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Gurpreet Singh writes for South Asia Post
THE Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper has
appreciated the minority representation at top
level in the Indian administration. In an
exclusive chat with the SAP on board CF01 on way
back to Ottawa from New Delhi, Harper said that
despite being a giant Hindu nation, India has done
more than a lip service to the religious
minorities. More
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| Harper talks peace. Wow!!! |
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Gurpreet Singh who traveled with the Canadian
Prime Minister Stephan Harper writes from
Vancouver
THE Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper
who has just concluded his first visit to India
emphasized on the world peace during the last two
days in that country.
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| Harper’s visit marks
the beginning of a new era in Indo Canada ties |
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Gurpreet Singh writes from
Vancouver
THE recent visit of the Canadian Prime
Minister, Stephen Harper to India marked the
beginning of a new era in the Indo Canada ties.
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| Visit to the Golden Temple stirs controversies |
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Gurpreet Singh writes
from Vancouver
THE recent visit of the Canadian Prime
Minister, Stephen Harper at the Golden Temple -
the holiest shrine of the Sikhs in Amritsar, India
has stirred unnecessary controversies.
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| VIP’s visits to Golden Temple |
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Jagpal Singh Tiwana
CANADIAN Prime Minister, Stephen Harper’s
visit to the Golden Temple on November 18, 2009
caused quite a controversy in a section of Sikh
circles. More
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| America India relations reflect the changing
global equations |
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Dr Sawraj Singh writes from Washington
DR. Manmohan Singh’s visit to America is a matter
of great historical significance because it reflects
the changing global equations. More
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| “Impunity in India”, An evening of reflection and
hopeful projection |
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IN conjunction with Trinity University’s Students
Creating Awareness of the Sikh Faith (SCASF), Sikh
Research Institute presented an evening of
informed dialogue and reflection on the events of
November 1984.
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| Pacific power |
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Sawraj Singh
PRESIDENT Obama recently returned from a nine-day
trip to East Asia where he visited Japan, Singapore,
China, and South Korea. His trip accomplished what
it set out to do: demonstrate to the region that the
"United States is back in Asia." More
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| ANALYSIS |
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Air India on path of self destruction
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Harjap Singh Aujla
BORN in 1932 as a privately owned and operated
Tata Airline, this national flag carrier airline
was nationalized by the British Indian Government on
July 29, 1946. More |
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| Afghanistan world’s worst place to be born in: UN |
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AFGHANISTAN is the most dangerous place in the
world for a child to be born, the UN has said. It
is, especially, dangerous for girls, the United
Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday, in
launching its annual report. More
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| Who to blame? |
| Prashant
Kumar
EVER since I was a kid, I have heard people
go on at length about how politicians have robbed
the nation of its wealth and prosperity and how
we as a nation have been dragged back in terms
of progress that we could have made. More
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| Nominated RS members
should not join a political party: HK Dua |
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 INDIA'S
leading journalist, Mr. H.K. Dua was recently
nominated to Rajya Sabha, second chamber of the
Parliament. This honour Mr. Dua deserved not as
editor in chief of an independent trust managed
daily newspaper, The Tribune as or as former
editor of the Hindustan Times or the Indian
Express or even as a former diplomat, but as a
courageous thinker and writer.
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Taliban trained fidayeen enter metros, PM holds
security meet | Telangana split deepens in Andhra
Cong | UK for Climate pact to go beyond Kyoto
| Food inflation worrying: Pranab | Arsenal beat
Liverpool 2-1 to keep pressure on
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| Taliban trained fidayeen
enter metros, PM holds security meet |
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metros-- Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi--and Gujarat state
were put on high terror alert today following intelligence
inputs that Taliban-trained 'suicide' squads have sneaked
into these places to attack vital installations. More
Updated on December 15, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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- Telangana split deepens in
Andhra Cong More
- UK for Climate pact to go
beyond Kyoto More
- Food inflation worrying:
Pranab More
- Arsenal beat Liverpool 2-1
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| E D I T O R I
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| India and China: Patterns
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INDIAN Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has
talked tough on China, particularly before an
American audience in Washington. Making a pointed
reference to China’s recent assertiveness on its
border dispute with India, he questioned China’s
democratic credentials. Admitting that China’s
growth rate was far superior to that of India, he
found China lacking in certain values like
“respect” for human rights, rule of law and
mutli-religious and multi-ethnic rights which are
not captured by the economics of a country.
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| FOCUS |
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When politics marries money
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Gobind Thukral
CORRUPTION is now so well entrenched in our
system of governance that nothing moves without
palms being greased. Money and politics were never
separate, but the present system where money
dictates policies and politics could not be
imagined. Ministers are chosen at the behest of the
industrialist lobbies and officers get plum postings
courtesy this very lobby. It funds the elections and
feeds the politics. The result is that the Indian
public appears thoroughly anaesthetised and numb,
incapable to express any concern at all. More |
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America and China bound by a symbiotic
relationship
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 Dr Sawraj Singh writes from Washington
PRESIDENT Obama’s trip to China clearly shows that
America and China are bound together by a mutually
dependent relationship. China needs America as its
biggest export market and America needs China to
put some of its money back in America to help
stabilize the American economy.
China has put 797.1 billion dollars in the
American economy and becomes the biggest creditor
nation for America. China has a big stake that the
American economy does not crash. Not only China
can lose its biggest export market, but it can
also lose its investments. More
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Raising the poverty bar
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Professor Vinod Anand
IT is feared that as against 28.5 per cent of
the Indians falling below the Poverty Line in the
present time, the number will soon go up to 38
percent. At present, as per standards laid down in
1998 for the determination of poverty, an urban
family (of five) earning Rs.2, 200 per month or less
and a rural family (of five) earns Rs.1, 650 or less
is poor. But according to the new standards, these
monthly incomes, both of the urban and rural areas,
will be raised respectively to Rs. 3,000 and Rs.2,
250. More
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| FEATURES |
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Jammu and Kashmir: Deprivation stalks Gujjar
children
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Ajmer Alam Wani writes from Jammu
 5 LAKH Gujjar tribal Children suffer utter
deprivation in Jammu and Kashmir due to widespread
neglect. They are mostly exploited as their
parents are poor. They suffer endless abuse even
physical torture. They are forcibly put to labour
by their parents because of limited sources they
have. According to a study conducted by Tribal
Research and Cultural Foundation this endless
exploitation finds not many sympathisers in the
government. More
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Avantika and Kukki’s story has message for peace
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Gurpreet Singh writes from
Vancouver
WHEREAS the ugly memories of 1984 that bred
violence in the name of a separate Sikh homeland
refuse to die, the story of Avantika Maken and
Ranjit Singh Gill alias Kukki has a message of
peace and reconciliation. On the 25th anniversary
of 1984, the axis year in the history of Punjab
terrorism their story gives a hope for a dignified
closure. More
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A famed region’s triple whammy of environmental
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 Athar Parvaiz
THE combined impact of tourism, climate change and
changing lifestyle in this internationally
renowned adventure haven has raised serious
concerns among environmental groups. A booming
tourism is depleting scarce water resource that has
already borne the brunt of changing climate patterns. More
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Enquiry Commissions: Evading justice
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Joginder Singh Toor
 SINCE
independence, successive governments at the center
and in the states have resorted to one or other
ploy to subvert justice, keep truth and facts out
of the public domain and resort to subterfuge deny
justice to the people. The protest and the anger
have been met by clever methods of ordering an
enquiry appoint a commission and then allow time
lapse to let the public memory slip. More
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| COMMENT |
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Punjab’s unemployment scenario: 6700 posts, 1.20
lakh applicants
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PUNJAB newspapers recently reported from Bathinda
the grim unemployment scenario in the state. There
were more than 1.20 lakh applications were
received from all over the state for 6,487
Anganwadi workers. Anganwadi, which means
courtyard shelter in Hindi, is a government
sponsored child-care and mother-care center scheme
which caters to children in the 0-6 age group. More
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Hunger in the modern world
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 MORE than one billion people
suffer hunger today, according to the UN. A crucial part
of this complex problem is food production and
distribution. Is it possible to increase food production
in an environmentally and socially sustainable way? Can
modernisation, research and investment enhance food
security? Is there anything to learn from traditional
knowledge? How do trade and energy policies affect the
equation? And gender? More
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Sikhs seek justice for the victims of 1984
genocide
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 US Senators, Department of State and Commission on
International Religious Freedom urged to act end
the continuous denial of justice to victims of
November 1984 Sikh Genocide India. A delegation of
Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), is a human advocacy
group, met with US Senators, Department of State
and Commission on International Religious Freedom
to apprise them of the continuous denial of
justice to the victims of November 1984 Sikh
Genocide by the Indian Government even after 25
years. More
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Express business visas for Indians: Canada
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CANADA has announced a new
liberal business visa regime for Indian businessmen to
catch up with other industrialised nations in boosting
trade with India. The new visa regime was announced by
the government here close on the heels of the visit of
Prime Minister Stephen Harper to India. Under the new
system, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said
applications from Indian citizens for business visas
would be cleared within 24 hours. The express visa
service offers multiple entry visas to applicants.
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