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Canadian economy;
Have we hit the bottom? |
Khushwant Toor writes from Toronto
TWO
separate reports released Monday July 13, 2009,
one by the Conference Board of Canada and the
other by the Bank of Canada, suggest the worst
may be nearing its end and the Canadian economy
may rebounding in the near future.More
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| America: Is road to recovery
closing? |
| ONCE world’s fastest
economy and the only superpower, America is in dome
drums. Americans who lost their houses are now
losing their jobs. In this disappointing situation,
there is not much help coming despite the massive
bail out packages, some 380 billion dollars so far,
which banker and American corporate giants have
eaten away.More
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| Tragic end of MJ: an ugly face of American capitalism |
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Dr Sawraj Singh writes
from Washington
MICHAEL Jackson joined a long list of the
celebrities who had a tragic end. Ernst Hemingway,
Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, John Belushi,
John Lennon and Kurt Cobain are some of the
celebrities who met such an end. All of these
either had health problems, or drug abuse or they
had legal issues.More
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| America: a
conservative court demolishes all |
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CONSERVATIVES in America have used their
dominance of the judicial branch to push an agenda
that could never pass in the elected branches. In
recent years, the Supreme Court granted health
insurers and medical device manufactures sweeping
immunity from the law.More
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| Splendid: Sikh runners
to raise funds for hospitals across Canada |
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Jagpal Singh Tiwana
writes from Halifax
THE true spirit of Sikh sewa [service] on
display as young gusty Sikh runners entered
Halifax for their onward run to Vancouver to
collect one lakh dollars for ten hospitals in
Canada.More
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| BC press condemns sacking of Jarnail Singh |
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THE BC Punjabi Press Club has expressed its
solidarity with Jarnail Singh, a journalist who
has been fired for throwing a shoe at the Home
Minister of India; P. Chidambram at a press
conference in April. Singh was fired last week by
Dainik Jagran, a Hindi Daily.More
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| ANALYSIS |
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Punjab: No alibi for
non-governance and procrastination |
Jagtar Singh
PUNJAB Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal has
been at his valiant best defending rather himself
all these months for the procrastination of the
government, led by his uncle and mentor Parkash
Singh Badal, on the fiscal front to bail out
Punjab’s chronically sick economy.More |
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| Troops leave cities, as
questions remain |
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Jared Levy
U.S. combat troops pulled out of most Iraqi cities
Monday, a day before the Jun. 30 deadline for
their withdrawal in accordance with the Status of
Force Agreement (SOFA) ratified by the Iraqi
parliament in November 2008.More
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| Al Qaeda excluded from
the suspects list |
Gareth Porter
ON Jun. 25, 1996, a massive truck bomb exploded at a
building in the Khobar Towers complex in Khobar,
Saudi Arabia, which housed U.S. Air Force personnel,
killing 19 U.S. airmen and wounding 372. Immediately
after the blast, more than 125 agents from the U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were ordered
to the site to sift for clues and begin the
investigation of who was responsible.More |
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| Pitching in for bright
expectations |
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Gobind Thukral
WAY back in 1973, when Haryana had begun taking
long strides in development, this scribe had a
chance to observe the coming up of a primary
health centre at village Gopi in the desert area
of Bhiwani district.More
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| ART, MEDIA & LITERATURE |
| Demolition of a magnificent
buildings in Kapurthala |
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Harjap Singh Aujla
 KAPURTHALA is a small, at one
time a beautiful, town sandwiched between the large
cities of Amritsar and Jalandhar. It is not situated
on the historic Grand Trunk Road and has not grown
in proportion to the growth of its more privileged
neighbours.More
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We welcome resumption of dialogue with Pak:
Sonia | No cooperation from Pak on Dawood:
Krishna |
Total anarchy in Law and order and fiscal health
in Punjab, alleges Amarinder | Bharti-MTN deal
not finalised yet: Govt | Isner upsets Baghdatis,
Safin advances in LA
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| We welcome resumption of
dialogue with Pak: Sonia |
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday came out in
strong support of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
India-Pakistan joint statement. Clarifying her party's
stand over the joint statement and Pakistan policy, Sonia
said, "The Prime Minister made a firm and unequivocal
statement in Lok Sabha yesterday.More
Updated on July 30, 2009 at 01:00 p.m.
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- No cooperation from Pak on
Dawood: KrishnaMore
- Total anarchy in Law and
order and fiscal health in PunjabMore
- Bharti-MTN deal not
finalised yet: GovtMore
- Isner upsets Baghdatis,
Safin advances in LAMore
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Why be afraid of talks with Pakistan?
By H.K.
Dua
Pickings may be slender and slow in coming, but
India and Pakistan have agreed to begin a search for peace
on the sub-continent. Rightly so. The statements and
reports emanating from Sharm El-Sheikh need not be taken
as negatively as are being viewed by the usual sceptics,
who are generally doubtful that India can ever persuade
Pakistan to give up the path of terrorism by talks. |
| E D I T O R I
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| Gujarat hooch tragedy, State wants price for its
virtues |
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 LAST week’s hooch tragedy in
Gujarat has claimed 136 lives and 220 are fighting
death in hospitals in Ahmadabad. BJP, the
ruling party has the dubious distinction as one its
leaders is said to be involved in the supply of the
deadly illicit brew. In Mahatma Gandhi’s home state
though that saint politician never once singled it
out as his state, there is said to be complete
prohibition in his name.More |
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| FOCUS |
| Ghosts in the machine
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Chaitanya Kalbag
 I
remember standing in long queues at ration shops in
Calcutta, Madras and Delhi when I was younger. Lines
for food were a part of everyday life. You got
sub-standard rice and dirty, large-grained sugar.
The majority of Indians lived on rationed rice,
sugar, kerosene, palmolein and even cloth.More |
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Pakistan:
Displacement traumatic for pregnant women |
| Ashfaq
Yusufzai
 PREGNANT women uprooted by the violence in the Malakand
region, northwest Pakistan, have suffered acutely in
refugee camps for the internally displaced. Displaced
women from Swat, Buner and Dir - the three affected
districts - have critical health needs that relief
operations must urgently address, says UNFPA, the United
Nations Population Fund.More |
| Indian Foreign Service -
Pride & Fall |
| Bal
Anand
 THE
announcement on the 30th of June that Mrs. Nirupama (Menon)
Rao, the topper of 1973 Batch of IFS, will be the next
Foreign Secretary has been receiving wider media coverage
in the context of 'Women on Top' in India in the 1st
decade of 21st century. Interestingly, Mrs. Meira Kumar
who had emerged earlier during the month a surprise but a
competent choice to be the first woman Speaker of Lok
Sabha also belonged to the same batch of IFS.More |
| FEATURES |
| Racism and consumerism pushing
Americans to poor health
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Dr Sawraj Singh
 TODAY when America is facing a
serious economic crisis, solving the problems of
healthcare has also become a very big challenge for
President Obama. America is spending more than
any other country on healthcare yet Americans
are one of the unhealthiest people in the World.More
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$2,000 for a
dead Afghan child, $100,000 for any American who
died killing |
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Jay Janson
 AFTER American president Barack Obama apologized for the
strike which the Afghan government claimed killed well
over a hundred ordinary country people , came the report
that the families of those killed, and subsequent Afghani
dead falling in harms way of the US military, continuing
as before, can apply to receive up to $2,000 compensation.More |
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Decriminalizing
homosexuality is right |
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Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver
AS the news of India becoming 127th country to
decriminalize the homosexuality reached Metro Vancouver,
the gays and the lesbians in this part of the world
cheered at the development. Particularly, Sher Vancouver,
a group representing the queer population of the South
Asian origin welcomed the verdict of the Delhi High Court
that outlawed section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that
treated homosexuality as crime and unnatural.More
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Dreams and
reality
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Prashant
Kumar
AS we near the end of the first decade of the new
millennia and as past seems to be fading slowly into
oblivion, the idea of having a brief look at it seems
intriguing. It goes without saying that one’s present is
rooted in its past and it’s practically difficult to
understand it without an understanding of the past.More
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
| Citizenship
in Canada, a complicated affair |
|  Joginder
Singh Toor writes from Toronto
OBTAINING citizenship
in Canada has, however been simplified in chapter 29 of
the Citizenship Act of Canada, still it is a complicated
affair. The amended provisions define and explain the
relevant terms and conditions for obtaining citizenship,
which may be of interest to many to know.More |
| COMMENT |
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Alcohol changes your brain
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 MANY
people think know that studies suggest that alcohol in
moderation may promote heart health, and even ward off
diabetes and dementia. But fewer people know that no
study has ever proved a causal relationship between
moderate drinking and lower risk of death, only hat the
two often go together.More
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| The
Judge who would cause no one any hurt |
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"THE M.S. Liberhan Commission
meant for enquiring into the traumatic events of December
6, 1992, need not have been appointed. The Honourable
Judge has taken nearly 18 years and 48 extensions to
produce a magnum opus to say essentially nothing more
than what the newspapers had reported then.More
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| The
future for farmers in America |
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 FARMERS
and those in the agriculture economy have a lot to lose
as greenhouse gases increasingly trap more heat
at the planet's surface. More than any other sector
of our economy, farmers are hit hard by the extreme
weather exacerbated by global warming -- floods, droughts,
heat waves, and storms threaten their livelihood and
our food supply.More
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