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| BP Oil Spill
– A disaster for Gulf of Maxico & the U.S. |
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Khushwant Toor writes from
Toronto
APRIL 20, 2010 a blast occurred underwater at an
oil drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, owned by
Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC. The blast
killed 11 workers. Since then, oil has been
pouring into the Gulf from a blown-out undersea
well 1500 m deep at about 19000 to 210,000
gallons per day. The slick from the oil spill
has spread havoc on U.S. cost line. The BP oil
spill in the Gulf of Mexico has become the worst
in US history. More |
| Hillary Clinton criticizes Pakistan when it's
convenient |
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Gurpreet Singh writes from
Vancouver
 THE doublespeak of the U.S. administration has
been exposed by the tough talk against Pakistan by
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton following the
Times Square episode in New York City. As soon as
it was revealed that the Pakistani Taliban may
have been involved in the failed plot to bomb
Times Square early this month, Clinton warned
Pakistan of severe consequences.
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| Crisis of western capitalism and alternate
model of development |
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Dr
Sawraj Singh
AMERICA is going through a serious economic
crisis for the last couple of years. It appeared
that Europe was relatively less affected by the
crisis and was likely to recover sooner than
America. However, the severity of crisis in
Greece has raised questions about those
assumptions. Many people also felt that the
American rightist tilt and sticking to traditional
capitalism were responsible for the crisis and a
shift to the European style utilitarian capitalism
could help America to come out of the crisis. More |
| First turbaned Sikh officer of Canadian Air Force |
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Jagpal Singh Tiwana
HALIFAX Gurdwara Sangat gave a very warm welcome
to 2nd Lieutenant Jasbir Singh Tatla when he,
accompanied by 2nd Lieutenant Gurpreet Singh Bajwa,
visited the Gurdwara on Sunday, May 23, 2010. He
was invited by his friends Mr Sukhjinder Singh
Dhillon and Mrs. Manvinder Kaur Dhillon. Mrs.
Dhillon is the secretary of the Gurdwara
Management committee this year. Mr Tatla was
introduced by Jagpal Singh Tiwana as a committed
soldier who belonged to a family with long military
history.
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| 'Culture Integral to Agriculture' |
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Sabina Zaccaro
BIODIVERSITY in agriculture is about culture.
Traditional knowledge and culture are as
important as research and investments aver
farmers, researchers and academicians who are
gathered in Rome to celebrate International Day
for Biodiversity on Saturday.
While many will be talking about preserving panda
and other endangered animal species in the
biodiversity day, here the focus is on food and
agriculture, "which are equally key for nutrition
and to feed the world despite the impacts of
climate change", says Emile Frison,
Director-General of Bioversity International,
which is based in Maccarese, outside Rome.
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| The execution of an ISI agent |
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
IT must be an embarrassment for SAARC that
recently conferred an award on Hamid Mir for
conscientious journalism. That the same individual
networks with two of the most bloodthirsty
terrorist organisations in the world is an
interesting case of duplicity.
A controversy is raging in Pakistan these days
over the events that led to the execution on April
30, 2010 of a former ISI agent, Khalid Khawaja by
a hitherto unknown group called the Asian
Tigers. More
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KASHMIR : No formula, build trust-3 |
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Urmilesh
THERE is no dearth of formulas for the
resolution of the Kashmir dispute. Innumerable
suggestions, demands, proposals and formulas have
cropped up since 1947-48. Some of them were
discussed at bilateral forums, others reached
international platforms.
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Don’t use F-16s against India, US warns Pak |
Bhopal: PM asks GoM to meet immediately | Major
victory against Maoists in Jharkhand | May
wholesale inflation seen at 9.56 pct | Dumas
leads Audi sweep of Le Mans 24 Hour Race
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| Don’t use F-16s against
India, US warns Pak |
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United States has put up stiff conditions on the sale of
F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, stipulating that they
cannot be used against India in any future conflict.
Pakistan is slated to receive 18 F-16s from the US by the
end of this month. More
Updated on June 14, 2010 at 1:00 p.m.
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- Bhopal: PM asks GoM to meet
immediately More
- Major victory against
Maoists in Jharkhand More
- May wholesale inflation
seen at 9.56 pct More
- Dumas leads Audi sweep of
Le Mans 24 Hour Race More
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| E D I T O R I
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| Is a military
solution possible to the Maoist onslaught? |
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 NAXALISM, Maoism is in fact, left wing politics
that wants to change India through the barrel of
the gun and has grown exponentially in the last
ten years to take the present menacing position .
Earlier in sixties and seventies, it was largely
confined to West Bengal, Andhra and Punjab etc.
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Villagers pay dearly for India’s
war with Maoists
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Sabina Zaccaro
 BIODIVERSITY in agriculture is about culture.
Traditional knowledge and culture are as important
as research and investments aver farmers,
researchers and academicians who are gathered in
Rome to celebrate International Day for
Biodiversity on Saturday. More
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Farmers suicides and the sleepy government
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Gobind Thukral
 DOES
anyone in Punjab know how many farmers have
committed suicides in India’s premier agriculture
state during the last two decades? No one. Neither
the government nor any university, or any non
government organization; although each one dishes
out its kind of figures. More |
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Phantasmagoria called Muslim women
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
 WHENEVER outmoded religious laws and practices
stood in the way of progress, reformers started an
internal critique and ended up recommending that
the secular state, respectful of religion as a
spiritual and moral code as well as of the human
rights of individuals, alone can serve as the
basis of a pluralist democracy.
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Visa refusals to Indian security officials raise
hackles
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Gurpreet Singh
THE Canadian government's refusal to issue
visas to serving and retired Indian security
officials has not only created an unnecessary
conflict between the two countries, but has also
raised too many questions about how Canada views
outsiders.
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| FEATURES |
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Multiculturalism and diversity, the only
sane choice for America
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 Dr Sawraj Singh
ARIZONA is pushing America from Racial Divide
to racial confrontation. The controversial
immigration law has already divided the country on
racial lines. Now, it has passed another law banning
the teaching of ethnic history in the schools (House
Bill 2281). More
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Sirhind Fateh Diwas: Homage to Banda Bahadur
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Om Prakash Sharma
SIRHIND Fateh Diwas was observed from May 12-May
14, 2010, to mark the 300th Anniversary of the
conquest of Sirhind, in Punjab by Banda Bhadur
Bairagi. Vazir Khan, the Mughal Faujdar, was
killed in the battle of Chhappar Chiri, near
Sirhind, on May 12, 1710.
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Effective teaching
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Vinod Anand
 A FEW days back I read a news report on the
orientation programme organized by the UGC-
Academic Staff College, University of Allahabad,
where the valedictory address was delivered by
Prof. Mishra, former Vice Chancellor of the
University. Addressing the participants, Prof.
Mishra gave four tips for effective teaching.
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The sound, fury and music of new age
journalism
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Bal Anand
 EVER
since the 19 month long dark epoch of Emergency in
June 1975 - January 1977 - infamous for the curbs on
freedom of press - the media in India has been in a
heady spin evolving itself in embracing new
challenges in the professional and technological
domains of globalization.
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Genocide is
punishable
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 Joginder Singh Toor
BOSNIA previously a part of kingdom of Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes formed in 1918, re-named
Yugoslavia in 1929, broke into pieces namely,
Crotia, Slovenia, Mecedonia, Bosnia and Serbia,
invoked the jurisdiction of the International
Court of Justice for Genocide and other offences. More
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| COMMENT |
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Only high skilled migrants welcome to Australia
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THE Australian Minister for Immigration and
Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans has announced a
new Skilled Occupation List (SOL) designed to
deliver highly skilled migrants and crackdown on
people seeking permanent residency through
low-value education courses. More
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We can live without oil, but not without flora and
fauna
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Stephen Leahy
 THE policies and deals that contributed to the
massive oil spill under way in the Gulf of Mexico
are also jeopardising the Earth's vital biological
infrastructure, according to the Global
Biodiversity Outlook 3, published Monday.
The British Petroleum oil spill of 5,000 barrels a
day in the Gulf of Mexico, which began Apr. 20
when an explosion caused a rupture at the
Deepwater Horizon oil rig, will have devastating
consequences for marine life and coastal
ecosystems for decades, experts say. More
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