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Canadian Economy – Signs of Slowdown
Khushwant Toor
FUEL costs are soaring each hour, groceries are getting expensive, jobs
are being slashed, exports are slated to be all time low and the real
estate hot seller’s market is turning in to a bargain hunter’s or
the buyer’s market. More
Business of Education
Canada and Australia offer work permits
BOTH Canada and Australia in order to feed their starving universities
are now lenient in allowing Indian and other foreign students to work in
their spare time.
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America and environment degradation: too little, too late
L.K.Verma
AMERICA, the world’s super power and industrial giant is the biggest
emitter of green house gases. It has world’s 6 per cent population and consumes
46 per cent of world’s resources; gas, petrol and other assets.
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Blasphemy and Persecution
Ishtiaq Ahmed
THE barbaric murder of Jagdeesh Kumar, accused of blasphemy by some of
his workmates at a garment factory in Karachi, brings out in sharp focus once
again the exposed and vulnerable situation of non-Muslims in a Pakistan still
wedded to the legacy of General Zia-ul-Haq. More
Is Indian judiciary above law?
Gobind Thukral
LESS than two per cent of Indians knock at the doors of courts for
justice. Most Indians believe in the old advice courts would just ruin
you whatever be the merit of your case. More
Indians losing in health
Sawraj Singh
SOME people are projecting Indians as one of the biggest beneficiaries
of Globalization. However, Indians are paying a very heavy price for the
so-called progress related to Globalization.
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E D I T O R I A L
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FOOD
prices are rising across the world, we are told by the mighty prime
minister and his equally powerful finance minister. This means they
could do little and at the same time, they are asking the state
governments to help check prices and even evoke Essentials Commodities
Act to provide relief to the people. One does not understand the half
hearted measures being announced in a piecemeal manner daily to curb
prices. Where was the government when the prices were rising? There is
an apparent contradiction. More
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Nepal: Maoists as capitalists
Gobind Thukral
FOR over a decade they were leading a guerilla war against exploitation
of people by a ruthless king and the feudal lords. For the Communist
Party Nepal –Maoist, it was a hard battle for poverty stricken
landlocked Nepal where two out of three people out of 28 million lived
an utter misery, seeking jobs of guards, drivers and domestic help in
India, Malaysia, Singapore and where not. More
Nepal’s constitutional assembly: an experiment in inclusive
representation
 THE former rebels Maoists have bagged 220 of the 601 seats, winning a
right to form a minority government. The Nepali Congress party has come
second with 110 seats, while the Communist Party of Nepal (UML) has won
103 seats. These were the two large parties in Nepal’s mainstream
politics for years. More
Nepali Maoists should help Easternise Marxism
Sawraj Singh
 HISTORY
has come full circle from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the
victory of Maoists in Nepal. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the
Western capitalist countries prematurely concluded that Marxism was
defeated and that capitalism emerged victorious. After the victory of
Maoism in Nepal, it seems that Marxism has bounced back and that Western
capitalism is facing the most severe crisis. More
Maoists: no deviation from democracy
 NEPAL’S
Maoist ideologue Dr Baburam Bhattarai is a key leader of Nepal’s
emerging new party, the Maoists. During the Constituent Assembly (CA)
polls, he defeated his Nepali Congress opponent with a huge margin from
Gorkha-2. He says the Maoist will not deviate from its political
commitments and they want to restructure the country and move it fast to
onto the track of economic riches. More
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Art as Commerce
Balvinder
THE Sotheby’s is an internationally known New York based auctioneer. The
long list of objects that it had scheduled for auction on April 9, in London,
included ancient Indian armour. The auctioneer, obviously to boost its
commercial interest, promoted this armour as a probable Sikh relic belonging to
Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru. More
Gauhar Jan and Mahant Gajja Singh
Harjap Singh Aujla
 DURING
the early years of 20th century, Calcutta was not only the Imperial
Capital of the Indian Sub-continent. It was also the cultural and
business capital of India. The British rulers had kept its streets
impeccably clean. It was a great center of arts, where music flourished
like it does now in Bombay. Calcutta days could boast of a huge army of
big name vocalists and even a bigger number of instrumentalists, all
trained in strict Hindustani (North Indian) classical traditions. More
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Chandigarh: stones and
bricks come to life
Gobind Thukral
 MY
first encounter with Chandigarh, the Fort of Chandi now famously called the City
Beautiful was way back in 1956. Soon after matriculation, three of us traveled
to the city to seek admission to a newly opened government college. Since it was
a mere 50 kms from our place, it suited us admirably. Yet a ramshackle bus stand
in sector 17 with tin sheds and few dhabas and tea sheds greeted us. We walked
to the college, housed where now sector 23 Government School is located, filled
some forms and disappeared to see the marvel what our first visionary Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had said, “World architects come to see what is going
on Chandigarh. More
Population Policy Options
Vinod Anand
A population policy is considered to be a deliberate attempt by a
government to affect the size, structure or geographic distribution of any
population. Since all the demographic variables are influenced through
fertility, mortality and migration, these three factors are of particular
importance in the context of any population policy. Whereas,
mortality-influencing policies are directed to bring about a reduction in
mortality rates, migration-influencing policies seek to change the flow of
internal migration as well as international migration. The fertility-related
policies aim at influencing fertility rates and may include both pro-natal and
anti-natal programmes, keeping in view the socio-economic needs of a nation. More
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Gurbani broadcasting as commerce
Joginder Singh Toor
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of great importance are created with vision maintained and preserved for
perpetuity. The gurdwaras in Sikh religion have an institutional importance of
divine nature. Harmandir Sahib, the Golden Temple is a place of high temporal
and spiritual authority in the minds of the Sikhs. It is a seat of Sikh morals
and religious thoughts. From all over the world believers of Sikhism visit
Harmandir Sahib, listen to the Gurbani Kirtan and pay homage.
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COMMENT
Jailed rights activist wins award
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well known Indian doctor and a human rights activist now in jail in
Chhattisgarh has been awarded the prestigious Jonathan Mann Award for
Global Health and Human Rights. The Global Health Council said Dr
Binayak Sen was chosen for his services to poor and tribal communities.
He was also chosen for what the council called his unwavering commitment
to civil liberties and human rights. Dr Sen is in prison accused of
links to Maoist rebels and is held without trial for nearly a year. There had
been strong protests by the civil society. Dr Binayak has denied all charges. More
Vitamins 'do us no good and may be harmful'
HERE is a shocking news for those who make millions of
dollars worldwide by manufacturing and selling vitamins. They do
us little good. In fact, vitamins could be harmful. Sensible doctors at
major hospitals across the world no longer prescribe these health
supplements and emphasize on good dietary habits. A doctor once told an
attendant of a patient at the Chandigarh’s PGI Nehru hospital, “ vitamins only help you produce costly
urine.” Still consumption of vitamins and other such health supplements continues
to grow enormously.
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MEDIA
Reuters, from pigeons to multimedia
ON April 17 this year a new multi media giant took shape. Thomson
Reuters Corp is a giant in the sense of its global reach and it inherits
great historical experience of Reuters, a top world news gathering
operator and disseminator of information since 1851. Only time would
tell how this giant, particularly its non business reporting takes
shape. Reuters has until now jealously guarded with zeal, its reporting
of news worldwide and provided sharp focussed and varied analysis. More
Journalists demand release of Editor
 PAKISTAN Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), has sought the release of
chief editor of The Frontier Post, Rehmat Shah Afridi, who has served
10-years imprisonment in a controversial drug case registered against
him in the 90s. this is the longest term served by any journalist in
Pakistan. "Afridi has served more than a life
term in a controversial case and his health has deteriorated over the years and
deserve better treatment," PFUJ said in a statement. Afridi had denied the
charges and stated that he was a victim because of his newspaper's
independent policies and corruption stories of influential people. More
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