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| BP oil leak
stops after havoc |
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Khushwant Toor writes from Toronto
THE world waited more than three months and finally
BP was able to cap the leaking oil well about a mile
below the sea bed. The next step is to drill two
parallel wells, intercept the leaking well at an
angle and pump mud and cement to fill the
uncontrollable whole now gushing oil into the gulf.
The cap which is now placed is a temporary solution
as it is not bolted to the well, just kept tight
with a hydraulic seal. More |
| An interview with Kuldip Nayar |
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Dr Amrik Singh writes from Sacramento
Kuldip Nayar was in Sacramento, California on a
special invitation to attend 10th Ghadar Memorial
Foundation Conference. The Foundation’s president
Charan Singh Judge arranged a special appointment
with the noted columnist. It lasted for several
hours and touched sensitive issues like Hindutva,
terrorism, politics, foreign policy and NRI
affairs.
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| Castro reserves a
place in history |
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Dr
Sawraj Singh
 I have said several times that three leaders have
made most impact on history in the twentieth
century, Mao Zedong of China, Ho Chi Minh of
Vietnam and Fidel Castro of Cuba. By bringing
revolution in the most populated country of the
World, Mao fundamentally changed the balance of
power between the East and the West. More |
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| Centenary of an unsung hero: Swarn Singh |
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Chaman Lal
Swarn Singh, who died on 20th July, 1910,
according to Malwinderjit Singh Waraich, author of
many books on revolutionaries and revolutionary
freedom movement of India, was the younger uncle
of Bhagat Singh. Incidentally Swarn Singh died at
almost same age-23 years, as Bhagat Singh kissed
the gallows around same age.
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| Amid renewed violence,
journalists become
the news |
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Athar Parvaiz
Abdul Rehman stopped in his tracks when he
did not see his usual newspapers strewn out on his
lawn one morning this month. But little did he
know that he would not see newspapers, whether out
on the newsstands or delivered to subscribers like
him, for three more days.
"Reading the morning newspapers, for me, is as
essential as breakfast," says Rehman. He later
discovered that local newspapers have suspended
publication from Jul. 8 to 11 – the first time
this has happened in the 20-year conflict in
India-administered Kashmir – to protest the
government’s restrictions on the movement of
reporters and technical staff.
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| Green revolution has little to
offer |
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Marwaan Macan-Markar
AS it took root in the rice fields
across Asia, it was hailed as the solution to the
hunger afflicting millions of people in the
region. But four decades on, the much vaunted
Green Revolution appears to have reached its
limits, unable to meet new demands, to feed new
mouths.
United Nations food experts are increasingly
touting the region’s chronic hunger figures for
2009 to confirm this reality. Last year saw the
proportion of people in the grip of chronic hunger
hit 17 to 18 percent in the Asia- Pacific region,
up from 16 percent in 2006. More
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MEDIA, ART &
LITERATURE |
| Another cinematic effort
go waste |
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Mel Karade Rabba is a commercially successful but
a socially damaging film. The slogan of the film
‘hockey di taqat kalam di taqat nalo wadh hai’ is
encouraging the youth in general and that of
Punjab in particular to opt for violence instead
of education; moreover, not for any social
reform but just to show off their hollow
egoistic tendencies, wealth, their hypocritical
attitude and to win over the heart of a
beautiful girl.
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PM concludes CWG meet; Gill likely to head oversight
panel | Karnataka govt is the most corrupt, says
Rahul Gandhi | Trichy: Jayalalithaa targets DMK
in mega rally | Obama signs visa fee hike bill
into law despite Indian concerns | Wenger signs
new contract with Arsenal
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| PM concludes CWG meet; Gill
likely to head oversight panel |
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questions over preparedness for the Commonwealth Games
and controversies surrounding it, Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh on Saturday held a meeting with ministers concerned
and other stake-holders to take stock of the preparations
for the mega event to be held in October. More
Updated on August 15, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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- Karnataka govt is the most
corrupt, says Rahul Gandhi More
- Trichy: Jayalalithaa targets
DMK in mega rally More
- Obama signs visa fee hike
bill into law despite Indian concerns
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- Wenger signs new contract
with Arsenal More
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| E D I T O R I
A L |
| The leaks and
the unholy war in Afghanistan |
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OVER 91,000 pages of secret documents that were
supplied by WikiLeaks to three major newspapers,
the Guardian, New York Times and Der Spiegel has
shaken the government in America, Afghanistan and
Pakistan. India feels vindicated in the sense that
it has always been urging to end the collusion of
ISI with Islamic fundamentalists. Although most
what is said in these documents is well known to
the concerned governments, yet it is now in public
domain, embarrassing to the war mongers and the
militant organizations.
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Julian
Assange More
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| FOCUS |
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Food rots as millions go
hungry
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Gobind Thukral
 NOTHING
disturbs the conscience of India. Its burgeoning
middle class is getting smug every passing day. The
poor steeped in ignorance and hunger cannot think
why they are po0or or why millions go hungry as
thousands of food grains rot. The rich should have
no worries. Are these not harsh facts of Indian
public life? Largely true but the larger picture has
those who are protesting peacefully or with guns in
their hands. More
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Food for all, really !
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Gobind Thukral
 Sonia Gandhi
has approved the National Food
Security Act, though not in a full measure. This
aims to deliver 35 kg of grain per month at Rs 3
per kg to every family in the 200 poorest
districts of India. It will be extended if found
feasible to other districts, and provide 25 kg per
month to families that aren't poor. The UPA
government can claim this to be its biggest social
measure after the National Employment Guarantee Act
which is supposed to have created millions of jobs. More |
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Punjab: an environmental toxicity hotspot
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Dr Amar Singh Azad
IT is increasingly becoming obvious that
Punjab is turning into a hotspot of
Environmental Toxicity. We have more than two
hundred dangerous chemicals in our environment
including our own bodies. Chemical Toxicity is
the known story but recently added Radioactive
Toxicity is relatively less talked about.
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| FEATURES |
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Football and spirituality
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 Satya Narayana Sahu
THE world cup football in South Africa generated
passion and excitement in every part of the globe.
The fervour of the event moved millions. Success
achieved by a country in the arena of its
favourite and popular sports spurs its people to
forge unprecedented unity. Even they keep out of
reckoning the impending calamity and gathering
crisis. More
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Material world and spirituality
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Vinod Anand
IN philosophy the theory of materialism holds that
the only thing that exists is matter; that all
things are composed of material and all phenomena
(including consciousness) are the result of
material interactions. In other words, matter is
the only substance. As a theory, materialism is a
form of physicalism and belongs to the class of
monist ontology.
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Is India all set for a reign of English?
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Bal Anand
 IT
was December 2003. I had returned to be in lap of
Mother India with suffix ‘retired’, after proverbial
‘lying abroad…’ missing 21 consecutive summers of
Hindustan. My little nest in a multi-storey complex
boasted location on eastern bank of legendary Yamuna-
fated soon to be Saraswati! Not distant from the
shrine of Sufi saint Nizamuddin Aulia, the nest has
a view of the latest addition to the land marks of
capital, Akshardham, symbolizing a new breed of
Gujarati creed.
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The struggle for one Punjab
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Swaranjeet Singh
 Punjab born feel
its pains
Sheikh Azhar Ehsan
Chicago: Institute for Conflict and Peace
Studies (IFCAPS) in collaboration with Asian
American Seniors Association (AASA) and Akal
Foundation (Chicago) organized a special function in
honor of Sheikh Ajhar Ehsan, a most revered person
among Pakistani Sikhs. The venue Pepper & Salt
Restaurant presented a festive look as a large
gathering joined in the dialog and discussion for
three hours.
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Lie Detector Test: How for constitutional
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 Joginder Singh Toor
A is charged with travelling without ticket. The
burden of proving that he had a ticket is on him,
so is the case of a driver charged with driving
negligently and rashly thereby killing a person.
It is he, who has to prove that he was not
negligent or rash and that the accident took place
in an other manner than complained of. More
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| COMMENT |
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Will crisis of capitalism lead to a Third World
War?
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Dr
Sawraj Singh
THE lessons from reviewing history tell us that
whenever capitalist countries had difficult time
coming out of an economic crisis, then they
resorted to a war. The current economic crisis is
one of the worst crises of the western capitalism.
Can this crisis lead to a third World war? If we
see the situations in Afghanistan, the Middle
East, Korea, South America, and Africa, then the
possibility of a third war cannot be ruled out. More
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Only just a billion were hungry
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Paul Virgo
 THE bad news is that 1.02 billion people are going
hungry in today's world of plentiful supplies. The
even worse news is that this figure only tells part
of the global food insecurity story. This is not
just because no cold statistic will ever depict this
scourge's full human toll on those unable to find
enough to eat for themselves and their families. More
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