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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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| 04CHENNAI1306 |
DUMPING DUTIES ARE LEAST OF SHRIMP FARMERS' [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Early fears that USDOC anti-dumping duties on warm water shrimp from India could become a hot- button political issue appear to be groundless. Shrimp farmers do not blame the duties for their problems, but rather four years of slumping international demand. While politicians in [...] |
2004-11-01 08:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD EFIS SENV IN CE BR EC US |
| 04CHENNAI1315 |
"NON-FUNCTIONAL" TAMIL NADU ANTI-CONVERSION ACT NOW [...] (U) SUMMARY: After defeat at the polls in May, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa quickly reversed a number of initiatives that she had undertaken during the previous three years. Among the reversals was the controversial Tamil Nadu Anti-Conversion Law banning forcible religious conversi [...] |
2004-11-02 08:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI IN |
| 04CHENNAI1392 |
BLASTS ROCK HYDERABAD; EXTORTION NOT NAXALITE [...] No summary [...] |
2004-11-09 08:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PTER IN |
| 04CHENNAI1394 |
VEERAPPAN'S DEATH PUTS DHARMAPURI'S FUTURE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A seventeen-year manhunt ended with the shooting death of K.M. Veerappan, the famed forest brigand of Dharmapuri. The shootout was the culmination of months of planning by the Government of Tamil Nadu (GoTN) and the police Special Task Force (STF). The operation showcased the [...] |
2004-11-09 08:50:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PINR PHUM IN |
| 04CHENNAI1395 |
NAXALITE CONSOLIDATION A CAUSE FOR WORRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The merger of India's two largest and best organized Maoist groups, the Peoples' War (PW) and Maoist Communist Center (MCC), into the Communist Party of India (Maoist) is likely to expand the horizon of their ambitions. It will help these "Naxalites" knit together their areas [...] |
2004-11-09 10:04:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER IN |
| 04CHENNAI1418 |
HINDU PONTIFF ARRESTED FOR MURDER; LITTLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tamil Nadu police arrested one of India's most prominent Hindu religious leaders, Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi of Kanchi, accused of murdering a former aide. The arrest has shocked Tamil Nadu, but there is little public anger. The move upset a miniscule group of the AIA [...] |
2004-11-12 11:13:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV IN |
| 04CHENNAI1470 |
BJP'S BID TO EXPLOIT PONTIFF'S ARREST A FLOP IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although the BJP and Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) shouted themselves hoarse about the arrest of Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, their protests have fallen on deaf ears in Tamil Nadu. A call for a bundh (strike) failed, no non-Brahmin parties joined the protests, and even Tam [...] |
2004-11-23 09:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI IN |
| 04CHENNAI1490 |
KARNATAKA GOVERNMENT IN LIMBO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bangalore, India's leading technopolis and the capital of Karnataka, is burdened with a tardy and incomplete state government led by contending coalition partners. Local business leaders complain that the new Singh government has overshot the mark in shifting focus from urban t [...] |
2004-11-26 09:03:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR IN |
| 04CHENNAI294 |
LTTE SPLIT FESTERING WOUND SAY SOUTH INDIANS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The current split in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) hamstrings the Sri Lankan peace process and might even degenerate into a "bloodbath," warned security analysts who met DAS Donald Camp during his May 15 visit to Chennai. They predicted a standoff between Karuna, th [...] |
2004-03-19 06:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL IN CE |
| 05CHENNAI1582 |
MAOIST SCARE FORCES FIVE AP MINISTERS TO QUIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Revealing the muscle of the Maoists in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh (AP), five ministers of the Telangana Rashtra Samithy (TRS) quit the Congress-led state government on July 4. Their decision, ostensibly to press the Congress to expedite the formation of a separate s [...] |
2005-07-07 10:45:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PTER IN |
| 05CHENNAI1976 |
INDEPENDENCE DAY TERROR: MAOISTS SLAUGHTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On Indian Independence Day, Andhra Pradesh Maoists gunned down a senior Congress legislator and eight others at a public function in broad daylight. The biggest Maoist attack since the peace process broke down in January has sent shockwaves among politicians who are getting rea [...] |
2005-08-16 10:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PTER IN |
| 05CHENNAI2075 |
SEASON OF SCANDALS: PARTIES SQUIRM IN AP AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Volkswagen scandal in Andhra Pradesh and Canada's SNC Lavalin scandal in Kerala continue to make headlines. The former involves the questionable transfer of government funds to a dubious company that featured the VW initials but no further relationship with Volkswagen, in a [...] |
2005-08-25 11:22:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PGOV IN |
| 05CHENNAI2441 |
BOMB BLAST AT HYDERABAD POLICE STATION [...] (U) Summary: According to press reports confirmed by local police, a powerful blast ripped through the city Police Commissioners Task Force offices in Hyderabad on the evening of October 12. The blast was believed to be carried out by a suicide bomber, but this has yet to be confirmed. One poli [...] |
2005-10-13 10:28:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PTER CASC IN |
| 05CHENNAI2446 |
ISRO FRUSTRATED BY SLOW PACE OF SPACE COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) reiterated its frustration with the lack of a framework for cooperation on space exploration and research with the U.S. when high level ISRO officials met with us on October 6. The officials called India's upcoming Chandrayaan-1 mo [...] |
2005-10-14 09:14:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC TSPA PREL IN |
| 05CHENNAI2480 |
CONGRESS SLIDES; COMMUNIST PARTY SET TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ruling Congress-led coalition's slide continues in Kerala and will likely end in its defeat in the 2006 state assembly elections. In a state where anti-incumbent voting is the norm, the Opposition Left Front, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), is directly benefi [...] |
2005-10-24 04:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 05CHENNAI609 |
SLOW PROGRESS ON BONDED LABOR IN TAMIL NADU [...] (U) SUMMARY: Although the government of Tamil Nadu acknowledges the problem of bonded labor and has done more to address the issue than other Indian states, progress on its elimination in the state has been slow. Enforcement of laws against the practice has been inconsistent due to competing [...] |
2005-04-05 06:43:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM PGOV SOCI IN |
| 05CHENNAI695 |
CHINESE PREMIER WEN JIABAO KICKS OFF INDIA [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-12 03:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IN |
| 05CHENNAI875 |
KERALA'S CONGRESS PARTY SPLITS: A BOOST TO THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kerala's ruling Congress party split on May 1, with octogenaran party veteran K. Karunakaran announcing that is son, Muraleedharan, would be the President ofthe newly formed National Congress (Indira). Alhough only about seven of the 60 Congress party MAs in Kerala seem to supp [...] |
2005-05-04 10:49:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV IN |
| 05CHENNAI925 |
NEPALI MAOIST REMAINS STUCK IN CHENNAI JAIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent court decision, the Madras High Court has ruled that a team of human rights lawyers may visit senior Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) leader Chandra Prakash Gajurel who was arrested in August 2003 for presenting a forged British passport at Chennai airport and remains [...] |
2005-05-11 07:42:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER IN NP |
| 06CHENNAI1002 |
PONDICHERRY: CONGRESS RETAINS POWER WITH DMK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Congress Chief Minister N. Rangasamy returned to power in the Union Territory of Pondicherry, forming a minority government with the external support of the DMK and other allies. A cluster of four former French enclaves in South India with a total population of one million, Pon [...] |
2006-05-19 04:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI1105 |
PROPOSED VAT ON IMPORTS MAY SHRINK MARKET FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Fruit dealers in south India expect U.S. apple imports to shrink by 30% to 50% if a proposed Value Added Tax (VAT) on imports is levied. Commercial Tax Commissioners in southern states oppose the imposition of VAT on imports because they fear a loss of tax revenue and potential a [...] |
2006-05-30 10:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV IN |
| 06CHENNAI1176 |
CORRECTIONS TO CHENNAI 01105 - VAT ON IMPORTED [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post has learned that trade sources quoted in Reftel were misinformed and that a VAT on imports of fresh fruits and vegetables, reported as a possibility in Reftel, is extremely unlikely. A Government of Karnataka tax official has confirmed that the imposition of a VAT on importe [...] |
2006-06-07 02:49:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV IN |
| 06CHENNAI1187 |
IBM ANNOUNCES $6 BILLION INVESTMENT IN INDIA [...] (U) During a June 6 visit to Bangalore, India's IT hub, IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano announced the company's plan to invest $6 billion over a three year period in India. An IBM press release quotes the chairman as saying, "India and other emerging economies are an increasingly important [...] |
2006-06-08 04:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EIND IN |
| 06CHENNAI1188 |
TAMIL NADU REPEALS ITS ANTI-CONVERSION LAW [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 31, 2006, the newly elected Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a bill that formally repealed the state's already inactive anti-conversion law. Formal repeal of the anti-conversion law fulfilled a campaign promise of the victorious Dravida Munnethra Khazhagam (DMK) party. END SUMM [...] |
2006-06-08 04:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI DRL IN |
| 06CHENNAI1192 |
MOTOROLA ANNOUNCES $30 MILLION FACTORY NEAR [...] No summary [...] |
2006-06-09 04:29:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EIND PGOV IN |
| 06CHENNAI1195 |
KERALA CHIEF MINISTER ACHUTHANANDAN: VINTAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Eighty three years old and with little formal education, Kerala's new Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is different from the state's previous communist Chief Ministers in that he hails from a low- caste and working class background. Wi [...] |
2006-06-09 10:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI1200 |
ST-CMS ENERGY PLANS TO PURSUE ARBITRATION IN ITS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. company ST-CMS Energy plans to immediately begin arbitration proceedings to seek to resolve its dispute with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) over the final capital costs of its 250 megawatt power plant in Neyaveli, Tamil Nadu. This case is an unresolved legacy issu [...] |
2006-06-09 11:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ENRG ECON PGOV IN |
| 06CHENNAI1247 |
NEPALI MAOIST SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS BY [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) C.P. Gajurel, a Nepali Maoist leader who has been held in a Chennai jail since his arrest in 2003 on charges of presenting a forged passport at Chennai airport, was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a Chennai court on June 13. The sentencing follows continued demands for [...] |
2006-06-15 04:40:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PTER IN NP |
| 06CHENNAI1418 |
DIVIDED AND AMBIVALENT: KERALA'S NEW LEFTIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent visit to Kerala one month into the new CPI(M)-led government found Chief Minister Achuthanandan's cabinet divided, slow off the mark and ambivalent about new foreign investment. Nonetheless, the government enjoys a huge majority in the legislative assembly and is solid [...] |
2006-07-06 10:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR EINV IN |
| 06CHENNAI1421 |
HIGH COSTS HIT BANGALORE'S HIGH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Escalating labor and fixed costs have prompted two U.S. high technology companies, Apple Computer and Pervasive Software, to close their recently opened Bangalore operations. A shortage of qualified talent at a reasonable cost is cited as the principal reason for the closures. S [...] |
2006-07-07 12:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PGOV IN |
| 06CHENNAI1426 |
TAMIL NADU: NO POPULAR SUPPORT FOR SRI LANKAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Tamil Nadu Government (GoTN) and the state's political parties across the board continue to voice sympathy for the Tamils of Sri Lanka but there is little evidence of a groundswell of support in Tamil Nadu for the LTTE or other militant groups. In a recent meeting with Cons [...] |
2006-07-11 11:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER PHUM IN CE |
| 06CHENNAI1497 |
SMALL INDIAN SHRIMP EXPORTERS SETTLE WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: 24 Indian shrimp exporters have reached agreement with the Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) to remove their names from the Department of Commerce's review list for imposition of dumping duties. This continues the trend that began in May when exporters from Thailand, Vietnam and E [...] |
2006-07-13 11:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV EFIS EIND IN CE BR EC TH CH VM |
| 06CHENNAI1660 |
TAMIL NADU TO ADOPT VAT FROM JANUARY 2007 [...] (U) Summary: U.S. companies have welcomed the Tamil Nadu government's announcement that it will adopt Value Added Tax (VAT) from January 2007. The companies remain apprehensive of the rules that will govern implementation, however. State officials assert that rule formulation will be consultat [...] |
2006-07-27 08:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV IN |
| 06CHENNAI1705 |
MAOIST LEADERS KILLED IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (U) Summary: In a recent series of incidents in the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) in south India, police forces have killed numerous Maoist insurgents, including several leaders. Although the number of Maoist fighters in AP has fallen due to police action and moves into neighboring states, the [...] |
2006-08-01 11:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PTER PHUM ASEC IN |
| 06CHENNAI1746 |
REFUGEE INFLOW INCREASES AS FIGHTING ESCALATES IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of Sri Lankan refugees reaching Tamil Nadu shores continues to accelerate. From a total of 304 refugee arrivals in January the number has grown to 1,892, taking the total number of arrivals in 2006 to 5,799. Escalated fighting on the island and the welcome signal ext [...] |
2006-08-04 11:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREF IN |
| 06CHENNAI1786 |
SRI LANKAN ISSUE: CENTER AND TAMIL NADU ON THE SAME PAGE, [...] (U) With the Sri Lankan Tamil issue grabbing increased media and political attention in Tamil Nadu, GOI National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan held discussions with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on August 9. After the meeting, Narayanan told the Chennai media corps that "there is [...] |
2006-08-11 11:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI1813 |
REFUGEE INFLOW INCREASES AS FIGHTING ESCALATES IN SRI LANKA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of Sri Lankan refugees reaching Tamil Nadu shores continues to accelerate. From a total of 304 refugee arrivals in January the number has grown to 1,892, taking the total number of arrivals in 2006 to 5,799. Escalated fighting on the island and the welcome signal exte [...] |
2006-08-18 11:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREF IN |
| 06CHENNAI1818 |
FURTHER INCREASE IN SRI LANKAN REFUGEE ARRIVALS [...] (SBU) With the tense situation prevailing in northern Sri Lanka, there has been a further rise in the number of refugees arriving Tamil Nadu. According to Chennai-based UNHCR Associate Repatriation Officer Vadeja Bharati, 528 persons landed at Mandapam on August 20, the highest number to land [...] |
2006-08-21 11:52:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM CE IN |
| 06CHENNAI1856 |
TAMIL NADU CONGRESS PRESSES DMK TO TAKE FIRM STAND AGAINST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A quiet walk-out of Congress legislators from the Tamil Nadu assembly on August 22 brought into media focus the policy differences between the DMK and the Congress -- partners in the UPA alliance -- on the sensitive Sri Lankan Tamil issue. Despite the tactical show of protest, h [...] |
2006-08-25 11:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI1857 |
PROTEST AT U.S. EXHIBIT IN CALICUT [...] ON AUGUST 23 IN CALICUT, ALSO KNOWN AS KOZHIKODE, IN NORTH KERALA NEARLY 100 MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT (NDF) SHOUTED ANTI-U.S. SLOGANS AT AN EXHIBIT STAGED BY CONSULATE GENERAL CHENNAI. A HALF-HOUR BEFORE THE INAUGURATION OF THE MULTI-MEDIA EXHIBIT, WHICH WAS PART OF AN OUTREACH [...] |
2006-08-25 11:40:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ASEC KPAO IN |
| 06CHENNAI212 |
NEW KARNATAKA CHIEF MINISTER H.D. KUMARASWAMY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Haradanahally Deve Kumaraswamy (age 46), a former film producer and the son of former Indian Prime Minister Deve Gowda, became the new Chief Minister of the south Indian state of Karnataka on February 3, 2006. Kumaraswamy, who led a defection of Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S)) as [...] |
2006-02-07 10:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI2145 |
ANDHRA PRADESH POLICE SEIZE CACHE OF CRUDE ROCKETS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Andhra Pradesh (AP) Police Chief confirmed to Post the seizure of hundreds of Chennai-made rocket shells and dozens of rocket launchers from the storehouses of a transport company in the Mahaboobnagar and Prakasam Districts of AP on September 8. With no evidence of LTTE invo [...] |
2006-09-18 11:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PTER PHUM ASEC IN |
| 06CHENNAI2227 |
KARNATAKA PROPOSES TO AMEND ANTI-PIRACY LAW [...] Summary: Following in the footsteps of their Tamil Nadu counterparts, the Karnataka police propose to amend an existing law intended to fight street crime to include video piracy. The ineffectiveness of the existing anti-piracy law in Karnataka prompted the local Kannada language film industry [...] |
2006-09-29 09:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PGOV KIPR IN |
| 06CHENNAI2279 |
PONDICHERRY RENAMED PUDUCHERRY [...] (U) The Government of India has changed the name of Pondicherry to Puducherry, its pre-colonial native name, with effect from October 1. A set of former French colonies in South India, Puducherry is one of India's six Union Territories, i.e., quasi states with less legislative powers and direc [...] |
2006-10-04 07:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTBS ODIP IN |
| 06CHENNAI2284 |
BORDER DISPUTE SHUTS DOWN BANGALORE FOR A DAY [...] (U) SUMMARY: A widespread "bandh" or total work stoppage closed most commercial and other activity in high-tech Bangalore and elsewhere in the state of Karnataka on October 4. Kannada language organizations had called the stoppage over a long drawn-out border dispute with neighboring Maharasht [...] |
2006-10-05 08:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ETRD CASC ASEC IN |
| 06CHENNAI2303 |
COMMUNAL RIOTS CLOSE MANGALORE: PORT REMAINS OPEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Four days of sporadic communal (Hindu-Muslim) clashes and the resulting curfew stopped most commercial activity from October 4 to 9 in the western Karnataka port city of Mangalore. The conflict was sparked when militant Hindu groups attempted to prevent the transport of cattle f [...] |
2006-10-10 09:45:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR PINS PINR EWWT ASEC CASC IN |
| 06CHENNAI2308 |
SCA/INS DIRECTOR BERNICAT ENGAGES SOUTH INDIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Political analysts Lt. General V.R. Raghavan and N. Sathiya Moorthy agreed that prospects for the upcoming October 28 talks were somewhat encouraging between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during discussions on October 5 with [...] |
2006-10-10 11:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER IN NP CE |
| 06CHENNAI2407 |
RULING DMK PARTY WINS TAMIL NADU LOCAL POLLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ruling DMK party and its allies -- including the Congress -- emerged clear winners in the October elections to Tamil Nadu local bodies, but the victory was tainted by wide allegations of violence by DMK henchmen, particularly in Chennai. The DMK hopes the violence will soon b [...] |
2006-10-25 08:02:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 06CHENNAI2467 |
TWO SUSPECTED TERRORISTS ARRESTED IN MYSORE [...] (SBU) Summary: City police in Mysore, west of Bangalore in the south Indian state of Karnataka, announced the arrest of two Islamic terrorists on October 27. According to the Mysore city police commissioner, the two arrested suspects are Pakistani nationals and members of Al Badr, a Pakistan b [...] |
2006-10-31 04:57:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINR ASEC CASC IN |
| 06CHENNAI2552 |
SOUTH INDIA REACTS TO HUSSEIN VERDICT: SECURITY NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reactions to the Saddam Hussein verdict from the left-leaning political parties in south India - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh - ranged from mild opposition to strong condemnation. Protests were peaceful overall yet indicative of the region's steadfast opposi [...] |
2006-11-09 11:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PTER PGOV IN |
| 06CHENNAI2554 |
TAMIL NADU: ECONOMIC GROWTH, BUT IRRITANTS REMAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The growing FDI inflow into Tamil Nadu, particularly in the manufacturing sector, the support the state receives from the Center due to the synergic political arrangement between the DMK and the Congress parties, the bipartisan support for economic development available in the st [...] |
2006-11-09 11:40:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD ECON EINV ENRG IN |
| 06CHENNAI2555 |
MILITARY ATTACKS IN SRI LANKA: TAMIL NADU URGES CENTER TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pro-Eelam Tamil rhetoric has again gone into high pitch in Tamil Nadu following the recent Sri Lankan army attacks in Tamil areas (ref a) and in anticipation of the upcoming India visit of Sri Lankan President Rajapakshe. Chief Minister Karunanidhi cited the recent attacks on Ta [...] |
2006-11-13 10:03:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN CE |
| 06CHENNAI2564 |
UPDATE ON U.S. POWER PRODUCERS' DISPUTES IN TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) Summary: This message provides an update on the long-standing disputes, often called "legacy issues," between three U.S. independent powers producers (IPPs) and the Government of Tamil Nadu (GoTN). In a letter to post received November 8, the GoTN asserted that it is awaiting a directive [...] |
2006-11-17 11:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ENRG ECON EFIN PREL PGOV IN |
| 06CHENNAI2571 |
IBM INVESTS BIG IN INDIA: HUMAN RESOURCES [...] (U) Summary: Riding the crest of a $6 billion investment, IBM India plans to expand its Bangalore research and development (R&D) operations and in doing so will unleash a new human capital thrust in already talent-hungry south India. The company anticipates its Indian workforce will triple i [...] |
2006-11-22 07:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EINT IN |
| 06CHENNAI2575 |
SRI LANKA PRESIDENT'S INDIA VISIT CAUSES MILD TURBULENCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Protest demonstrations, quiet in-camera consultations with the Center, and passive indifference -- Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit to India has drawn three types of responses from Tamil Nadu's political parties. Tamil Nadu's smaller pro-LTTE parties such as the MD [...] |
2006-11-27 11:04:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER IN CE |
| 06CHENNAI2580 |
D/USTR AMBASSADOR BHATIA VISIT TO CHENNAI [...] (SBU) Ambassador Karan Bhatia's visit to Chennai was a full morning to evening schedule on November 29. He spoke with Chennai-based business people and journalists on a range of topics. At the Ford Factory, the issue of excise tax concessions for small cars, piqued his interest. With members [...] |
2006-12-04 05:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV IN |
| 06CHENNAI2584 |
MUSLIM POLITICS OF KERALA: EMERGING HARDLINERS A CAUSE OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kerala's widely reported sympathy for the convicted Saddam Hussein is a pointer to the direction of Islamic politics in this south Indian state where 24% of the population is Sunni Muslim. Driven by anti-Iraq war sentiments and leftist politics, Kerala's Muslim population strong [...] |
2006-12-06 11:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PINR ASEC KISL CASC IN |
| 06CHENNAI2590 |
BY-ELECTION RESULTS WORRY SOUTH INDIA RULING PARTIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Four by-elections in three south Indian states produced results mostly worrying to the states' ruling parties. Karnataka's unstable JD(S)-BJP ruling coalition had yet another setback in the victory of a prominent JD(S) defector to the Congress. In Andhra Pradesh's Karimnagar con [...] |
2006-12-08 09:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 06CHENNAI2601 |
SUSPECTED LTTE ARMS SMUGGLING FROM TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A chance discovery in southern Tamil Nadu of thousands of "gelex boosters" suspected to be on their way to Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has embarrassed the state police, who long have denied any arms movement from the state. Separately, the Indian Navy sei [...] |
2006-12-12 07:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER IN CE |
| 06CHENNAI2607 |
U/S BURNS IN HYDERABAD: A NEW CONSULATE, MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: A busy series of December 9 meetings and a wide-ranging &windshield tour8 provided Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns a quick but thorough introduction to one of India,s leading boom towns and the planned site for the fifth U.S. post in India. While hi-tech dr [...] |
2006-12-14 10:02:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AMGT ABLD CMGT ECON KISL IN |
| 06CHENNAI295 |
NEW KARNATAKA DEPUTY CHIEF MINISTER [...] (SBU) SUMARY: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Bukanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa (age 63), leader of the Bharathiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Karnataka legislature, took his oath of office on February 3, 2006. A member of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), he has headed [...] |
2006-02-14 11:30:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI393 |
TAMIL NADU ELECTION: DRAMATIC CHANGES AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With Tamil Nadu state assembly elections slated for May 8, intense political activity is changing the shape of party alliances. Vaiko, an LTTE supporter (Reftel) and fiery orator, has led his party out of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) fold to join hands with his former fo [...] |
2006-03-06 11:21:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER IN |
| 06CHENNAI476 |
MINOR BOMB EXPLOSIONS IN NORTH KERALA RAISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two crude bomb explosions in Kozhikode (formerly known as Calicut), located in the northern part of Kerala, on March 10, highlighted the activity of Islamic groups dominant in the region. In view of the anti-U.S. attitude of these groups, security precautions are advisable whil [...] |
2006-03-14 11:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER ASCE CASC IN |
| 06CHENNAI521 |
TAMIL NADU ELECTION: THE ACTION BEGINS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The lineups are set and the battle lines drawn for the Tamil Nadu state assembly elections on May 8. Incumbent Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's campaign seems to have the momentum but her opposition may have the more impressive coalition in terms of committed voters. Swing vote [...] |
2006-03-21 10:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI567 |
KERALA ELECTIONS: INFIGHTING SUSPENDED, RIVAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Communist-led Left Democratic Front poses a strong challenge to the ruling Congress- led United Democratic Front in the upcoming Kerala state assembly elections slated for April 22, 29 and May 3. Infighting, a perennial bane of the Congress party, has crept into the Communis [...] |
2006-03-27 12:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI724 |
VIOLENCE IN BANGALORE FOLLOWS FILM STAR'S DEATH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Street violence rocked Bangalore on April 12 and 13, following the death of Kannada language film superstar Rajkumar. Widespread street riots left eight persons dead and more than 150 injured. The city's famed information technology industry was forced to shut down operations an [...] |
2006-04-17 10:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI757 |
SECRETARY SPELLINGS AND CODEL ENZI VISIT TO THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the first India stop on what they billed as their "The World Is Flat Tour," Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and CODEL Enzi, consisting of Senator Michael Enzi (R-Wyoming), Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee), and Senator Johnny Isakson (R- Georgia), visited the [...] |
2006-04-20 09:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP OREP PREL SCUL ECON IN |
| 06CHENNAI772 |
TAMIL NADU ELECTIONS: MANY GIVEAWAYS, BUT NO [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Free color TVs for all families without one; ten kilograms of free rice through ration shops; two acres of land for the landless; maternity dole for six months to pregnant women; burial allowance for the dead . . . Tamil Nadu political parties' election promises have surpassed [...] |
2006-04-24 08:37:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI802 |
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ATTACK: TRAIL GOES [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Four months after a gunman opened fire at the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) at Bangalore, the assailant remains at large. While Karnataka police officially blame the Jammu and Kashmir based Lashkar e- Tayyiba (LeT) for the attack, in private they speculate that the attacke [...] |
2006-04-25 11:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINR ASEC CASC OVIP IN |
| 06CHENNAI846 |
BOOM TIMES FOR SOUTH INDIAN COTTON MILLS [...] SUMMARY: (U) The cotton textile industry in south India is in the midst of a boom as international demand continues to grow for all categories of Indian cotton products. The spurt in demand, attributed to low production costs, internationally acceptable levels of quality and the removal of qu [...] |
2006-05-02 10:20:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD EAGR EIND IN |
| 06CHENNAI848 |
KERALA ELECTIONS: EXIT POLLS POINT TO A LEFT [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Peaceful polling and unanimous exit poll results predicting a Left Front victory marked the first and second phases of Kerala elections, which cover 90% of the state. The remaining constituencies will vote on May 3. Despite the Congress leaders' media bravado, they privately a [...] |
2006-05-02 10:22:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI873 |
TAMIL NADU ELECTION: CLOSE CONTEST, BUT DMK- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Growing DMK confidence of success in Tamil Nadu's May 8 election was evident in our contacts with party insiders during the final days of the campaign. At the end of a long and intensive campaign battle, opinion polls and conversations with experts indicate a narrow lead for th [...] |
2006-05-05 11:20:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI898 |
SRI LANKAN TAMIL REFUGEES AGAIN ARRIVING IN [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Tamil refugee leader Chandrahasan has reported to Post and Government of Tamil Nadu (GoTN) officials have confirmed that on May 6, a renewed flow of Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka to south India began after a hiatus of four months. The flow at this point is light but may increas [...] |
2006-05-09 11:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM PTER IN CE |
| 06CHENNAI926 |
SOUTH INDIA VOTES FOR CHANGE [...] SUMMARY: (U) In state assembly election results announced on May 11, incumbent governments in Tamil Nadu and Kerala lost to their traditional rivals. In the Union Territory of Pondicherry, the current Congress government won another term. END SUMMARY. ------------------ TAMIL NADU RESULTS [...] |
2006-05-11 11:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI954 |
QUESTIONS ABOUT TAMIL NADU/LTTE CONNECTIONS [...] C) SUMMARY: Despite the fact that Tamil Nadu is home to the largest population of Tamils in the world, there is virtually no support in the state for the LTTE. There is no financial support coming from the state, no significant supplies flowing from Tamil Nadu to the LTTE, and almost no public [...] |
2006-05-15 10:59:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL PTER CE IN |
| 06CHENNAI969 |
DMK AND CONGRESS PREVAIL IN TAMIL NADU AS [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) The DMK-alliance, led by 82 year old M. Karunanidhi, won a closer than normal Tamil Nadu state assembly election and will set up Tamil Nadu's first minority government in memory. Their victory was assured by a cohesive coalition of parties with Congress making an especially st [...] |
2006-05-16 08:00:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 06CHENNAI971 |
BIO OF NEW TAMIL NADU CHIEF MINISTER KARUNANIDHI [...] (SBU) Reftel described state assembly election results in Tamil Nadu. Post has updated the biographical information on newly elected Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. The complete new biography can be found on Consulate General Chennai's SIPRNet site under "South India Materials - Biographies - [...] |
2006-05-16 11:21:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 07CHENNAI100 |
BANGALORE CALM AFTER CAUVERY RIVER WATER VERDICT [...] (SBU) Summary: Bangalore remained calm on February 6 following an interstate river water tribunal verdict on February 5 over a long-simmering dispute involving the sharing of water that flows through the southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Perceived injustice in Karnataka sparked impro [...] |
2007-02-06 11:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWWT ASEC CASC SOCI KCRM ECON IN |
| 07CHENNAI103 |
ROOTING OUT TRAFFICKING IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 29, G/TIP Trafficking in Persons Coordinator Gayatri Patel and Embassy INL officer met with NGOs and law enforcement officials in Hyderabad, the capital of the south India state of Andhra Pradesh (AP), to review projects to combat the trafficking of women and children [...] |
2007-02-07 11:12:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN SOCI KCRM ELAB PHUM PREL IN |
| 07CHENNAI143 |
TAMIL TIGERS' ARMS SMUGGLING ON THE UPSWING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Smuggling of arms and bomb-making materials by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam between the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka appears to be on the rise. Indian authorities seized three vessels last week carrying arms and bomb-making material. Most troublingly, one [...] |
2007-02-22 11:43:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER IN CE |
| 07CHENNAI15 |
TERROR SUSPECT ARRESTED IN BANGALORE [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 6, Bangalore City Police announced the arrest of Bilal Ahmed Kota, a Kashmiri also known as Imran, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. The suspect was arrested at a Bangalore suburb from a private bus coming into the city from north Karnataka. Bangalore pol [...] |
2007-01-08 11:30:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINR ASEC CASC IN |
| 07CHENNAI187 |
INDIA'S SECURITY CONCERNS OVER CHINESE BIDDER FORCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The leftist government in the southeastern Indian state of Kerala has been forced to rebid a $1 billion port project due to the Government of India's refusal - over security concerns - to authorize the participation of two Chinese corporations in the winning proposal. Kerala off [...] |
2007-03-10 11:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND EWWT PGOV IN CN |
| 07CHENNAI198 |
LTTE SMUGGLING AND ONGOING FISHERIES DISPUTE RAISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The recent upswing in smuggling by Tamil Tigers has combined with an ongoing fisheries dispute to mobilize anti-Sri Lanka sentiment in Tamil Nadu. Possibly in an effort to tamp down on smuggling by the Tigers, the Sri Lankan Navy has allegedly fired on Indian fishing vessels re [...] |
2007-03-15 11:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EFIS IN CE |
| 07CHENNAI214 |
CHINDIA: TALES OF SYNERGY PREMATURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a January swing through India's high-tech heartland, including Hyderabad and Bangalore, visiting Washington-based econoffs met with India's leading software firms and discussed the challenges these firms face in the China market. Most felt that the media hype about "Chind [...] |
2007-03-20 11:37:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD IN CN |
| 07CHENNAI223 |
CHINDIA: TALES OF SYNERGY PREMATURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a January swing through India's high-tech heartland, including Hyderabad and Bangalore, visiting Washington-based econoffs met with India's leading software firms and discussed the challenges these firms face in the China market. Most felt that the media hype about "Chind [...] |
2007-03-22 08:28:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD IN CN |
| 07CHENNAI224 |
INDIA'S SECURITY CONCERNS OVER CHINESE BIDDER FORCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The leftist government in the southeastern Indian state of Kerala has been forced to rebid a $1 billion port project due to the Government of India's refusal - over security concerns - to authorize the participation of two Chinese corporations in the winning proposal. Kerala off [...] |
2007-03-22 08:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND EWWT PGOV IN CN |
| 07CHENNAI236 |
NEW INDIAN URANIUM PROJECT JEOPARDIZED BY ENVIRONMENTAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: As part of a larger plan to meet the growing demand for nuclear fuel, the Government of India is planning a uranium mining project in Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh. This project is part of an overall planned expansion of the nuclear sector in Andhra Pradesh. Despite India's des [...] |
2007-03-26 10:38:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN SENV KNPT PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI244 |
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS USED TO DEVELOP TAMIL NADU'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: Deficit budgets and demands for more projects in Tamil Nadu have resulted in a tight funding climate for infrastructure projects. The state government has used public-private partnerships, in the form of dedicated companies known as Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs), to finance much [...] |
2007-03-29 10:43:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV IN |
| 07CHENNAI250 |
QUOTA ISSUE: TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED STRIKE PASSES [...] (SBU) A government-sponsored "bandh" (close-down strike), called jointly by the ruling DMK party and its allies (including the Congress Party), paralyzed the entire state of Tamil Nadu from dawn to dusk on March 31. The government called the strike to protest the Supreme Court's March 29 deci [...] |
2007-04-02 10:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI CASC IN |
| 07CHENNAI261 |
EPA ADMINISTRATOR VISIT TO HYDERABAD PROMOTES COOPERATION [...] The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Stephen L. Johnson visited Hyderabad on March 30 - 31 to promote U.S.-India cooperation on environmental protection and sustainable economic development. The Administrator met with government officials, business leaders, a [...] |
2007-04-04 09:54:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG OVIP IN |
| 07CHENNAI280 |
SRI LANKA CONFLICT: SPILLOVER INTO INDIA CONTINUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The effects of the intensifying conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and Sri Lankan forces continue to spillover into India's southern state of Tamil Nadu. The death of five Indian Tamil fishermen on March 29, gunned down by unknown assailants, has raised [...] |
2007-04-13 11:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EFIS MOPS IN CE |
| 07CHENNAI281 |
CLAIMS OF CIA CONSPIRACIES ABOUND IN KERALA COMMUNIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two warring factions within Kerala's deeply divided ruling party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), accuse each other of manipulating the media and liberally use the choicest insult: that their media antagonists are bankrolled by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). [...] |
2007-04-16 10:52:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
| 07CHENNAI289 |
BELLWETHER PROJECT: TAMIL NADU'S MANUFACTURING BOOM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two recently announced proposed projects - an almost $1 billion automobile joint venture between India's Mahindra & Mahindra, Nissan, and Renault and a $30 million dollar investment by Dell - highlight Tamil Nadu's continued growth as a manufacturing hub. While Tamil Nadu also [...] |
2007-04-17 10:44:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV EFIN PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI303 |
KERALA HOPES FOR OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kerala government officials hope the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratories will set up a research and development facility in the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram (also known as Trivandrum). According to state government sources, Kerala is awaiting a forma [...] |
2007-04-24 09:21:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ETTC PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI31 |
BANGALORE TOP COP CONFIDENT ON SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Karnataka's new Director General of Police says multinational companies and other Western interests need not be worried about security in Bangalore, India's high-tech hub and the reported target of recently arrested terror suspects. He assured us, however, that security forces a [...] |
2007-01-12 07:30:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINR ASEC CASC IN |
| 07CHENNAI314 |
AFTER CLOSING COKE, KERALA ACTIVISTS TARGET PEPSI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 10, Pepsi won a four-year court battle for survival in Kerala. But the legal victory has spurred a battle on another front: a virulent media campaign directed against it. A similar campaign succeeded in locking out Coca Cola in 2004, despite court verdicts in Coke's f [...] |
2007-05-01 08:51:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI317 |
LABOR SHORTAGES EMERGE IN SOUTH INDIA [...] SUMMARY: Five years of rapid economic growth in south India has increased the demand for skilled labor. Businesses are aggressively recruiting talent from elite schools, at the same time training up recruits from lower ranked institutions in an effort to get them ready to contribute. But the [...] |
2007-05-02 07:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EIND EINV EFIN PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI318 |
TAMIL NADU SAYS LTTE TO BLAME FOR KILLING AND ABDUCTING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Through a surprise announcement that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (not the Sri Lankan Navy) shot five Tamil Nadu fishermen dead on March 29 (reftel), Tamil Nadu has embarrassed and silenced Tamil Tiger supporters in the state. The Tamil Nadu government also alleged that [...] |
2007-05-02 07:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EFIS IN CE |
| 07CHENNAI337 |
ATTACK ON NEWSPAPER OFFICES KILLS THREE AS DMK SUCESSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three people were killed in an attack on a newspaper after it published a survey suggesting that the younger son of Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister has a huge lead over the older son in popular support to succeed the patriarch of the ruling DMK party. The violence, an infringement [...] |
2007-05-10 11:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM CASC IN |
| 07CHENNAI340 |
TELECOM MINISTER DAYANIDHI MARAN RESIGNS; NO IMMEDIATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Union Communication and Information Technology Minister, the high-profile Dayanidhi Maran sent his resignation to Prime Minister Singh after losing the support of his own DMK party. Maran's fall from the favor of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK party leader Karunanidhi (who als [...] |
2007-05-14 10:41:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI349 |
AN ANTI-U.S. ECHO CHAMBER IN BANGALORE'S URDU SPEAKING [...] (SBU) Summary: Deeply felt Muslim resentment over the Iraq war and U.S. policies in the Middle East, as well as misperceptions of American society emerged during a planned literary discussion in Bangalore between Urdu writers and journalists and visiting American author Eddy Harris. End summar [...] |
2007-05-16 06:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO KISL IN |
| 07CHENNAI353 |
ECONOMIC GROWTH DRIVES THE STORY IN SOUTH INDIA [...] SUMMARY: During a May 14-15 visit to Chennai, Charge d'Affaires Geoffrey R. Pyatt surveyed the dynamic economic climate in south India. Mr. Pyatt visited Ford India's manufacturing facility outside of Chennai, Cognizant Technology Solutions' campus in Chennai's IT corridor, and had lunch wit [...] |
2007-05-17 09:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV EFIN PGOV CVIS CMGT IN |
| 07CHENNAI363 |
BOMBING AT HISTORIC MOSQUE IN HYDERABAD KILLS FIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A bomb exploded at Hyderabad's historic Mecca Masjid, the city's oldest and largest mosque, today at approximately 1:25 p.m. local time, killing five people and injuring many others. The bomb detonated during Friday prayers when the mosque was filled with up to 10,000 worshi [...] |
2007-05-18 13:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC IN KISL PGOV PTER |
| 07CHENNAI365 |
HYDERABAD MOSQUE BOMBING: CITY CALM; POLICE SEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Hyderabad was calm, but tense over the weekend after the May 18 bombing of the Mecca Masjid (ref A). Citizens heeded calls from government and religious leaders to remain peaceful, despite the news that at least five people were killed by the police as the authorities tried t [...] |
2007-05-21 12:29:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC CASC KISL IN |
| 07CHENNAI385 |
NAXALITES ATTACK POWER PLANT IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 30, Naxalites attacked a hydroelectric power plant in northeast Andhra Pradesh, causing damage to the plant's control room and injuring one employee. The attack, along with the recent killing of a Congress party functionary, demonstrates the Naxalites' continued ability [...] |
2007-05-31 09:42:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI398 |
ANDHRA PRADESH SOFTWARE EXPORTS SOAR; NAIDU FOCUSES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Andhra Pradesh's information technology sector continues to boom, with software exports from the state increasing by almost 50% last year. Despite the growth in IT, politicians of all stripes, including the state's influential former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, are worri [...] |
2007-06-07 11:42:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINT EINV PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI399 |
CHIEF MINISTER'S DAUGHTER TO UPPER HOUSE; THE DMK'S FRESH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi's 39 year-old daughter Kanimozhi is one of the six candidates set to be elected without contest to India's upper house of Parliament (the Rajya Sabha). Although a political novice, Kanimozhi will attract much attention as she is likely to em [...] |
2007-06-08 11:55:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI411 |
HYDERABAD, LIKE BANGALORE, EXPANDS JURISDICTION TO MANAGE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Andhra Pradesh recently announced a plan to expand the limits of the state's capital Hyderabad with eye towards improving management of the city's rapid development. The primary purpose of the project, known as Greater Hyderabad, is to mitigate uneven infrastructure development by [...] |
2007-06-18 10:54:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINT EINV PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI412 |
SUSPECTED CHIKUNGUNYA INFECTION HAUNTS KERALA [...] (U) SUMMARY: The southern Indian state of Kerala has been gripped by an outbreak of suspected chikungunya infection - a debilitating but non-fatal mosquito-borne viral illness that is not transmitted from human-to-human. With media reports of thousands of people hospitalized in Kerala, nea [...] |
2007-06-18 10:54:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI TBIO PGOV CASC IN |
| 07CHENNAI43 |
TAMIL NADU RICE FARMERS DISRUPT GM CROP TRIALS [...] Summary: Farmers in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu destroyed a trial crop of genetically modified rice grown from seeds provided by Mahyco, Monsanto's Indian affiliate, on November 12. Local farmers allege the trial did not meet Indian bio-safety standards and said they feared possible "con [...] |
2007-01-18 05:07:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD ECIN TBIO IN |
| 07CHENNAI445 |
Plea from NGOs: Don't Downgrade India to Tier 3 [...] SUMMARY: During a July 3 visit to Hyderabad, Ambassador Mulford met with representatives of anti-trafficking NGOs to hear their views on India's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). The NGO representatives argued that the 2007 TIP report did not sufficiently or accurately acknowledge [...] |
2007-07-09 10:55:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI ELAB KCRM KWMN PREL PHUM IN |
| 07CHENNAI475 |
Nuclear-Powered Nimitz Visits Chennai: The Only Emission Is [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The July 2-5 visit of USS Nimitz to Chennai was an overwhelming success, overcoming criticism, protests, and bureaucratic hurdles to make an indelible impression on the bilateral strategic relationship. Citing the incident-free shore visits by thousands of sailors and their read [...] |
2007-07-23 10:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS MARR MNUC PREL PGOV KPAO ASEC IN |
| 07CHENNAI477 |
JAYALALITHAA SPLITS INDIA'S THIRD FRONT IN PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: India's United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA), commonly known as the Third Front, failed its first test of unity on July 19 when members of Tamil Nadu's AIADMK, one of the key Third Front parties, voted in India's presidential election rather than abstaining as the Third [...] |
2007-07-24 10:43:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI486 |
POLICE SHOOT AND KILL SIX IN ANDHRA PRADESH LAND PROTESTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 28, police shot and killed six villagers in Mudigonda in the Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh after a political protest demanding free land for the poor turned violent. Two other protesters were killed in separate incidents with the police. The protest, sponsored by the [...] |
2007-07-30 11:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PHUM IN |
| 07CHENNAI50 |
PDAS Mann in Chennai: Visas, Refugees and Politics [...] (SBU) Summary: During his December 16-17 visit to Chennai, SCA bureau Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Mann met with visa staff and viewed visa processing, had talks with Sri Lankan refugee leaders and discussed politics and Indo-U.S. relations with journalist-insider Malini Parthasa [...] |
2007-01-19 10:28:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM CMGT IN CE |
| 07CHENNAI500 |
SOUTH INDIAN COPS CONFIDENT THEY CAN HANDLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Aggressive police activity in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has pushed the Maoists (also known as the Communist Party of India - Maoist and/or "Naxalites") into neighboring Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, both of which historically have seen less Maoist activity. However, p [...] |
2007-08-10 09:55:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | IN PGOV PHUM PTER SOCI |
| 07CHENNAI512 |
KERALA PLANS LAW TO CURB CORPORATE RETAIL GIANTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kerala's leftist government is drafting a law to curb the entry of large corporations, whether multinational or Indian, into the retail sector. The state's Finance Minister says the law will regulate, not ban, the entry of corporations into the retail sector. Although media con [...] |
2007-08-14 11:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI518 |
CODEL ENSIGN EXPERIENCES SOUTH INDIA'S HIGH-TECH SECTOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senator John Ensign (R-NV) made his first visit to Bangalore August 5-8 to see South India's info-tech boomtown firsthand. He met with top executives from several companies, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, General Electric (GE), Brickwork, Texas Instruments [...] |
2007-08-22 06:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP ECON EINV PGOV PREL SCUL CVIS IN |
| 07CHENNAI52 |
BANGALORE VIOLENCE: HINDU-MUSLIM CLASHES FOLLOW SADDAM [...] (SBU) Summary: Hindu-Muslim riots broke out in several Bangalore neighborhoods over the January 19-21 weekend following a meeting organized by a Karnataka-based Muslim politician to condemn the execution of Saddam Hussein. On January 19, Hindus and Muslims clashed after Muslims marching to the [...] |
2007-01-22 10:52:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ASEC CASC IN |
| 07CHENNAI530 |
HYDERABAD BOMBING UPDATE AND EAC MEETING REPORT [...] (SBU) On August 27, 2007 the RSO convened an EAC meeting to discuss and update members on new information surrounding the bombings in Hyderabad on Saturday, August 25. The meeting was attended by Pol/Econ, PAS, FCS, and FCS. The meeting was chaired by the Acting Consul General from PAS. The EAC [...] |
2007-08-27 12:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC ASEC PGOV PREL KTER IN |
| 07CHENNAI54 |
CODEL SPECTER IN SOUTH INDIA: COMMUNISTS, COMPUTERS AND [...] (U) Summary: During a December 17-22 visit to the south Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka, Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) viewed first-hand India's high-tech and business boom, met with judicial officials and journalists, and experienced traditional culture and politics, the latter [...] |
2007-01-22 11:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON SCUL IN |
| 07CHENNAI541 |
HYDERABAD TERROR GROUPS HAVE INTERNATIONAL LINKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging conversation only days before the August 25 bombings in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh's Police Intelligence Chief told post that his office closely monitors 40 to 50 Indian nationals in Hyderabad who have links to Islamic terrorist groups. He said many of these y [...] |
2007-08-29 10:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IN KCRM KISL PGOV PREL PTER |
| 07CHENNAI559 |
MAOIST BOMB ATTACK MISSES FORMER ANDHRA PRADESH CHIEF [...] (U) Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and current Member of Parliament N. Janardhana Reddy and his wife N. Rajyalaxmi, Minister for Women and Child Welfare in the AP state government, narrowly escaped a bomb attack on Friday, September 7 in Nellore district in southern Andhra Pradesh (approx [...] |
2007-09-11 11:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS PTER PHUM ASEC IN |
| 07CHENNAI565 |
INDIAN AEROSPACE ORGANIZATIONS TIE "RESTRICTIVE" LICENSING [...] (SBU) Summary: High-level representatives of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) recently complained to us about delays in receiving visas and in obtaining export licenses for equipment purchased from the United States. HAL told us that it will [...] |
2007-09-13 11:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CVIS ETTC KFPC ETRD ESTH BEXP EIND IN |
| 07CHENNAI569 |
BELLWETHER PROJECT: ANDHRA PRADESH: ECONOMY BOOMING BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The economy of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh continues to boom. But despite strong economic growth led by the IT and pharmaceutical industries centered in the state's capital Hyderabad, the agricultural sector continues to lag and unemployment remains high. The r [...] |
2007-09-14 05:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PINR PHUM PTER KISL IN |
| 07CHENNAI593 |
KERALA COMMUNISTS WORRY ABOUT COST OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The southern Indian state of Kerala has long been known for achieving a high level of social development despite poor economic growth and low incomes. Kerala's approach, known as the "Kerala model" of development, focuses on government spending on education and health care. [...] |
2007-09-21 06:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR SOCI IN |
| 07CHENNAI602 |
KERALA COMMUNISTS FEAR LOSSES IN POSSIBLE PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) and its allies in the southern Indian state of Kerala are apprehensive about possible parliamentary elections should India's Left Parties withdraw support from the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in New Delhi. The s [...] |
2007-09-26 11:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI605 |
RELIGIOUS MONKEY BUSINESS ROILS INDIAN WATERS, POLITICAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Political tempers have flared in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu as a canal project off the state's coast has turned into an unlikely source of political and religious controversy. The long-proposed Sethusamudram project will dredge a passage through the Palk Strait be [...] |
2007-09-28 09:50:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI606 |
G/TIP VISITS RESCUED BONDED LABORERS IN TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) Summary: The director of the Department's office charged with combating human trafficking visited South India to hear first-hand accounts from victims of bonded labor and to witness government and NGO programs designed to help them. He also spoke with Karnataka's Chief Secretary, who do [...] |
2007-09-28 09:50:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM PGOV SOCI IN |
| 07CHENNAI611 |
TENSIONS RISE IN BANGALORE AS HANDOVER DEADLINE [...] (SBU) Summary: The south Indian state of Karnataka (and its capital, Bangalore) appears set for several months of political turmoil, which may help Congress gain more than a dozen seats if national parliamentary elections are held in 2008. The ruling BJP-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition is crum [...] |
2007-09-28 09:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IN |
| 07CHENNAI620 |
TURMOIL IN KARNATAKA AS GOVERNING COALITION TEETERS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Buoyed by unexpected success in the South Indian state of Karnataka's September 28 local elections, the ruling Janata Dal (Secular) party refused to hand over the position of Chief Minister (CM) on October 3 to its BJP coalition partner as required in their coalition agreement. [...] |
2007-10-05 11:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IN |
| 07CHENNAI629 |
PRESIDENTIAL RULE IMPOSED IN KARNATAKA: ADVANTAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: President Pratibha Patel imposed direct rule over the southern Indian state of Karnataka on October 9, following the recommendation of the state's governor the day before. The governor submitted his recommendation after the October 8 resignation of the Chief Minister (CM), which [...] |
2007-10-12 05:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL IN |
| 07CHENNAI640 |
CORRUPTION PLAGUES ANDHRA PRADESH'S BIG TICKET SPENDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Andhra Pradesh's ruling Congress party has been spending billions of dollars on social programs targeted at the "common man." The spending programs, though politically popular, have led to much talk that Chief Minister YSR Reddy's government is engaged in corruption beyond the [...] |
2007-10-22 11:02:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINT EINV PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI654 |
TRICKLE OF SRI LANKAN REFUGEES TO INDIA COULD BECOME FLOOD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The flow of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees to the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu has steadily declined to less than 200 a month. But the situation could quickly reverse itself: our contacts say that up to 50,000 refugees could arrive in India within a few months if war breaks out [...] |
2007-10-26 03:26:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI661 |
TAMIL NADU BJP EAGER FOR ALLIANCE WITH JAYALALITHAA'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: India's major political parties, the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are minor players in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Two regional parties - the DMK and the rival AIADMK - dominate the state, leaving Congress with approximately 10-15 percent and BJP wit [...] |
2007-11-01 13:07:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI662 |
BJP CLAIMS A NEW MAJORITY IN BANGALORE [...] (SBU) Summary: A newly reformed BJP-JD(S) coalition now claims to have a majority in the South Indian state of Karnataka's legislature. It has demanded that the governor re-activate the state's legislative assembly and ask the coalition to form a government. The Congress-appointed governor h [...] |
2007-11-02 06:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL IN |
| 07CHENNAI668 |
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh recently enacted a law allowing the government to identify places of worship where the propagation of any religion other than the religion traditionally practiced at the identified location is prohibited. Thus far, the state has only id [...] |
2007-11-09 08:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SOCI IN |
| 07CHENNAI671 |
BJP SET TO LEAD ITS FIRST GOVERNMENT IN SOUTH INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Union Cabinet decided on November 8 to end "President's Rule" in the South Indian state of Karnataka, paving the way for the BJP to lead a governing coalition -- the first time that the BJP has led a government in a southern state. The BJP will join the JD(S) to govern, in [...] |
2007-11-09 10:41:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL IN |
| 07CHENNAI689 |
BETRAYAL ENDS THE BJP'S WEEK-LONG REIGN IN KARNATAKA [...] (SBU) Summary: The BJP's first, brief taste of power in South India ended on November 19 when Karnataka's Chief Minister B.S. Yedyurappa resigned his position after a mere seven days in office. He submitted his resignation when it became clear that his government would fail to win its initial [...] |
2007-11-20 10:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ECON PREL IN |
| 07CHENNAI690 |
TAMIL NADU CHIEF MINISTER'S TRIBUTE TO DEAD TAMIL TIGER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's poem eulogizing a leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam killed in an attack by the Sri Lankan air force raised questions about his views on the banned group. Media reports and protests by opposition parties caused a political s [...] |
2007-11-20 11:41:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI694 |
TAMIL NADU GARMENT INDUSTRY (MOSTLY) CHILD LABOR FREE BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tirupur, a small city near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu's second largest city, is a remarkable economic success story. In the span of just a few decades, Tirupur's garment industry has grown to account for more than half of India's knitwear exports. With a rapid growth creating a de [...] |
2007-11-28 11:31:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM PGOV SOCI IN |
| 07CHENNAI696 |
TIRUPUR GARMENT INDUSTRY: EXPORT SUCCESS STORY ANXIOUS [...] SUMMARY: Tirupur, a small city near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu's second largest city, is a remarkable economic success story. Over just a few decades, Tirupur's garment industry has grown to account for more than half of India's knitwear exports. The town's knitwear industry provides more than [...] |
2007-11-30 06:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV EFIN PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI703 |
NASA DISCUSSES WITH ISRO PROSPECTS FOR COOPERATION ON [...] (SBU) Summary: NASA officials visited the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Bangalore headquarters on November 6. The NASA team outlined the agency's plans for lunar exploration to an audience of 35 scientists, heard ISRO's plans for the future of India's space program, and discusse [...] |
2007-12-04 10:28:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA ETTC KNNP KSCA ECPS IN |
| 07CHENNAI706 |
TURNING TRASH TO TREASURE IN TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) Summary: Rapid urban growth has spawned several challenges for the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, including managing the disposal of an increasing amount of solid waste. A variety of projects are on the drawing board or already in practice to convert this mountain of waste into somet [...] |
2007-12-07 06:16:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV SENV ECON IN |
| 07CHENNAI707 |
COMMUNISTS GRAB LAND IN KERALA, BUT NO NANDIGRAM THIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Workers from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), together with more than 700 locals, tried to grab a 127 acre piece of government land in Kerala. After pushing out a group of tribal families that had previously claimed the land for themselves, the CPI(M) cadres tor [...] |
2007-12-10 05:32:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 07CHENNAI709 |
INFOSYS FOUNDER ON IPR IN CHINA, HIRING IN U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a wide ranging discussion with us, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Infosys Technologies Narayana Murthy discussed the state of Infosys, with particular emphasis on its expansion plans outside of India. Murthy told post that his company's expansion into China has been h [...] |
2007-12-14 10:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EINV CH IN |
| 07CHENNAI77 |
TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED, GIRLS RESCUED IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] Summary: Since mid-October 2006, the Andhra Pradesh (AP) Police, assisted by local NGOs, have rescued 80 girls and arrested 94 traffickers from four districts in the state. Most of the traffickers have been booked under non-bailable charges. Most of the rescued girls were placed in shelter h [...] |
2007-01-31 11:02:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN SOCI KCRM ELAB IN |
| 07CHENNAI83 |
ANDHRA PRADESH: MAOIST REVERSES ... BUT WILL THEY LAST? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With effect from mid-January 2007, The Communist Party of India Maoist (CPI-Maoist), also known as Naxalites, says it has suspended major activities in Andhra Pradesh (AP). The move comes after several months of Maoist setbacks in the state, including killings of several party l [...] |
2007-02-01 10:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS PTER PHUM ASEC IN |
| 07CHENNAI84 |
US DUMPING DUTIES FORCE INDIAN SHRIMP EXPORTERS TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Elias Sait, Secretary General of the Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI), contends that the imposition of U.S. anti-dumping duties on Indian shrimp and subsequent U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bond requirements have reduced the number of seafood exporters to [...] |
2007-02-01 10:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV EFIS EIND SENV IN CE BR EC |
| 07CHENNAI86 |
TAMIL NADU POLICE ARREST SUSPECTED LTTE SMUGGLERS, STEP UP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Seizing thousands of kilos of iron ball bearings from suspected smugglers, Tamil Nadu (TN) police appear to have busted an emerging LTTE supply line. TN police believe the ball bearings were meant to be used in LTTE's explosive devices to enhance their lethality. The seizures l [...] |
2007-02-02 08:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER IN CE |
| 08CHENNAI100 |
NEW HYDERABAD AIRPORT STILL IN HOLDING PATTERN [...] (U) Sonia Gandhi, chair of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), formally inaugurated the new Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGI) in Hyderabad on March 14, 2008, with much fanfare. The inauguration heralded the planned opening of the facility on March 16 (ref B). Almost immediately afte [...] |
2008-03-17 10:50:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV IN |
| 08CHENNAI103 |
KERALA COMMUNISTS SLAM HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The recently released Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007 (Human Rights Report) drew sharp rebukes from leftists in the South Indian state of Kerala. The state's ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) described the report as an "imperialist strategy t [...] |
2008-03-19 10:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL PINR IN |
| 08CHENNAI104 |
HINDU NATIONALISTS TARGET STATE COMMUNIST PARTY CHIEF IN [...] (SBU) Summary: A group of Hindu nationalists reportedly ransacked the home of the communist party chief in the South India state of Karnataka's on March 9. The attack was likely inspired by violence against Hindu nationalists by communists in the neighboring state of Kerala several days earli [...] |
2008-03-20 06:40:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR IN |
| 08CHENNAI11 |
BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Mission personnel visited Park Controls & Communications (http://www.parkcontrols.com/index.htm) on December 17, and were granted full access to the site. Only one of the boxes containing the RCB-2000 Digital Receiver Systems had been unpacked at the time of our visit -- the company had [...] |
2008-01-09 13:00:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC IN |
| 08CHENNAI110 |
ANDHRA PRADESH "GREYHOUNDS" DOG MAOISTS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Police contacts confirmed media reports of a joint counter-insurgency operation involving police units from the Indian states of Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. 17 Maoists insurgents were killed in a March 18 raid, including at least one important Maoist leader, according to c [...] |
2008-03-25 07:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IN PGOV PHUM PTER |
| 08CHENNAI113 |
UNSEASONABLE RAINS DEVASTATE KERALA'S CROPS AND EXPOSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An unseasonable spell of rain hit the South India state of Kerala in mid-March as farmers were preparing to harvest rice causing an estimated crop loss of USD 45 million. The unusual downpours also caused political trouble for the state's ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist [...] |
2008-03-28 04:25:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IN |
| 08CHENNAI114 |
SOUTH INDIA'S TIGERS ARE HANGING ON, BUT STILL IN DANGER [...] Summary: The number of tigers in South India dropped by about 30 percent in the last four years and the animals disappeared from 17 percent of the districts they previously inhabited, according to the Tiger Census Report (TCR) released in February by the central government's Ministry of Enviro [...] |
2008-03-31 10:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PGOV PREL IN |
| 08CHENNAI119 |
KARNATAKA HEADED FOR MAY POLLS [...] (U) Summary: The South India state of Karnataka will hold elections for its legislative assembly before May 28, according to a statement India's Chief Election Commissioner made to reporters on March 28 in Chennai. The precise date of the elections has not been set, but earlier reports sugges [...] |
2008-04-01 10:38:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON IN |
| 08CHENNAI133 |
RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA: FROM CATTLE HERDING TO DATA [...] SUMMARY: Local government and non-governmental organizations have established innovative rural development initiatives in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. An entrepreneurial district administrator has used pre-existing development funds to establish India's first-ever rural business pro [...] |
2008-04-11 07:37:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINT EIND PGOV PHUM PTER IN |
| 08CHENNAI134 |
BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-LICENSE PRE-SHIPMENT CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Post does not recommend approval of this license. Both the foreign consignee and end-user have been difficult or impossible to contact, and much of the contact information on the license check request is erroneous. The end-user has also been evasive and non-cooperative. We ha [...] |
2008-04-11 07:41:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC IN |
| 08CHENNAI15 |
MAYAWATI ON THE MOVE IN SOUTH INDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), led by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, is moving into South India. BSP previously had little presence in the south, but has recently increased its visibility in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka with Mayawati holding rallies in both states' capit [...] |
2008-01-14 11:16:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
| 08CHENNAI153 |
MORE OF THE SAME: COMMUNIST NATIONAL MEET OUTLINES FUTURE [...] (U) Summary: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) held its nineteenth Party Congress in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu from March 29 - April 3. The CPM promised continued opposition to U.S.-India bilateral ties, which it characterized as a subjugation of India's national interests. The party [...] |
2008-04-24 07:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL PINR IN |
| 08CHENNAI157 |
IRAQI LABOR ACTIVIST'S ANTI-U.S. COMMENTS DRAW MEDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Abdulla Muhsin, described as a labor activist from Iraq, grabbed media attention in the South India state of Kerala with sharp comments against American multinational companies "looting billions and billions of dollars worth of oil under the guise of the U.S. occupation of Iraq." [...] |
2008-05-01 06:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ELAB IN IZ |
| 08CHENNAI163 |
BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: APPLICATION 05-050095903 PRE-LICENSE [...] (U) We have no objection to this application. 2. (SBU) We spoke by telephone on April 30 with K.S. Manjunath, Senior Stores Officer at the Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE) in Bangalore. Manjunath confirmed that DARE had placed the order for the items listed in reftel, para 5. [...] |
2008-05-05 05:18:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC IN IS |
| 08CHENNAI167 |
AN ELECTION PRIMER FOR INDIA'S NEXT BIG VOTE: SHOWTIME IN [...] Summary: Voters in the South Indian state of Karnataka head to the polls in May to select 224 members of the state's legislative assembly. More than 10,000 candidates are vying for these seats in elections that will take place in three stages, from May 10 to May 22. The main contest will ta [...] |
2008-05-07 08:41:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN |
| 08CHENNAI168 |
KARNATAKA'S ELECTIONS: CONGRESS SHOULD WIN, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: All Indian political eyes are on the South Indian state of Karnataka as it heads toward legislative assembly elections that begin on May 10 (ref A). A key pre-election poll published by one of South India's leading dailies shows that the Congress Party looks set to win a signi [...] |
2008-05-08 10:06:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN |
| 08CHENNAI170 |
A NIGHT ON KARNATAKA'S CAMPAIGN TRAIL [...] (U) Summary: Elections for the South India state of Karnataka's legislative assembly begin on May 10 (refs A and B), and new interpretations of the restrictions on what candidates may -- and may not -- do have changed how campaigns are conducted. No longer can candidates spend unaccounted-for [...] |
2008-05-09 11:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN |
| 08CHENNAI192 |
CONGRESS REELING AFTER BIG BJP WIN IN KARNATAKA [...] (SBU) Summary: The May 25 announcement of the state assembly election results in Karnataka gave the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a major victory. The party took 110 of the 224 seats in the assembly, leaving it three seats shy of an absolute majority. The BJP quickly secured the support of f [...] |
2008-05-28 11:03:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON KIRF KDEM IN |
| 08CHENNAI197 |
CONGRESS, TDP BEAT EXPECTATIONS IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (SBU) Summary: The results of the May 29 by-elections in Andhra Pradesh dealt a blow to separatist aspirations in the southern state's Telangana region. The separatist Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) underperformed despite high expectations, winning only 7 of the 16 seats in the state legislativ [...] |
2008-06-04 10:41:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IN |
| 08CHENNAI20 |
MODI FLIRTS WITH JAYA, SPECULATION OF BJP-AIADMK ALLIANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 15, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi visited Chennai. Modi's visit, cloaked under heavy security, sparked several protests. His lunch with J Jayalalithaa, leader of Tamil Nadu's opposition AIADMK, fueled speculation of an AIADMK-BJP alliance in future elections. [...] |
2008-01-17 11:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIRF IN |
| 08CHENNAI203 |
ANDHRA PRADESH COP SEES HYDERABAD LINK TO JAIPUR [...] (C) Summary: One of Andhra Pradesh's top anti-terrorist cops said the trail of evidence in the May 13 Jaipur bombings leads to Hyderabad. The detonators used in Jaipur have been traced to the district adjoining Hyderabad and the shapes of the charges used in Jaipur are similar to the August [...] |
2008-06-10 07:54:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IN KISL PGOV PREL PTER |
| 08CHENNAI21 |
FIGHT WITH CHRISTIAN GROUPS FURTHER WEAKENS KERALA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Leftist political leaders have been engaged in a months-long war of words with Syrian Christian leaders in the South Indian state Kerala. The Syrian Christians' anger at government proposals that would reduce their church's autonomy to manage its schools has pushed them into dir [...] |
2008-01-17 11:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIRF IN |
| 08CHENNAI213 |
DMK WON'T BREAK WITH CONGRESS BUT WILL URGE SONIA [...] (C) Summary: Tamil Nadu's DMK party will not abandon Congress in the upcoming national elections according to one of the party's senior strategists and a confidante of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. The strategist emphasized the need for the Congress party to project its prime mi [...] |
2008-06-18 09:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | IN PGOV |
| 08CHENNAI214 |
ANDHRA PRADESH: AN ANTI-TRAFFICKING MODEL FOR INDIA [...] Summary: The South Indian state Andhra Pradesh has made great strides in combating trafficking in persons. In what anti-trafficking NGOs describe as a "paradigm shift," the police, prosecutors, and the judiciary have all actively participated in training programs sponsored by the United Nati [...] |
2008-06-25 11:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KCRM ELAB PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI IN |
| 08CHENNAI22 |
SOUTH INDIA PREPARES TO DEFEND AGAINST AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) Summary: The preparedness of India's southern states to manage a potential outbreak of Avian Influenza (AI) in the region is mixed. Tamil Nadu appears better prepared than the other southern states, but a severe outbreak is likely to stretch both the state and national governments' abil [...] |
2008-01-23 11:49:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR CASC SENV ECON ETRD AMED IN |
| 08CHENNAI223 |
DMK WON'T BREAK WITH CONGRESS BUT WILL URGE SONIA [...] (C) Summary: Tamil Nadu's DMK party will not abandon Congress in the upcoming national elections according to one of the party's senior strategists and a confidante of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. The strategist emphasized the need for the Congress party to project its prime mi [...] |
2008-06-26 05:06:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | IN PGOV |
| 08CHENNAI224 |
DMK COALITION SHRINKS, EXPECT EVEN CLOSER TIES TO CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 17 Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK party finally broke its contentious alliance with the PMK, another Tamil Nadu-based regional party. The allies had been feuding for more than a year, but it appears that the DMK preemptively broke ties when it heard that the PMK wanted to ali [...] |
2008-06-27 10:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
| 08CHENNAI229 |
ANDRHA'S TDP ROCKED BY SECOND-IN-COMMAND'S RESIGNATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Telugu Desam Party (TDP), a major regional party based in the South Indian state Andhra Pradesh, suffered a serious blow when the party's second-in-command, T. Devender Goud, resigned on June 23. Goud, who had been a member of the party since 1987, broke with the TDP to pro [...] |
2008-07-02 10:10:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
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MAYAWATI GIVES HER PARTY'S NATIONAL SECRETARY THE BOOT [...] (U) Summary: General Secretary of the Bhujan Samaj Party (BSP) P.G.R. Sindhia was unceremoniously tossed from his office by party president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on June 24. Sindhia's defenestration followed the party's dismal performance in recently concluded legislative as [...] |
2008-07-03 08:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IN |
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MAOIST AMBUSH OF ELITE UNIT STRIKES A BLOW TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Maoist (also known as Naxalite) rebels ambushed an elite Indian police unit in the eastern state Orissa, striking a major blow to the India's counter-insurgency effort. Thirty-two members of the Andhra Pradesh-based "Greyhounds" unit, which was conducting joint operations with [...] |
2008-07-08 11:06:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC IN |
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BJP DECLARES OPEN SEASON FOR POACHING KARNATAKA'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Closer cooperation between the two opposition parties in the South Indian state of Karnataka has, as expected, led the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to start encouraging opposition party members to defect. Four members of the legislative assembly (MLAs), two from the Congr [...] |
2008-07-10 11:06:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IN |
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MUSLIM RIOTING IN BANGALORE HANDLED WELL BY NEW BJP [...] (SBU) Riots broke out in one of Bangalore's Muslim districts on July 11 following the desecration of two mosques and some hot-headed agitation. Police apparently acted professionally to quell the violence. This may help calm some Muslim concerns about the attitude of Karnataka's newly elected [...] |
2008-07-16 10:40:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIRF KDEM IN |
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SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT VISITS IMPORTANT SOUTH INDIAN HINDU [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 11 - 12, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited one of South India's most important Hindu temples. Sri Lankan officials said the visit was "personal," except for a hastily thrown together press conference. Embassy contacts said that although President Rajapaks [...] |
2008-07-17 10:25:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER IN CE |
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EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN BANGALORE; NO REPORTS OF AMERICAN [...] (U) A series of explosions (media reports indicate from three to nine) rocked Bangalore at approximately 1330 on July 25. Initial reports indicate that at least one person was killed and 15 injured by the blasts, which occurred within 12 minutes of each other. Media also reports that the blast [...] |
2008-07-25 09:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PTER PREL ASEC CACS IN |
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BANGALORE RECOVERING FROM TERROR ATTACKS AS INVESTIGATION [...] (SBU) Summary: A sense of normalcy is returning to Bangalore following the series of eight explosions on July 25 that killed one person and injured eight. A ninth device that failed to explode is providing city police insights on the bombs' construction. No Americans were killed or injured i [...] |
2008-07-29 02:46:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ASEC CACS IN |
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POLICE FOIL ALLEGED PLOT TO BOMB TARGETS IN CHENNAI [...] (SBU) Summary: Following bombings in Bangalore and Ahmedabad (reftels), Tamil Nadu police have arrested several men in connection with alleged plans to bomb targets in Chennai and around the state, according to media reports confirmed to us by both police and government sources. The targets o [...] |
2008-07-30 05:26:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ASEC CACS IN |
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SOUTH INDIA HELPS UPA IN CONFIDENCE VOTE, BUT TROUBLE AHEAD [...] (SBU) Summary: When the dust settled after the gripping July 22 trust vote in India's parliament (ref A), South Indians found the regional political landscape altered. Andhra Pradesh's Telugu Desam Party (TDP), a UPA opponent, fell further into disarray when two of its five Members of Parlia [...] |
2008-08-05 09:49:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG IN |
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TAMIL NADU EXPERIENCES POWER SHORTAGES, INEVITABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Decades of under-investment in power generation have finally caught up with the South India state of Tamil Nadu, which is currently experiencing unprecedented disruptions of electricity supply. This under-investment, combined with strong economic growth and accompanying demand [...] |
2008-08-07 08:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP ECON EINV PGOV EFIN IN RS |
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WHAT WOULD LENIN DO? KERALA CPM SAYS "SEEK OUT FDI" [...] (SBU) Summary: Political Counselor and Consulate staff surveyed Kerala's political and economic scene in conversations with political and business leaders, journalists, and academics during an August 11 -12 visit to the South Indian state's capital, Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram). In a majo [...] |
2008-08-18 10:06:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM ECON ENRG IN |
| 08CHENNAI28 |
SEPARATIST SENTIMENT PUTS ANDHRA PRADESH'S MAJOR PARTIES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Demands for separate statehood for Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region have set the state's politics on edge again. The historically underdeveloped region has long harbored separatist demands, which in 2001 led to a split in the state's major regional political player, the Telugu [...] |
2008-01-25 10:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ECON PREL IN |
| 08CHENNAI289 |
FILM STAR SHAKES UP ANDHRA PRADESH POLITICS [...] (SBU) Summary: After years of speculation about his intentions, Telugu film superstar Chiranjeevi finally formed a political party, which he dubbed the "Praja Rajayam" (People's Party). Chiranjeevi, who aspires to be the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, unveiled the party's name at a mammot [...] |
2008-08-29 09:29:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IN |
| 08CHENNAI298 |
RE-PUBLICATION OF CONTROVERSIAL DANISH CARTOON SPURS MUSLIM [...] (SBU) Summary: Hundreds of Muslims angry over a newspaper's September 2 re-publication of the controversial Danish cartoon caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed demonstrated in several locations in the South Indian state Tamil Nadu. In Vellore, approximately 145 kilometers from Chennai, demonst [...] |
2008-09-05 10:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER KISL IN |
| 08CHENNAI299 |
KERALA'S COMMUNIST CHIEF MINISTER CALLS FOR FOREIGN [...] (U) Principal Officer Andrew Simkin traveled to Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram), the capital of the South Indian state Kerala, on August 29-30 where he held introductory meetings with senior government officials and other key contacts. During his trip he met with Chief Minister V.S. Achuthana [...] |
2008-09-05 10:20:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV IN |
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KARNATAKA GOVERNOR WANTS STATE ELECTIONS BY MAY 28 [...] (U) Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur, speaking to reporters in Bangalore on January 23, said that he wants to see state elections happen before May 28. (Thakur has administered the state since the imposition of "President's Rule" in November, when the state's legislature demonstrated that i [...] |
2008-01-25 10:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ECON PREL IN |
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MILITANT HINDUS ATTACK CHURCHES IN SOUTHERN KARNATAKA [...] Summary: Militant Hindu groups attacked three churches and six prayer houses located in three southern districts of Karnataka on September 14. The attacks took place between 10:15 and 10:30 as Sunday morning services were in progress. According to Christian groups three individuals including [...] |
2008-09-16 04:42:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KIRF IN |
| 08CHENNAI32 |
KERALA COMMUNISTS LEAVE U.S. COMPANY'S DONATED BOATS HIGH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Twenty fishing boats lie unused sixteen months after they were donated by an American company to help rehabilitate a tsunami-affected coastal fishing community in the South Indian state of Kerala. Even though a tsunami-affected fishing community is standing by in need of boats [...] |
2008-01-29 09:13:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID PREL IN |
| 08CHENNAI322 |
ANDHRA PRADESH ANTI-MAOIST STRATEGY SUCCESSFUL, BUT TOUGH [...] (SBU) Summary: The South India state Andhra Pradesh, which was once a hotbed of Maoist activity, has made substantial progress in quelling the leftist insurgency within its borders. The state's success can be attributed to improved governance, both in terms of more effective policing and the [...] |
2008-09-23 04:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON PHUM ASEC IN |
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INCIDENTS AGAINST CHURCHES IN KARNATAKA CONTINUE AS [...] (SBU) Summary: In the wake of another round of apparent attacks on churches in Karnataka on September 21, Consul General Andrew Simkin visited Bangalore September 23-24. The CG used the opportunity to emphasize the importance of protecting religious freedom to a wide variety of interlocutors, [...] |
2008-09-25 09:57:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC PINR KIRF SOCI IN |
| 08CHENNAI33 |
HHS SECRETARY SWINGS THROUGH SOUTH INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), visited three of South India's largest cities from January 7-9, 2008. The visit provided the Secretary an opportunity to promote the importance of assuring SIPDIS product safety in an increa [...] |
2008-01-29 10:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON TBIO SENV AMED KSCA PHUM KCRM SOCI IN |
| 08CHENNAI330 |
CONGRESS CONSIDERING BANNING HINDU FUNDAMENTALIST BAJRANG [...] (SBU) Summary: A prominent Catholic voice in the Congress party came away from a recent meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Indian National Security Advisor MK Narayanan feeling that India will probably ban the militant Hindu group Bajrang Dal as a result of the violence in Oriss [...] |
2008-09-29 09:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC PINR KIRF SOCI IN |
| 08CHENNAI342 |
SHADOWY NGO'S TERRORIST TIES WORRY KERALA OBSERVERS [...] (C) Summary: The National Development Front (NDF), a shadowy, self-described human rights organization is causing alarm in north Kerala. A wide range of interlocutors alleged that the group has connections to the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and a history of violent activ [...] |
2008-10-07 08:12:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KISL PGOV PTER |
| 08CHENNAI344 |
TAMIL NADU'S MAJOR PARTIES PRESSURE GOI TO INTERVENE IN [...] (SBU) Summary: An "all-party meeting" held on October 14 under the chairmanship of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi resolved that the Members of Parliament (MPs) from Tamil Nadu would resign if the Government of India does not ensure a ceasefire in Sri Lanka within two weeks. The "all-pa [...] |
2008-10-15 10:04:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PTER IN CE |
| 08CHENNAI350 |
CHRISTIANS STILL NERVOUS IN SOUTH INDIA [...] (SBU) Several of South India's Christian leaders expressed their continuing fear of anti-Christian violence to Joannella Morales, an officer in the Department's Office of International Religious Freedom, during her visit to Chennai and Bangalore on October 7 and 10. While violence on the scal [...] |
2008-10-17 04:29:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KIRF IN |
| 08CHENNAI356 |
INDIA SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES LUNAR ORBITER [...] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched the Chandrayaan-1 (C-1) lunar orbiter on October 22 at 0622 hours local from its facility on Sriharikota Island in southern Andhra Pradesh, some 90 kilometers north of Chennai. All stages of the launch vehicle appeared to func [...] |
2008-10-22 06:57:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA PREL EIND SENV KSCA IN |
| 08CHENNAI359 |
FALLOUT FROM GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS HITTING SOUTH INDIA, [...] (SBU) Summary: Our contacts in South India remain largely optimistic about the longer-term trajectory of the region's economy, but they are bracing for a rough ride in the short-term. Banks are tightening credit, importers are facing rising costs as the rupee drops, and exporters are not benef [...] |
2008-10-24 00:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD IN |
| 08CHENNAI36 |
HARDLINE KERALA COMMUNISTS LOSING OUT, BUT PARTY STILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As Kerala's Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) prepare to hold its State Conference February 11 - 14, insiders say that the party's conservatives, led by Chief Minister Achuthanandan, will face a major defeat in the elections to the party's state committee. State Sec [...] |
2008-02-04 04:55:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PARM KNNP IN |
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DMK PRESSURE TACTICS EMBARRASS CONGRESS; SUSPENSE CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: After setting a two-week deadline for the Government of India to force a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK party is going full steam on a campaign in support of Sri Lankan Tamils. The DMK's 20 Members of Parliament have handed over resignations to Chief Minister Kar [...] |
2008-10-24 10:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PTER IN |
| 08CHENNAI364 |
DMK CALLS OFF THREAT TO PULL SUPPORT FROM UPA OVER SRI [...] (SBU) Summary: Chief Minister Karunanidhi backed down from his threat to have Tamil Nadu's Members of Parliament resign if India did not force a ceasefire in Sri Lanka before October 28. The resignation drama has helped distract attention from the DMK party's woes in advance of next years P [...] |
2008-11-03 05:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER IN CE |
| 08CHENNAI378 |
INVESTMENT IN SOUTH INDIA CONTINUES, AS DO JITTERS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Assistant US Trade Representative Michael Delaney met on November 10 with business leaders from key sectors of South India's economy, urging progress on the WTO Doha Round and assessing how the region's business are weathering the current economic slowdown. While all of Delaney's interloc [...] |
2008-11-14 07:45:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD EINV PGOV IN RU |
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ANDHRA PRADESH POLICE KILL KEY MAOIST LEADERS [...] (SBU) Consulate sources say police in Andhra Pradesh struck a significant blow against Maoist (also known as Naxalite) efforts to reinvigorate the declining insurgency in the South Indian state. On October 28 Andhra Pradesh police killed two members of the Maoists' Andhra Pradesh Special Comm [...] |
2008-11-14 07:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM IN |
| 08CHENNAI385 |
POLICE KILL SUSPECTED MAOISTS IN KARNATAKA [...] (SBU) Summary: State police ambushed a group of four suspected Maoist insurgents (also known as Naxalites) before dawn on November 19, killing three, according to press reports. The fourth, reported to be a woman, escaped the ambush, which took place in southwestern Karnataka. Press reports [...] |
2008-11-20 08:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC PINS PHUM IN |
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SRI LANKAN REFUGEES STILL ARRIVING, POST RECOMMENDS PRM [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 12 and 13. 2. (SBU) Summary: The recent escalation of Sri Lanka's war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has not resulted in the expected flood of new refugees to India. Nonetheless, refugees continue to arrive at a steady, but mod [...] |
2008-11-24 08:13:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PTER PHUM SOCI IN CE |
| 08CHENNAI389 |
POLLING OFFICIALS ANNOUNCE DATES FOR KARNATAKA'S [...] (U) Karnataka state election officials announced on November 23 that by-elections for seven seats in the state's legislative assembly will take place on December 27. Six of these seats were held by assembly members who have left their original party (either Congress or the Janata Dal Secular P [...] |
2008-11-25 03:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IN |
| 08CHENNAI39 |
LITTLE SUPPORT FOR TAMIL TIGERS IN INDIA DESPITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent events in Sri Lanka, including the Sri Lankan government's decision to formally withdraw from the ceasefire agreement and target the Tamil Tiger leadership, have been widely covered in Tamil Nadu media. Despite the coverage, India's Tamils remain lukewarm to the occasion [...] |
2008-02-04 10:52:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER IN CE |
| 08CHENNAI394 |
ANDHRA PRADESH CONGRESS USES IRRIGATION PROJECT TO WOO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Chief Minister of South India's Andhra Pradesh state recently laid the ceremonial foundation stone for what would be India's largest lift irrigation project. With 437 miles of canals and tunnels, the $7.7 billion project seeks to irrigate 1.64 million acres of drought-pron [...] |
2008-12-05 07:57:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAGR PGOV IN |
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SOUTH INDIA PLANS TO BOOST SECURITY FORCES IN WAKE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The attacks in Mumbai have concentrated minds in South India. Karnataka state officials in Bangalore are apparently close to finalizing plans to create two new security forces. One will be a 700-member S.W.A.T.-style commando squad; the other will be a 4500-member unit designe [...] |
2008-12-05 08:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ASEC ETTC IN |
| 08CHENNAI398 |
STATE FAILS TO NOTIFY CONSULATE OF SPECIFIC TERRORIST THREAT [...] (C) Summary: Two contacts casually mentioned to us that the government of Tamil Nadu had recently increased security due to a ""specific threat"" against the Consulate. The Consulate received no advance notification of the threat; we only came to know due to the two informal after-the-fact refer [...] |
2008-12-08 07:22:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KISL PGOV PTER IN |
| 08CHENNAI399 |
India and the Maoist Threat [...] (SBU) Summary: Lieutenant General K.M. Seth, a retired counter-insurgency expert and the former Governor of Chhattisgarh, gave a November 21 lecture entitled "Naxalism: Threat to Internal Security" to the Chennai-based Centre for Security Analysis. Seth, who served as Chhattisgarh's Governo [...] |
2008-12-08 08:03:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM IN |
| 08CHENNAI405 |
COMMUNIST ALLIANCE WITH KEY REGIONAL PARTY LEAVES BJP OUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) have agreed to an alliance with Tamil Nadu's principal opposition party, the AIADMK, for next year's elections to the Indian parliament. The communists' decision to join with the AIADMK hurt [...] |
2008-12-11 06:03:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IN |
| 08CHENNAI408 |
ABANDONED BOATS STOKE FEARS OF LTTE OPERATIVES FLEEING INTO [...] (SBU) Summary: Six abandoned Sri Lankan boats, some marked with bullet holes and blood stains, recently washed up on Tamil Nadu shores. Tamil Nadu police claim the boats drifted to India after a recent cyclone, but this explanation has not convinced Indian Navy officials. Security analysts s [...] |
2008-12-18 02:04:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM IN CE |
| 08CHENNAI413 |
BJP SET TO TIGHTEN ITS GRIP ON KARNATAK IN DECEMBER 27 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Bharthiya Janata Party (BJP) looks poised to tightenits grip on the reins of Karnataka's government onDecember 27, when the state holds seven by-electons (ref A). The BJP currently has 110 of the 224 seats in the legislative assembly, and was able to form a government (beco [...] |
2008-12-23 07:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
| 08CHENNAI416 |
BJP THE BIG WINNER IN KARNATAKA'S BY-ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won five of the eight Karnataka legislative assembly seats contested in by-elections on December 27. The victory gives the BJP an absolute majority of 115 seats in Karnataka's 224-seat legislative assembly, the first time the BJP has accomplishe [...] |
2008-12-30 08:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
| 08CHENNAI51 |
FIRST EVER USG VISIT TO INDIAN CAMPS FOR SRI LANKAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 30, Consulate staff visited two camps for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, marking the first official visit to the camps by representatives of the U.S. government. The visit reflects the growing openness of Indian government authorities, particularl [...] |
2008-02-14 03:18:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL IN |
| 08CHENNAI55 |
POLICE CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE TERRORISTS [...] (C) Summary: Police officials in the South India state of Karnataka arrested two individuals on January 9 who have since made statements suggesting that they are involved in plotting terror attacks in India. At least one of the suspects claimed to have received training at a Lashkar-e-Tayyib [...] |
2008-02-14 08:50:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN PK BG NP SA IN PINR |
| 08CHENNAI69 |
FORMER IT MINISTER MARAN SAYS INDIA'S RULING COALITION IN TROUBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: DMK Member of Parliament Dayanidhi Maran spoke candidly about India's current political scene. He said the upcoming budget will provide clues as to whether the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) expects early elections. Maran was pessimistic about the UPA's electoral pr [...] |
2008-02-23 07:38:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | IN PGOV PREL |
| 08CHENNAI73 |
INDIA'S THIRD FRONT LOOKS TO AN ALLIANCE WITH LEFT PARTIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A senior leader of the United National Progressive Alliance (the "UNPA" or "Third Front") told post that they are moving towards an alliance with India's Left parties. Former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu explained that the UNPA and Left parties are motivat [...] |
2008-02-26 11:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON IN |
| 08CHENNAI77 |
COMMUNISTS WANT A "THIRD ALTERNATIVE" TO BJP AND CONGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) politburo member from Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan, told post that his party would work to form "a third alternative" to the coalitions led by the Indian National Congress (INC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) before India's next par [...] |
2008-02-29 04:49:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENRG IN |
| 08CHENNAI81 |
FILM STAR SET TO SHAKE UP ANDHRA PRADESH POLITICS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Andhra Pradesh's media is rife with rumors that Telugu film superstar Chiranjeevi is set to form his own political party. With an enormous and dedicated fan base the action hero will immediately be a force to be reckoned with. In a recent meeting with Consulate officers, Chir [...] |
2008-03-05 07:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
| 08CHENNAI86 |
DMK INSIDER SAYS CIV-NUKE WILL GO FORWARD; EXPECTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tamil Nadu Minister for Electricity and Rural Industry Arcot Veerasamy told post that he expects the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) to move forward on the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Veerasamy's comments merit attention because he is DMK leader M. [...] |
2008-03-07 09:52:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG IN |
| 08CHENNAI97 |
U.S. NUCLEAR TEAM VISITS SOUTH INDIA ATOMIC RESEARCH [...] (SBU) Summary: A six-member delegation from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) visited on March 3-4 the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR) near Chennai as part of a 10-day visit to India that also included a stop in Mumbai to discuss nuclear safety issues with counterpa [...] |
2008-03-14 06:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PARM KNNP PGOV TRGY IN |
| 08CHENNAI99 |
NEW AIRPORTS IN HYDERABAD AND BANGALORE WILL BRING [...] (SBU) Summary: The new airports slated to open in the next several weeks in both Hyderabad and Bangalore promise to bring world-class modernity and comfort to air travelers in South India. The opening of the new airports will also close the cities' current airports for commercial aviation, one [...] |
2008-03-14 10:46:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV IN |
| 09CHENNAI100 |
BHARAT BALLOT 09: "FORCED CONVERSIONS" FUEL POLITICAL [...] (U) Summary: Political conversations in Karnataka are peppered with references to "forced" or "forcible" conversion. Although the term has been defined in various states' legal statutes and interpreted by the Indian Supreme Court, different religious communities in the state -- particularly H [...] |
2009-04-02 06:29:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI IN |
| 09CHENNAI104 |
BHARAT BALLOT 09: KERALA CATHOLIC LEADERS URGE FLOCK TO [...] (SBU) Summary: During Sunday services Catholic priests across Kerala read a pastoral letter to their congregants that essentially told them to vote against the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) and its allies in the Left Democratic Front (LDF). The pastoral letter was just the latest [...] |
2009-04-06 05:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN |
| 09CHENNAI107 |
BHARAT BALLOT 09: ALLIANCE ARITHMETIC IS A KEY FACTOR IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: No single party is likely to win a majority of the seats in India's parliament in the upcoming elections. As a result, whichever party ultimately forms the next government will need to do so by building a coalition government. This cable outlines the broad features of allianc [...] |
2009-04-08 06:53:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN |
| 09CHENNAI109 |
BHARAT BALLOT 09: ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN KERALA [...] (SBU) Summary: The 21.6 million voters in the state of Kerala will go to polls on April 16 in the first of five phases of India's national elections. During a road tour of Kerala, we found the Congress party in an upbeat mood expecting to win a majority of the 20 seats that are up for grabs, [...] |
2009-04-15 03:54:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIRF PHUM IN |
| 09CHENNAI11 |
KEY UPA ALLY WINS TAINTED TAMIL NADU BY-ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: In a by-election projected by some as a preview of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK party, a key constituent of India's ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), won by a huge margin. The opposition AIADMK party saw the by-election as an opportunity to e [...] |
2009-01-13 07:14:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IN |
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BHARAT BALLOT 09: ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN KERALA [...] (SBU) Summary: The 21.6 million voters in the state of Kerala will go to polls on April 16 in the first of five phases of India's national elections. During a road tour of Kerala, we found the Congress party in an upbeat mood expecting to win a majority of the 20 seats that are up for grabs, [...] |
2009-04-16 00:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIRF PHUM IN |
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BHARAT BALLOT 09: BJP SITTING PRETTY IN KARNATAKA [...] Summary: On April 23 voters in seventeen districts of the southern state of Karnataka will cast their votes in the state's first phase of voting in India's national elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did exceptionally well in 2004, winning eighteen seats. Congress came in second with [...] |
2009-04-23 21:46:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF OTRA IN |
| 09CHENNAI126 |
HONEST POLITICIAN FACES UPHILL FIGHT IN BANGALORE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent trip to the south Indian state Karnataka, we followed a Congress party candidate as he campaigned through the streets of Bangalore. The candidate's campaign events were modest in size and the reception he received varied based on the location's political leanin [...] |
2009-04-30 07:16:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF IN PREL KDEM |
| 09CHENNAI13 |
Kerala Field Investigations Yield Low Fraud, but Good [...] Summary. While Post frequently reports on H-1B fraud trends in Hyderabad and Bangalore, the state of Kerala, on India's southwest coast, deserves attention as the primary source of immigrant visa applicants in South India. On a recent field investigation trip throughout the state, an FPU team [...] |
2009-01-16 05:12:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC CVIS KFRD CMGT IN KOCI |
| 09CHENNAI133 |
BHARAT BALLOT 09: POLITICAL SUCCESS REQUIRES GRASSROOTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Often lost in the coverage of India's elections are the details of how the process works on the local level. Local political figures in Kerala explained that direct contact with voters is critical. Political parties rely on "booth committees," pulled from extensive networks of [...] |
2009-05-08 03:21:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM IN |
| 09CHENNAI144 |
BHARAT BALLOT O9: CASH FOR VOTES IN SOUTH INDIA [...] (C) Summary: Bribes from political parties to voters, in the form of cash, goods, or services, are a regular feature of elections in South India. Poor voters expect bribes from political candidates, and candidates find various ways to satisfy voter expectations. From paying to dig a community w [...] |
2009-05-13 05:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IN |
| 09CHENNAI145 |
BHARAT BALLOT 09: UPA FACES SETBACK IN TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) Summary: Tamil Nadu has played a crucial role in the formation of India's recent coalition governments. In 2004, a DMK-led alliance swept the polls, contributing all of the state's parliamentary seats to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). But the tables have turned, with the DMK [...] |
2009-05-13 07:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN |
| 09CHENNAI149 |
BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: APPLICATION 05-050095903 PRE-LICENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: A representative of Sudarrshan Technical Services told us by telephone that his company's only relationship with the Israel-based Scope Metals Group (ref B) was a one-time proposed sale in 2008 to purchase stud nuts for aircraft for the Indian Air Force (described in ref A). Sc [...] |
2009-05-19 04:41:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC IN IS |
| 09CHENNAI150 |
SOUTH INDIAN VIEWS ON U.S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND THE FIRST [...] SUMMARY: As suggested reftel, PAS Chennai invited a diverse range of contacts to a "working reception" to solicit their ideas for increasing mutual understanding between India and the U.S. We also asked participants their opinions regarding the new Administration's first 100 days in office. [...] |
2009-05-20 07:13:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL SCUL KPAO CVIS CASC IN |
| 09CHENNAI151 |
TAMIL NADU QUIET AFTER PRABHAKARAN'S DEATH [...] (SBU) Summary. Mixed but moderate responses in Tamil Nadu followed the news of the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), from relief to indifference to occasional outright denial. Despite the efforts of political parties to turn concern over [...] |
2009-05-22 05:22:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM PREL IN ASEC CE |
| 09CHENNAI157 |
Over Half of Tibetan Visitors from India Overstay Visas [...] (SBU) Summary. Mission India recently conducted a validation study of the 496 B1/B2 tourist visas granted in CY-2007 and CY-2008 to stateless individuals carrying Indian-issued identity papers. All butQ of those applicants was Tibetan. Over half of these travelers appear to be potential overs [...] |
2009-05-26 23:17:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS ASEC PHUM PREL PREF IN |
| 09CHENNAI158 |
Mission India FY08 Visa Referral Validation Study [...] (SBU) Summary. Mission India recently conducted a validation study of all 1,408 approved non-immigrant visa applicants who utilized the visa referral program in FY2008 in New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata. The study showed that 99.4 percent of the visa recipients have entered and depart [...] |
2009-05-27 02:12:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS CMGT ASEC IN |
| 09CHENNAI161 |
ANDHRA POLICE KILL KEY MAOIST LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Police in Andhra Pradesh (AP) killed two top members of a violent Maoist group ("Naxalite") in an encounter on May 24. They also recovered several firearms. The police link one of those killed to several high-profile terrorist attacks, including assassination attempts against [...] |
2009-05-28 06:37:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC PHUM IN |
| 09CHENNAI163 |
BHARAT BALLOT '09: MAY 28 SOUTHERN SNAPSHOTS: ELECTION [...] (U) This report is part of a periodic series covering items of interest in South India not featured in our other reporting. This edition of "Southern Snapshots" covers: -- Tamil Nadu: Parties unable to leverage the plight of Sri Lanka's Tamils for political gain -- Andhra Pradesh: Sops tr [...] |
2009-05-29 02:21:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN |
| 09CHENNAI168 |
ANDHRA PRADESH CONVICTS HUMAN TRAFFICKERS, SCORES OTHER [...] Summary: The state of Andhra Pradesh (one of India's largest, with a population exceeding 80 million) continues to be one of India's most active states in combating trafficking in persons (TIP), as highlighted by a recent series of arrests, convictions, and lengthy prison sentences handed out [...] |
2009-06-03 02:55:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP PHUM PGOV KWMN SOCI KCRM IN |
| 09CHENNAI173 |
Chennai P-3 Performers: Well Scrutinized and Well Behaved [...] SUMMARY. Consulate General Chennai adjudicated 577 P-3 cultural performance non-immigrant visas in FY08. Despite this relatively low number, to rule out concerns about possible alien smuggling and misuse of P-3 visas, ConGen Chennai instituted a vetting system to screen for potential fraud ind [...] |
2009-06-05 00:46:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CMGT ASEC IN |
| 09CHENNAI174 |
Applying in Chennai: No English? No problem. [...] Summary. Consulate Chennai conducted a validation study for the first three months of calendar year 2008 of its non-English speaking B1/B2 applicants and found the visa holders had a 97.6 percent compliance rate. Post adjudicated approximately 84,000 visas during this time, including 11,253 n [...] |
2009-06-05 02:51:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CMGT ASEC IN |
| 09CHENNAI185 |
BHARAT BALLOT 09: TAMIL NADU ANALYSIS: CONGRESS-DMK [...] (SBU) Summary: The alliance between the Congress Party and the regional DMK party surprised nearly all observers by winning a thumping victory in Tamil Nadu in the recent parliamentary elections. Most commentators expected an opposition led by an alliance of regional and communist parties to [...] |
2009-06-15 00:16:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN |
| 09CHENNAI213 |
DEADLY HINDU-MUSLIM RIOTS HIT MYSORE [...] (SBU) Summary: Clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the town of Mysore (in the state of Karnataka, 150 km west of Bangalore) left three dead on July 2. The immediate cause of the riots was the discovery of two pig heads in a building housing a mosque and madrassa (a type of Islamic school). [...] |
2009-07-07 03:04:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF PINR IN |
| 09CHENNAI22 |
SUSPECT ARRESTED IN BANGALORE AND GUJARAT BOMBINGS [...] No summary [...] |
2009-01-22 07:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ASEC IN |
| 09CHENNAI223 |
THE SONS ALSO RISE: KARUNANIDHI KEEPS POWER IN THE FAMILY [...] (SBU) Summary: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi consolidated his family's hold over the DMK party in the wake of its surprisingly strong performance in the national elections. Karunanidhi signaled that his son Stalin is his heir apparent by naming him Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nad [...] |
2009-07-09 04:03:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KBIO IN |
| 09CHENNAI226 |
GREENPEACE DISRUPTS BIOTECH RICE TRIALS IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (SBU) Summary: Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace on June 22 raided a field in Andhra Pradesh's Medak district (45 km north of Hyderabad) to protest against crop trials involving biotech rice conducted by Bayer CropScience (headquartered in Germany). The activists scaled the fenc [...] |
2009-07-13 04:21:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON SENV PGOV EINV IN GM |
| 09CHENNAI248 |
CHILD LABOR PERSISTS IN SOME PARTS OF FORMAL FIREWORKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Three children died in an explosion at a licensed fireworks factory near Madurai in southern Tamil Nadu. The factory was in violation of a number of regulations at the time of the accident, including India's prohibition against employing children in the manufacture of explosiv [...] |
2009-07-30 23:38:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON ELAB IN |
| 09CHENNAI25 |
HINDU EXTREMISTS ATTACK WOMEN IN MANGALORE PUB [...] (U) Summary: Approximately 40 male Hindu extremists on January 24 forced their way into a pub in Mangalore, Karnataka (300 km west of Bangalore) and attacked several women customers for "drinking in public and acting in an obscene manner." Local police took action only two days later, arrestin [...] |
2009-01-30 08:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF IN |
| 09CHENNAI269 |
PROSECUTIONS ON THE RISE, BUT CORRUPTION STILL PLAGUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Tamil Nadu has seen a series of arrests of bureaucrats for official corruption in the recent months. The cases have included several high-profile arrests of senior officers of the Indian Administrative Service, as well as lower level officials. Consulate contacts report that t [...] |
2009-08-21 09:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ETRD IN |
| 09CHENNAI27 |
KERALA COMMUNISTS ROCKED BY CORRUPTION CASE AGAINST KEY [...] (SBU) Summary: An investigation implicating Pinarayi Vijayan, the Kerala state secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), in a corruption case has rocked the leftist party. Although the state and national party have closed ranks behind Vijayan, his arch-rival Kerala's CPM Chief [...] |
2009-02-02 08:29:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EIND EINV IN |
| 09CHENNAI278 |
BY-ELECTIONS SEND MIXED POLITICAL SIGNALS IN SOUTH INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka held by-elections on August 18 to fill five legislative assembly seats in each state. Tamil Nadu's ruling alliance of the DMK and Congress parties stomped the opposition, winning all five seats handily. In Karnataka, the BJP increased its [...] |
2009-08-27 05:32:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
| 09CHENNAI284 |
INDIA'S FIRST LUNAR ORBITER MISSION SUFFERS PREMATURE [...] (U) The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) experienced abrupt loss of radio contact with its Chandrayaan-1 (C-1) lunar orbiter at 0130 local on August 29. ISRO Director Madhavan Nair told the press later that day that ISRO had terminated the mission. The spacecraft had completed 312 day [...] |
2009-09-02 09:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA PREL EIND SENV IN |
| 09CHENNAI289 |
ENGAGING WITH THE KARNATAKA GOVERNMENT ON RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) The Consul General (CG) met with Karnataka's Chief Minister and Governor separately on August 31. Chief Minister Yediyurappa spent most of the meeting reiterating his state's plea for a U.S. Consulate in Bangalore. He also sought the CG's support for an "investor's summit" that will be [...] |
2009-09-09 07:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF PINR IN |
| 09CHENNAI294 |
RAHUL TOURS TAMIL NADU, WATERING THE GRASSROOTS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rahul Gandhi, the Congress Party's leader of the future, toured Tamil Nadu cities and towns September 8-10, calling on youth, entrepreneurs, farmers, weavers, fishermen, and Dalits to support his party in the state. He urged these potential supporters to bring Congress to power [...] |
2009-09-14 11:45:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI IN |
| 09CHENNAI306 |
India Biannual Fraud Update [...] India-wide consular operations are among the busiest in the world. In FY-2008, Mission India processed more than 756,000 non-immigrant visa applications and 27,000 immigrant visa applications. While the majority of applicants from India are bona fide travelers and migrants, the volume of frau [...] |
2009-10-13 01:10:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC IN |
| 09CHENNAI317 |
SRI LANKAN REFUGEES IN INDIA UNLIKELY TO RETURN ANYTIME [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and cessation of hostilities in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu are unlikely to return to their homeland anytime soon. Release of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from confinement in IDP camps is a [...] |
2009-10-30 05:03:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PTER PHUM SOCI IN CE |
| 09CHENNAI319 |
COCHIN PORT SEEKS TO EAT COLOMBO'S LUNCH [...] (U) Summary: The Port of Cochin, located on India's southwest coast, is expanding in an ambitious attempt to alter shipping patterns in the region. Seventy-five percent of the containers that reach India's ports are trans-shipped via other (non-Indian) ports, and the Port of Cochin is hoping t [...] |
2009-11-06 05:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD EWWT PGOV PREL IN CE |
| 09CHENNAI327 |
SOUTH INDIA'S FIRST BJP GOVERNMENT MUDDLES THROUGH A [...] (SBU) Summary: South India's first state government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) teetered on the verge of collapse for nearly two weeks as Karnataka's Chief Minister fought off attempts by the Tourism Minister to unseat him. National-level BJP authorities brokered a truce on Novemb [...] |
2009-11-12 07:57:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF IN |
| 09CHENNAI341 |
LABOR PROBLEMS NEAR CHENNAI HAMPER U.S. FIRM'S OPERATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Labor problems severely hampered a U.S. firm's operations in late November. A local politician gathered an unruly mob to prevent the firm's contractors from entering its premises, ostensibly because some of the contractors were not local. Police eventually helped broker an agr [...] |
2009-12-01 06:12:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI ELAB EINV PGOV IN |
| 09CHENNAI343 |
DESPITE NATIONAL APPROVAL, BIOTECH EGGPLANT GENERATES [...] (SBU) Summary: India's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) approved on October 14, 2009 the use of a biotech eggplant ("brinjal" to most Indians) variety as safe for environmental release. The GEAC has forwarded its recommendation to the Central government for a final determination. [...] |
2009-12-09 04:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON SENV PGOV EINV IN |
| 09CHENNAI349 |
INDIAN COPS BUST NETWORK TRAFFICKING PRESCRIPTION DRUGS TO [...] Summary: India's Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has made three arrests in South India as a part of a wider effort to prevent illegal export of controlled pharmaceuticals, primarily to the United States, by so-called "net pharmacies." The NCB's investigation has revealed a network comprised o [...] |
2009-12-15 02:52:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR ETRD PTER IN |
| 09CHENNAI363 |
TAINTED TEA AND DILUTED DIESEL: CONSUMER PROTECTION OFFERS [...] (U) Summary: The concept of consumer protection in India is often little more than "buyer beware," but there are private and public efforts afoot to create a more helpful climate for consumers. The Government of India (GOI) is considering a new Consumer Protection Act, crafted similarly to U.S [...] |
2009-12-31 08:20:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV SENV ETRD PGOV IN |
| 09CHENNAI38 |
SRI LANKAN WAR HEATS UP TAMIL NADU POLITICS [...] (SBU) Summary: A dramatic self-immolation by a young man in Chennai protesting Tamil civilian casualties in Sri Lanka gave opportunistic fringe parties a political opening. Their efforts to whip up more widespread protests through the call for a statewide general strike, however, fell flat d [...] |
2009-02-06 08:12:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM PREL IN CE |
| 09CHENNAI53 |
MAOISTS SUFFER FURTHER BLOW IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (SBU) Konapuri Ilaiah ,former Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh State Committee (APSC) of India's indigenous Maoist insurgency (also known as Naxalites), surrendered to police on February 15, allegedly because of his ill health. Deputy Inspector General of the Special Intelligence Branch B. Shiv [...] |
2009-02-24 06:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM IN |
| 09CHENNAI57 |
SRI LANKA PERMEATES VISIT TO CHENNAI [...] (SBU) Summary: Issues related to the war in Sri Lanka dominated SCA/INS Acting Director Diane Kelly's February 3 to 5 visit to Chennai. Local concern for the civilians trapped in the fighting was a constant theme as she visited an NGO that supports refugees from the war and had lunch with Sri [...] |
2009-02-26 02:10:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM ECON IN CE |
| 09CHENNAI59 |
BHARAT BALLOT O9: SRI LANKA BECOMES AN ELECTION ISSUE, WILL [...] (C) Summary: Increasingly harsh coverage of the war in Sri Lanka in the Tamil Nadu press has shifted public opinion in the state. Expressions of support for the LTTE, once limited to the fringe of the state's politics, are becoming more commonplace. Representatives of an umbrella organizatio [...] |
2009-02-27 01:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CE IN |
| 09CHENNAI66 |
BHARAT BALLOT 09: KERALA CPM STILL FLOUNDERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Voters in Kerala are increasingly dissatisfied with the state's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) in the run-up to the national election. The Kerala CPM has been gripped by a personal dispute between its two senior-most members, the Chief Minister and the party chief [...] |
2009-03-06 00:20:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM IN |
| 09CHENNAI7 |
INDIAN COMPUTER GIANT ADMITS COOKING THE BOOKS [...] (U) Summary: The chairman and founder of Satyam Computers Limited, one of India's premier information technology (IT) firms, admitted in a resignation letter on January 7 to committing large-scale fraud. The admission was the most recent in a series of blows that has seen the company's stock [...] |
2009-01-09 05:53:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV KCRM IN |
| 09CHENNAI70 |
BHARAT BALLOT 09: SETTING THE SCENE FOR SOUTH INDIA'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the Election Commission's announcement of national election dates (April 16 - May 13), we have composed brief political scenesetters for the four South Indian states: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. These four states, with a combined population of r [...] |
2009-03-09 08:04:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM IN |
| 09CHENNAI71 |
SOUTH INDIA'S STATES BORROW TO OFFSET ECONOMIC WOES [...] No summary [...] |
2009-03-10 07:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD IN |
| 09CHENNAI76 |
BHARAT BALLOT 09: MARCH 12 SOUTHERN SNAPSHOTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of election highlights from Consulate General Chennai that did not feature in our other reporting on India's upcoming elections: -- Tamil Nadu: Congress/DMK partnership set to reprise 2004's grand alliance? -- Tamil Nadu: a brief fast for Sri Lankan Tamils [...] |
2009-03-12 07:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN |
| 09CHENNAI77 |
India Semi-Annual Fraud Update [...] India-wide consular operations are among the busiest in the world. In FY-2008, Mission India processed more than 756,000 non-immigrant visa applications and 27,000 immigrant visa applications. The majority of applicants from India are bona fide travelers and migrants. Despite a relatively lo [...] |
2009-03-13 07:37:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD |