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Bottomless, U.S. housing market
Khushwant Toor writes from Toronto
Foreclosure boards are cropping in large parts of the U.S. housing
neighborhoods, as do the election campaign boards. At the moment, a
bottom for the housing market slump is not visible, the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its Global Financial Stability Report,
released last weak in Washington.
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Canada slow to defend its Guantanamo's "Child Soldier"
HE remains the youngest prisoner still languishing in the U.S.-run
detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. While Australia and Britain have
fought to have al Qaeda-linked detainees who were respective citizens of their
countries returned home to face domestic legal processes, the Canadian
government has not done the same for its own citizen, Omar Khadr.
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Help for new Canadians
FOR new Canadians to BC, moving and settling in a new country and
province is not easy. While many newcomers are naturally
entrepreneurial, starting a business can be still daunting. More
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The facade of peak oil
Prashant Kumar
HUBBERT’S Peak of Oil Production – named after the geophysicist late Dr.
M. King Hubbert, it signifies a bell-shaped curve of petroleum production with
the zenith denoting the peak point in production. Hubbert prophesied
that the global oil production would peak about the year 1995. More
Drugs, teenage crime and the society
Randeep Wadehra
THE menace of drug addiction cannot be over emphasized. What had started
as a fad amongst the well healed is now a staple for the poor, and an
indispensable means of killing time amongst teenagers.
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India punishing families that flee violence
ANDHRA Pradesh should protect and assist thousands of families who have
fled the conflict in neighboring Chhattisgarh, Human Rights Watch said
today. State officials should act immediately to end the government’s
discrimination against the displaced people, Human Rights Watch has
demanded from government of India and the states.
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CPM
leader Harkishan Singh Surjeet died
 The
CPM leader Harkishan Singh Surjeet on Friday passed away following
respiratory cardiac arrest at Metro Hospital in Noida.
He was critically ill for a long time. He breathed his last at 01:35 p.m.
He was 92. President
Pratibha Patil, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and other political leaders have mourned
the death
of the senior
communist leader.
E D I T O R I A L
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Democracy of Freebooters |
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THE UPA
government has won a reprieve, by a significant margin; 275-256. It has
generated euphoria in the ranks of the ruling party and its new found
allies, particularly the Samajwadi Party. It has also set in motion the
expulsion of those 24 MPs from the opposition who voted for the
government or abstained themselves to help the UPA.
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Violence all around and the war within
Gobind Thukral
 TWO
major industrial hubs of India; Bangalore in southern state of Karnataka
and Ahmedabad in western state of Gujarat were recently witness to gory
bombings. In this senseless violence perpetrated by fundamentalists
nearly one hundred innocent lives were lost.
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Nuclear treaty leads to realignment
Sawraj Singh
THE
debate on the nuclear treaty between India and the U.S. is leading to
realignment of the forces in India. The biggest switch took place in the UP
where the two largest parties took a 180-degree turn.
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Foul play and no punishment
AS Parliament erupted over allegations of bribery and horse-trading on
July 22 there is a need to look back on the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha [JMM] bribery
case that dramatically brought forward the issue of parliamentary
corruption. More
Mayawati wins the nuclear debate?
Sawraj Singh writes from Washington
EVEN though on the surface the Congress Party has won the nuclear debate
and the government survived the no confidence motion in the Indian
Parliament, yet the real winner seems to be Kumari Mayawati. More
Politics-India: Costly vote of confidence
Praful Bidwai
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh has won a bitterly contested motion of
confidence in his government by 275 to 256 votes in Parliament, securing
his government's survival for several months. More
Three top scientists caution on deal
INDIA’S three top nuclear scientists feel that once the nuclear
deal is in place, India’s commercial nuclear interaction with other
countries will be “firmly controlled” by Washington through the Hyde
Act. More
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Vicissitudes of a culture
Randeep Wadehra
WHEN Asaf-ud-Daulah shifted his capital from
Faizabad to Lucknow he had, perhaps unwittingly, laid the foundations of
an entity that would bemuse its critics and admirers alike. Its
confounding contrasts have invariably fetched it enduring odes from the
likes of Shakeel Badayuni, disdain from Ghalib and ridicule from various
Westerners and Anglophiles. More
Remembering Bhagat Puran Singh
Inderjit Kaur
HIS name strikes a different cord. It is
one of humble service to the most deprived and suffering of the world. He lived
a true life service as any of our great gurus would have loved and appreciated.
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Humanistic roots of Islam
A Tribute to Shri A.J. Zaidi
Bal Anand
HAVING spent my childhood years in the village and later growing up in a
town, both located in the closer vicinity of Malerkotla, the only
princely state in the East Punjab ruled for centuries by the Muslim
Nawabs. More
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Say no to National Biotechnology Regulator
A group of fifty farmer leaders and NGO representatives from fifteen
states of India met on July 24th 2008 have demanded that the proposed National
Biotechnology Regulatory Authority [NBRA] should be dropped. In a letter to the
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, they urged that the new legislation
proposed called the National Biotechnology Regulation Bill should not be
made into a law. They demanded that the NBRA proposals be dropped since
the draft legislation has serious shortcomings and objectionable
clauses.
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 India has the
highest rate of open defecation
EVERY day,
over 2.5 billion people suffer from a lack of access to improved sanitation and
nearly 1.2 billion practice open defecation, the riskiest sanitary practice of
all, according to a report by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for
Drinking-water Supply and Sanitation (JMP). Of these, about 665 million people
in India still defecate in the open. The report was meant to assess
sanitation practices with experts highlighting trends in using improved,
shared and unimproved sanitation facilities. The report underlined that
the number of people who lack access to an improved drinking water
source globally, has fallen below one billion for the first time. More
U.S.
perpetuating mass killings in Iraq
THE United States is directly responsible for over one million Iraqi
deaths since the invasion five and half years ago. In a January 2008
report, a British polling group Opinion Research Business (ORB) reports
that,” survey work confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000
Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the conflict which started in
2003. According to Peter Phillips, a Professor of Sociology at Sonoma
State University and director of Project Censored a media research group
…. We now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August
2007 is likely to have been of the order of 1,033,000.
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What is Anti-Defection Law in India?
Joginder Singh Toor
 INDIAN
parliament recently witnessed an ugly spectacle of crossing voting and display
of money and ugly display of political power during the confidence motion by the
current UPA government.
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Speaker’s refusal to resign invites no disqualification
Joginder Singh Toor
Som Nath Chatterjee, Speaker Lok Sabha, a 10 times Member Parliament, a
jurist known for his exposition of new ideas has always been in the news.
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Growth and political stability
Vinod Anand
THERE exists a strong relationship between a country's development
strategy and its political system. Authoritarianism or democracy has an
unfailing influence on the pace of development and justice. Political
institutions always dominate the fate of nations in many ways. The
strategy of economic development pursued by a country is an outcome of
its political system, which, in turn, also determines its success or
failure. The rate of economic growth and the level of economic and
social development represent the well-being and prosperity of an
economy, and political stability indicates the well-being of its
political institutions. When one looks at the economy and politics of a
country, there arise a number of questions. More
American defence spending exceeds rest
AMERICAN defence spending in recent years has either matched or exceeded
the military budgets of the rest of the world combined. Presented with
that fact, the next logical question is, where is all the money going?
The answer is simple: Everywhere. Ali Gharib of IPS follows this
money trail from Washington. In "The Complex: How the Military
Invades Our Everyday Lives" (Henry Holt, 2008), Nick Turse
carefully follows the money trail of the Defence Department into
everything from the traditional players in the defence contractor
industry to a handful of Southern catfish restaurants. The book takes
its title from the Military-Industrial Complex -- the one President
Dwight Eisenhower warned about on his way out of office, but nonetheless
appears to have run rampant since. More
In search of a true Sikh leader
Balvinder
MOST of the Sikh History can safely be termed as turmoil unlimited. The
living Sikh Gurus’ period, which incidentally coincided with the Mughal reign,
bore the maximum brunt of the imperial repression particularly during its
concluding years. However, throughout most of the repressive period no guru,
from the very first to the ninth one, preached or practised non violent
methods to counter it. Rather fifth and the ninth Sikh gurus, Guru Arjun
dev and Guru Tegh Bhadur, challenged the imperial repression by
scarifying their lives without any rancour. Though the Sixth Sikh Guru
did start wearing symbols of royalty to match Mughal chieftains, it was
only during the tenth and last living guru’s period that Sikhs virtually
took to weapons. And this can well be justified without any doubt or
debate. It is well known that all Sikh gurus, being basically of
non-violent and greatly tolerant nature, never used any kind force or
allurement to win over people of other faiths. More
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