Another CEO attacked in Noida (India)

[OhioChick]

Source: Rediff/India

September 29, 2008 11:35 IST

Close on the heels of the killing of the CEO of the Indian arm of an Italian firm near Noida, unidentified youths made an attempt to kidnap a 37-year-old top executive of an American software company.

Ashish Dwivedi, CEO of Indian wing of US-headquartered Expedien e Solution Limited, said he was driving back home at Sector 60 in Noida last night when a Tavera vehicle overtook and forced him to halt at around 9.30 pm.

"The assailants broke the front glass of the car and dragged me out. They tried to push me into their vehicle. However, I lied on the road and managed to provide resistance," he said adding that the youths ran away after seeing people who came to his rescue on raising an alarm.

Dwivedi was taken to a hospital where he was discharged after first aids, police said.

An FIR has been registered and a hunt launched to trace the attackers, Superintendent of Police (city) A K Tripathi said.

L K Chaudhury, the CEO and Managing Director of Cerlikon-Graziano Transmissions India Pvt Ltd in Udyog Vihar, was killed on September 22 when agitating workers turned violent and beat him up with an iron rod after a meeting called to resolve the dispute between them and the management failed.



Read more: http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/sep/29ceo.htm

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And so it begins....an exec from a U.S. software company, yet.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Think firms will slow down outsourcing because of this?

Or, since the CEOs aren't usually the ones over there, will they just send managers they don't like over there to take the heat?

[Miss Chybil]

2. This CEO is an Indian who works for an American firm.

I'm glad he was alright.

[Sanity Claws]

3. That's what I was thinking

This has to impact outsourcing in some way.

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. Possibly to the contrary,

they may give the CEO position to native Indians.

[JI7]

29. these guys who were attacked ARE Native Indians

[The Backlash Cometh]

31. EEeeeee!

There may be more going on here than just your usual disgruntled employee thingie.

[babylonsister]

4. Anger everywhere; this isn't going to stop anytime soon, is it. nt

[OhioChick]

5. Workers are so angry everywhere......

I'm afraid that this is just the beginning.

[Crowman1979]

7. They have every reason to be angry.

The reason why violence has occured against CEOs in India is the fact that if those workers have no job, they and their families will starve. It's all a matter of life or death. Hopefully it won't reach to that point in the USA.

[deadmessengers]

9. How is that different here?

You lose your job here, you lose everything - you get a pathetic pittance from unemployment, and no health care.

[HillbillyBob]

10. because American citizens belive the laws will protect us.

But the evidence of that is nil, just l'ook how the repuglicans have sold out
their fellow citizens with excuse like well you are poor so what you deserve
to be poor because you are poor god told me so....

[OhioChick]

12. And people here don't go to bed hungry?

Revised Monday, December 20, 2004

Roughly one in nine American households was hungry or at risk of hunger at some point last year, new government data show, while a Center analysis based on other government data on family hardships finds that half of poor families face multiple hardships, from hunger to unsafe housing. A new Center report uses these largely unreported data to examine the continuing breadth and depth of hardship in America.

“Statistically speaking, if you drove across the country, every ninth household you passed was unable — or in danger of being unable — to afford sufficient food at some point in the past year,” said Arloc Sherman, a senior researcher at the Center and author of the report. “Especially during the holiday season, when we’re surrounded by images of material abundance, we need to remember that millions of Americans are having trouble making ends meet.”

Number at Risk of Hunger Climbs for Fourth Straight Year, to 36 Million

http://www.cbpp.org/12-20-04pov-pr.htm

Keep in mind that this was published in 2004, wonder what it is now? I read an article here in LBN within the last year that stated a large percentage of kids in Cleveland go to bed hungry.

[KakistocracyHater]

21. & American children are being born

on the streets. I've known this since 1991, so? It makes me wonder how they feel toward society, most of them probably stay on the edges of society-unless they get a scholarship or know someone that helps them get a place to live, a job, etc. Arnie (in CA) just cut funds for seniors, Calworks, & drug/alcohol recovery programs. It seems whenever there is a budget crunch it's always the same groups that get cut: the disabled, the veterans, the insane, the elderly, poor children, widows & orphans. Since they don't get alot of funds to begin with, it never really helps balance the budget but it does end up permanently reducing our quality of life, in America, in California.

[OhioChick]

22. I hear you....

$80M in cuts coming to Ohio agency for poor

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080924/NEWS24/809240198

[KakistocracyHater]

23. that's terrible

may their Bible judge them accordingly, I lost my religion in 1991 & am now agnostic.

[demnan]

6. Did they know for sure who he was?

Could this have been just a regular car-jacking (if they have car-jacking in India?)

[DeepModem Mom]

8. I sincerely hope that posters here would not condone the murder of someone close to me.

When a similar story went up a few days ago, many did condone the murder of the manager who fired employees.

I just posted this in GD:

"I guess I've just heard a real-life story of a victim of the credit crisis. And it's an as yet unidentified employee in a large company of a sort we all deem necessary, not in the financial realm. It's a troubled company in a troubled kind of business, at this point living on credit. It has no execs with big bonuses, and no golden parachutes. And an emergency order has gone out from management, as a result of what I think are lenders' demands -- to a member of my family to fire a member of his/her small, not highly-paid staff. He/she can choose which one. He/she is devastated.

And afraid this won't be the last such order...."

[ihavenobias]

11. Wow n/t

[Haole Girl]

13. So he was saved because he "lied on the road"

Interesting.

[brentspeak]

15. Foreign CEOs should consider moving to the U.S.

Run a corporation into the ground? Lay off a whole bunch of hard-working employees? Rip off the stockholders?

No problem! Come on over to the U.S! You'll get bailed out by the taxpayers, given golden parachutes by incestuous executive boards, and get to laugh all the way to your secret Bahamian tax shelter.

[underpants]

16. and the villagers will be kept down by the MSM

[OhioChick]

18. Isn't that the truth....

:grr:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

17. when i was last in india, i thought that it looked like it was on the verge of a class war

i wonder if this is the beginning of it

(i thought so because the wealth disparity was so high, people were ostentaciously displaying their wealthy but the majority still lived in poverty)

[OhioChick]

19. Just as it's beginning to in the U.S.

Two classes....rich/poor.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. well india's had those two classes always. however, nowadays there is a lot of new money

and new money is much flashier than old money.

the flashiness i predict, is going to cause trouble

[fujiyama]

30. Some states are in a perpetual class (and caste) war

Bihar is an example of a complete failed state, rife with constant ethnic, class, and caste violence. Politicians bait those issues to create constant strife. Or hell, they might even encourage mob violence against minority groups. They're like republicans but even worse basically (you don't see republicans stirring up pograms - yet.

India has gone through some tremendous and incredible changes over the years, but they are facing massive challenges - regarding the terrible inequality, overpopulation, resources/infrastructure, and the ethnic and religious tensions which is leading to real security threats across the country (unlike the US, India is actually facing terrorist threats and attacks on a near daily basis).

[HillbillyBob]

32. Look in places like NYC and SouthFlorida

The class war is already here in the US, I lived in South Florida
for almost 20 years. I worked in restaurants and design firms.
I had to visit homes equal in worth to every house in a middle class
neighborhood, behind fences right next to veritable shacks.
Just drive up A1A /US 1 on the beach and look at the "homes" there.
I met many wealthy folks and 95% were so self absorbed that the rest
the rest of us do not matter one whit them, if we all died their only
worry would be now who will clean the toilet.

[ChromeFoundry]

24. Two guys have been detained...

Express News Service
Posted: Sep 30, 2008 at 0051 hrs IST

NOIDA, September 29 The Noida Police has arrested two persons, including the son of a Ghaziabad sub-inspector, for allegedly attempting the abduction of Ashish Dwivedi, CEO and director of Expedien Solutions, a US software firm operating from Noida.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/microsoft-releases-beta-2-of-internet-explorer-8/367412/

[Azlady]

25. A sign of things to come? n/t

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[mitchum]

27. That's just...uh...awful

[Jim Sagle]

28. I'm shocked and revolted.

:beer: