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OUR NORTH AMERICA |
| Canada
– likely to vote again in Oct |
| Khushwant Singh writes from Toronto |
| STEPHAN Harper is adamant
to trigger an election call for Oct. 14, senior
officials in the Prime Minister Stephen Harper's
Office said August 30, 2008. No firm decision has
been made, but it is highly likely that Harper will
seek to dissolve his minority government next week.More |
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| An American dream gone
sour |
| FORTY-FIVE years ago , Martin
Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have
A Dream" speech to over 200,000 people from
the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington,
D.C. African-Americans were "still sadly crippled
by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination" one hundred years after the
signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, King said.More |
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ANALYSIS
Parchanda’s arrival and Musharraf’s
departure raise concern for America and India
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| Dr Swaraj Singh writes from Washington |
| THE two most significant
developments just took place in the Indian subcontinent,
inauguration of the Maoist leader Parchanda as the
Prime Minister of Nepal and departure of Pakistan’s
President from the political scene.More |
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| Afghanistan: Taliban fill power
void in Kabul? |
| Anand Gopal of IPS writes from
Kabul |
| THE ambush that killed 10
NATO soldiers outside of Kabul on , the worst battlefield
loss for western forces since the war began, was
the capstone in a week of high-profile insurgent
activities in Afghanistan. Although North Atlantic
Treaty Organisation (NATO) forces returned fire,
killed dozens of rebels and repelled the assault.More |
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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| Is corruption there
to stay? |
Joginder
Singh Toor
THE news that ‘Lawyers clerk delivers money
at Judges House’ shocks every one. Every body
who has been nursing a false or true hope the judiciary
as the last resort and the savior of the rule-of-law
is shaken to the spine. The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan
Singh had only this year on April 20, 2008 said
at Delhi in the conference of Chief Justices and
Chief Ministers that corruption in judiciary exists
and has now started peeping out.More |
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| ART & LITERATURE |
Book review
Farewell to Faraz: burning poetry pitted against
injustice |
AFTER a protracted sickness,
poet Ahmad Faraz has passed away on August 25
at the age of 76. He leaves behind a vacuum that
seems unlikely to be filled soon. Faraz had, through
his life as a poet of romance and of protest,
kept alive the sub-continental tradition of deploying
poetry as a weapon of protest.More
Ahmed
Faraz - an ‘Un-Partitioned’ poet
Bal Anand
AFTER joining the Indian Foreign Service
in 1971 and allotment of Persian as the language
to be learnt – and there by learning Urdu
by proxy – during training period, I had
been keenly entertaining hope to be posted to
Pakistan at an early or middle stage of my career.More
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Terror strikes Delhi
| High alert in Maharashtra
| Zardai for new dialogue to tackle terror
| 'Astra' test fired 2nd
time| Saina wins
gold
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| Terror
strikes Delhi |
The
blasts that rocked the national capital killing at least
20 people and injuring 98 others failed to dampen the
spirits of Delhiites, who continued with normal life
on Sunday. City hospitals like RML, Jasaram, Lady Hardinge,
Ganga Ram and LNJP, where the injured were admitted,
saw a hectic activity overnight and in the morning as
relatives of the victims came to visit them.More
Updated on September
14, 2008 at 01:00 p.m.
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- High
alert in MaharashtraMore
- Zardari
for new dialogue to tackle terrorMore
- 'Astra'
test fired 2nd timeMore
- Saina
wins goldMore
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| E D I T O R I A L |
| Is India getting poorer? |
TWO
reports, World Bank and the Asian Development
Bank have come out last fortnight that speak
about the increasing poverty levels in India.
They clearly indicate that the neo liberal model
in operation since 1991 has failed to remove the
ugly blot of poverty on the face of ‘Socialist
Republic of India’. This is most evident
when we study absolute numbers. The number of
people living below a dollar[ Rs 40] a day
is down from 296 million in 1981 to 267 million
people in 2005. However, the number of poor below
$1.25 a day has increased from 421 million in
1981 to 456 million in 2005.More
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| FOCUS |
| The Kashmir tinderbox |
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 Gobind
Thukral
FOR decades Kashmir has been caught in a cycle of
violence with only some periods of comparative peace.
Two nuclear power countries, India and Pakistan
have often gone on war and for years, a low intensity
war has been draining out India’s military
and other resources. Pakistan has been carrying
out overt and covert operations, keeping the state
destabilized.More |
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| Bush covered up Musharraf
ties with Qaeda, Khan |
Gareth Porter* for IPS
PAKISTANI President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday
brings to an end an extraordinarily close relationship
between Musharraf and the George W. Bush administration,
in which Musharraf was lavished with political and economic
benefits from the United States despite policies that
were in sharp conflict with U.S. security interests.More |
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| Afghanistan: free Aafia Siddiqui’s
11-year-old son |
Child is too young to
be treated as criminal suspect
 THE
Afghan government should immediately relinquish 11-year-old
Ahmed Siddiqui to the custody of his family, Human Rights
Watch said today. Siddiqui, a US citizen, is believed
to be the son of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman held
on US federal charges in New York. The two were reportedly
arrested together in Afghanistan last month.More |
| FEATURES |
| Towards peace and prosperity |
Gobind Thukral
ON the evening of August 14, two Punjabs, particularly
and Indians and Pakistanis in general had a great
day across the Atari -Wagha border. As thousands
on both sides of the Indo Pakistan border thronged
to enjoy great performance of their favourite folk
and Sufi singers and pledge for peace and friendship.More |
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| Economic growth and human
resource development |
Vinod Anand
EXAMINING the link between economic growth on the one
hand, and equity and human development on the other, one
finds that since the 1950s much of the focus has been
on the link running from growth to other parameters. During
that era countries depended solely on the growth process
to attain the objectives of equity and human development.More |
| COMMENT |
| Will defeats in Beijing and
Georgia end the Western domination? |
Dr. Sawraj Singh
TWO very significant recent developments show that
we may be approaching the very end of the Western
domination. In Beijing Olympics, China has clearly
showed that not only an Asian country can win more
gold medals than any other country in the World
but it also it can out spend any Western country
as well as can present unparalleled spectacular
shows. Jaqeous Rogge, the chairman of the International
Olympics committee called these Olympics “exceptional”.More |
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| How they prepare to win the
medal |
| SUSHIL Kumar made history after
winning the medal in wrestling at Beijing Olympics. Celebrations
started to began at Satpal's akhada in Chhatrasal Stadium
in Delhi, the moment Sushil won the medal. Before going
to participate in game at Beijing no one was hoping for
a medal.More
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