U.S. auto giant GM in trouble Khushwant Toor
PRIDE of America the General Motors on Feb. 11, 2008 reported a $38.7
billion loss for 2007. It is largest loss ever experienced by a U.S.
automaker. To mitigate its damages and to secure the future of the
company the officials also announced a new round of buyout plans for its
employees. This buyout plan intends to layoff it’s more high paid
permanent employees and then hire low paid new workers.
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Bush's Exorbitant Deficit and Cruel Debt
THE legacy which American President George W Bush leaves is not even a
mixed bag of blessings and curses, but a straight text drawn from the
hell. An average American would be earning less and suffering for want
of adequate medicare and unemployment. Yet he leaves the rich richer and
those in business or industry in the pink of health.
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ANALYSIS
Haryana
moves up
Haryana is currently
witnessing an increase in its revenue generation and consequent its
capacity to spend more on public welfare programmes. During the past
three years. At one level, the flow of investment into the state in
view of congenial and industry-friendly approach of the Congress
government lead by Bhupinder Singh Hooda has contributed to the
increase in the revenue generation. More
Employment in farm sector: no boon Dr. S.S. Chhina
THE importance of agriculture in India’s economy is well recognized. 70
percent of the population depends on this profession; the planners
initially did concentrate on this sector but of late this sector has
been facing a serious crisis.
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MEDIA
Afghanistan: Campaign to save journalist picks up momentum
IT seems that American and NATO countries that support the present
ramshckle government of president Hamid Karzai in Afghinstan arwe
trying the sae the life of jailed journalism student Sayed Pervez
Kambaksh. More
E D I T O R I A L
Wilted parliamentary democracy
DURING the months of February and March,
it is obligatory for the assemblies of different states in India to meet
and debate budgets. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, the two wings of the
Indian parliament also meet to debate and pass annual budgets. These
budgets along with annual development plans are important as these have
an impact on the lives of millions of people at various levels. These
sessions of the parliament or state assemblies provide a chance for our
MLAs and MPs to debate and decide the issues about governance, poverty
alleviation or agriculture and industrial development. More
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Paradox called Punjab Gobind Thukral IT
is a paradox that deserves a close scrutiny. Agriculture, for long the engine of
the state’s economy has lost steam, growing at less than 2%, while the
industrial sector is stuck at 4.2% having attracted less than 2% of the
country’s industrial investment proposals. In fact, one estimate puts farm
growth at just 1.1 per cent. Experts ascribe the slow growth in per capita in
Punjab to sluggishness in agriculture sector on which 65 per cent of the state’s
population depends for earning their livelihood. More
Pakistan: death dance WITH uncontrolled violence and rigging in the air, it should be clear to
all; the people of Pakistan and U S Administration that a farce called elections
will not serve much purpose. It would lend no legitimacy to the dictatorial
regime of President Pervez Musharraf or his sponsor the Bush Administration. Of
course, more and more innocent lives are being snuffed out in the daily bombings
at public rallies or street fights among the ethnic tribes and rivals.
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Military and power? Ishtiaq Ahmed
THE million dollar question to which everyone wants an honest and
reliable answer is exactly the title of this week's essay: Can we, and
should we, expect the military to give democracy a chance? There is of
course the additional question: Why should we want civilian rule and
democracy? If one were to look at the internal and external indicators
poised against the continuation of military rule -- direct and indirect
-- there is reason to believe that this time things are very different. For the first time more than 100 senior servicemen, which
include retired generals, lieutenant generals, major generals, brigadiers, air
marshals and naval admirals, have jointly signed an appeal urging President
Musharraf to step down and let the people of Pakistan freely choose their
representatives and government. More
LITERATURE
Jat and His Village Jagpal S Tiwana YOU
can take a Jat out of his village, but you cannot take his village out
of him. Dr. Gurnam Singh Brard, now settled in Nevada, USA, left Punjab
about half a century ago. However, the early years of his life spent in
his village in Punjab kept haunting him all these years. Despite a
successful career in America, Dr. Brard’s passion for his village is
still intact. “In old age, riches in America cannot make up the loss of
separation from extended family and break from the ancestral village
land”, he expresses his feelings thus. More
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did nothing for my protection’: Benazir’s last book
“I had become aware that suicide squads might be sent from the
North-West Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas to
try to assassinate me immediately on my return,” the former Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto writes in her book released posthumously on
February 12 in New York, London and Islamabad. The book “Reconciliation:
Islam, Democracy, and the West” was finished just two days before she
was killed on December 27.
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India and the consequent holocaust that left millions dead or homeless. Yet
there are countless stories of compassion; heroism and sacrifice that help us
restore faith in humankind in an otherwise macabre world of gore and hatred.
Here is one such story of faith and love recounted by Raghbir Singh, a
retired respected senior bureaucrat in an inimitable style. It tells of a boy’s
love for his pet, the tan desi spaniel, the Kharkoo [the Rebel] as he calls it
that is full of compassion and brooks no compromise. Read on. More
Theories on Pakistan's origins Ishtiaq
Ahmed THE
official position on the origin of Pakistan is something like this: Muslims are
expected to lead their lives in accordance with comprehensive Islamic
injunctions. For doing that, an Islamic polity is imperative. Hence Indian
Muslims were bound to demand a separate state for themselves whenever an
opportunity arose. More
COMMENT Hail the
rise of the son! Read more http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080218/edit.htm#5 Punjab on sale
THE Alkali BJP government in Punjab has devised a completely senseless
policy to sell prime public properties. All this is in the name of mopping up
revenue to meet the deficit budget and increase commercialisation. These may be
government offices and other institutions located at prime places in
the burgeoning cities and towns. More
LAW
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Controversy over Broadcasting Rights on Gurbani Joginder Singh Toor A
controversy; legal, moral and religious over broadcasting of the Gurbani from
Sri Harmander Sahib confronts the Sikh. A legal battle between the Siromani
Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee and E.T.C Channel on the one hand and Tata Sky
Ltd. on the other concerns all those who have been votaries of its broadcast
from Sri Harmander Sahib directly to listeners the world over.
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THERE is yet another report to show the high level of corruption in
India and complete disregard for anti corruption laws. India is ranked
11th among 55 countries for governance and anti-corruption standards
in the recent report released by the independent watchdog organisation
Global Integrity. India’s ‘moderate’ showing of 75 points is a
combination of robust institutions and lack of accountability in key
areas. While anti-corruption laws are excellent, law enforcement is
weak. More
Sri Lanka: seeing the red Micky Sharma THE echo of bomb blasts and the
loss of innocent lives have clearly subdued the festivity in the
island nation of Sri Lanka that completes its 60th year of
independence. The country has been reeling under severe tension as the
ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE was called
off. A low intensity bomb exploded on the outskirts of the national
capital on February 4 which prompted the authorities to add to the
already unprecedented security arrangements following a wave of
attacks blamed on the Tamil Tiger rebels who are battling the military
in the North. More
Third Country Settlement: Grief or Relief? Micky Sharma REFUGEE crisis that has long
threatened peace and progress in both Nepal and Bhutan, the two
Himalayan kingdoms now daring to turn to democracy, could be nearing
some solution. After a long resettlement process started last November
by the United Nations Refugee Agency [UNHCR], comprising of a mass
information campaign on durable solutions throughout refugee camps,
the names of nearly 10,000 individuals have been submitted to several
countries for re-settlement. More
IT
is a paradox that deserves a close scrutiny. Agriculture, for long the engine of
the state’s economy has lost steam, growing at less than 2%, while the
industrial sector is stuck at 4.2% having attracted less than 2% of the
country’s industrial investment proposals. In fact, one estimate puts farm
growth at just 1.1 per cent. Experts ascribe the slow growth in per capita in
Punjab to sluggishness in agriculture sector on which 65 per cent of the state’s
population depends for earning their livelihood. 
WITH uncontrolled violence and rigging in the air, it should be clear to
all; the people of Pakistan and U S Administration that a farce called elections
will not serve much purpose. It would lend no legitimacy to the dictatorial
regime of President Pervez Musharraf or his sponsor the Bush Administration. Of
course, more and more innocent lives are being snuffed out in the daily bombings
at public rallies or street fights among the ethnic tribes and rivals.
YOU
can take a Jat out of his village, but you cannot take his village out
of him. Dr. Gurnam Singh Brard, now settled in Nevada, USA, left Punjab
about half a century ago. However, the early years of his life spent in
his village in Punjab kept haunting him all these years. Despite a
successful career in America, Dr. Brard’s passion for his village is
still intact. “In old age, riches in America cannot make up the loss of
separation from extended family and break from the ancestral village
land”, he expresses his feelings thus. 
Message
from the grave
THE
official position on the origin of Pakistan is something like this: Muslims are
expected to lead their lives in accordance with comprehensive Islamic
injunctions. For doing that, an Islamic polity is imperative. Hence Indian
Muslims were bound to demand a separate state for themselves whenever an
opportunity arose. 
THE echo of bomb blasts and the
loss of innocent lives have clearly subdued the festivity in the
island nation of Sri Lanka that completes its 60th year of
independence. The country has been reeling under severe tension as the
ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE was called
off. A low intensity bomb exploded on the outskirts of the national
capital on February 4 which prompted the authorities to add to the
already unprecedented security arrangements following a wave of
attacks blamed on the Tamil Tiger rebels who are battling the military
in the North.