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Another recycling fee to burden the Ontario consumers
Khushwant Singh writes from Toronto
ONTARIO government is slapping yet another form of fee for recycling electronics in the Province. More

The fourth dimension of the Indian Republic
Dr. Amrik Singh writes from Sacramento
A typical government consists of three branches-the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary, but India has the fourth branch as well. More

World Bank: Biofuels have pushed global food prices up
THESE are the  Biofuels that have forced global food prices up by 75% and not the developing countries like India and China as US President Bush would have the world believe. More
 

ANALYSIS

Wasted grain could feed million
Gobind Thukral
INDIA’S national politics these days present a theatre of the absurd. Each political party swears by patriotism, welfare of the common people and feelings of great national pride. More

Kabul embassy attack: India must reconsider foreign policy
Sawraj Singh
THE Indian embassy in Afghanistan was just attacked in Kabul by a suicide bomber. Many people lost their lives. More

Karzai says Pakistan behind Indian embassy bomb
BOTH India and Afghanistan have squarely blamed Pakistan for the July 7 attack on Indian embassy in Kabul. More

Capitalist economy: food shortages, rising oil prices and credit crunch - II
Pritam Singh
AS global capital moves East, developing economies need to understand the importance of not aping the entrenched lifestyles of the West. More
 

INDIA’S national capital New Delhi these days is host to a boogie dance. Here each big or small political player inspired either by ideology or attracted by money or power is in a state of trance. Ever since the Communists opposed to the Indo US nuclear deal withdrew support to the Congress led United Progressive Alliance government, a new tandav started where friends are turning into foes and foes into friends–most attracted by the powerful smell of power or wealth. New ideologies in step with this dance are being discovered daily. The Prime Minister and the Congress president have struck a deal with a muscular adversary, the Samajwadi Party, a regional group from country’s largest province of Uttar Pradesh with 39 MPs in its pocket. More
 

Uprooting democracy
Gobind Thukral
DURING the past couple of months Punjab has been in an election mode. We had one assembly by poll from Amritsar, followed by panchayat samiti and zila parishad elections and then on June 30 elections were held for 95 municipal councils / nagar councils, including eight nagar panchayats. For the first time, electronic voting machines were used in these polls. This means after the assembly elections in February 2007, we have now brand new democratic institutions at the grass root level. Money [crores of rupees] and effort [thousands of poll officials] have been worth sparing. This should portend well for a democratic Punjab and democratic India. More

Getting connected in rural Punjab
Professor Sukhpal Singh
THE excessive commercialization of agriculture in Punjab is now well known but how much rent seeking with what implications is going on is not so well known. The recent scheme of the PSEB called ‘own your tube well’ (OYT) is one such small but crucial example of how ruinous this rent seeking has become. Under the scheme, any farmer could own his/her tube-well with electric connection, provided he/she has paid a refundable security deposit of Rs. 25,000 and paid for its installation cost which includes not just digging up of the bore well, putting in the submersible pump set and the electric motor, but also, buying and installing his/her own transformers and electric lines with poles and wires to the point of connection. More

Deceptions surface in Indo-US nuclear deal
THE Indian government has taken a major step towards completing its controversial nuclear cooperation deal with the United States by moving the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency for approving an inspections (safeguards) agreement it signed last year with the IAEA secretariat pertaining to civilian nuclear reactors. Praful Bidwai, a former newspaper editor and now of the IPS says, “The news has been greeted by the domestic political opposition with howls of protest and accusations of deception and a violation of the commitment the Manmohan Singh government made just a few days ago to seek a vote of confidence from Parliament before approaching the IAEA Board of Governors.” More
 

Mismatch between material growth and cultural advancement
D.R. Chaudhry
CULTURE till recently was identified with cultural effects- fine arts, music, literature, etc. However, culture is too problematic a term to be confined to a specific area or to admit any simplistic definition. Raymond Williams rightly defines culture in terms of whole way of life of a society. Culture is not a finished, static thing. It is a process as Williams reminds us, that has continually to be renewed, recreated, defended and modified. Culture plays a highly significant role in shaping society and its socio-political life. Since Haryana laggard in the economic field as a part of the composite Punjab, economic development received all the importance after it acquired its separate statehood in 1966. And in this field Haryana made rapid strides. It underwent Green Revolution and developed first rate physical infrastructure – roads, telecommunications, educational institutions, health services etc. More
 

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