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OUR NORTH AMERICA |
| Shared border, unilateral
policy? |
Paul
Weinberg writes from Toronto
CANADA and the United States are on different
wavelengths when it comes to a shared and increasingly
hardening of what had been a sleepy border within
North America. One University of Toronto political
scientist doubts this will change anytime soon
in the wake of how "paranoia" in the
U.S. about its northern frontier has continued
under the administration of Barack Obama.More
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| Jagmohan Singh’s
pilgrimage to Canada |
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Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver
LAST month’s visit of Jagmohan Singh,
the nephew of Bhagat Singh - the most revered
martyr of India turned out to be his pilgrimage
to this part of the world. Jagmohan Singh, who
came to attend two major events in BC, does not
only enjoy the virtue of being a son of Bhagat
Singh’s sister, late Amar Kaur but also
leads a research group dedicated to the ideology
of his uncle.More
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| Recession time can ignite
hate crimes |
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Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver
EVEN as the South Asian immigrants are
shocked with a series of suspected racial attacks
in Australia, the Metro Vancouver also witnessed
unrelated hate crimes targeting Indo Canadians.
In a single attack on June 5, six Punjabis were
targeted at a tennis court in Langley. The police
believe that the attack had an element of hate
as the assailants hurled racial slurs at the victims.More |
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| ANALYSIS |
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Perils of drugs in Punjab |
Gobind Thukral
SOMEWHERE Punjab is not only losing its
body, but its soul too. Look at this survey which
Punjab government has submitted before the Punjab
and Haryana High Court. It reveals 66 per cent of
the school-going students in the state consume
gutkha or tobacco; every third male and every
tenth female student has taken drugs on one
pretext or the other and seven out of 10
college-going students abuse one or the other
drug. Is it the land of opium eaters, consumers
of poppy husk or synthetic drugs and pills of all
sorts?More |
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| Economic crisis
sharpens different contradictions |
Dr
Sawraj Singh
THE recession and the present economic crisis of
capitalism has sharpened different contradictions
such as between the developed countries and the
developing countries, between America and Europe,
between the right and the left, between the radicals
and the moderates, between different castes and
between the conservatives and the liberals.More |
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| Sri Lanka must end
detention of refugees |
THE Sri Lankan
government should end the illegal detention of
nearly 300,000 ethnic Tamils displaced by the
recently ended conflict in Sri Lanka, Human Rights
Watch said on June 11. For more than a year, the Sri
Lankan government has detained virtually everyone -
including entire families - displaced by the
fighting in the north in military-run camps, in
violation of international law.More |
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| ART, MEDIA & LITERATURE |
| Golden period of the
Sikh devotional music |
Harjap
Singh Aujla writes from New Jersey
 SRI
Guru Nanak Dev ji gave a lot of invaluable gifts
to the World and one of them was very pleasant,
very soothing and very educative Sikh religious
music. This form of music came with Guru Nanak
more than five hundred years ago. During the
time of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji, the North Indian
classical music (Hindustani form of classical
music) was quite well developed and Dhrupad and
Dhamar form of music was in vogue in all the
musical Gharanas. Guru Nanak’s music of course
was not untouched by this great tradition.More |
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2008 riot case: Raj Thackeray granted bail | 15
militants killed in Pakistan | Normail liein
Punajb crippled due to power crisis | India to
grow 7% in FY10 if monsoons do not fail | Bolt
wins 200m at Jamaican Championships
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| 2008 riot case: Raj
Thackeray granted bail |
| Five close aides of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah
Mehsud have been killed in a shootout with police,
who raided a militant hideout in this southern
port city. The five were killed after they refused
to surrender and engaged the police team in a
gunfight at the hideout near Gadap town, located
close to the national highway, city police chief
Waseem Ahmed said on Friday night.More
Updated on June 29, 2009 at 01:00 p.m.
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- 15 militants killed in
PakistanMore
- Normal life in Punjab
crippled due to power crisisMore
- India to grow 7% in FY10 if
monsoons do not failMore
- Bolt wins 200m at Jamaican
ChampionshipsMore
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| E D I T O R I
A L |
| Casino economy |
| THE Great
Depression of the 1930s was a clear demonstration of
the contradictions of “laissez-faire capitalism”.
Some economists like John Maynard Keynes, had
attributed it to the failure of markets. They
thought markets could not distinguish between
“speculation” and “enterprise”. They got dominated
by the speculators to a point where “enterprise
becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation”.More |
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| FOCUS |
| Promises all the way
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Gobind
Thukral
THE new UPA government has promised a paradise for
Indians. The President Mrs. Pratibha Patil has unveiled
policies and programmes as wished by this Congress
lead government for five years as well for first
one hundred days. The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan
Singh is not only more assertive this time, but
seems to be in some hurry.More |
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| Obama appeals to Muslim
world for "New Beginning" |
|  Ali
Gharib and Jim Lobe
IN what was perhaps the most widely anticipated speech
delivered by a U.S. president abroad in recent memory,
Barack Obama on June 4 extended a hand to the world’s
1.4 billion Muslims, receiving repeated applause and
a standing ovation from the audience at Cairo University
in the Egyptian capital.More |
| Thorny times ahead
despite nuclear deal |
| Ranjit
Devraj
 ALTHOUGH
Manmohan Singh, the man who steered through the landmark
Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear deal, has been voted back
to power, there is little sign that his second term
as prime minister will see the same geniality between
the world’s two major democracies.More |
| Views from India Gate |
| Bal
Anand
THE long story of human civilisation is so often told
with references to the rise & fall of so many magnificent
cities encircled by their mighty walls and glorious
gates. Delhi, the mythological & historical capital
of Hindustan, has also its most precious heritage of
ancient & modern landmarks including walls &
gates.More |
| FEATURES |
| Recession incites racist
attacks on the Indian students in Australia
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Dr. Sawraj Singh
 THERE have been a growing number of
recent attacks on the Indian students in
Australia. For the last year, there were more
than 70 such attacks. In the last two weeks
there have been more than 5 attacks. Most of
these attacks have been in the Melbourne area.
One cannot help noticing that recession has
something to do with these attacks.More
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Remembering a
progressive voice in Punjab we lost |
| Gurpreet
Singh writes from Vancouver
 WHILE
the Sikh leaders in India and here in Canada marked
the 25th anniversary of the infamous Operation Bluestar
early this month, I was forced to remember a moderate
progressive and yet a determined voice we have lost.
Whereas, the Sikh separatists in Canada continue to
take mileage out of the memories of that operation,
Capt. Kanwaljeet Singh, who had served in the Indian
army before coming into politics, has left behind a
legacy of hope and reconciliation.More |
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India: Pesticide
level in vegetables and fruits rising |
|  THE
presence of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables
is getting higher than the maximum permissible levels
(MPL), revealed a recent survey by the Union government.
Besides, vegetables from some parts of Uttar Pradesh
were found presence of banned pesticides. The survey,
conducted over a year from November 2007 to October
2008 across the country by the Union agriculture and
cooperation ministry.More
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Punjab labour shortage |
|  RISING
labour rate during the Paddy season in Punjab are pushing
the cost of cultivation at one level. At another level,
they are making the farmhands better off and happy.
This season the supply of labour from the poorer states
of Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh is less, leading to
shortage and higher cost.More
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
| Hints for planning and
making a will |
|  Joginder
Singh Toor
ONE important decision one has to take in ones life
is about planning and making a will. The properties
inherited from a common ancestor or from father and
from those created by one self have different characteristics.
Planning a will is an important factor. Pre-existing
interests of the defendants and the interest which have
to be created under the will have to be considered.More |
| COMMENT |
| The very real threat of
extremism
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| ON June 11 Yesterday's tragic shooting at the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, by
an "88-year-old white supremacist," is the latest
in a string of right-wing extremist attacks. The
number of hate groups such as the "Ku Klux Klan,
neo-Nazis, racist skinheads and Black separatists"
operating in the United States is at an all-time
high, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC).More
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GM, petrol
guzzler that almost ate America, goes bust |
| LAST fortnight
, American auto giant General Motors (GM) followed
Chrysler and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, making
it the fourth largest U.S. company to ever take such
a step. As a result of the pre-packaged bankruptcy plan,
the U.S. government will own a 60 percent stake in GM,
with the United Auto Workers (UAW) receiving 17.5 percent.More |
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Every third male
student in Punjab drug addict, HC told |
|  According
to a Punjab Government survey, 66 per cent of the school-going
students in the state consume gutkha or tobacco; every
third male and every tenth female student has taken
drugs on one pretext or the other and seven out of 10
college-going students abuse one or the other drug.More |
Last
journey of Indian Revolutioanry
Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga More
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