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OUR NORTH AMERICA |
| Canada
Elections– 2008 |
Khushwant
Toor writes from Toronto
With the Election Day soon approaching
on October 14, 2008 people are still upset and
surprised at the real need for an early election.
More than the party it seems to be an election
of the party leaders this time.More
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| NATO rejects U.S. raids
into Pakistan |
| NEWS reports emerged this
fortnight quoting senior American officials saying
that last July, U S President Bush secretly approved
orders "that for the first time allow American
Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults."More |
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| Why did London Tod
Singh’s brother adopt London as home? |
Gurpreet
Singh
WHEN late Comrade
Harkishan Singh Surjeet identified himself as
London Tod Singh (One who could break London)
in a British Court, he may not have realized that
his younger brother will one day adopt London
as his permanent home.More
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| The 'Drill Baby Drill'
Scandal |
How American
officials help private sector get rich
THOSE Asians
who never stop praising American system of governance
should carefully read this report and other scandals
s now threatening the ‘American way of life.'More
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| Hunger pangs grow as
food gets wasted |
HUGE
quantities of food are wasted after production
worldwide. Edible food is discarded in processing,
transport, markets and kitchens.More
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ANALYSIS
Education: Back to school, and
beyond
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| Saru Thukral |
| India has marked three per
cent share in the GDP for education sector during
2007-08. The Common Minimum Programme had fixed
6 per cent.More |
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Sri
Lanka: ‘Animal Tracks’ Lead Villagers
Out of Poverty
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| Feizal Samath |
AN impoverished village
in southern Sri Lanka is slowly pulling out of
poverty by churning out terra cotta moulds of
animal footprints for tea connoisseurs all over
the world.More |
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| Sarkozy Deserts Bush,
Europe Drifting From America |
| Dr Sawraj Singh |
WHEN
Nicolas Sarkozy was elected President of France,
it appeared that for the first time a French President
was going to play a second fiddle to President
Bush.More
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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| Legislative
procrastination causing loss of faith in judiciary |
Joginder
Singh Toor
IN quick succession, the Chief Justice of India
has recommended impeachment of Justice Soumitra
Sen of the Calcutta High Court for his misconduct
and permitted questioning of the two judgers of
Punjab and Haryana High Court in case of delivering
money at judge's residence.More |
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| ART & LITERATURE |
| A novel courts
conroversy |
Gurpreet
Singh |
A cleverly written novel about late Comrade Harkishan
Singh Surjeet has sparked controversy in Punjab.
Authored by Darshan Singh, the Punjabi novel Bhaau
is based on the character sketch of the former
Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader, Harkishan
Singh Surjeet, who passed away on Aug 1.More
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| Family
Tree |
Vinod
Anand |
WHEN
we talk of a family (nuclear or otherwise), we
also talk of our lineage in terms of family tree
and its genealogical chart. A family connotes
members of a household that includes parents and
children living together.More
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Blast in Sri Lankan capital
| Zardari gets fatwa | Punjab eyes Rs 200-cr revenue
from lotteries | Sensex crashes | Alonso
wins Singapore night GP
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| Blast in Sri Lankan capital |
A small
bomb exploded in the centre of the Sri Lankan capital
today, leaving five people with minor injuries, police
said. Six vehicles were badly damaged in the blast,
which took place in Colombo's heavily fortified commercial
area, an AFP photographer at the scene said.More
Updated on September
29, 2008 at 01:00 p.m.
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- Zardari gets fatwaMore
- Punjab eyes Rs 200-cr revenue
from lotteriesMore
- Sensex crashesMore
- Alonso
wins Singapore night GPMore
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| E D I T O R I A L |
| South Asia on Fire |
IT
looks as if the entire South Asia is on fire.
And, Pakistan presents the worst scenario of blood
and gore. Not a day passes when either the security
forces have killed dozens of alleged militants
or American missiles or war planes have struck
into the rebellious North West bordering Afghanistan.
In between the militants or their suicide bombers
strike with impunity the common citizens in major
cities.More
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| FOCUS |
| New frontiers of science |
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Gobind
Thukral
 FOR
long time scientists have been puzzled about some
dark energy. Science had helped to understand the
characteristics of matter, but only in a limited
way. They have been also eager to know how this
universe where we live was created and from where
we came and where we will go. There were no definite
answers. More |
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| India/US:
Nuclear Waiver - Blow to Non-Proliferation |
Praful Bidwai
THE special waiver granted to India by the Nuclear Suppliers'
Group (NSG) from its nuclear trade rules is being seen
as a massive setback to the cause of global nuclear non-proliferation
and disarmament. The NSG's waiver will allow India to
resume nuclear commerce with the rest of the world with
very few restrictions although India is not a signatory
to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has
refused to accede to any other agreement for preventing
the spread of, reducing the numbers of, or abolishing
nuclear weapons.More |
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| Afghanistan:
US-NATO Airstrikes kill innocents |
 RAMPED-UP
U.S. and NATO airstrikes in Afghanistan are causing an
increased civilian death toll; raising concerns about
the fallout from civilian deaths on the war effort against
the Taliban insurgency. According to a major new report
by Human Rights Watch , "Troops in Contact: Airstrikes
and Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan", warned that
the cost in civilian casualties caused by the increase
in bombings goes well beyond the loss of human life and
could put the nearly seven-year U.S.-NATO war effort at
risk.More |
| FEATURES |
| Asia leads mobile growth,
lags on Internet |
| ASIA
continues to register strong growth in the mobile
phone market due to sustained demand from China
and India, the world's two biggest markets of such
services. Yet even if Asia is the world's largest
broadband market in terms of absolute numbers, it
lags the United States and Europe in overall penetration,
with just 3.6 out of every 100 inhabitants connected
to the high-speed Internet.More |
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| India:
All sides using children in Chhattisgarh conflict |
INDIAN security forces
and Naxalite rebels should immediately end the use of
children in the conflict in Chhattisgarh state in central
India, Human Rights Watch said. Using children under
age 18 in armed operations places them at risk of injury
and death and violates international law. All parties
to the Chhattisgarh conflict have used children in armed
operations.More
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| South
Asia, the big power as trouble maker |
 EVERY
other day there are pitched battles between the security
forces and the al Queda militants in Pakistan. Suicide
bombs have become a norm, and, despite loud protests
from the Pakistani establishment; ruling politicians
and the military, American planes and missile hit many
parts of frontier areas with Afghanistan. These kill
more innocent, igniting more hatred towards America
and the ruling classes in Pakistan.More
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| COMMENT |
| Russia
declares the end of the American Dominated Unipolar World |
Dr. Sawraj Singh
IN
one of the most significant declarations of our
times, the Russian President Medvedev declared the
end of the American dominated uni polar world. He
said that Russia will no longer accept the domination
of the World by anyone country or a group of countries
because the world has become a multi polar World.
Let us see if there is any validity to Russia’s
claim.More |
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| Guru’s
painting no authentic |
Balwinder
THIS is about the painting
of guru Gobind Singh taken from the constitution of India
There is a hell of difference between the terms "photograph"
and painting. And the term "photograph" is wrongly
used, surely inadvertently, there with the illustration.
Because photography was yet not there in guru's time,
so in no way an authentic "photograph".More |
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