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| America inching towards a race war |
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Dr Sawraj Singh
 I have been saying for some time that the racial
divisions are becoming deeper in America and
unless we reverse this trend, America is heading
toward a race war. The Arizona Immigration law
has almost divided the country on the racial
lines, with a vast majority of the whites
supporting the law and almost all the minorities
opposing the law. However, it is the tragedy in
Manchester Connecticut which shows that the first
shots of the coming race war might already been
fired. Unfortunately, we have witnessed many such
tragedies before, a frustrated gunman shooting many
people to vent his anger.
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| Indian origin Americans vie for public positions |
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 A record number of Indian Americans are running
for public office this year. Nikki 'Randhawa'
Haley is Republican gubernatorial candidate in
South Carolina. Haley had brushed aside
allegations of marital infidelity and an ethnic
slur to become the Republican nominee for
governor. Other Indian Americans are running in
congressional, state and city races in
Pennsylvania, Kansas, California, New York and
Ohio. More than a dozen others serve in senior positions
in the Obama administration, including USAID chief
Rajiv Shah and US Chief Information Officer Vivek
Kundra.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, the first Indian
American governor, made the Republican short list
for vice president in 2008. More |
| Obama drops 2009 pledge to withdraw combat troops
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Gareth Porter
SEVENTEEN months after President Barack Obama
pledged to withdraw all combat brigades from Iraq
by Sep. 1, 2010, he quietly abandoned that pledge
Monday, admitting implicitly that such combat
brigades would remain until the end of 2011.
Obama declared in a speech to disabled U.S.
veterans in Atlanta that "America's combat mission
in Iraq" would end by the end of August, to be
replaced by a mission of "supporting and training
Iraqi security forces".
That statement was in line with the pledge he had
made on Feb. 27, 2009, when he said, "Let me say
this as plainly as I can: by Aug. 31, 2010, our
combat mission in Iraq will end."
In the sentence preceding that pledge, however, he
had said, "I have chosen a timeline that will
remove our combat brigades over the next 18
months."
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| The Cabinet mission plan |
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
 FOR its part, the Muslim League passed a
resolution on June 6, 1946 in which it regretted
that the demand for Pakistan had not been conceded
fully — but nevertheless accepted the Cabinet
Mission’s proposals because the idea of Pakistan
was inherent in them “by virtue of the compulsory
grouping of the six Muslim Provinces in Sections B
and C”
The recent discussions in the Daily Times on the
partition of India elicited a number of responses
from readers eager to understand if by rejecting
the Cabinet Mission Plan the Indian National
Congress did not bear the main responsibility for
the break-up of Indiaibility for the break-up of
India.
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No Indian involvement in match-fixing: Pawar |
150 labourers trapped inside Orissa coal mine
| Bengal: Delhi-Hooghli Rajdhani derails, no casualties
| Reliance Industries buys 14% stake in Oberoi
hotels | Match-fixing scam: More Pak games under
scanner
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| No Indian involvement in
match-fixing: Pawar |
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Pakistani team left by bus for Taunton early on Monday
evening for a one-day warm up match against Somerset
on Thursday, before the start of the one-day series
against England. The hundreds of reporters outside suggested
just a sliver of the scrutiny the team is under after
a tabloid on the weekend provided hidden camera evidence
that some Pakistani players seem involved in a massive
betting scam. More
Updated on August 31, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.
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- 150 labourers trapped inside
Orissa coal mine More
- Bengal: Delhi-Hooghli Rajdhani
derails, no casualties More
- Reliance Industries buys
14% stake in Oberoi hotels More
- Match-fixing scam: More Pak
games under scanner More
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| E D I T O R I
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| Happy
Independence Day |
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 SIXTY three years ago on this day India finally
succeeded in throwing away the yoke of slavery.
That was indeed a great day as it was the
culmination of a long arduous struggle that
demanded huge sacrifices. India at all levels had
struggled hard for decades to throw the tyrant
British out. They had once come as traders and
then with their cunning and of course clever work
dominated India for over 200 years.
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Panchayats in Haryana nurturing the roots
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Gobind Thukral
 RURAL Haryana recently went through a massive
political exercise. Over 98 lakh voters struggled
to elect nearly 68,000 panchayats. In a fiercely
contested elections spread over two months, there
were more than six candidates for each seat of a
panch, sarpanch , block samiti and zila parishad.
Over 84 per cent of the voters turned out to elect
these leaders of the grassroot democracy. More
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Pakistan underwater
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Pakistan, Muslims began celebrating the holy month
of Ramadan yesterday with "misery and fears of an
uncertain future," as massive monsoonal flooding
continues to ravage the country, leaving one-fifth
of Pakistan underwater. After weeks of flooding,
about 14 million people have already been affected
by the floods -- including six million children --
and estimates of the dead have ranged from 1,200 to
1,600. More |
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Defeat in Iraq will quicken the end of western
domination
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Dr Sawraj Singh
 AMERICA is withdrawing its combat troops from Iraq
this month. This is being clearly perceived as a
defeat in the region. Not only is this perceived
as a defeat for the West but also as a victory for
Iran. Many people in Iraq feel that Iran will fill
the vacuum left by America. The question is what
did America achieve in Iraq?
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| FEATURES |
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The blood soaked paradise
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Gobind Thukral
 KASHMIR is on the boil. The valley scene of
dreadful violence for the past two decades is
ablaze with its young men and women losing life
and limb each passing day. Every day all over the
valley, youngmen and women along with children are
on the streets, protesting against the grave
injustice meted to them. They pelt stones, the only
weapon they have, on security forces. More
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Friends: Toxic and non-toxic
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Vinod Anand
 THERE are two kinds of contacts that an individual
normally has. One is through relationship, and the
other through friendship. The first kind of
contact has many bindings (both household and
social), especially in the Indian context, whereas
the second one does not have any such bindings.
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Reduction of British aid not justified
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Pritam Singh
 THE British Prime Minister David Cameron begins
his high profile tour of India with the aim of
building stronger economic and political ties with
India. The importance the British government
attaches to this visit is highlighted by the fact
that he is accompanied by seven members of his
cabinet and a host of chief executives from top
British companies such as Vodafone, BAE and
Standard Chartered.
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Electronic records as evidence
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 Joginder Singh Toor
TO promote and support electronic based commerce
and the need to protect personal information,
collected, used or stored in electronic devices an
exhaustive legislation is required. The
Information Technology Act enacted in 2000 had to
be amended in 2008 to prevent ever growing
computer based crimes and ensure security
practices and provide procedures for a court of
law on the admissibility, production and use of
electronic records, electronic signatures,
agreements and communications, as evidence. More
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| COMMENT |
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Corporate sponsored government
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IN an activist 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court
struck down a decades-long ban on the use of
corporate money in elections with its ruling in
the Citizens United case in January, opening the
floodgates to unlimited, anonymous spending on
political campaigns by corporations, unions, and
advocacy organizations. More
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