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| Calendar dedicated to the victims of terrorism
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Gurpreet Singh
A calendar dedicated to Comrade Darshan
Singh Canadian and 300 communists who were
murdered by the pro Khalistan extremists in Punjab
during terrorism was unveiled Sunday at the
Strawberry Hill Library. The unveiling ceremony
was performed by a veteran communist leader, Bir
Singh Jhutti and the daughter and the grandson of
Darshan Singh Canadian, who was murdered in Punjab
25 years ago.
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| Canada marks postmortem of G20 chaos |
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Paul Weinberg
SIX months after the chaos surrounding
security and policing at June's G20 leaders'
summit in Toronto, there is little agreement about
where the buck should stop.
More than 1,000 people were arrested and
temporarily detained. Close to 100 are facing
criminal charges, and fewer than 10 remain in
jail.
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| Conservative
pension scheme, a betrayal |
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THE Conservative government has betrayed
Canadians by abandoning any plans to expand the CPP and changing course after two years of talks
aimed at helping Canadians save for retirement,
Liberals charged today as Finance Minister Jim
Flaherty prepares to meet in Kananaskis with his
provincial and territorial counterparts.
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| The Stockholm suicide bomber |
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
 IT is a grave and fatal error of judgement to
believe that if extremist Islam and terrorist
Muslim movements continue to threaten the west
there will be no reaction. Driven to the wall all
societies fight back for their survival. I cannot
rule out the return of racism, fascism and
religious extremism in the west.
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| People rue role of U.S.
intervention |
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Zofeen Ebrahim
KAREEM
KHAN probably expected his wife to break down once
he brought their 18-year-old son’s body to the
women’s section. But when she saw their dead boy,
she just smiled and wished him farewell.
"In Islam, when a person dies during war, he goes
straight to heaven and so we didn’t mourn his
death," says Khan, adding that being a Hafiz, or
someone who had memorised the Koran, his son
Zainullah was "special".
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| Rain
may disappear from the world's breadbasket |
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Mario Osava
SOUTH America
still has vast extensions of land available for
growing crops to help meet the global demand for
food and biofuels. But the areas of greatest
potential agricultural production --
central-southern Brazil, northern Argentina, and
Paraguay -- could be left without the necessary
rains.
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| I had lunch with God!! |
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HERE is a small story with a big message. A
little boy wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long
trip where God lived. He packed his bag with twinkies
and six pack of soda and started his journey. When he
had gone about 3 blocks, he met an old man with a
flowing beard, sitting in the park just staring at
some pigeons.
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Kerala HC seeks report on Sabarimala stampede |
Telangana protests hit road transport, hundreds
detained | ‘Jindal Power IPO to hit market by
April’ | After onions, costlier cooking oils
hitting consumers | Selectors name 15-member
squad for World Cup
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| Kerala HC seeks report on
Sabarimala stampede |
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A deeply concerned Kerala High Court on Monday asked the
state government to submit by Thursday a report on the
stampede near the Sabarimala shrine in which 102 pilgrims
perished. A division bench of Justices Thottathil B
Radhakrishnan and P Bhavadasan, which has been handling
all cases relating to the devasoms (department which runs
the affairs of the temples in the state), took suo moto
cognisance of the stampede as the court opened
proceedings. More
Updated on January 17, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.
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- Telangana protests hit road
transport, hundreds detained More
- ‘Jindal Power IPO to hit
market by April’ More
- After onions, costlier
cooking oils hitting consumers More
- Selectors name 15-member
squad for World Cup More
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Southasiapost wishes its readers
a very Happy and Prosperous New Year |
| E D I T O R I A
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| A republic of
scandals |
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 INDIA has been described as a republic of
scandals. During the last one year alone the
country has been rocked by a chain of scandals,
the biggest being the 2G spectrum allocation scam
and its exposure by CAG and through Radia -Raja
tapes. It involved Rs 1.76 lakh crores. A section
of the media stands exposed.
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| FOCUS |
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Can the Congress
deliver?
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Gobind Thukral
WITH every passing day, our politicians are losing
moral high ground. This was visible during the
winter sessions of the Parliament that ended
without transacting any business. As the entire
Opposition struck to its demand for a Joint
Parliamentary Committee and the ruling UPA opposed
fearing exposure of its misdeeds, the stalemate
damaged a major institution, the Parliament.
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Russia, India, China for a multipolar world
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 Sawraj Singh
IN the year 2010, the leaders of all of the
permanent members of the security council of the
United Nations visited India. President Obama of
America, President Medvedev of Russia, Prime
Minister Wen Jiabao of China, President Sarkozy of
France, and Prime Minister David Cameron of the
UK.
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US stepping up pressure on Pakistan
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Gareth Porter
THIS week's leak
to the New York Times of a proposal for U.S.
Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids against
Afghan insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan may be
intended to put more pressure on the Pakistani
military to take action against those sanctuaries. More |
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Colonial laws and human
rights
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Gobind Thukral
ON December 24 this year, a trial court in Chhattisgarh found Dr. Binayak Sen and two others
Naxal ideologue Narayan Sanyal and Kolkata
businessman Piyush Guha guilty of criminal
conspiracy to commit sedition under Section 124(a)
read with Section 20 (b) of the Indian Penal Code,
and sentenced them to life imprisonment.
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| FEATURES |
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Dilip Kumar turns 88
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
 AFTER
the Kargil showdown, Shiv Sena’s Bal Thackeray
and his goons carried out a hate campaign
against Dilip sahib, alleging that like all
Muslims he is at heart a Pakistani. They
demanded that he must return the Nishan-e-Imtiaz
because Pakistan had committed aggression
against India.
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Optimistic attitude in life
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Vinod Anand
THIS couplet clearly indicates the essence
of the optimistic attitude in life. It means that
every portrait has many facets, some are smiling,
others are not. We must, therefore, focus on the
smiling aspects of everything we observe.
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Wonder irrigation pump goes a long way
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 Manipadma Jena
JUST two
years ago, Ratha Majhi was at his wits’ end trying
to eke out a decent living from his modest
vegetable farm. "It did not matter how long I
spent at the farm," he recalls.
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Battle between elephants and humans
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Manipadma Jena
 RETURNING
home from work recently, farmer Baidhar Singh was
aghast to find his thatched hut in Balasore
district, Orissa trampled to the ground. Just a
few hundred metres away stood the culprits, huge
and grey against the darkening sky: a herd of 65
wild elephants.
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Whither
marriage?
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 Joginder Singh Toor
LIVING together of a man and woman for a
considerably long period in relationship of the
nature of marriage devoid of ceremonies required
under their personal law whether gives rise to a
presumption of a valid marriage and entitle the
woman to a claim for maintenance under Section 125
of the Code of Criminal Procedure. More
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| COMMENT |
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The dangers of Neo-McCarthyism in America
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Sawraj Singh
THE nineteen-fifties were probably one of the
darkest periods in American history because the
careers of thousands of brilliant Americans were
destroyed by the phenomenon commonly known as
McCarthyism. More
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Miracle man eases village’s water woes
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Charles Mpaka
 HERMES Chimombo, a
welder in his 50s, is a revered man in the
impoverished Naotcha Township. Armed with
rudimentary tools and a passion to ease people’s
suffering, he has tapped a spring in the mountain
above the slum to provide water for its 25,000
residents.
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Curfew in Bhikhi after violent
clash
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Curfew was clamped on Bhikhi town of Mansa
district following a clash between hundreds of
followers of hardline Sikh preacher Baljeet Singh
Daduwal and the police force drawn from various
districts this afternoon.
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The Tribune]
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BOOK REVIEW
Of Media,
violence and prejudice
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 Reviewed by
Randeep Wadehra
Troubled Reflections: Reporting Violence by
Gobind Thukral
Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Pages: 214.
Price: Rs.495/-
MEDIA has come a long way since 1609 when
newspapers were first published in Germany. It now
comprises – along with newspapers – journals, TV
and Internet. Inevitably the multiplicity in its
composition has led to sophistication in its
outlook resulting in multipoint engagements with
governments and societies at large.
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