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enquiry: Canadian government guilty |
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FAMILIES of the Air India bombing victims will
receive compensation and an apology after a special
inquiry report blamed a turf war between the RCMP and
Canada’s spy agency for failing to prevent the
disaster. Former Supreme Court of Canada justice John
Major led a four-year inquiry into the June 23, 1985
explosions that killed 329 crew and passengers, and
two baggage handlers at Tokyo’s Narita airport.
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| Canada hears
cries of Sikhs |
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Dr Amrik Singh
CANADIAN Parliament has recorded a unique petition
on June 9th 2010 . It is about several thousand
Sikhs killed in a planned manner after the assassination
of Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi in
1984. The government machinery was allegedly used
to identify Sikhs’ houses from the voters’ lists.
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| Slouching
toward fascism |
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Dr Sawraj Singh
 AMERICA
is slowly moving towards fascism under the guise
of populism. The new right is a populist movement.
Populism is on the rise. Fox TV, Rush Limbaugh
Radio, Tea Party movement, Sarah Palin and Jan
Brewer, the populist leaders are everywhere. I
have always heard the whites accusing the minorities
of playing the race card. This time it is the
opposite, the populists are using the race card.
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| UPA government: Fake
celebration |
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Gobind Thukral
OUR economist prime minister has once again predicted
that prices would fall to the level. He has assured
that by December prices would decline to the range
of 5 to 6 per cent. Celebrating completing his
first year in office during the present regime
of United Progressive Alliance, Dr Manmohan Singh
claimed that his government was deeply concerned
with price rise and the conditions of the poor
people in India. More |
Beatings, Abuse, Doctored Evidence Emerge |
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Mel Frykberg
ALTHOUGH Israel successfully controlled
news of its deadly commando raid on the Free Gaza
(FG) flotilla during the first crucial 48 hours
of media coverage, emerging evidence from witnesses
and survivors is challenging the Israeli government's
version of events. More |
The sorry state of Pakistani economy |
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
THE landowning class must pay tax on the
income they derive from the land. A value-added
tax should be imposed on all items sold in the
market, especially at the retail levels. The Lahore-based
Institute of Public Policy (IPP), Beaconhouse
National University, was established in 2008 as
a think tank to monitor economic, social, political
and foreign policy issues pertaining to Pakistan
and recommend public policy measures needed to
‘improve the welfare of the citizens’. More |
KASHMIR : No formula, build trust-4 |
| 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. More |
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Maoists attack CRPF party in Chhattisgarh, 26
jawans killed | Anti-nationals exploiting J-K
situation: PC | Govt says will go for Anderson
extradition | Automakers hike prices as input
costs rise | Venus crashes out as Serena, Clijsters
target semis
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| Maoists attack CRPF party
in Chhattisgarh, 26 jawans killed |
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six CRPF jawans have been killed and seven injured in
what is being seen as another major Naxal attack in
Chhattisgarh. Sources said at least 90 Maoists ambushed
a 63-strong CRPF road-opening party in an area under
Dhaurai police station, 3 km from the CRPF camp in Narayanpur
district of the state, at about 3 pm on Tuesday. More
Updated on June 30, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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- Anti-nationals exploiting
J-K situation: PC More
- Govt says will go for Anderson
extradition More
- Automakers hike prices as
input costs rise More
- Venus crashes out as Serena,
Clijsters target semis More
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| E D I T O R I
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| Is anyone worried
over poverty in Pakistan? |
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 LAHORE is one of the unsafe cities of Pakistan.
Karachi, Peshawar, Islamabad, whole of North West
and Balochistan today present a dismal picture of
blood and gore. Marauding armies of Islamic
extremists of one or the other faction cast their
dark shadows, killing dozens and maiming many more
every month.
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Bhopal Gas Tragedy, no justice after a
quarter of century
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Gobind Thukral
 THIS tragic story is well known to the entire
human race. It is itched in human memory as like
the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the
worst industrial disaster in human history that
claimed 15,274 lives and impaired another 5.74
lakh lives in India’s great city of Bhopal. It
happened on the night of December 3 and 4 in 1984,
the worst year for Operation Blue Star and the
killing of hundreds of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and
elsewhere and the assassination of a ruling Indian
Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi. More
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Bhopal’s industrial catastrophe caused due to
emergency
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 Gopal Krishna
THE affidavit from Central Bureau of
Investigation’s most recent affidavit in the Court
of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopal clearly implies
that had Emergency been not imposed Bhopal’s
catastrophe caused by the US Corporation’s acts of
omission and commission would not have happened. More |
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The demand for Pakistan and Islam
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
 THE Muslim League’s propaganda struck terror in
the hearts of the Hindus and Sikhs who were told
that they would be paying jazya and Islamic law
will prevail in all sectors of individual and
collective life. The minority Shia and Ahmediyya
communities were also fearful that it would result
in Sunni domination.
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Global Civil Society Campaign to De-Legitimise
Israel?
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Thalif Deen
IF, as expected, the U.N.
Security Council remains politically impotent and
refuses to penalise Israel for the killings of
nine pro-Palestinian civilians on a ship carrying
humanitarian aid to Gaza, what is the next course
of action?
A global civil society campaign to de-legitimise
Israel? Formal or informal sanctions by individual
states? Worldwide arrest warrants?.
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| FEATURES |
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China and India should unite to end the western
domination
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Dr Sawraj Singh
 INDIA'S President Pratibha Patil is now visiting
China. This a very important mile stone in the
Relations between the two countries. The Indian
President is visiting China after 10 years. The
last time an Indian President visited China was in
the year 2000 when President K R Narayanan visited
China.
The relations between the two countries have not
grown smoothly. In the fifties, the relations were
very close and the two countries came up with the
five principles of peaceful co existence, “Panch
Sheel”! More
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Isolation
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Professor Vinod Anand
 IN this world-wide crowd, each person lives his
own life, and is a loner in that sense. The term
isolation also refers to the act of being alone.
It also refers to solitude which is a state of
seclusion. Short-term solitude is often valued as
a time when one may work, think or rest without
being disturbed.
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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NRIs to get voting rights soon
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 Joginder Singh Toor
UNDER the existing People’s Representation Act, an
NRI's name gets deleted from the voters' list if
he/she stays outside the country for more than six
months at a stretch. The proposed amendments will
allow an Indian citizen residing abroad to enroll
in voter's list and exercise the franchise even if
he or she remained away from place of residence in
India for more than six months owing to their
employment, education or otherwise. More
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| COMMENT |
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One Rank One Pension
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Maj. Gen. (Retd.) S. P. Kapoor
THE demand for One Rank One Pension has gained
fresh currency with the announcement of the Sixty
Pay Commission Award. The ex-servicemen have been
expressing their anguish and demanding that this
be accepted forthwith. They have been meeting
ministers and senior officers and even presented a
memorandum to the President of India. To
understand the issue in its entirety, it is
essential that the peculiar as well as steeply
hierarchical structure and functioning of the Armed
Forces is clearly understood. More
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