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OUR NORTH AMERICA |
| Earth Hour observed
around the Globe |
Khushwant Toor writes from Toronto
MARCH 28, 2009, to raise awareness and
in an effort to join the world for a common cause,
pro-environmentalists worried about global warming
turned out their lights for one full hour to participate
in the Earth Hour. From South Pole, Sydney, Australia,
to Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada near the North
Pole, people showed their concerns about the environment
by switching off their lights for one full hour.More
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| Confusing history: The
Khalistan and Gadar Party struggles |
Gurpreet
Singh writes from Vancouver
SIKH separatists
active in Canada and the U.S. often draw parallels
between their struggle for Khalistan and the armed
resistance launched by freedom fighters against
the British occupation of India. They use this
argument to justify the violence that gripped
Punjab, India from the early 1980s to the early
1990s.More
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| ANALYSIS |
| Falling
inflation in India: The repercussions |
Vinod Anand
ABOUT a year back India had faced rising inflation,
and now it is facing falling inflation. Let us briefly
see what it is and what will be its immediate impacts
on the economy. Inflation means rising prices of
goods and services in general over a period of time.
It can also be described as a decline in the real
value of money, i.e. a loss of purchasing power
of money. Inflation rate is normally measured as
a percentage change in price index over time.More |
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| Time has come to change
the global institutions |
Sawraj
Singh
WITH the rapid decline of the West and
visible rise of the East, time has come to change
the global institutions. All these institutions
were developed in an era when there was unquestionable
and unchallenged domination of the West. Therefore,
all the global institutions such as the IMF, the
World Bank and the United Nations reflect domination
of the West.More |
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| ART, MEDIA & LITERATURE |
| The music of film Aurat
(1953) was India’s finest Ambassador in West
Asia |
| Harjap
Singh Aujla
WHEN I was a child my father, who took great interest
in my overall development, talked to me about
a newly made Indian film based on the famous Biblical
story of Samson and Delilah. I had not read the
story nor did I see the movie at that time, but
my father’s words created curiosity in me
and I decided to explore this mystery. Eleven
years later In 1964, this film was screened in
Chandigarh as one of the old forgotten films shown
at 11am during the working days. At that time
I was a student of engineering in Punjab Engineering
College.More
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Female terrorists being prepared on 'other side':
Army Chief | Zardari gives in to Taliban, signs
Islamic law | SGPC honours Journalist Jarnail
Singh,pays obeisance at Golden Temple | BT backs
Tech Mahindra-Satyam deal | Jeev becomes honorary
Asian Tour member
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| Female terrorists being prepared
on 'other side': Army Chief |
| Army
Chief General Deepak Kapoor on Tuesday said that women
terrorists were being prepared on the other side of
the LoC to infiltrate into India. The admission comes
in the wake of reports of terrorists’ infiltration
into India, among them several females, to disrupt the
upcoming Lok Sabha polls.More
Updated on April 14, 2009 at 01:00 p.m.
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- Zardari gives in to Taliban,
signs Islamic lawMore
- SGPC honours Journalist Jarnail
SinghMore
- BT backs Tech Mahindra-Satyam
dealMore
- Jeev becomes honorary Asian
Tour memberMore
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| E D I T O R I
A L |
| Empty heads at the G 20 meeting
in London |
| AS thousands
of protestor clashed with riot police in central
London ahead of the G-20 summit, breaking into
the heavily guarded Royal Bank of Scotland and
smashing its windows, the leaders from group of
20 countries wasted huge public money in traveling
to London and producing nearly nil results.More |
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| FOCUS |
| Voice of moderation no
more
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Gobind
Thukral
 THE
hundreds of people who thronged the PGI in Chandigarh
on that fateful evening of March 29 when they heard
of the tragic accident involving the Akali leader
and Punjab Cooperation Minister, Capt Kanwaljit
Singh, and then the massive sea of humanity that
bade him tearful adieu next day are a testimony
of the goodwill the late leader created over the
years.More |
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| Despite
Obama’s vow, combat brigades will stay in Iraq |
| Gareth
Porter
 DESPITE
President Barack Obama’s statement at Camp LeJeune,
North Carolina Feb. 27 that he had "chosen a timeline
that will remove our combat brigades over the next 18
months," a number of Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs),
which have been the basic U.S. Army combat unit in Iraq
for six years, will remain in Iraq after that date under
a new non-combat label.More |
| FEATURES |
| Reverse brain drain in
America
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|  Gobind
Thukral
SHATTERED by a slowing economy, large banks, such
as Bank of America, and man big and small U.S.
firms are reducing plans to hire foreign national
students due to concerns over political backlash
amidst growing U.S. job losses.More
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| Economic growth: Various
predictions |
| Vinod
Anand
THE rate of economic growth in the economy had fallen
to 5.3 per cent in December 2008 from a high of about
9.2 per cent during the FY 2007-08, but what is going
to happen in time to come especially during the FY 2008-09
and then later in the FY 2009-10 is not even approximately
known.More |
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| Economy:
Deepening crisis |
| Gobind
Thukral
 SINGAPORE:
The entire world is passing through a huge economic
crisis that was triggered in America six months back
when banks, financial corporations and markets started
tumbling down. Billions of dollars were lost, economic
growth started sagging and bankruptcies became the order
of the day.More |
| LAW & JUSTICE |
| Election laws in India
necessitate change |
| Joginder Singh Toor
 AMIDST
soaring drama in a highly polarized town of Pilibhit
in Western Uttar Pradesh, Varun Gandhi, a BJP Lok Sabha
candidate is remanded to judicial custody on March 28,2009
after he surrendered before a local court for cases
related to his alleged hate speeches during election
campaign.More |
| COMMENT |
| Russia’s growing
influence in Latin America
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| Sawraj
Singh
RUSSIA’S influence continues to grow in America’s
backyard. Russia is going to base its long range bombers
in Cuba. Venezuela has offered an island where Russia
can base its long range bombers. Last year, two Russian
bombers landed in Venezuela.More
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| Anarchy let lose in Afghanistan |
|  UNITED
States is pushing more troops and money as if that would
solve the crisis for which primarily it is responsible.
It is trying hard for the past several years to fight
the Taliban it crated and in the process has nearly
ruined the country.More |
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