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| Man who lost relatives in Air India bombing
elected Sikh temple vice president |
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Gurpreet Singh writes from Vancouver
MAJOR Singh Sidhu—who lost his sister, a nephew,
and a niece in the 1985 Air India bombing—was
elected vice president in the Vancouver Sikh
temple election last weekend. Sidhu was one of the
candidates on the winning moderate Sikh slate led
by Sohan Singh Deo.
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| Obama’s journey from Mr. Socialism to Mr.
Capitalism |
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Sawraj Singh
 AFTER Bush’s jingoist, chauvinist, racist, and
cowboyish policies, many sensible Americans and
people in many parts of the world had hoped that
Obama will be a welcome change and bring some
moderation and prudence to the Presidency and
America.
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| Fatal flaws in America’s financial system |
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Harjap Singh Aujla
ONE of the reasons for America’s worst recession
since 1929-31 has been the American indulgence in
the Iraq war. During this ill-conceived war since
2002, upwards of $200 billion were being expended
every year from the American exchequer, without
generating any revenue or assets in return.
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| Conservative decision to withdraw from the Kyoto
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LIBERAL Environment critic Dr. Kirsty Duncan made
the following statement about the Conservative
government’s decision to withdraw from the Kyoto
Protocol: When Liberals signed Kyoto, we made the
investments necessary to achieve our targets and
lead the world.
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| Saving the forests with indigenous knowledge |
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Isaiah Esipisu
FOR the Laibon community, a sub-tribe of Kenya’s
Maasai ethnic group, the 33,000-hectare Loita
Forest in the country’s Rift Valley Province is
more than just a forest. It is a shrine. “It is
our shrine. Our Gods live there. We gather herbs
from the place. We use it for bee- keeping.
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Dev Anand:
September 1923 – December 2011
The man who lived, and loved |
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Harjap Singh Aujla
 WE
are all saddened by the passing away of Dev Anand
in London on Sunday December 4, 2011. An achiever
all his life, he lived his life to the fullest. He
was the king of romance and he succeeded in all
his attempted romances.
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Lokpal fiasco: All out war between Cong, BJP |
BJP to be blamed for democracy’s murder: Singhvi
| Maya sacks 4 more ministers; no BSP ticket to
them | Sensex logs 1st annual fall in 3 years,
sheds 24.6% in 2011 | Tendulkar rises, Dravid
slips in latest ICC rankings
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| Lokpal fiasco:
All out war between Cong, BJP |
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A political war broke out between government and
Opposition on Friday over Rajya Sabha's failure to pass
Lokpal Bill yesterday, with both sides accusing each of
carrying out "well choreographed" chaos to scuttle it.
Under attack that it ran away from a vote because of lack
of majority in the House, the government launched a media
blitzkrieg in which BJP was the main target and painted as
"villain" of the midnight drama. More
Updated on December 31, 2011 at 2:00 a.m.
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BJP to be blamed for democracy’s murder: Singhvi More
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Maya sacks 4 more ministers; no BSP ticket to them More
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Sensex logs 1st annual fall in 3 years, sheds 24.6% in
2011 More
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Tendulkar rises, Dravid slips in latest ICC rankings More
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Are we really the largest democracy? |
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IN the first week of December, a report, Torture
in India 2011, was released by the Asian Centre
for Human Rights (ACHR). The report comprising
data from 2001 to 2010 found that more than four
persons died every day in police and judicial
custody in India.
On the basis of the cases reported to National
Human Rights Commission (NHRC) the report found
that total of 14,231 persons died in police and
judicial custody, it includes 1,504 deaths in
police custody and 12,727 deaths in judicial
custody from 2001 to 2010. When it comes to deaths
in police custody in Northern India, Punjab and
Haryana also figure among the first 10 with 57 and
45 custodial deaths respectively. And in deaths in
judicial custody, UP topped with 2,171 deaths and
Punjab was on number sixth with 739 deaths,
Haryana not much behind with 431 deaths.
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Total 14,231 custodial deaths in India from 2001 to
2010
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SAP Bureau
ASIAN Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) found that a
total of 14,231 persons --more than four persons per
day-- died in police and judicial custody in India
from 2001 to 2010. According to “Torture in India
2011” (http://www.achrweb.org/reports/india/torture2011.pdf),
a report released in first week of December stated
it includes 1,504 deaths in police custody and
12,727 deaths in judicial custody from 2001-2002 to
2009-2010 as per the cases submitted to the National
Human Rights Commission (NHRC). According to report
a large majority of these deaths are a direct
consequence of torture in custody. These deaths
reflect only a fraction of the problem with torture
and custodial deaths in India as not all the cases
of deaths in police and prison custody are reported
to the NHRC.
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| FEATURES |
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Attributes of Philosophy
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Vinod Anand
ALL sciences are philosophical, provided they are
taken to the desired height with the help of
knowledge that is treated as the basic instrument
for this process. Once that height is attained,
all sciences talk of the world with their
specialty of the universe. They also need
intelligence and enterprise. Hence, philosophy has
many attributes and realms. The first realm is its
logic. Mere frail and adventurous reason and
profound and obscure intuition does not help.
Another realm is epistemology which connotes the
theory of the method or grounds of knowledge.
Sometimes logic has many weary paths. Then, the
riddle of knowledge is solved through reality and
honesty. More
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Power of joy
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Anupam Bhanot
 THE world today is in desperate need of joy.
Rarely do we find people smiling cutely and
laughing whole heartedly. Weary smiles and dry
faces tell the tales of much stress that we carry
as our baggage all our lives. A hearty laugh is an
invaluable tonic that withers away all pain and
stress. No uninvited condition can come into our
life unless it finds something that favours it. It
cannot remain there if we cease to entertain it.
Although each person feels that the particular
thing he lacks would give him great joy whether it
be work, wealth, love or friendship. Actually, we
must come to realise the distinction between joy
and enjoyment and between happiness and pleasure. More
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
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Unjust Laws must go
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Joginder Singh Toor
 “LAWS
and institutions, no matter how efficient and well
arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are
unjust.” Says John Rawls in his ‘Theory of
Justice’. Long back the Supreme Court of India
declared the Urban Tenancy Laws as unjust although
the same were just and necessary when these were
enacted. “A fast changing society cannot operate
with unchanging laws and preconceived judicial
attitude,” said the Supreme Court of India in
Parbhakaran Nair etc. Vs State of Tamil Nadu and
others AIR 1987-SC-2117.
Further elaborating “the laws of landlords and
tenants must be made rational, human, certain and
capable of being quickly implemented.” More
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| BOOKS & BEYOND |
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Book Reviews
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Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
By Steve Inskeep
Published by: Penguin Books India
Published: 15-Oct-2011
Extent: 304pp
Price: Rs 599
AN incisive portrait of Karachi, Pakistan, a city
that illuminates the perils and possibilities of
rapidly growing metropolises all around the world.
In recent decades, the world has seen an
unprecedented shift of people from the countryside
into cities. As Steve Inskeep so aptly puts it, we
are now living in the age of the ‘instant city’,
when new megacities can emerge practically
overnight, creating a host of unique pressures
surrounding land use, energy, housing, and the
environment. In his first book, the co-host of
Morning Edition explores how this epic migration
has transformed one of the world's most intriguing
instant cities: Karachi, Pakistan. More
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| COMMENT |
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Russia: The wild card that can change global power
equations
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Sawraj Singh
 RUSSIA
can significantly change power equations in the
world. At present, three areas are the hottest
points of contention, with any one of them having
the potential of escalating the confrontation to a
decisive war for the fate of the western
capitalist system. These are: South Asia, the
Middle East, and Europe. A defeat in any of these
areas will probably act as the final blow to the
western capitalist system, which is already on the
verge of collapse. Russia can play a crucial role
in changing the balance of power in the world.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West
and India had written the Russians off from the
global power game. India, which was one of the
closest friends of Russia, quickly switched sides
and embraced America. More
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