on September 29, former Deputy Prime Minister and BJP leader L.K. Advani for the [...]	2008-10-01 09:37:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM IN
08KOLKATA286	BOMBINGS STRIKE TRIPURA; KOLKATA INCREASES SECURITY AHEAD OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The October 1 blasts in Tripura's capital, Agartala, have caused an increase in security measures along the Indo-Bangladesh border, but police officials remain unsure as to who is responsible for the attacks. The central government has sent investigators to Agartala in an effort [...]	2008-10-06 10:58:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PREL BG IN
08KOLKATA288	KOLKATA CELEBRATES DURGA PUJA [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite increased security measures stemming from a fear of terrorist attacks due to the recent wave of bombings throughout India, Kolkata celebrated the Durga Puja without incident. We observed no significant decrease in turnout compared to last year's festival and Kolkata's se [...]	2008-10-10 08:15:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER IN
08KOLKATA289	ARUNACHAL PRADESH'S TAWANG DISTRICT: FEELING VULNERABLE ON [...] (SBU) Summary. During a visit to Arunachal Pradesh's West Kameng and Tawang Districts, Kolkata PAO spoke with students and faculty at area colleges about the U.S. election process, as well as opportunities to study in the U.S. Conversations with local leaders and ordinary citizens in both di [...]	2008-10-10 09:49:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PHUM KIRF SOCI IN
08KOLKATA295	JHARKHAND'S PARLIAMENTARY SEATS ARE UP FOR GRABS [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14-16, CG and New Delhi PolCouns visited the mineral-rich state of Jharkhand, India's newest state. With six governments in the last eight years, newly installed Chief Minister (CM) Shibu Soren of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leads a fragile United Progressive Allianc [...]	2008-10-24 05:45:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI IN
08KOLKATA298	TRIPURA GOVERNMENT ON ALERT AFTER CHICKENS DIE IN [...] SUMMARY: The Tripura and West Bengal state governments are on heightened alert to respond to an H5N1 avian influenza outbreak, given the recent outbreaks in Bangladesh. To date, authorities have not detected any incidents of H5N1 infection in Tripura or West Bengal in the past three months. If [...]	2008-10-24 10:14:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR ECON TBIO SENV PGOV PREL IN BG
08KOLKATA299	BIHAR AND JHARKHAND RESPOND TO MAHARASHTRA VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: From October 21-25, students vandalized railway cars and stations in Bihar. The violence was in response to Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists' attacks on north Indian Hindi-speaking job aspirants at railway recruitment centers in Maharashtra on October 1 [...]	2008-10-29 07:07:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELTN PGOV ASEC CASC SOCI IN
08KOLKATA30	WEST BENGAL AI SITREP - 10: JANUARY 25: AI CONTINUES RAPID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 25 the presence of the Avian Influenza (AI) virus in poultry was confirmed in two more districts in W. Bengal -- Howrah and Purulia. This makes 11 districts now affected by AI out of a total of 18 in the state. In the evening of January 24, GOWB Chief Minister Buddh [...]	2008-01-25 15:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU EAGR TBIO CASC AMED ASEC SENV IN
08KOLKATA300	KOLKATA EAC BOMBINGS IN ASSAM [...] (SBU) On October 30, 2008, the Kolkata EAC met to discuss the multiple bomb blasts in Assam State. The CG, acting RSO, Mgmt, PAO and CONS were all in attendance. At the time of this writing, as many as 12 blasts occurred almost simultaneously in Assam's capital of Guwahati, and towns to the no [...]	2008-10-30 12:28:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC IN
08KOLKATA301	SERIAL BLASTS CAUSE SEVERE DAMAGE AND SPARK RIOTS IN ASSAM [...] (U) On October 30, a series of bomb blasts took place in different parts of the Northeast Indian state of Assam starting at approximately 11:30 am. The press and CG Kolkata contacts report varying numbers of attacks ranging from 9 to 18. Police confirm at least 50 deaths and the media report [...]	2008-10-30 12:47:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER SOCI PGOV PREL IN
08KOLKATA302	UPDATE ON OCTOBER 30 TERRORIST ATTACKS IN ASSAM [...] (SBU) Summary: Assam police have confirmed that there were 9 serial blasts on October 30 in the Northeast Indian state of Assam, causing 77 deaths so far. Bomb experts are investigating the nature of the explosives that caused unusual amounts of damage. A very slow reaction by first responder [...]	2008-10-31 11:32:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER SOCI PREL PGOV IN
08KOLKATA311	ULFA AND NDFB SUSPECTED IN ASSAM TERRORIST ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Northeastern state of Assam's police special investigation team has unofficially implicated the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in the October 30 terrorist attacks that killed 86 people. Police suspect external assista [...]	2008-11-14 07:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL PGOV IN
08KOLKATA32	AI IN W. BENGAL: SITREP 11 [...] (U) This is an action message, please see para. 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the January 26-27 weekend, the avian influenza (AI) virus spread to South 24 Parganas, West Midnapur districts, and newer areas in the already-affected Murshidabad and Cooch Behar districts. This brings the number o [...]	2008-01-28 12:48:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO EAGR CASC SENV ECON ETRD AMED IN
08KOLKATA328	CONFIRMED AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN ASSAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 27 the Government of India (GOI) Ministry of Agriculture confirmed an outbreak of avian influenza (H5N1) found in birds, primarily poultry, in the state of Assam. No human cases have been reported. The state government has imposed restrictions on poultry movement and [...]	2008-12-04 10:44:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR SENV CASC PGOV IN
08KOLKATA329	ORISSA POST VIOLENCE - SECURITY, RECONCILIATION AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Orissa state government is currently engaged in ensuring security, coordinating relief efforts and facilitating reconciliation in Kandhamal district. The government reports 40 deaths and 134 injuries statewide in the violence that began on August 23 with the murder of Hindu [...]	2008-12-04 11:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI IN
08KOLKATA33	WEST BENGAL AUTHORITIES BELIEVE JAN. 16 EXPLOSION NEAR [...] (SBU) On January 28, ConGen met with West Bengal Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Ray, the state's senior official SIPDIS responsible for security, regarding the explosion which occurred 200 meters from the Consulate on January 16 (reftel). The explosion occurred a block from the Consulate on S [...]	2008-01-28 13:52:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC CASC IN
08KOLKATA330	ORISSA POST VIOLENCE - SECURITY, RECONCILIATION AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Orissa state government is currently engaged in ensuring security, coordinating relief efforts and facilitating reconciliation in Kandhamal district. The government reports 40 deaths and 134 injuries statewide in the violence that began on August 23 with the murder of Hindu [...]	2008-12-04 13:55:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI IN
08KOLKATA332	KOLKATA RESPONDS TO MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Like their fellow Indians throughout the country, Kolkatans were captivated and shocked by the Mumbai terrorist attacks. However, the initial reactions have failed to transform themselves into a general sense of urgency in the government or the general public for action. The pr [...]	2008-12-05 15:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER IN
08KOLKATA349	HOLIDAY SECURITY PLANNING EAC - KOLKATA [...] (U) On December 23, 2008, the Consul General chaired a meeting of Consulate General Kolkata's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to review Post's current security posture and holiday security planning. In attendance were representatives from CLO, CONS, FCS, MGMT, PAO, POL and RSO. 2. (SBU) [...]	2008-12-24 07:36:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER CASC
08KOLKATA35	AI IN W. BENGAL - SITREP 12 [...] (U) SUMMARY: With new districts like South 24 Parganas, Howrah and West Midnapur officially added to the AI-infected list, the GOWB revised its culling target to 2.7 million. Reports of cullers walking off the job in the Birbhum district received coverage in the press. Municipal authorities i [...]	2008-01-29 11:56:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO EAGR CASC SENV ECON ETRD PGOV IN
08KOLKATA350	HOLIDAY SECURITY PLANNING EAC - KOLKATA [...] (U) On December 23, 2008, the Consul General chaired a meeting of Consulate General Kolkata's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to review Post's current security posture and holiday security planning. In attendance were representatives from CLO, CONS, FCS, MGMT, PAO, POL and RSO. 2. (SBU) [...]	2008-12-24 07:37:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER CASC
08KOLKATA352	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Post conducted a post-shipment check on license 050093110 and has received confirmation from the end user Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) in Kolkata regarding the receipt of the carbines. Econ FSN visited OFB headquarters in Kolkata and obtained a letter confirming their receipt of [...]	2008-12-24 07:58:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC IN
08KOLKATA353	ORISSA ORGANIZATION CANCELS PROPOSED STATE-WIDE CHRISTMAS [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 19 the Laxmanananda Saraswati Shrandhanjali Samiti (LSSS),a body of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Orissa, cancelled its proposed statewide strike for December 25. It had previously threatened to strike on the Christian religious holiday if the Orissa state gove [...]	2008-12-24 08:08:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI IN
08KOLKATA354	STATE GOVERNMENTS CONTAIN AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAKS IN WEST [...] (SBU) Summary: The West Bengal state government (GOWB) has completed culling operations in the confirmed Avian Influenza (AI) epicenter in Malda district. The GOWB claims to have contained the latest outbreak, citing its limited size and better level of preparedness. One senior GOWB official [...]	2008-12-24 08:33:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR ECON ETRD SENV CASC PGOV IN BG
08KOLKATA357	AVIAN INFLUENZA SPREADS TO NEW AREAS IN ASSAM [...] Summary: On December 24, the Government of India (GOI) confirmed that H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) has spread to two more districts (Baksa and Nagaon) in the Northeastern state of Assam. The GOI confirmed new cases of AI in additional villages in the previously affected districts of Kamrup and Bo [...]	2008-12-31 05:00:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR ECON ETRD SENV CASC PGOV TBIO AMED
08KOLKATA36	SCENESETTER FOR UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN THREE NORTHEAST [...] (U) Summary: Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya - all states in Northeast India - are scheduled for state assembly elections in February on completion of their 5-year terms. Following its defeat in the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, the Congress Party (Congress) will try to r [...]	2008-01-30 05:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IN
08KOLKATA37	BIHAR SEES A SIGNIFICANT RISE IN POLIO CASES IN 2007 [...] (U) Summary: Compared to 2006, the state of Bihar saw a significant rise in polio cases in 2007 of nearly 43 percent. Because of the increase in the number of cases, UNICEF and the Bihar Public Health Department, following Indian Expert Advisory Group on Polio guidelines, have stepped-up their [...]	2008-01-30 07:27:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KHIV SENV PGOV IN
08KOLKATA40	AI IN W. BENGAL - SITREP 14 [...] (U) SUMMARY: On the evening of January 30, W. Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee chaired a digital video conference with all of W. Bengal's district magistrates and senior health and ARD officials to discuss improving coordination in the state's avian influenza (AI) response effort [...]	2008-01-31 13:07:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV CASC AMED PGOV IN
08KOLKATA41	AI IN W. BENGAL - SITREP 15 [...] (U) Summary: On February 1, culling began in three new blocks of West Bengal. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee announced that the culling target of 2.8 million would be met by February 2. Quarantine guidelines regarding cullers, however, are not being followed uniformly in the districts [...]	2008-02-01 15:37:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV CASC AMED PGOV IN
08KOLKATA43	AI IN W. BENGAL-SITREP 16: GOWB IMPOSES STATEWIDE BAN ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 5, the West Bengal government imposed a statewide ban on poultry trading. The ban will be effective until further notice. With most areas reporting no unusual poultry deaths for the first time in weeks, the GOWB is preparing to launch final clean up and culling operat [...]	2008-02-05 12:29:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV PGOV ETRD CASC AMED IN
08KOLKATA46	AI IN W. BENGAL-SITREP 17 [...] (U) SUMMARY. As of February 6, no new districts were added to West Bengal's H5N1 map, but there were reports of unusual bird deaths in three AI-affected districts. GOWB resources continue to be shifted from culling to mop-up and disinfection mode. Observation and isolation facilities have be [...]	2008-02-06 12:09:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV PGOV CASC AMED ECON IN
08KOLKATA49	AI IN W. BENGAL - SITREP 18: CLEAN UP CONTINUES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Mopping up and disinfection operations continue in the flu affected districts of West Bengal. According to latest available figures as of February 7 3,593,008 birds have been culled, exceeding the projected target of 3,125,620 in 16 districts of West Bengal. Media reports sales [...]	2008-02-08 12:25:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV PGOV ECON CASC AMED IN
08KOLKATA50	PM SINGH SIGNALS INDIA'S COMMITMENT TO KEEP ARUNACHAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 31, barely two weeks after his visit to China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh went to Arunachal Pradesh, a northeast Indian state bordering China and Bhutan, to signal India's commitment to keeping the territory. He announced development projects to the tune of USD 2 [...]	2008-02-08 12:49:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON MARR CH IN
08KOLKATA51	CPM ALLY BARKS BUT WON'T BITE [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 6, the Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPM) Left Front partner Forward Bloc (FB) called a 24-hour strike in West Bengal to protest the February 5 killing of six FB supporters by police in Cooch Behar district. The strike was withdrawn after 12 hours and was large [...]	2008-02-08 13:13:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAGR PREL IN
08KOLKATA54	AI IN W. BENGAL - SITREP 19 - WEST BENGAL WITHDRAWS BAN ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: The W. Bengal government (GOWB) withdrew a statewide ban on the sale and transport of poultry, citing an improving H5N1 situation. On the same day, media reported the deaths of around 1,000 chickens in North Bengal. All the human samples tested for H5N1 so far have turned out ne [...]	2008-02-13 11:48:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV PGOV CASC ECON AMED IN
08KOLKATA55	TEN YEARS GO BY, BURMESE STILL ON TRIAL IN INDIA [...] (SBU) It has been ten years since 34 Burmese nationals from Arakan state were arrested and jailed by the Indian Government. The Solidarity Committee for Burma's Freedom Fighters (SCBFF),joined by activists, Burmese monks, and a crowd of 50-70 people, staged a public rally in Kolkata on Februa [...]	2008-02-15 11:40:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PREF IN
08KOLKATA56	ASSAM POLICE CLAIM TO THWART AIRPLANE HIJACK ATTEMPT BY [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 9, Assam Police claimed to have thwarted plans to hijack a Deccan Air plane, with the arrest of three suspects. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA),alleged by the Assam police to be backed by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI),planned to hijac [...]	2008-02-15 12:27:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINR EAIR ASEC PK IN
08KOLKATA64	BIHAR POLICE SEIZE FOUR KILOGRAMS OF SUSPECTED URANIUM [...] (SBU) On February 19, Bihar Police seized approximately four kilograms of what they believe may be low-grade uranium in the Supaul district near the Indo-Nepal border. The Bihar police arrested six people connected with the smuggling operation, including a Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) constable p [...]	2008-02-20 12:21:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP TRGY PARM PGOV IN
08KOLKATA65	SECURITY FORCES IN ORISSA STILL PURSUE MAOIST INSURGENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 20, approximately 400 Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel joined Orissa security forces in the search for the over 200 Maoists insurgents who attacked police facilities and armory on February 15. The scale of the Maoist attack prompted Orissa Chie [...]	2008-02-21 13:09:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER MARR ASEC PHUM IN
08KOLKATA66	GORKHAS PROTEST FOR A SEPARATE STATE IN WEST BENGAL'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Political tension have increased in West Bengal's Darjeeling area over revived local demands for a separate Gorkhaland state. Since February 19, local "godfather" and administrator of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC) Subhas Ghising has been blocked by the opposition f [...]	2008-02-21 13:36:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC NP IN
08KOLKATA69	AI IN W. BENGAL SITREP 20 - APHIS ADVISOR VISITS BIRD FLU [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 13-15, USDA-APHIS Scientific and Technical Advisor for Emergency Management, Joseph Annelli and New Delhi Embassy Senior Attache for Agricultural Affairs, Oliver Flake visited a West Bengal district affected by the recent H5N1 outbreak. They also visited the India-Ban [...]	2008-02-22 15:43:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU EAGR TBIO SENV PREL PGOV AMED CASC IN BG
08KOLKATA73	RELIGIOUS WORKER VISA FRAUD: MONKS, PRIESTS, NUNS AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Post refused nearly 60% of all applicants seeking to obtain R-1 religious worker visas in CY 2007. To validate those adjudications and verify the bona fides of religious institutions in Post's consular district, the Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) visited or attempted to visit ov [...]	2008-02-26 07:48:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS SOCI KCRM KFRD IN
08KOLKATA74	INDIA'S LEFT TO PUSH FOR MORE TAXES AND EXPENDITURES IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: February 25-26, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leadership met with Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram to present the Left's budget proposals prior to Finance Minister's submission of the budget to parliament on Friday, February 29. The Left is hoping to pressure [...]	2008-02-27 11:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAGR PREL PGOV IN
08KOLKATA81	NAGALAND POLLS GO OFF PEACEFULLY, CONGRESS NOW HAS TO WAIT [...] (U) March 5 Assembly elections went off peacefully in the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland as Congress and the Nagaland People's Front (NPF)-led coalition of Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) vied for control of the 60-member Assembly. Voter turnout was about 85 percent, a two percent dr [...]	2008-03-06 12:04:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IN
08KOLKATA84	AVIAN INFLUENZA "REAPPEARS" IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Late in the day on March 8, authorities confirmed a suspected H5N1 outbreak in 41 villages in West Bengal's Murshidabad district. In the neighboring district of Birbhum, there are now reports of over 1,000 bird deaths occurring in the last week. On March 10, the GOWB deployed 40 [...]	2008-03-10 10:43:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR TBIO ECON PGOV CASC AMED SENV IN
08KOLKATA88	NORTHEAST INDIA DOES NOT FAVOR CONGRESS, LEFT'S STRENGTH [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, the incumbent Congress-led government was again sworn in despite its lack of majority in the state legislature. In neighboring Nagaland, the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN),a BJP coalition, which was ousted in January when the [...]	2008-03-12 12:22:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IN
08KOLKATA9	SUSPECTED MAOISTS KILL THREE CPM LEADERS [...] (U) During the first week of January 2008, suspected Maoists killed three Communist Party of India --Marxist (CPM) leaders in West Bengal. Two were killed in districts bordering the state of Jharkhand, a state with a significant Maoist presence. Local leaders believe that the attacks were ai [...]	2008-01-11 09:16:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PGOV ASEC IN
08KOLKATA93	WEST BENGAL UNABLE TO MEET CULLING TARGETS IN LATEST AI [...] SUMMARY: In West Bengal's latest H5N1 outbreak, cullers managed to cull only half their target of 50,000 birds in one week. Despite a ban in the affected areas, people continue to buy and sell poultry. GOWB officials are unsure of how to manage the situation and efforts at containing poultry [...]	2008-03-14 11:07:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR TBIO ECON PGOV CASC AMED SENV IN
08KOLKATA95	IN MIZORAM AND BURMA BAMBOO FLOWERING MAY BRING FAMINE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Northeast Indian state of Mizoram, wedged between Burma and Bangladesh, is at the height of an acute food and grain shortage due to the destruction of crops by an exploding rat population. Approximately every [...]	2008-03-18 11:19:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EAID PREF PGOV EAGR IN BG BM
08KOLKATA96	EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED IN RECENT VIOLENCE IN ASSAM [...] Since March 12, the Northeast Indian state of Assam has seen a recent spate of violence with eight insurgency-related deaths. On March 12, four people were killed and four injured when police opened fire on a crowd in the town of Bengtol in the Chirang district. According to police, more tha [...]	2008-03-18 11:51:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PTER ASEC IN
08KOLKATA98	DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA'S NORTHEAST STATE OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH [...] (SBU) March 4-11, ConGen visited the remote northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh (AP) to assess the area's regional security, social and economic development issues. India continues to dispute China's claims to AP and is now seeking to develop the state's infrastructure to integrate i [...]	2008-03-18 14:12:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PREL EAGR EAID SENV SNAR CH IN
08KOLKATA99	A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT - CONNECTING BURMA AND INDIA [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Kaladan Multi-Modal Transport Project linking the landlocked states in Northeast India with Sittwe port in Myanmar holds the promise of making Mizoram an economic gateway, and providing India with access to international trade routes via the Bay of Bengal. The tentative ste [...]	2008-03-19 12:02:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON SENV PGOV ETRD EWWT EPET IN BM BG
09KOLKATA101	MAOISTS ATTACK ORISSA MINE ON EVE OF INDIAN NATIONAL [...] (SBU) On April 12, several days before polling began in the eastern India state of Orissa for both the parliamentary and state assembly elections, approximately 200 left-wing extremists, known as Maoists or Naxalites, mounted an armed attack on the public sector enterprise National Aluminum Com [...]	2009-04-17 10:23:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV EMIN IN
09KOLKATA105	BHARAT BALLOT 2009: UPA DISCORD AND ANTI-INCUMBENCY FAVOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the mineral-rich tribal state of Jharkhand was carved out of the eastern Indian state of Bihar in 2000, it has been plagued by a string of poorly performing governments and political instability. Discord within the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and underlying anti-inc [...]	2009-04-22 07:14:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EMIN IN
09KOLKATA106	VILLAGERS AND MAOISTS DETAIN TRAIN IN JHARKHAND ON EVE OF [...] (SBU) On April 22, on the eve of the second phase of India's parliamentary polls, approximately 200 villagers and Maoists took control of the 627 UP Barkakana-Dihari-Mughalsarai train for four hours in the Latehar district in Jharkhand. None of the 300 passengers were injured or killed during [...]	2009-04-24 12:29:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IN
09KOLKATA127	BHARAT BALLOT 09: SIKKIM DEMOCRATIC FRONT LIKELY TO RETURN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) appears likely to continue its 15 year rule of the small mountainous Northeast Indian state strategically wedged in between Nepal, China (Tibet) and Bhutan. While it may not match the 2004 absolute sweep, it appears that it will retain its one L [...]	2009-05-15 11:02:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ENRG ELTN EFIN EAIR IN NP BT CH
09KOLKATA130	GORKHAS SUPPORT BJP TO FURTHER GORKHALAND STATEHOOD [...] (SBU) Summary: Voters in the West Bengal Darjeeling constituency elected the state's only Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) successful candidate to parliament as part of their ongoing movement for the creation of a new "Gorkhaland" state within the Indian Union. The political organization Gorkha [...]	2009-05-19 11:35:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC IN

09KOLKATA131	KOLKATA EAC MEETING CONCERNING DETAINEE PHOTOGRAPHS [...] On May 19, 2009, the Acting Consul General convened the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to consider the likely impact of unreleased detainee photographs on the official and private American communities in Kolkata. In attendance were representatives from CLO, CONS, FCS, PAO, POL, and RSO. [...]	2009-05-20 07:33:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC IN
09KOLKATA132	REGIONAL PARTIES, NOT CONGRESS, EMERGE AS WINNERS IN EASTERN [...] (SBU) Voters in Eastern India primarily supported regional parties that were outside the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) that has returned to power. This trend has resulted in a divergence between the party and coalition in power at the national and state levels. Amongst the Ea [...]	2009-05-22 04:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON IN
09KOLKATA134	CYCLONE HITS WEST BENGAL - NO AMCIT CASUALTIES, NO REQUEST [...] (SBU) On May 25, a Category 2 tropical cyclone named "Aila" hit the Eastern India state of West Bengal. Damage was concentrated in South and North 24 Paraganas, especially the low lying delta region of the Sunderbans. West Bengal government officials told post that approximately 40 people die [...]	2009-05-26 12:16:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID SENV IN
09KOLKATA143	ABUNDANT COAL AND HYDRO-ELECTRIC POTENTIAL IN EASTERN INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Eastern India offers immense potential for the development of the power sector due to abundant coal deposits and large hydro-electric potential. Public and private sector firms are focused primarily on increasing coal-based thermal power generation, despite the sensitivities an [...]	2009-05-29 11:41:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EMIN ELTN IN BT
09KOLKATA144	WEST BENGAL'S "LEFT" - OUT IN THE COLD [...] (SBU) The Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M) dominated Left Front in West Bengal is currently examining the reasons for the disastrous parliamentary election results, which saw its seat tally reduced from 35 to 15, the lowest since its came to power in 1977. Party members are divided, [...]	2009-05-29 11:44:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IN
09KOLKATA148	CANCELLATION OF TELEGRAM - GORKHAS SUPPORT BJP TO FURTHER [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-03 05:04:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ASEC IN
09KOLKATA153	FRESH AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) On May 27, the GOI's central Ministry of Agriculture confirmed a new outbreak of avian influenza among poultry at Hemtabad in the North Dinajpur district of West Bengal. Hemtabad is located about 490 KM north of Kolkata and 20 KM from the border with Bangladesh. Contacts in West Bengal' [...]	2009-06-08 04:44:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN BD
09KOLKATA162	MAOIST GROUPS STEP UP VIOLENCE IN EASTERN INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past two weeks, there have been daily attacks on police and political party leaders in the Western part of West Bengal, primarily in and around the town of Lalgarh. Leaders of these attacks appear to be members of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (hereinafter ref [...]	2009-06-18 12:11:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV IN
09KOLKATA164	THE BATTLE FOR BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: West Bengal's Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) dominated Left Front is still reeling from its poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls (see Reftels). The perfect storm of issues appears to have worked against the Left Front. Some CPI-M leaders believe the party lost sup [...]	2009-06-19 10:38:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PTER PSEC IN
09KOLKATA167	WEST BENGAL: POLICE WIN FIRST ROUND AGAINST MAOISTS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-24 03:41:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV CASC IN
09KOLKATA17	KOLKATA MUSLIMS SING PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PRAISES, BUT WATCH [...] Summary. Kolkata area Muslims came together at the American Center on Inauguration Day to perform songs and recite poetry in honor of the incoming U.S. President Barack Obama. The spontaneous display of welcome for a new American president was unprecedented in Kolkata PAS' experience. The poets [...]	2009-01-23 10:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SCUL KISL KPAO IN
09KOLKATA18	FIRST CONFIRMED AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN SIKKIM [...] (U) On January 19, the Indian Ministry of Agriculture confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus in poultry in Ravongla Municipality in South Sikkim district in the northeastern state of Sikkim. The epicenter is located approximately 40 km north of the last reported AI outbreak in India in Darje [...]	2009-01-23 10:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN NP CH
09KOLKATA188	GUARDING AGAINST VISA FRAUD WITH "BATCH CHECKS" IN ADIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post recently expanded its approach to validation studies, providing more frequent and focused assessments of B1/B2 visa applicants. Using a "batch method" of retrieving Arrival Departure Information System (ADIS) records of multiple travelers with a single search, Post can quick [...]	2009-07-09 06:55:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD ASEC CVIS CMGT IN
09KOLKATA189	ORISSA'S BJD PARTY PROMOTES STATE INTERESTS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: CG travelled to Orissa in June to congratulate Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Biju Janata Dal's (BJD)'s best electoral performance since the party was formed in 1997. The impressive performance of the regional party in the 2009 parliamentary and state elections validated the p [...]	2009-07-10 06:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON IN
09KOLKATA19	A POLITICAL CRISIS IN JHARKHAND AS PRELUDE TO THE NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 19, the Government of India's (GoI) Cabinet recommended President's rule and the suspension of the state assembly in the eastern state of Jharkhand after state legislators could not agree on a consensus candidate for Chief Minister. A state-level political battle for [...]	2009-01-23 11:13:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IN
09KOLKATA194	POLICE IN WEST BENGAL ASSERT PRESENCE IN ALLEGED MAOIST [...] (SBU) Summary: Joint operations by state and central police have brought more areas under control in and around West Bengal's rural Lalgarh without any significant opposition from the armed groups of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (hereinafter referred to as Maoists, also known as Naxal [...]	2009-07-16 05:39:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC IN
09KOLKATA215	GORKHAS PURSUE POLITICAL STRATEGY TO FURTHER STATEHOOD [...] (SBU) Summary: For the past two years, the new political party Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) has increased its efforts to carve out a new Indian state - Gorkhaland - from the existing state of West Bengal. Like other political parties in West Bengal, GJMM uses force and intimidation but it i [...]	2009-08-03 11:20:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC CASC IN
09KOLKATA22	ASSAM ELECTORAL PRIMER - ETHNICITY, ALLIANCES AND TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Summary: Ethnicity and migration in the northeastern state of Assam will continue to be a key issue in the state during the upcoming national elections. The Congress Party is confident of maintaining its current number of parliamentary seats in the state contingent; however, the relative [...]	2009-01-28 09:47:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER SOCI PREL PGOV IN BG
09KOLKATA237	WEST BENGAL: JASWANT SINGH'S EXPULSION WEAKENS GJMM'S [...] (SBU) The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) recent expulsion of Darjeeling's parliamentary representative Jaswant Singh (Reftel A),who supports political party Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha's (GJMM) efforts to create a new Gorkhaland state, is a temporary setback for GJMM who is now reassessing its rel [...]	2009-08-21 12:41:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC CASC IN
09KOLKATA246	MISSION INDIA ENDORSES SHANGHAI REQUEST TO RE-ENABLE ADIS [...] Mission India heartily endorses AmConGen Shanghai's request (ref A) to re-enable two features that were lost in the recent upgrade of the Arrival Departure Information System (ADIS). These features allowed Consular Sections to quickly assess the travel history of large groups of travelers, gen [...]	2009-09-02 03:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS ASEC CMGT IN
09KOLKATA255	CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABLE KOLKATA LOOKS TO INDIAN AND US [...] (U) Summary: The eastern Indian city of Kolkata is one of the world's most vulnerable cities due to coastal flooding and the effects of climate change. While the West Bengal state government has set up a state-level Climate Committee and secretariat to formulate and implement adaptation strate [...]	2009-09-17 11:38:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ECON IN
09KOLKATA256	ONE YEAR LATER, KANDHAMAL RESIDENTS REBUILD DIVIDED [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-17 11:41:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF IN
09KOLKATA257	LEFT'S ROUT IN NORTH BENGAL - ONE MORE NAIL IN ITS WEST [...] (SBU) The shaken Left Front in West Bengal was dealt another setback in the September 13 Siliguri municipal elections. The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) and Congress Party alliance won 30 of the 47 wards (it previously represented 9) to break the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M [...]	2009-09-18 08:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IN
09KOLKATA261	WEST BENGAL GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGES SOCIAL DISTANCING DURING [...] Summary: Over the past three weeks there has been a decline in the rate of reported H1N1 infections in Kolkata. But thousands of people gathered in enclosed spaces during the ensuing Durga Puja festival could increase H1N1 transmission. The West Bengal government has launched a campaign to en [...]	2009-09-24 06:11:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR AMGT AMED CASC TBIO ASEC KFLU PGOV IN
09KOLKATA267	LAND POLITICS CONTINUE IN WEST BENGAL; BUSINESSES NOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent statements from business leaders and politicians reinforced the idea that land acquisition will continue to be a political obstacle for businesses in West Bengal. Business leaders have recently begun acknowledging the importance of working with both the government and the [...]	2009-10-06 11:05:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON IN
09KOLKATA276	TRINAMOOL'S MAMATA BANERJEE: FROM OPPOSITIONAL STREET [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the May 2009 parliamentary elections elevated West Bengal's regional party, All India Trinamool Congress, from obscurity to the second largest constituent party in the United Progressive Alliance, its leader, Mamata Banerjee, has conscientiously sought to re-brand herself a [...]	2009-10-20 06:11:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON IN
09KOLKATA278	COAL INDIA SEEKS GREATER COMMERCIAL TIES WITH U.S. FIRMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Coal India, one of India's largest state owned enterprises and also one of the world's largest coal mining companies, is cash rich and expansion hungry. The Chairman of Coal India is driven by the fundamental belief that coal, which is the source for 65% of India's energy produc [...]	2009-10-22 04:42:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN SENV INV ENRG BEXP IN
09KOLKATA279	DEVELOPING AND GOVERNING BIHAR: FORGING A WINNING COALITION [...] (SBU) Summary: Bihar's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has made visible strides in developing and governing India's third largest state, and also one of its poorest, since forming the Bihar government in 2005. The national parliamentary elections in May 2009 confirmed the inroads his regional par [...]	2009-10-22 04:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAID EINV IN
09KOLKATA28	NEW AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK CONFIRMED IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) On January 30, the Indian Ministry of Agriculture confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus in West Bengal's Coochbehar district. The two avian influenza (AI) epicenters are in the villages of Nagar Bhagni and Uttar Dangkoba, in two non-contiguous administrative blocks of the district. The [...]	2009-02-06 05:13:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN BD
09KOLKATA282	ELECTION AND SECURITY CONCERNS PROMPT INDIA TO POSTPONE [...] (SBU) The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has postponed the National Games, India's premier amateur sporting event, that were to be held November 21 to December 5 in the eastern state of Jharkhand. According to the Jharkhand home secretary, the civil servant responsible for law and order, the [...]	2009-10-23 10:02:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC SCUL IN
09KOLKATA286	WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER: PARTY MUST "CHANGE OR PERISH", [...] (C) SUMMARY: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said that his Communist Party of India-Marxist must "either change or perish" and he lamented the lack of technocratic expertise within party leadership in a meeting with the Ambassador in Kolkata on October 13. Bhattacharjee rei [...]	2009-10-27 09:18:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EINV IN
09KOLKATA287	MAOISTS/NAXALS DETAIN AND RELEASE TRAIN IN WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) On October 27 a group of armed and unarmed Maoist/Naxal supporters (press has reported 300) halted an express Bhubaneswar - New Delhi train in Jhargram, West Bengal to protest the deployment of central security forces in anti-Maoist operations and call for the release of one of their lead [...]	2009-10-28 09:20:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC IN
09KOLKATA291	U.S. RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY LIGHTS INDIA'S VILLAGE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Since 2007 Husk Power Systems (HPS) has lit remote, un-electrified villages in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India. HPS uses widely-available rice husk to generate and sell electricity to rural villagers, who would otherwise be without power. A privately-held U.S. renewab [...]	2009-10-30 04:15:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV EAGR EINV KGHG IN
09KOLKATA3	NEW CONFIRMED AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAKS IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) On January 2 the Indian Ministry of Agriculture confirmed the presence of H5N1 virus in poultry in two non-contiguous administrative blocks of Darjeeling, a district in northern West Bengal. Avian influenza (AI) was confirmed in Matigara in southern Darjeeling and Tukdah in the northern pa [...]	2009-01-07 09:38:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN BG
09KOLKATA305	WEST BENGAL RE-ESTABLISHES GOVERNMENT PRESENCE IN MAOIST [...] (SBU) Summary: Since June 2009 state and central police have operated in West Bengal's three Maoist/Naxal insurgency-affected districts to re-assert government presence, eliminate anti-government armed resistance and win local tribal support. While police have re-established a limited governmen [...]	2009-11-17 04:39:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC IN
09KOLKATA307	MAOISTS TARGET AND DERAIL PASSENGER TRAIN BEFORE JHARKHAND [...] (SBU) On November 19 alleged Maoists (also known as Naxals) detonated an explosive device targeting the Tatanagar-Bilaspur passenger train between Manoharpur and Poseita in the Maoist-affected state of Jharkhand. The blast occurred at 9:45 pm approximately 120 km southwest of Jamshedpur, Jhark [...]	2009-11-20 11:00:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC CASC PTER IN
09KOLKATA308	KOLKATA'S VARIABLE ENERGY CYCLOTRON CENTER SEEKS ACCELERATED [...] (SBU) Summary: The Variable Energy Cyclotron Center (VECC) in Kolkata, a premier institute of the Government of India's Department of Atomic Energy, commissioned India's first superconducting cyclotron in May 2009. In a September 16 meeting with PolOFF, VECC's Director, Dr. Rakesh K. Bh [...]	2009-11-20 11:06:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TPHY TRGY TSPL CVIS ECON IN
09KOLKATA317	OPPOSITION CONTINUES WINNING STREAK IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) In West Bengal, the Opposition and independent parties won nine of the ten state assembly seats in the November 7 by-elections to the state assembly. They retained all seven previously held seats and snatched two from the ruling Left Front coalition. Trinamool, the leading opposition part [...]	2009-11-27 10:48:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IN
09KOLKATA322	MAJORITY OF INDIA'S NON-ELECTRIFIED VILLAGES IN EASTERN [...] (U) More than a quarter of India's villages remain without electricity and sixty percent of these are in the five eastern states of Assam, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. In 2005 the GoI launched an improved rural electrification program, but progress continues to be hampered by secu [...]	2009-12-02 11:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV EAGR EINV KGHG IN
09KOLKATA328	JHARKHAND STATE ELECTIONS EXPECTED TO YIELD YET ANOTHER [...] (SBU) Summary: Five-phase state assembly elections began in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on November 25 and will conclude on December 18. Results will be announced on December 23. Jharkhand has been without an elected government since January as no party had been able to form a gove [...]	2009-12-11 10:15:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC IN
09KOLKATA334	INDIA-BANGLADESH COUNTERTERRORISM COOPERATION HITS NORTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary: India's recent arrests of United Liberation Front of Assam's (ULFA) chairman and senior leadership is a setback for the northeastern state's most prominent insurgent group. While Bangladesh has officially denied facilitating the arrests, its cooperation with India appears to b [...]	2009-12-22 11:03:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINS PGOV CASC IN BG
09KOLKATA335	CLIMATE CHANGE HERE AND NOW FOR SUNDERBANS: NGO'S ADAPTATION [...] (U) Summary: The famed Sunderbans, a deltaic region in the Bay of Bengal with more than one hundred islands and four million people, is one of India's most vulnerable areas to rising sea levels and extreme climatic events. On one of the islands, Mousuni, public and private actors have foc [...]	2009-12-23 12:00:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG ECON TSPL KSCA KGHG IN BG
09KOLKATA336	JHARKHAND STATE ELECTIONS: NO OUTRIGHT WINNER, CONGRESS' UPA [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 23 the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand announced the results for its recent state assembly elections. No single party or pre-poll alliance won an outright majority, although the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is the largest caucus. A majority of vo [...]	2009-12-24 06:55:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC IN
09KOLKATA337	JHARKHAND: JMM'S SHIBU SOREN TO BE CHIEF MINISTER WITH BJP [...] (U) Summary: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) supremo and parliamentarian Shibu Soren will become Chief Minister of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on December 30, heading a five-party National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition. Even though a Congress alliance garnered the highest number [...]	2009-12-29 14:44:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER IN
09KOLKATA34	PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS FEELS THE HEAT FROM SATYAM [...] (SBU) Summary: Two partners from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) remain in judicial custody in connection to admissions of large scale fraud by the chairman and founder of Satyam Computers Limited (Reftel). PWC leadership contends that the charges are politically motivated and that there is no ev [...]	2009-02-10 08:58:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD IN
09KOLKATA35	BIHAR CHIEF MINISTER KUMAR: KOSI RELIEF, STATE DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: According to a wide range of contacts, Bihar's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is effectively mobilizing the state government machinery to respond to the August 2008 flooding of the river Kosi and improve development in the state. Since forming a government in November 2005, Kumar h [...]	2009-02-10 10:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EAID IN NP
09KOLKATA43	AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK CONFIRMED IN WEST BENGAL'S SOUTH [...] (SBU) On February 17, the Principal Secretary of West Bengal's Animal Resources Development (ARD) Department confirmed the presence of avian influenza (AI) H5N1 virus in backyard poultry of Barmahar village in South Dinajpur district. The latest epicenter is located approximately 300 km north [...]	2009-02-20 04:50:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN BD
09KOLKATA55	NEW AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN WEST BENGAL - A CROSS BORDER [...] (U) On February 24, the GOI reported a second outbreak of the avian influenza (AI) virus H5N1 in backyard poultry in West Bengal's Darjeeling district, this time in the forest village of Punding (See Reftel). The village is about 630 km north of Kolkata and the district physically borders the [...]	2009-03-05 09:15:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN BG
09KOLKATA56	ASSAM: ULFA AND NDFB MAIN SUSPECTS IN OCTOBER 30 TERRORIST [...] (C) Summary: Assam's Chief Minister confirmed that the separatist groups United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) are the main suspects in the October 30, 2008 terrorist attacks in Guwahati (Reftel). Assam officials, who believe that the attacks w [...]	2009-03-05 09:47:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL IN BG
09KOLKATA62	COAL INDIA: GROWTH THROUGH LEADERSHIP, TECHNOLOGY, [...] (SBU) Summary: Led by a dynamic chairman, Coal India Limited (CIL),the world's largest coal producing company, is focused on growing its operations through more efficient mining operations, greater utilization of outsourcing and initiating overseas acquisitions. CIL has recognized the importa [...]	2009-03-09 13:05:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN EINV ENRG BEXP SOCI IN
09KOLKATA67	BHARAT BALLOT 2009: BJP IS DUMPED BY ORISSA ALLY [...] (U) Summary: On March 7, the 11-year-old National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),collapsed in Orissa when the regional party, Biju Janata Dal (BJD),withdrew from the coalition. On March 11, Orissa's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik (BJD) won a trus [...]	2009-03-13 08:51:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IN
09KOLKATA7	WEST BENGAL AFTER THE NANO: INVESTMENT CLIMATE IS BLEAK [...] (SBU) Summary: Three months after Tata withdrew its Nano project from West Bengal in the face of violent opposition against land acquisition, the investment climate in West Bengal is bleak. The Government of West Bengal (GOWB) has not developed a strategy to repair the state's damaged image an [...]	2009-01-09 10:02:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND PGOV IN
09KOLKATA75	BHARAT BALLOT 09: A CRACK IN THE LEFT FRONT'S WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary. As the fourth most-populous state in the Indian Union, the seat of one of India's four great metropolises and the bastion of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M),West Bengal politics has always had national significance. More important than the national electoral iss [...]	2009-03-19 12:37:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR IN
09KOLKATA78	BHARAT BALLOT 09: A CRACK IN THE LEFT FRONT'S WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) Summary. As the fourth most-populous state in the Indian Union, the seat of one of India's four great metropolises and the bastion of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M),West Bengal politics has always had national significance. More important than the national electoral iss [...]	2009-03-20 13:06:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR IN
09KOLKATA79	WOMEN IN INDIA: MAMATA BANERJEE - WEST BENGAL FIGHTER AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Firebrand communist-baiter Mamata Banerjee leads West Bengal's principal opposition party, the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) that has aligned with Congress to challenge the Left Front's 32-year rule in the state. An astute politician - six term parliamentarian - with an e [...]	2009-03-20 13:39:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KWMN IN
09KOLKATA88	ULFA SUSPECTED IN MARCH 31 TERRORIST ATTACK KILLING ONE [...] (SBU) On March 31, an improvised explosive devise (IED) exploded in Jyotikuchi locality in Guwahati, the capital of the Northeastern Indian state of Assam. The IED killed one person and injured 13. There were no American casualties. According to police contacts, the motorcycle borne IED was [...]	2009-04-01 11:38:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV IN
09KOLKATA90	PAYING FOR SEX IN THE "CITY OF JOY [...] (SBU) Summary: Kolkata's red-light district, one of the largest in Asia, provides a real-life case study of the intersection of the policy debates on the legalization of prostitution, trafficking in persons, and human health. Working in a nebulous legal environment where sex workers, but not t [...]	2009-04-03 11:07:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI KTIP KWMN KHIV IN
09KOLKATA96	ULFA SUSPECTED IN ASSAM TERRORIST ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 6, nine people died and more than 30 were wounded in a series of six terrorist attacks in different parts of Assam, including the capital Guwahati. Police suspect that the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA),which celebrates its foundation day on April 7, conducted [...]	2009-04-07 13:45:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV PK IN
09KOLKATA97	BHARAT BALLOT 09: CASTE, GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Politics in Bihar is dominated by regional parties pushing their caste interests. Bihar's Chief Minister (CM) Nitish Kumar heads the Janata Dal-United (JDU) party, presently a member of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA),and is winning over Bihar's poorest and lowest caste [...]	2009-04-08 12:11:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IN
10KOLKATA11	CONFIRMED OUTBREAK OF AVIAN INFLUENZA H5N1 IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) On January 14 the Indian central government's High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal confirmed the presence of avian influenza and the H5N1 virus in samples taken from the village of Khargram, West Bengal. The outbreak's epicenter is in the district of Murshidabad located [...]	2010-01-15 11:16:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN
10KOLKATA15	WEST BENGAL LAYS FORMER CHIEF MINISTER JYOTI BASU TO REST [...] (U) Jyoti Basu, former West Bengal Chief Minister and co-founder of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M),died January 17 in Kolkata. The 95 year old Basu succumbed to pneumonia after two weeks of hospitalization (Reftel). 2. (U) The West Bengal government closed on January 18 [...]	2010-01-19 12:18:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IN BD
10KOLKATA24	BRAZEN MAOIST/NAXAL ATTACK IN WEST BENGAL MAY STRENGTHEN [...] (SBU) On February 15, in one of the most brazen and brutal Maoist/Naxal attacks in West Bengal in more than a decade, a group of alleged Communist Party of India-Maoist supporters killed approximately 24 state police. The attack took place in the remote rural settlement of Silda in West [...]	2010-02-16 10:46:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CONS IN
10KOLKATA25	AMBASSADOR ROEMER PEDALS HIS WAY TO WIN A NEW BIHAR'S [...] (SBU) Summary: During Ambassador Roemer's February 4-5 visit to Bihar, the first ambassadorial visit in more than a decade to India's third most populous state, he promoted the U.S.-India strategic dialogue and pedaled his way to win Bihar's "hearts and minds". He met the state's Chief Ministe [...]	2010-02-22 09:38:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ECON ELTN ENRG EAID SCUL KISL IN
10KOLKATA29	INDIA'S NEXT TOP GENERAL OFFERS POSSIBLE COUNTERINSURGENCY [...] (C) Summary: In a February 11 meeting, India's departing Eastern Commander and next Chief of Army Staff, LTG V.K. Singh, discussed India's success with its ongoing northeast counterinsurgency operations, improved security with Bangladesh, the military's take on the Maoist/Naxal threat and the [...]	2010-02-26 10:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IN BG AF
10KOLKATA4	FORMER WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER JYOTI BASU CRITICALLY ILL [...] (U) Former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, the longest serving Chief Minister in India's political history (1977-2000) and a founding member of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M),was hospitalized on January 1 and is in critical condition. National and local political leader [...]	2010-01-07 12:58:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IN

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