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Weekly editor escapes kidnapping |
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Khushwant Toor writes from
Toronto
IT is not the first incident of its kind.
Rivalry among the growing Punjabi population in
Canada and feeling left out Punjabi extremists are
being blamed for the recent brutal beating of Editor
of a Punjabi weekly news paper published form
Toronto.
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| US: A nation transformed by
women |
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THE Center for American Progress (CAP), in
partnership with California First Lady Maria
Shriver, released The Shriver Report: A Woman's
Nation Changes Everything, a innovative
examination of how "women's changing roles are
affecting our major societal institutions, from
government and businesses to our faith
communities."
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| An interaction with an actor turned activist |
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Gurpreet Singh writes from
Vancouver
IT was the Hindu Muslim riots of 1992 that turned Rahul
Bose, an actor of the parallel Indian cinema into an
activist. Currently on tour in Canada with a green
message, he remembers how those riots in the Indian
city of Mumbai had changed his outlook towards life
and politics.
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| Punjabi reporter exposes the ugly side
of our culture |
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Gurpreet Singh writes from
Vancouver
THE Toronto Star reporter, who exposed the ugly
side of the Indian culture in a sting operation,
deserves appreciation. Raveena Aulakh had bought
the illicit pills that are supposed to bring baby
boys to the expectant mothers from the editor of a
Punjabi newspaper published from Toronto.
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Gurpreet Singh writes from
Vancouver
AN unnecessary controversy was stirred in India
this week when the hoardings carrying the picture
of a fanatic Sikh preacher late Jarnail Singh
Bhindranwale along the pictures of national heroes
were pitched in Patiala district of Punjab.
Bhindranwale, who is described by his ardent
followers and orthodox Sikh religious groups as
``Saint’’ and a ``great martyr of the twentieth
century’’ had died fighting with the Indian forces
in the controversial Operation Bluestar of 1984.
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Worsening food crisis
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Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli
IT was once true that all roads led to this
ancient capital. Today it is the furrows of maize,
wheat and rice fields that take you to Rome, where
the biggest global food organisations are
headquartered, and the World Summit on Food
Security (Nov. 16-18) is being organised. More |
| Development: Plenty on the Plate-2 |
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Miren Gutierrez and Oriana Boselli
"FROM a current 6.5 billion population, a billion
don't get enough to eat right now. Extrapolate
that to 2020, and you begin to recognise why this
is not just a moral problem, it is a national
security problem that has much more to do with
civil strife, warfare, terrorism, immigration...
This goes far beyond food."
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| State of Punjabi
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Gurpreet Singh Lehal
PEOPLE throughout the world have been using
computers and Internet in their own languages. So
far, Indian users in general and Punjabi users in
particular have been compelled to use them in
English despite the dominance of Indian engineers
and scientists in the IT world. More
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Mulayam opportunistic; will work for Hindutva:
Kalyan | Latest in Rana-Headley puzzle: Visa racket
in India | Punjab to set up 13 new government
degree colleges: Badal | Essar buys Warid Telecom
in Uganda, Congo | Maradona to face FIFA over
profane rants at media
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| Mulayam opportunistic; will
work for Hindutva: Kalyan |
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day after being openly snubbed by Samajwadi Party (SP)
chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, rebel Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) leader Kalyan Singh said he never had any intention
to join the outfit and signalled his desire to return
to his parent party by offering his services for strengthening
"Hindutva". More
Updated on November 16, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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- Latest in Rana-Headley puzzle:
Visa racket in India More
- Punjab to set up 13 new government
degree colleges: Badal More
- Essar buys Warid Telecom
in Uganda, Congo More
- Maradona to face FIFA over
profane rants at media More
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| E D I T O R I
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| Why Pakistanis hate America |
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AMERICANS claim that they are helping Pakistan
fight the Taliban and other extremist elements not
only in Pakistan but in the neighbouring
Afghanistan. Besides near daily drone attacks,
the US Administration has recently pledged $5.3
billion in aid to that nation. But what do
Pakistani think? Anti-American sentiment is
increasing as terrorist violence grows and the
U.S. increases its drone attacks on militant
targets in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
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| FOCUS |
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Government at odds
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Gobind Thukral
NO political commentator recalls the kind
of spat being witnessed in Chandigarh. It is for the
first time that a governor who is also the
administrator of the union territory of Chandigarh
has levelled serious charges of wrong doing against
two union ministers. It is also for the first time
that a union minister who represents Chandigarh in
the Lok Sabha has alleged that the governor is
suffering from megalomania and that he has treated
the union territory as his personal fiefdom causing
huge loss of Rs 2,000 crores and untold suffering to
the people of Chandigarh. More |
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Pakistan: For a bag of flour, they risk their lives
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Zofeen Ebrahim
 SCORES of women, many of them married and with
children, gathered outside the office of Chaudhry
Iftikhar, a local trader, in the old quarters of
the port city’s Khori Garden to get free rations
of flour.
Then a stampede broke out as the people scampered
to get their hands on the rations, killing 18
women and leaving more than 30 others injured,
most of them between ages 30 and 50. More
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Casting caste on the world stage
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Bal Anand
 IF the "shoonya" of "Ganit Shashtra" , the concept
of "Zero" in the "science of Numbers/Mathematics"
has been often hailed as most revolutionary
contribution of 'ancient' India to the world
civilization, the code of "Varna Ashram Dharma",
popularly called "Jaati Pratha", ordained
with scriptural Divine origins, has been castigated as
the single social catastrophe that has indeed 'zeroed'
and bedeviled the Destiny of India. More
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| FEATURES |
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Hindu Spiritualism: A study in contrast-2
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Om Prakash Sharma
 THE Hindus have welcomed and respected all
religions with an open mind. St Thomas Church, the
oldest Church at Palyar in Trichur, Kerala was
established in 52 A.D. Christianity reached India
three centuries before it reached Rome. Likewise,
Cheraman Jama Masjid located at Kodungallur, about
37-km from Thrissur, built in 628 AD, 7 years
after the Prophet's migration to Medina, is
believed to be the second oldest mosque in the
world after the Medina mosque.
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Kerala rejects GM seeds, urges prime minister
not go ahead
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IN a clear and cogent manner
the CPM led government in Kerala has rejected GM seeds.
In a letter to the prime minister, the chief minister
has argued in derail about the dangers of these GM seeds
and the threat from the multinationals to Indian bio
diversity. More
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Indian Cyber Law follows U.S.A Patriot Act
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Joginder Singh Toor
 NEW
Communication System and digital technology having
made dramatic changes in people’s interaction and
in transacting business has made paper on its
elimination way, storage of data cheaper, easier
to store and retrieve. It has also brought in
certain vices, malpractices and culpable conduct.
It required a strong cohesive elaborate law to be
strictly followed world wise. More
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| COMMENT |
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Will the Indian sub-continent be theatre for War?
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Sawraj Singh
 THE deepening crisis in Pakistan increases
the possibility of the Indian subcontinent becoming
a battle field for the third World war. No part of
Pakistan is now safe from attacks of the Taliban.
They have attacked the military head quarters in
Rawalpindi, close to Islamabad which can be
considered as the most important center of power for
the present regime. More
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Fellowship for Dr Sawraj Singh
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 THE American Society For Laser Medicine and
Surgery awarded Fellowship to Dr. Sawraj Singh, a
well-known laser surgeon in the central area of
Washington state. Dr. Sawraj Singh is a pioneer in
the field of laser surgery and has been running
the Laser Clinic of Central Washington in
Ellensburg, since 1988. This clinic serves people
in the Central Washington area. In 2001, the state
of Washington recognized the services provided by
Dr. Sawraj Singh by issuing him the Certificate of
Need. More
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Worsening situation in Afghanistan
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MATTHEW HOH, a former Marine
who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after
leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban
stronghold in Afghanistan has become the first U.S.
official to resign in protest of the Afghan war. He said
he believes the war is simply fueling the insurgency."I
have lost understanding of and confidence in the
strategic purposes of the United States' presence in
Afghanistan," Hoh wrote in his resignation letter, dated
Sept. 10 but published early Tuesday. More
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