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Serious Patriot Gilbert Goh jio ABNN one to one. Say he see war and earthquake also no scared, of course no scared of ABNN!

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To the person who disfigured our national flag, this is my message to you - you live in our country, work in our bank and earn a good salary which you will never get back home because of the CECA treaty - please show us some respect.

It is not right to step on someone else to make your point known - how will you feel if I did the same thing to your national flag?

Singaporeans are by nature peace loving and we try to avoid any conflict with anyone else.

If you decide to repeat your act again in future, I will personally burn your national flag in front of your embassy here to show you that we are as patriotic as you in defending our sovereignty even if the police will be called in to arrest me.

If you know me well enough, I am one who have walk the talk and will do what I say. I have being to the war and earthquake zone and have got nothing to lose but you are a young man with a bright future ahead of you.

We just need you to show more respect to our country.

#proudtobeasingaporean

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The bank should fire this guy and the government should deport him immediately.

That the bank and the government are doing nothing show their disrespect to the country and sinkees. Which bank does this Ah Neh work in? Boycott that bank.
 

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The bank should fire this guy and the government should deport him immediately.

That the bank and the government are doing nothing show their disrespect to the country and sinkees. Which bank does this Ah Neh work in? Boycott that bank.
People already said DBS bank liaoz.
 

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I honestly have no idea why any Indian would be proud of their motherland because the whole country is an absolute disgrace.

India is riddled with corruption, it's infrastructure is 3rd world, its culture and sub cultures are abhorrent and to crown it all there are dead bodies floating down its so called sacred waterways.

I'd be utterly ashamed to have anything to do with the country.
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India burning brides and ancient practice is on the rise
By Jason Koutsoukis
21 January 2015 — 11:46am

Bangalore: It was after sunset on a Sunday last November when Sushila found her daughter Laxmi lying naked on the front step of the house she shared with her husband and two children on the outskirts of Bangalore.

Laxmi had burns to more than 80 per cent of her body and in the darkness Sushila could hear more than she could see.



A demonstration in Patna on January 28 against dowry deaths. Courtesy Frontline magazine, India.

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"I heard her crying, she was in agony, but I didn't know how bad it was," says Sushila. "There was no one to help her, no one wanted to come to her. I was the only person she could call for help and I live 12 kilometres away."

Laxmi was eventually taken to the Victoria Hospital in central Bangalore, which has a 50-bed burns ward, one of the most advanced in the country.

She survived three days, enough time to describe to police how she came to be doused in kerosene by her mother-in-law and set alight by her husband.

Bride-burning, as this type of crime is most commonly referred to, accounts for the death of at least one woman every hour in India, more than 8000 women a year.
"We also call it dowry death," says Donna Fernandes, the founder of Vimochana, a women's rights organisation established in Bangalore in 1975 with the aim of preventing violent against women.

"The husband's family believes they have not received enough money for their son at the time of the wedding, perhaps because they are of a higher caste or some such reason, and that's when the harassment starts."

Often, says Fernandes, the husband's family begin pressuring the wife's family right after the wedding.

"They start asking for cash, or gold, or consumer goods like washing machines or televisions. Whatever it is they believe is owed to them or was promised to them, luxury goods that they can get the bride's family to pay for."

In many cases the husband's family decide after the marriage has taken place that the original dowry was not sufficient.

"They know the bride's family is vulnerable, because of subjugated role of women in our society, and what begins is a process of extortion. Demands for money turn into threats of violence, and when the family can't pay any more, the bride is killed."
Bride-burning accounts for the death of at least one woman every hour in India.​
Leafing through a pile of emails on her desk, Fernandes reads one cry for help from a woman who had reached out for help.
"You might think this only affects poor, uneducated communities, but this woman is from an educated family," she says.

"The harassment began on their supposed honeymoon. She claims her husband started beating her immediately, demanding her parents hand over more money. They did [paid more] but they keep demanding more and she says she is now in fear of her life. There is a famous saying, a rule that certain people in India follow: the more you beat her, the more you get."

Yet despite seeking the Vimochana's help in getting protection, Fernandes said the woman had since withdrawn her request.

"She told us this morning that everything she had told us was untrue and that we should please leave her alone and not do anything. Clearly the husband has found out that she contacted us, but she is still in danger. If we intervene, she may be in more danger. I don't know what to do in this case."

Satya K, a social worker at Vimochana since 1998, says that most dowry deaths are not reported.

"Thousands and thousands of cases each year are recorded as accidental deaths, or suicide. We estimate that the real number of deaths each year is up to three or four times the official statistics," Satya says. "Because most people involved, including the wife's family, the husband's family and the police have an interest in covering up the truth."

In Laxmi's case,, however, at least an official police investigation has been registered.

"Laxmi's case was unusual in some respects," Satya says.

Only 28 when she died, Laxmi had been married to her husband, Majunath, 35, for 10 years, during which time they had two children, a daughter aged eight and a son aged five.

Instead of being arranged by their respective parents, as is most often the case, this had been a love marriage, with Laxmi coming from a higher caste than her husband.

"Majunath became a drunkard and he was increasingly unable to find regular work and most of the money Laxmi earned from her work as a housemaid went on liquor."

Under increasing pressure from her husband's family to provide, Laxmi turned to her mother, who agreed to provide limited financial support.


"Laxmi began to face a lot of harassment from her husband's family. His mother, his sisters. They accused her of carrying on an affair with a neighbour, and Majunath began beating her."

Several times, Laxmi left her husband, taking the children back to her mother's house, but each time Majunath persuaded her to come back, promising to end the harassment.

"She had been staying with me for five or six days before she went back for the last time. I begged her not to go," says Laxmi's mother Sushila. "She went, and for one day she was OK."


As Laxmi recounted to her mother in an auto-rickshaw as they drove to the hospital the night she had been set on fire, it was around 8pm on Sunday, November 23, and Laxmi was preparing the evening meal in the kitchen when her mother-in-law suddenly entered the kitchen and soaked her in kerosene.

According to Satya K, the social worker from Vimochana who interviewed Laxmi in the Victoria Hospital burns ward before she died, it was Majunath's mother who compelled her son to set his wife on fire.

"She was screaming abuse at Laxmi, saying that she had ruined her son, and, according to Laxmi, it was the mother-in-law who urged her son to light her."

Her clothes soaked in kerosene, Laxmi burned quickly, and in desperation she lunged for husband and hugged him in an attempt to put the flames out.
"There was so much kerosene that instead of putting the fire out, she set him on fire also."

Early on the morning of November 24th, Majunath was also admitted to Victoria Hospital with third-degree burns to 40 per cent of his body. Majunath told police that the fire was accidental and that he had tried to help his wife.

"This is also common," says Satya. "But from the burns to Laxmi's body, to her head, her back, it's clear to everyone that there this is no accident."

Majunath died the day after Laxmi, and police have issued an arrest warrant for his mother, who has since disappeared.
Satya believes the chances of an arrest are low.


Of the 671 bride burnings she knew of in the area surrounding Bangalore last year, only about 50 cases had been formally registered by police last year. Nationally, convictions are secured in only about 15 per cent of cases that make it to court.

In a 2005 study of bride-burning "Bride-Burning: The Elephant In the Room is Out of Control", Dr Avnita Lakhani, an assistant professor of law at the City University of Hong Kong, wrote that out-dated, mythological misconceptions of women combined with the grossly manipulative practice of dowry meant that bride-burning today was as rampant in India today as it was 2500 years ago.

"And the Indian government and society implicitly sanction dowry murders by not adequately prosecuting it," Makhani wrote.
A decade since her paper was published, Lakhani told Fairfax Media this week that despite attempts by legislators to protect women, the situation had not improved.
"Since I published my article, there has been little to no progress," says Lakhani. "I would even go so far as to say that the situation has got worse because I believe the upward mobility of primarily men in modern areas is creating economic and cultural tensions and any educational progress by men and women is not being filtered to the outlying areas."
Even the courts appear to be losing sympathy with prosecutors over alleged dowry death cases, with India's highest court ruling in July last year that anti-dowry laws were being used to unjustly harass husbands and in-laws.
According Justice C. K. Prasad of the Supreme Court of India, the proof of this was that there had been a phenomenal increase in dowry harassment cases in India over the past few years.

"The fact that [the law] is a cognisable and non-bailable offence has lent it a dubious place of pride amongst the provisions that are used as weapons rather than a shield by disgruntled wives," wrote Justice Prasad.
"The simplest way to harass is to get the husband and his relatives arrested under this provision. In a quite number of cases, bed-ridden grandfathers and grandmothers of the husbands, their sisters living abroad for decades are arrested," he said.
Yet despite this alleged abuse of apparently innocent in-laws, the number of dowry deaths keep piling up.
Official figures from India's National Crime Records Bureau revealed that 8233 young women, many of them new brides, were killed in so-called dowry deaths in 2012. National crime records for 2013 indicated that 8083 had died in this way.
"The United Nations says this is a form of genocide," says women' rights activist Donna Fernandes. "This is a crime on huge scale, and we're losing the fight."
 

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DOWRY- a burning problem in INDIA.

Dowry or Dahej is the payment in cash and kind by the bride's family to the bridegroom' s family along with the giving away of the bride called ''Kanyadaan'' in Indian marriage . Kanyadanam is an important part of Hindu marital rites. Kanya means daughter, and dana means gift.
Actually dowry, was organised in upper caste families as a wedding gift to the bride from her family. Later it was given to help the marriage expences and became a form of 'demand' by the bridegroom's family. Although the dowry was legally prohibited in 1961, it has been continuing even now in that society. The groom often demands a dowry in the form of a large sum of money, farm animals, furniture, and electronics,etc;

This worse system is growing up in each and every part of the nation. As a result of this, the women are being herrased. For example, the most severe in “bride burning”, the burning of women whose dowries were not considered sufficient by their husband or in-laws. Most of these incidents are reported as accidental burns in the kitchen or are disguised as suicide.




Cultural practices such as the payment of dowry leads to the death of many innocent women in Indian society. According to Government figures there were a total of 5,377 dowry deaths in 1993, an increase of 12% from 1992. Now a days the rate is drastically increased all over the nation. So the Government must take proper action on this illigal system.
 

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Indian PRIDE!

Around 450 million people in India defecate in open: Govt
Around 450 million people, which is half the world’s population defecating in the open are in India, a top government official said on Friday.
INDIA Updated: Dec 16, 2016 22:05 IST
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swacch Bharath Mission includes making India open-defecation free. (Mujeeb Faruqui/HT File Photo)

“About 450 million people practice open defection in India, this is half of the world’s population which are defecating in open. We have long way to go and behavioural change is the way forward. With progress of the mission (SBM) so far, I am optimistic that the country will become open defection free,” Centre’s drinking water and sanitation secretary Parameswaran Iyer said.

Read | Swachh Bharat battles rural India’s belief that open defecation is better

Speaking at the launch of Zila Swachh Bharat Preraks, an initiative under Swachh Bharat Mission with the help of Tata Trusts, he said this cadre of skilled young professionals will support district officials in achieving the objective of overall sanitation in their respective districts.

Asserting that sanitation is of utmost importance for this country where 13% children die due to diarrhoea, Iyer said SBM is high on the agenda of the Prime Minister and it is “taking shape of people’s movement”.

Addressing the event, Tata Trust chairman Ratan Tata said he is privileged to be part of this movement and added, “I am excited that these young professionals who are recruited as Zila Swachh Bharat Preraks will get a chance to express themselves and to be part of this programme to making India cleaner.”

Complementing Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Swachh Bharat Mission, he said Tata Trust is committed in working with the government on this “visionary programme”.

Tata Trust will recruit and pay salaries of the 600 young professionals, who will work with the administration of respective district to spread awareness about sanitation and achieving the objectives of SBM.

Thanking Tata for helping in the SBM, Union rural development minister Narendra Singh Tomar said more corporates should come forward and become part of this movement for clean India.

Also read | Lack of toilets: ‘Our women are forced to go out in the open’
 
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