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A deadly food crises stares the world
Khushwant Toor writes from Toronto
BASIC food item prices such as for flour, rice, cereals, dairy, meat, sugar and oils have gone up by 50% in most parts of the world. More

Guantanamo Bay detainee: blow to Canadian prime minister
Khushwant Toor
CANADIAN Supreme Court on May 23 has come top the rescue of Omar Khadr stating that the Canadian agents acted illegally when they interrogated Guantanamo Bay detainee and handed that intelligence to U.S. authorities. More

World Bank model in tatters
Gobind Thukral
AFTER touting for decades that the model worked out by the capitalist world lead by America and supported by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund has the answers to poverty and injustice. More

Bush's former aide tells a tale
FORMER White House press secretary Scott McClellan is the latest to join those who accuses his former colleagues in the Bush administration of not being "open and forthright on Iraq," arguing that they engaged in a "political propaganda campaign to sell the war to the American people." More
 

ANALYSIS

Managing a coalition
Ishtiaq Ahmed
THE coalition government of Yousaf Raza Gilani has suffered a major setback after the PML-N decided to withdraw from it. More

Sikhism: symbols and spirit
Jagpal Singh Tiwana writes from Halifax
WE have been getting reports that Punjab is lagging behind in education. Government schools are in bad shape. More

Panjab University struggles for central status
Eklavya Bhardwaj
THE University that has produced luminaries like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former prime minister I. K. Gujral, historian Romila Thapar, Nobel Laureate Har Gobind Khorana, world-class cricketer Kapil Dev, and a host of others, is now in bad shape. More

INDIAN and Pakistani foreign ministers meeting in Islamabad last fortnight was billed to take India Pakistan dialogue to a definite footing. India was deeply disturbed after the Jaipur bomb blasts, attempts at more infiltration in Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan military indulging in some unprovoked firing. Indian Foreign minister wanted to evaluate the new democratic establishment in order to build peace in the sub continent. Foreign secretary was already camping there for two days, negotiating with his Pakistani counterpart. Some definite ground work was expected since 14 months had already  passed, waiting for Pakistan to settle down or rather transit from military dictatorship to a democratic polity. More
 

Rising  prices: preaching makes no sense
Gobind Thukral
FINALLY our big government in Delhi has discovered why there is such uncontrollable inflation. “High inflation was largely due to rising global crude oil and commodity prices”. This was the assessment made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on May 19. Two other decisions emerged from this meeting. There was no possibility of further drastic administrative measures by the government to rein in inflation. More

Inflation negating growth
Vinod Anand
FOR the last few months, India has been facing serious inflationary pressures.  There has been a trend of steadily rising prices in general which, if not checked, would result in diminishing purchasing power of the nominal sum of money and to the number of people the poverty line. As we know, inflation is measured in terms of an index number. It is a single number which gives the average value of a set of related items, expressed as a percentage of their average value at some basic period. More

Politics as commodity
Gobind Thukral
THE Congress Party and its president Mrs. Sonia Gandhi look haggard. The Party has been losing one after the other election. It lost Punjab, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand, and Meghalaya. It has now been outwitted by the BJP in Karnataka. It is worried about the elections in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh where the BJP is ruling, Maharashtra and Andhra where the opposition is making efforts to snatch power from it. More

Nepal: Birth pangs of a new republic
IN a landmark political transition, on the night of MAY 28 200, Nepal dumped monarchy and embraced republican rule as its newly-elected lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to abolish 240-year-old royal regime and declared itself as a "secular, federal democratic republic". It was drum beats allover Nepal and flowers and greetings marked the end of royalty. In South Asia, only Bhutan still has a king who is proving more democratic than even the republicans. The country had elections only two months back and an elected government is in place. More
 

Come spring, come Srinagar beseeches you
Sonia G Handa
“GAR firdaus, ruhe zamin ast, hamin asto, hamin asto, hamin asto” exclaimed Emperor Jahangir when he visited the valley. He must have surely sojourned during spring. After a dreary, cold and gloomy winter, comes the refreshing spring. The snow starts melting and the emerald green grass emerges from the melting snow as if it has woken up refreshed from a long and relaxed sleep. One look at the emerald green meadow is soothing to the eye, refreshing to the mind and it awakens the soul. More

Red Earth
We take pleasure in introducing young talented modern Indian artists,
courtesy: Red Earth. These paintings are a treat for an aesthetic eye and as great work of art, are a source of joy and understanding. More
 

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