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the 2010 winter |
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Khushwant Toor writes from
Toronto
THE 21st Winter Olympics games were
inaugurated on February 12, 2010, amongst a
spectacular show of technology and Canadian pride.
The host Vancouver – the pictures city of Canada was
full of life and joy and boastingly welcomed
athletes from all over the world. About 2,500
athletes from a record 82 countries are
participating in the games, targeting for medals in
86 events - including the newly added ski-cross
competition.
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| From angry young man to apologist of thugs |
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Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver
A coolie at the dock vows not to pay
anything to the goons, who collect protection money
every week from the workers. The defiance is met
with physical assault. But this guy is not scared.
He rather locks himself in the warehouse along with
the thugs and throws the keys at the gang leader
roaring, ``you can put them in your pocket, I will
get them myself’’.
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| Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh member wins Hindu
temple election |
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Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver
ALMOST three months after the Guru Nanak Sikh
Temple election was won by an orthodox Sikh youth
slate, the Surrey Hindu Temple election has gone
to a group led by a member of an ultranationalist
Hindu group.
On January 31, Parshotam Goel, a member of the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), was elected
president of the temple governed by the Vedic
Hindu Cultural Society of B.C., soundly defeating
a slate led by Sunny Chohan.
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ANALYSIS |
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Two lakh farmers commit suicide in India
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Gobind Thukral
INDIA is a sad witness to hundreds of farmers
taking their lives each year. Their desperation
finds no other expression when they see themselves
trapped neck deep in debt. The union government’s
policies, particularly after the economic reforms
read pro business and pro industry were introduced.
The terms of trade have never favoured the farmers,
but after the advent of the Green Revolution and
commercialisation of farming, these became worst. More |
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| The French burqa ban |
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
 THE Commission recommended that if the government
was going to ban the burqa, it should compensate
by declaring as public holidays the religious
festivals of Muslims and Jews. It also recommended
that steps be taken to integrate Muslim and other
minorities into the French mainstream. A
non-binding recommendation of a French Parliamentary
Commission saying that the burqa (complete veiling
of women from head to foot) should be banned in
public institutions. More
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| Recession and recovery: The Lucky Are Unemployed |
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IPS Correspondents
THE agreed, if dubious, solution to the
financial crisis was to get people and governments
– in the richer countries – to borrow more in
order to spend more. What is not in doubt is the
growing numbers of people who will be able to
neither borrow nor spend.
A report from the International Labour
Organisation (ILO) released Wednesday points to
dramatic levels of unemployment in the developed
countries. More
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| Book:
Tanhai |
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Vinod Anand 'Nazar'
Tanhai
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Hafiz Saeed calls for jihad against India | 8.8
magnitude earthquake hits Chile; 300 killed |
Punjab Deputy CM directs police to deal strictly
with dera followers | Finance minister promises
revised tax code draft | Hockey World Cup: India
humiliate Pakistan 4-1
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| Hafiz Saeed calls for jihad
against India |
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Saeed, India's most wanted man who is believed to be
behind 26/11, was seen spewing venom against the country
once again, publicly. "No doubt," Saeed said
in an interview to a Pakistani channel when asked whether
people should go to Kashmir for 'jihad' against India.
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Updated on March 1, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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- 8.8 magnitude earthquake hits
Chile; 300 killed More
- Punjab Deputy CM directs
police to deal strictly with dera followers More
- Finance minister promises
revised tax code draft More
- Hockey World Cup: India humiliate
Pakistan 4-1 More
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| E D I T O R I
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| Majority of Indian
government schemes fail to utilise allocated funds |
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GOING by the funds utilised during the first nine
month under various flagship schemes initiated by
the Indian government, it is clear it’s the
laudable objectives will not be achieved. This
reflects poorly on the performance of the union
government. Same is the fate of these schemes at
the level of various states.
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| FOCUS |
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The battle on BT Brinjal
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Gobind Thukral
 FOR once a union minister has shown rare courage
and placed a moratorium on the release of BT
brinjal for commercial cultivation. Environment
Minister, Jairam Ramesh has boldly withstood the
pressure from the multinational corporation
Monsanto, his cabinet colleagues and a section of
scientists and some farmer lobbyists. The
recommendation of the high powered committee that
had cleared the BT brinjal has been put on hold. More |
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Massive black money
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Vinod Anand
 APART from a strong democratic country, India is
also a parallel economy, which is also termed as a
shadow economy, and even underground economy,
because a number of things/events that go along
with the functioning of the economy are not seen
in reality as they are highly concealed. This term
was coined long back by, and it applies very well
to India. It has many connotations. One of them
relates to the existence of black money. Let us
briefly elaborate on this issue.
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WSF: Brazil – Another power is possible
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Fabiana Frayssinet
 RIO DE JANEIRO- The birthplace of the World Social
Forum (WSF), conceived as an alternative to
international meetings pursuing free-market
economics, Brazil is on its way to becoming a
major economic power, analysts say. The question
is, what kind of model will it adopt to avoid the
behaviour it has previously criticised? More
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| FEATURES |
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Live issues of Punjab agriculture and future
prospects
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Dr. S. S. Chhina
 FOOD security is still a big challenge for
the country Punjab having 1.5 percent of area is
producing 20 percent of the wheat and 12 percent of
rice. It is contributing 60 percent of wheat and 40
percent of rice in the national basket of food
stocks. But agricultural production is continually
declining since 1990, the more quantity and more of
fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides are to be
utilized every year to obtain the same level of
output.
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The realism fallacy
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
INDIA finds China a bigger threat than Pakistan
and insists that it needs to arm itself to thwart
perceived Chinese aggression, but Pakistan
perceives a militarily stronger India a greater
threat to its security than before.
The Realism School of International Relations is
premised on the assumption that states do not
trust each other.
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IveChildren Stories: Palwinder’s
Cinderella
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Pearl Jasra
MEET Palwinder, eight years, beautifully dark as
you can see, eldest of the three brothers. His
father is a dihadidar, a daily wager. Palwinder is
okay in studies and has been regularly coming for
the last three years during which his other siblings
also joined my seven year old little initiative.
Okay I shall come back to Palwinder, the little,
beautifully black protagonist of this story.
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Limited Liability Partnership Act, a door to
foreign economic invasion
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Joginder Singh Toor
 “DOORS are opened to enter business in India”
claims a journal published by an association of
professionals in North America. The reason India
has passed the Limited Liability Partnership Act,
section 7 of which provides that every LLP limited
liability partnership shall have at least two
designed partners who are individuals and at least
one of them shall be a resident of India. More
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| COMMENT |
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Sri Lanka: Pitfalls ahead for Rajapaksa
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Adithya Alles
 SRI Lankans witnessed one of the country’s most
contentious elections ever when President Mahinda
Rajapaksa staved off the challenge posed by his
former Army commander, Sarath Fonseka, and
clinched more than 1.8 million majority votes
during the Jan. 26 poll.
Both presidential contenders gained popularity
after the Sri Lankan military successfully wiped
out the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE) last May, ending a civil war that
spanned more than two decades and cost over 70,000
lives. More
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Europe pushes to prise open India
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David Cronin
SECRET discussions aimed at pressuring
India into dropping all measures that shield its
industry from foreign competition have been held
between European Union officials and some of the
world's top corporations. BusinessEurope, a group
representing large companies, has been intimately
involved in all stages of the EU's preparations
for talks aimed at securing a free trade agreement
with India. Internal documents from the European
Commission, the EU's executive arm, show that it
requested advice from the group when setting
priorities for the talks as early as February 2007
- nine months before the talks were formally
launched.
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