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OUR NORTH AMERICA |
| Barack Obama, first
African American as President of the USA |
Harjap
Singh Aujla writes from New Jersey
THREE months ago no body could predict that an
African American can be elected President of the
United States of America. But it is not a dream
anymore; it is a reality on 4th of November 2008.
Barack Obama is the new president of this nation.
Every one was thinking that change comes the hard
way in America.More
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| Oil prices drop –
Good for consumers – Bad for economy |
Khushwant
Toor
OIL prices have fallen down by almost 60%
since attaining the peak. Last Thursday, it feel
to $55 a barrel. In Canada, last month petrol
was $1.38 a litter at some places, today it is
around $83.5 a litter. For consumers, it is a
relief at the pumps however; the economists predict
that the falling oil prices will push the world
economy further deep in recession.More |
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| Guru’s words
reign supreme at 29th Sikh parade in Yuba City |
Dr
Amrik Singh writes from Sacramento
29th Sikh Parade in Yuba City on November 2, 2008
was a special occasion this year. Global Celebrations
linked with 300 years of enthroning Guru Granth
Sahib as the spiritual Head of Sikhs has attracted
attention of the world community. Guru Granth
Sahib’s universal message of peace is looked
upon as one of the possibilities of enshrining
world peace.More |
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| Dear President Bush
... |
A letter from Frank Paul
Tarney a.k.a. Fatehpal Singh Tarney
George W. Bush
President of the United States
The White House.More
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| ANALYSIS |
Through
the peephole: Indian development planning
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Vinod
Anand
AMONGST the mixed economies of the world
India has been the pioneer in development planning.
Although there were several attempts, at different
levels, to formulate different kinds of plans during
the pre-independence era, yet planning was seriously
taken up only after independence.More |
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Bhutan:
measuring gross national happiness |
THE tiny Himalayan kingdom
of Bhutan on November 6 coronated its fifth monarch,
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck at a lavish ceremony
attended by dignitaries from around the world
and over 2000 Bhutanese. This Buddhist country,
sandwiched between Asian giants India and China
has never been colonised.More |
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Afghan
peace talks widen US-UK rift on war policy
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Gareth
Porter
THE beginning
of political talks between the Afghan government
and the Taliban revealed by press accounts this
week is likely to deepen the rift that has just
erupted in public between the United States and
its British ally over the U.S. commitment to an
escalation of the war in Afghanistan.More
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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| Get rid of the black
sheep: Lok Sabha Speaker |
Joginder
Singh Toor
 LOK
Sabha speaker Som Nath Chatterjee and west Bengal
assembly speaker Hasim Abdul Halim have felt deeply
concerned about corruption in the judiciary and
how it was undermining the confidence of the people
in this pillar of democracy. While addressing the
Jam packed big hall of the Punjab and Haryana High
Court Bar Association, in a very subtle manner spoke
about the sensitive issues like corruption in judiciary.More |
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| ART & LITERATURE |
| Jnanpith award for Kashmiri
poet Rahman Rahi |
EMINENT
Kashmiri poet Rahman Rahi was last fortnight conferred
the prestigious Jnanpith Award - becoming the
first Kashmiri to get India's highest literary
honour. The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh
presented the award at a function in New Delhi.More
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| The animal song |
Savage
Garden
WHEN superstars and
cannonballs are running through your head
the television freak show cops and robbers everywhere
Subway makes me nervous, people pushing me too
far
I've got to break away
So take my hand now.More
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Shivraj Patil resigns over
Mumbai attacks | Captured gunman links Mumbai
attacks to Pakistan | SAD to announce remaining
Lok Sabha candidates in ten days | Attacks chill
economic prospects | National
Games now to be held in Feb
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| Shivraj Patil resigns over
Mumbai attacks |
In response
to mounting pressure in the wake of terror attacks in
Mumbai, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Sunday
submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh. A spokesman of the Congress party said that Patil
took moral responsibility for the recent co-ordinated
attacks in Mumbai that killed at least 183 people and
injured 295.More
Updated on November
30, 2008 at 01:00 p.m.
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- Captured gunman links Mumbai
attacks to PakistanMore
- SAD to announce remaining
Lok Sabha candidates in ten daysMore
- Attacks chill economic prospectsMore
- National
Games now to be held in FebMore
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| E D I T O R I A L |
| Obama creates history |
BARACK
Hussein Obama is 44th President of the United
States of America, Once upon a time the most powerful
country with its booming economy backed by a powerful
nuclear laced military. He is as popularly stated
an African American. His mother was white and
his father a black of Kenyaian origin.More
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| FOCUS |
Privatisation of profits
and nationalisation of losses
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Gobind
Thukral
LAST weak the Empowered Committee of finance ministers
of Indian states met in Chandigarh to find ways
and means to overcome fiscal crisis they have been
facing for long time. For example Punjab’s
debt burden has reached 57,000 crore. It can not
pay back even in 20 years.More |
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| President
Barack Obama and the beginning of history |
Dr Amrik Singh writes from Sacramento
 ON
November 4, 2008, Americans didn’t have to wait
long for results of the presidential election. The voting
was still current in some parts when the news of landslide
win struck the world. No more trammels that marked Al
Gore’s election in 2000 and John Kerry’s
in 2004.More
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America needs a fundamental change |
Sawraj Singh
AMERICA has created
history by electing the first non white and the first
black as the president. Barak Obama personifies multiculturalism.
America has finally accepted its multicultural reality.
However, the main reason Obama is elected president
is the America’s desire for change.More
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Obama handily takes White House |
Jim Lobe
IN a historic victory,
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has been elected the 44th
president of the United States. Obama, the first African
American to be elected to the nation's highest office,
was declared the winner by all of the country's major
media networks as the polling on the West Coast of the
U.S. closed Tuesday night.More
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Obama pressured to back off Iraq withdrawal |
Gareth Porter
THE promotion of
Robert M. Gates as President-elect Barack Obama's secretary
of defence appears to be the key element in a broad
campaign by military officials and their supporters
in the political elite and the news media to pressure
Obama into dropping his plan to withdraw U.S. troops
from Iraq in as little as 16 months.More |
| FEATURES |
Bawdy route to Indian politics
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Gobind
Thukral
 IF
people believe that large sections of political
leaders across the parties are corrupt, insensitive
and even lewd, they can not be faulted. Anyone
who has seen on the television screens on November
10 how in BJP ruled Madhya Pradesh, Tourism Minister
Tukoji Rao Pawar threatened and intimidated a
lady SDM Sanjana Jain, Returning Officer for Sonkatch,
would find such politicians obnoxious.More
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US: Massive Iraqi death toll ignored by tabloid culture |
| Marie-Helene Rousseau
THE year is 1994. Pictures
of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley cover the
pages of prominent U.S. newspapers and magazines. Yet
hidden from national view is the attempted elimination
of the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda.More |
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Who Owns Nature? |
Umendra Dutt
NEW report warns of corporate
concentration, commodification of nature; highlights
global resistance grounded in "Food Sovereignty"
ETC Group today releases a 48-page report, "Who
Owns Nature?" on corporate concentration in commercial
food, farming, health and the strategic push to commodify
the planet's remaining natural resources.More |
| COMMENT |
"Sustainable agriculture
holds immense potential in the era of climate change"
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SUSTAINABLE agriculture
approaches have immense mitigation and adaptation potential
in the context of climate change and also have the potential
to feed the country. This was the conclusion of agricultural
scientists, farmers and civil society organizations
at a two-day national workshop on "Climate Change
and Sustainable Agriculture" in Delhi.More
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| Bolshevik
revolution still inspires the Russians |
Sawraj Singh
THE 1917 Bolshevik
Revolution was probably one of the most important events
of the modern history. It not only shook up the Western
imperialists in Europe and America, but also inspired
many oppressed people in the World to liberate themselves
from the clutches of the Western imperialism.More |
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| Punjab
sans libraries |
Bal Anand
ONCE upon a time, Punjab could claim good book
stores and libraries. No longer now. Then people did not
have much money and there was no Green Revolution. Now
middle class and its upper echelons have plentiful money
to squander on ceremonies; marriages, births and even
deaths, spend huge sums in sprawling restaurants and buy
clothes like crazy consumers.More |
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