Drop in visitors from Bangladesh to India after CAA stir

[Black_cats]

Drop in visitors from Bangladesh after CAA stir


Suhasini Haidar
NEW DELHI , DECEMBER 28, 2019 22:19 IST
UPDATED: DECEMBER 28, 2019 22:19 IST

Protests, remarks on migrants spark unease in travellers

The number of travellers from Bangladesh to India has dipped as protests erupted across the country against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

• In October, India announced easing of restrictions on visitors from Bangladesh with valid papers through land ports. However, reports suggest travel disruption and cancellations.
  
  Following the protests against the CAA, the Dhaka Tribune has reported a nearly 50% reduction in the flow of visitors from Bangladesh through the Hili Immigration Check Post in South Dinajpur, West Bengal.
  
  
  The check post surveyed by the newspaper used to facilitate at least 800 visitors from Bangladesh daily earlier. According to the report, sources at the Hili check post said the number of daily visitors from Bangladesh had now come down to 300. Visitors cited growing difficulties like train cancellations due to protests in different parts of India as among the reasons forcing them to travel plans.
  
  
  According to the officials in Hili, 3,383 visitors from Bangladesh came to India during the first fortnight of December when 808 Indians went to Bangladesh. In the second fortnight, however, the number of Bangladeshi citizens fell to 1,832 while the number of Indians plummeted to 47.
  
  A source in the Bangladesh High Commission here said the land immigration check posts were used mainly by visitors seeking Indian services close to the border.
  
  Akhaura unaffected
  “People in Bangladesh are following developments and are temporarily postponing non-essential visits in view of reports of protests in Assam and Bengal against the citizenship law,” said the diplomatic source who however, maintained that movement through the Akhaura and Benapol transit points remained unaffected.
  
  Bangladesh officials said the dip in visitors could be for a number of reasons, including a slide in public perception of bilateral ties. One official pointed to Home Minister Amit Shah’s repeated reference to immigrants as “termites” as “hurtful to Bangladeshis”.
  
  “While our relations are historic and remain strong at the official level, average Bangladeshis might look at all that is happening in India and not feel as welcome there as before,” added the official, who asked not to be identified.
  
  The decline in the number of travellers and growing apprehension goes against the spirit of the Joint Statement released during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to New Delhi in October, when India agreed to remove remaining restrictions for overland travellers to foster better people-to-people and business ties. India removed similar restrictions against Bangladesh air travellers in 2017.
  
  Officially, all eyes are on the scheduled visit to Delhi by Bangladesh Deputy Foreign Minister Shahriar Alam next month to address the MEA’s Raisina Dialogue.
  
  Earlier this month, Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen had cancelled his visit and a technical meeting of the Joint Rivers Commission was put off, believed to be due to unhappiness over the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act and comments made about the status of minorities in Bangladesh.
  

https://www.thehindu.com/news/natio...bangladesh-after-caa-stir/article30421528.ece

 

[Bilal9]

Suhasini Haidar (the writer of the article) is a professional Indian print and television journalist, and a previous news anchor with a career spanning 20+ years (most recently with CNN/IBN).

She is the youngest daughter of her parents - father is Subramaniam Swamy, BJP leader (famously a frequent anti-Muslim media baiter) and mother is Roxana Swamy (who is a non-Hindu Parsee and a Harvard-trained academic). It is common knowledge that Suhasini does not share in her father's communal views.

Suhasini married a Muslim (Nadeem Haidar who is the son of Salman Haidar, a highly placed career diplomat).

 

[k s ahmed]

There the start of havinf a messed up economy.
Modi still has time to reconsider. If bangladeshis are not visiting , who else would.

 

[Bilal9]

There the start of havinf a messed up economy.
Modi still has time to reconsider. If bangladeshis are not visiting , who else would.

India makes tons of money in Medical and Hospital stays, Hotel Stays, restaurant visits, jewelry and designer clothes shopping by Bangladeshis....

All that will be gone - and their business people will feel it in the gut....

 

[bluesky]

According to the officials in Hili, 3,383 visitors from Bangladesh came to India during the first fortnight of December when 808 Indians went to Bangladesh. In the second fortnight, however, the number of Bangladeshi citizens fell to 1,832 while the number of Indians plummeted to 47.

Even with all this CAA enmity from the India side, the number of yearly visitors from BD to that miser Sanghi country remains at more than 100,000. BD govt should discontinue all visits there because there is no life security in India nowadays. Also, those fat-bellied Indian Police may arbitrarily arrest anyone from BD and send him to Indian rotten Hell they call Jail.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

If bangladeshis are not visiting , who else would.

Russians.

- PRTP GWD

 

[k s ahmed]

Russians.

- PRTP GWD

in goa.. but they will also think twice if and hopefully will not come

 

[Valar.]

Even with all this CAA enmity from the India side, the number of yearly visitors from BD to that miser Sanghi country remains at more than 100,000.

The real figure is over 2 million Bangladeshi tourists in India which makes it 22% of all tourists spending around 6 billion dollars.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/world/...e-bangladeshi-among-every-5-tourists-in-india

 

[Bilal9]

Russians.

- PRTP GWD

Well hope is a great thing but if Indians both from South and North keep raping tourists, then you WILL see a drop. You cannot have (what we call in Bangladesh) 'Jor Jaar Mulk Taar' situation, with complete absence of law and order as far as exemplary punishment to rapists who frequently are goondas or opportunists. That IS the definition of a Banana Republic.

Indian goondas can rape or generally break the law in the absence of police, but they must be hung or 'drawn and quartered' so they get the message. Currently, with a few exceptions, this is not the case of law enforcement in India - which is far worse than in Bangladesh, even for developed areas in India. Let's not even go into BIMARU states situation, where the law enforcers and societal leaders themselves are rapists.

How long can this go on in the 21st century?? Your govt. keeps on buying Billions of dollars in arms, but cannot solve simple problems like tourist rapes, or open defecation for that matter.

Look at this,

Russian tourist allegedly gang-raped in India
Agence France-Presse

New Delhi / Thu, July 19, 2018 / 04:05 pm

Supporters of President of the Indian National Congress Party Rahul Gandhi hold placards in reaction to the recent rape cases in India during a rally dubbed “Jan Aakrosh Rally” (public outrage), in New Delhi on April 29, 2018. The rally was Gandhi's first in the national capital since taking over as the party chief last year. The rally was called to launch a protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's “failures and corruption”. (AFP/Sajjad Hussain)

Indian police were holding six men on Thursday after a Russian tourist was allegedly drugged and gang-raped in a popular southern tourist town, officials said.

Media reports said the 21-year-old had bite marks on her face and arms when she was found naked and unconscious on the floor of her hostel room early on Monday.

"Six men have been detained over the rape and drugging of the woman," investigating officer Mangayar Karasi told AFP.

The woman, who was travelling on her own, had arrived in the town of Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu state, 190 kilometres (120 miles) from Chennai, last Thursday.

Those in custody included the hostel manger and her tourist guide, who told police he found her on the floor hours after they had consensual sex, another investigator said.

She said the woman was being treated in hospital for a drug overdose and minor injuries, with efforts being made to record her statement.

The medical report has confirmed sexual assault, the officer said.

Local and foreign tourists flock to Tiruvannamalai for its 9th-century Annamalaiyar Temple, one of the largest Hindu temple complexes spread over 10 hectares (25 acres).

Sexual violence is rife in India with nearly 110 rapes reported every day but activists say that figure is the tip of the iceberg as most cases go unreported.

Several foreign tourists have been sexually assaulted in India in recent months.

Last month a Japanese tourist was raped by a taxi driver in a north Indian town, followed by the rape of a 20-year-old Canadian tourist by her guest house owner in Delhi.

India's junior interior minister Wednesday told the national parliament that 110,333 rape cases were reported in the country between 2014 and 2016.

The country's dire record on sexual violence has been in the global spotlight since the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus sparked angry protests.

The incident led to tougher sentences and reforms in the country's rape laws but sexual crime against women, as well as against minors, remains rampant.

 

[bluesky]

The real figure is over 2 million Bangladeshi tourists in India which makes it 22% of all tourists spending around 6 billion dollars.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/world/...e-bangladeshi-among-every-5-tourists-in-india

Please read the opening post. The number of tourists has come down to about a yearly figure of 100,000 in recent times. It says, "According to the report, sources at the Hili check post said the number of daily visitors from Bangladesh had now come down to 300". This is about 100,000 visitors per year.

When the situation improves the number will certainly rise. Most of the visitors go there to get medical treatment because the doctors in Bd are not serious people, the patients are reluctant to get treatment for major diseases from them.

 

[Valar.]

Please read the opening post. The number of tourists has come down to about a yearly figure of 100,000 in recent times. It says, "According to the report, sources at the Hili check post said the number of daily visitors from Bangladesh had now come down to 300". This is about 100,000 visitors per year.

Yes, that's 100K tourists per year from one checkpoint.

Most of the visitors go there to get medical treatment because the doctors in Bd are not serious people, the patients are reluctant to get treatment for major diseases from them.

Most? NO.

Only around 10% of Bangladeshi tourists go for medical treatment out of 2.2 million visitors.

https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/50-medical-tourists-india-bangladesh

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Well hope is a great thing but if Indians both from South and North keep raping tourists, then you WILL see a drop. You cannot have (what we call in Bangladesh) 'Jor Jaar Mulk Taar' situation, with complete absence of law and order as far as exemplary punishment to rapists who frequently are goondas or opportunists. That IS the definition of a Banana Republic.

Indian goondas can rape or generally break the law in the absence of police, but they must be hung or 'drawn and quartered' so they get the message. Currently, with a few exceptions, this is not the case of law enforcement in India - which is far worse than in Bangladesh, even for developed areas in India. Let's not even go into BIMARU states situation, where the law enforcers and societal leaders themselves are rapists.

How long can this go on in the 21st century?? Your govt. keeps on buying Billions of dollars in arms, but cannot solve simple problems like tourist rapes, or open defecation for that matter.

Look at this,

Russian tourist allegedly gang-raped in India
Agence France-Presse

New Delhi / Thu, July 19, 2018 / 04:05 pm

Supporters of President of the Indian National Congress Party Rahul Gandhi hold placards in reaction to the recent rape cases in India during a rally dubbed “Jan Aakrosh Rally” (public outrage), in New Delhi on April 29, 2018. The rally was Gandhi's first in the national capital since taking over as the party chief last year. The rally was called to launch a protest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's “failures and corruption”. (AFP/Sajjad Hussain)

Indian police were holding six men on Thursday after a Russian tourist was allegedly drugged and gang-raped in a popular southern tourist town, officials said.

Media reports said the 21-year-old had bite marks on her face and arms when she was found naked and unconscious on the floor of her hostel room early on Monday.

"Six men have been detained over the rape and drugging of the woman," investigating officer Mangayar Karasi told AFP.

The woman, who was travelling on her own, had arrived in the town of Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu state, 190 kilometres (120 miles) from Chennai, last Thursday.

Those in custody included the hostel manger and her tourist guide, who told police he found her on the floor hours after they had consensual sex, another investigator said.

She said the woman was being treated in hospital for a drug overdose and minor injuries, with efforts being made to record her statement.

The medical report has confirmed sexual assault, the officer said.

Local and foreign tourists flock to Tiruvannamalai for its 9th-century Annamalaiyar Temple, one of the largest Hindu temple complexes spread over 10 hectares (25 acres).

Sexual violence is rife in India with nearly 110 rapes reported every day but activists say that figure is the tip of the iceberg as most cases go unreported.

Several foreign tourists have been sexually assaulted in India in recent months.

Last month a Japanese tourist was raped by a taxi driver in a north Indian town, followed by the rape of a 20-year-old Canadian tourist by her guest house owner in Delhi.

India's junior interior minister Wednesday told the national parliament that 110,333 rape cases were reported in the country between 2014 and 2016.

The country's dire record on sexual violence has been in the global spotlight since the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus sparked angry protests.

The incident led to tougher sentences and reforms in the country's rape laws but sexual crime against women, as well as against minors, remains rampant.

Thanks for bursting the bubble. I forgot that rapes are common in TN too. Heard of one case in early 2000s. It was not in the media. It was a first hand account by an eyewitness.

- PRTP GWD

 

[k s ahmed]

Thanks for bursting the bubble. I forgot that rapes are common in TN too. Heard of one case in early 2000s. It was not in the media. It was a first hand account by an eyewitness.

- PRTP GWD

chalo koi nahi.. its just the start of the downfall. a few more things will burst..
or they will not seem to be burst.. but from inside, things will be hollow