Global Warming: Longer Summers in the Making Khushwant Toor Global warming awareness
campaigns around the world have been educating and scaring the public
for a while now. More
Canadian spy agency slowed Air India probe
RCMP were eager to approach the woman as soon as it learned about her
evidence, but still had to wait for the spy agency's approval before
doing so.
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Non Resident Indians Top in Remittance Indians working abroad
last year sent $25.7 billion or roughly Rs 1, 28,500 crore home. They
beat China and Mexico to make India as the top remittance receiving
country in the world.
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ANALYSIS
Dangerous Portends Gobind Thukral
TO say that Pakistan is passing through critical times is to state
only the noticeable. Worst the hope generated by lawyers agitation where
the public enthusiastically participated. More
When Terror Strikes Ishtiaq Ahmed
THE utter savagery and mayhem let loose on October 18 by terrorists,
possibly suicide bombers, on the convey carrying Ms Benazir Bhutto from
Karachi Airport. More
An American dogma Ishtiaq Ahmed
IT has happened twice again within a few days in between -- carnage of
innocent people by gun-totting individuals in the United States. More
West Cannot Win a Third World War Swaraj Singh
Recently, President Bush threatened to start a Third World War if Iran
goes nuclear. Even though he tried to wiggle out of this statement , yet
the fact remains that such a statement only reflects ignorance and
arrogance. More
Pakistan: People’s Party reaps publicity capital out of a tragedy
FOR Benazir Bhutto, the killing of 140 innocent persons and injuring
another 500 when she landed after reaching an understanding with the
army chief cum president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. More
E D I T O R I A L
Defiant
Poor Seek their Rights
India’s voluble ruling political class is in a celebratory mood.
It is not because of the Dewali, the festival of lights and victory of
truth over evil. It is the shooting Sensex, nearly touching 20,000 mark.
India’s rich and the rising middle class too are happy as they have
quickly more money to roll over. India can boast of Ambanis and Mittals,
Tatas and Birlas who are part of the richest people of the world. India
is the new destination for foreign financial conglomerates to invest in
the ever rising stock market. Several
hundred crores are being pumped that push the stocks in the capital
market of India each working week. Indeed India is flushed with scary
hot money. More
FOCUS
Punjab Prisoner of Destiny Gobind Thukral
THE spate of publicity on the achievements of the Akali BJP government
in Punjab would make any one laugh if not sad. Mere signing of a feasibility
study for metros in Ludhiana and Amritsar is project in full page advertisements
as major an achievement. Prakash Singh Badal, the fourth time chief minister and
his Akali Dal could not win power on its own. In fact, it just matched
the Congress. Akalis secured just 49 seats. BJP, the coalition partner
with 19 seats snatched the victory from the Congress that had won 44
seats and helped form the government. Now it wants its pound of flesh
and is no longer prepared to tolerate the overbearing attitude of the
chief minister or his colleagues.
More
China Rejects Western Model Swaraj Singh During
the 17th conference of the Chinese Communist Party, it became clear that China
is going to follow its own model of development and socialist reconstruction.
China is going to forge ahead to probably become the largest economy of the
world by the year 2020. Hu Jin Tao, the President of China, who is also the
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, in his key note
speech, said that the per capita GDP in China will quadruple by 2020. He
said that this phenomenal growth will be achieved by increasing
efficiency and reducing utilization of the resources and preserving the
environment. In the last four years, the GDP has risen more than 10% per
year. More
Power Play of a
New Dalit Avatar Jyotika J
Thukral WITH
her ambition soaring and the new slogans catching the imagination of the
people, Ms Mayawati is aiming at a prime role at the national political
landscape. The crown of victory that she wears after her Bahujan Samaj
Party won a clear mandate in Uttar Pradesh during the elections in May
this year, has given wings to her ambition. More
Rising Infant Mortality in Punjab After feticide in India’s
prosperous Punjab, saving lives of infants is causing deep worries.
Despite comparable less poverty, Punjab’s infant mortality rate
continues to rise. For 1,000 live births, infant mortality in Punjab is
44 compared to Kerala’s only 14. West Bengal, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu
with very high percentage of poverty-stricken population are better in
the care of their infants compared to Punjab. In overall deaths,
including infants, children, adults, middle-aged persons and the old,
share of infant deaths is high in Punjab. It is 12 per cent compared to
Kerala’s 3 per cent. More
LITERATURE
Making of a Serial Killer Dr. Amrik Singh
Dennis Rader, (BTK-Bind Torture Kill) who was sentenced to ten consecutive life terms 175 years
for killing ten people in Wichita, Kansas from 1974 to 1991, is still baffling
Americans with his macabre stories narrated in a nonchalant manner. In the last
dispatch to Wichita Police BTK wrote a question, ”How many do I have to kill
before I get my name in the paper or some national attention?” In the package,
there was also a photocopy of the title of a novel about a serial killer, Rules
of Prey. Dennis Rader, in fact, had answered the question by giving vital clues
for his arrest in Feb, 2005.
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Caste, Gender and the Sikhs By Balvinder THE Supreme Court of India recently confirmed life imprisonments for
three Sikh men, accused of ‘honour kills’. While delivering the judgment one of
the judges, Justice H.S. Bedi expressed his anguish and disbelief by stating
that how could such a thing happen in a family of Sikhs, who are fundamentally
opposed to caste, based classifications. More
Bhagat Singh’s atheism is easier to preach hard to apply Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver THE Indian State is celebrating 100th birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh
this year, it has yet to commit itself to the application of atheism, one of
the challenging and radical ideas of the country’s revered martyr. Though it
sounds rebellious, yet its sole application can bring an end to the ongoing
religious and caste conflicts in India and other parts of the world. Had the
Indian State applied this principle, the country would have escaped worst
carnages in 1947 and later. More
WTO and Punjab Agriculture Dr S.S. Chhina
THE fears and doubts arose among the minds of Traders, politicians,
academicians, economists and trade organisations about its impact on
agriculture and concern of the developing countries those were growing
under the state protection. As 70 percent population of India is
dependent on agriculture and agricultural sector is the largest
contributor in the Gross Domestic Product of the nations. More
LAW
& JUSTICE
Confounding Compulsory Registration of Marriages Joginder Singh Toor THE
direction issued by the Supreme Court of India on February 6, 2006, for
compulsory registration of marriages pursuant to the United Nations Convention
on Elimination of All Form of Discrimination against Women, adopted in 1979, to
which India is a signatory went unheeded. Many questions as to the will and
competence of States and even the Union of India to address themselves to social
problems even after agreeing to it in a world forum. More
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Punjab’s Killer Highways L.K. Verma LIFE is turning to be a game of chance. The killer roads are snuffing it
in dozens each month in the north west of India. Our poor quality roads are
insufficient to carry the heavy traffic, our ill trained often drunk or drugged
moody drivers are only adding to the woes. Road rage, too common demonstrates
our criminal culture and snuffs out precious lives for no reason. In the
last few decades there has been an immense rise in the vehicular traffic
on the roads so the chances of getting accidents have also increased.
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China: Increasing Disparities Expose Socialist
Claims Disparities are
increasing every passing day thanks to the market socialism that the
Communist Party of China has embarked upon. Poverty is growing and the
gap between the rich and the poor widening as China registers better and
better growth rate. A 26-year-old woman worth $16.2 billion is the
Chinese mainland's richest person, topping a list of tycoons whose
wealth has soared amid a boom in stock and property prices, the business
magazine Forbes revealed on October 9, 2007.
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WITH
her ambition soaring and the new slogans catching the imagination of the
people, Ms Mayawati is aiming at a prime role at the national political
landscape. The crown of victory that she wears after her Bahujan Samaj
Party won a clear mandate in Uttar Pradesh during the elections in May
this year, has given wings to her ambition. 
THE Supreme Court of India recently confirmed life imprisonments for
three Sikh men, accused of ‘honour kills’. While delivering the judgment one of
the judges, Justice H.S. Bedi expressed his anguish and disbelief by stating
that how could such a thing happen in a family of Sikhs, who are fundamentally
opposed to caste, based classifications. 
THE Indian State is celebrating 100th birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh
this year, it has yet to commit itself to the application of atheism, one of
the challenging and radical ideas of the country’s revered martyr. Though it
sounds rebellious, yet its sole application can bring an end to the ongoing
religious and caste conflicts in India and other parts of the world. Had the
Indian State applied this principle, the country would have escaped worst
carnages in 1947 and later. 
THE
direction issued by the Supreme Court of India on February 6, 2006, for
compulsory registration of marriages pursuant to the United Nations Convention
on Elimination of All Form of Discrimination against Women, adopted in 1979, to
which India is a signatory went unheeded. Many questions as to the will and
competence of States and even the Union of India to address themselves to social
problems even after agreeing to it in a world forum. 
LIFE is turning to be a game of chance. The killer roads are snuffing it
in dozens each month in the north west of India. Our poor quality roads are
insufficient to carry the heavy traffic, our ill trained often drunk or drugged
moody drivers are only adding to the woes. Road rage, too common demonstrates
our criminal culture and snuffs out precious lives for no reason. In the
last few decades there has been an immense rise in the vehicular traffic
on the roads so the chances of getting accidents have also increased.
