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| American rightists and racists declare war on
Islam |
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Dr Sawraj Singh
THE controversy over building a mosque near the
nine eleven site in Manhattan New York, has led to
violent anti Muslim propaganda by the American
rightists and racists. Before this controversy,
they were promoting Islamic phobia which has now
been upgraded to inciting haterd against the
Muslims. They have blown the issue completely out
of proportion and made it an international issue.
The Islamic World is closely following the
incident. Obama wanted to reach out to the Islamic
World and convince the Muslims that America is not
anti Muslim. More |
Russia and China coming together to counter new
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Dr Sawraj Singh
 TRADE between Russia and china has gone up about
50% compared to last year. For the first 7 months,
it was 30.7 billion dollars. The trade went up in
spite of the global financial crisis. During the
first half of the year, Chinese direct investment
in Russia increased 58.5% and the Russians direct
investment in China increased 18.3%. During the
same period, Russia’s high tech exports to China
went up 174% all these statistics show that the
relations between the two countries are greatly
improving. The big reason for the improvement in
the relations between the two countries is the new
American offensive in Asia.
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The Singapore model of religious pluralism |
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
 ON the whole, Singapore’s approach to prevent radicalisation of society is to actively engage
with the religious communities, maintain close
link with their organisations and allow
unrestricted religious freedom to them, yet put
limits to such freedom when national interest is
adversely affected. In this essay I would like to
share with the readers the very positive views
on the Singapore model of religious pluralism
that I formed during my recently completed
3-year stay in that country.
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India's Sham Nuclear Liability Bill |
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BRITISH Petroleum (BP) is facing a bill
of up to $34 billion from the Gulf of Mexico oil
spill disaster. After US senators demanded, the
oil company deposited $20 billion (about Rs 92000
crores) into a ring-fenced account to meet
escalating compensation costs but the way Indian
legislators are agreeing to a Rs 1500 crore cap on
nuclear disaster from large nuclear power plants,
Rs 300 crore cap for institutions involved in
reprocessing fuel and Rs 100 crore cap for small
research reactors is unacceptable and condemnable.
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Body of Bihar policeman found as Naxal deadline
ends | India conveys concern to China over presence
in PoK | Jagan leaves for Prakasam to resume 'Odarpu
Yatra' | Sensex quiet; Hero Honda, Bharti advance
| Match-fixing: ICC suspends tainted Pakistan
trio
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| Body of Bihar policeman found
as Naxal deadline ends |
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10 am on Friday, a policeman was found dead in Bihar
as a second deadline set by the Naxals for the release
of eight of their leaders from jail expired. The Naxals
took four policemen hostage on Sunday in Lakhisarai,
150 kilometres east of Patna. More
Updated on September 3, 2010 at 1:00 p.m.
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- India conveys concern to China
over presence in PoK More
- Jagan leaves for Prakasam
to resume 'Odarpu Yatra' More
- Sensex quiet; Hero Honda,
Bharti advance More
- Match-fixing: ICC suspends
tainted Pakistan trio More
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| E D I T O R I
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| The floods in
Pakistan |
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 THIS
has never happened to Pakistan in the last hundred
years or so. The furious floods have devastated
nearly one fourth of the country. Over two million
people have been forced to flee from their homes.
Scores of human beings and cattle have perished.
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| FOCUS |
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More policing, less welfare
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Gobind Thukral
 IS
India fast becoming a police state? This
question should worry every citizen if we have
to create a pro people democracy in the country.
Even a casual look around the country would
convince us that the daily run of firings on
protesting farmers, workers and other political
activists. More
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Accepting foreign help
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Ishtiaq Ahmed
 IN an editorial dated August 15, 2010, a leading
Urdu daily warned Pakistan not to accept India’s
offer of $ 5 million for the flood victims.
According to it, India released excess water into
the Sutlej and Beas rivers that caused the floods.
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Flood aid exposes distrust of gov’t
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Zofeen Ebrahim
 INUNDATED by appeals through text
messages, email and Twitter, as well as in print
and broadcast media, that call for donations of
dried rations, hygiene kits, buckets, tubs and
cooking pots, and straw mats, Ambreen Siddiqui
feels lost in trying to help her fellow
Pakistanis amid the country’s worst floods in
decades. More |
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Every problem has a solution
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Vinod Anand
WHEN there is a problem, there is always
a solution; and when there is no problem there
is no solution. In other words, when there is no
solution, it is not a problem, and when there is
a solution, there is a problem.
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| FEATURES |
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Identical humans
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Vinod Anand
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one will refute the fact that amongst the non-humans
the large number of a given breed say of birds or
other creatures look exactly alike. One can not
possibly differentiate between a set of sparrows, or
pidgins, or even cows and buffalos. More
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Archie Panjabi wins Primetime Emmy Awards
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Dr Sawraj Singh
 INDIAN origin British actress Archie Panjabi, who
starred in films like 'Bend it like Beckham' and
'East is East', has bagged the best supporting
actress in a drama series for her role in 'The
Good Wife' at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards.
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| LAW & JUSTICE |
| Development at the cost
of farmers
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|  Joginder
Singh Toor
THE law of land acquisition, having its origin
in England, after the invention of Railway Engine
and the need to have a strip of land for its tracks,
traveled to India during colonial rule. The three
Presidencies of Bombay, Madras and Bengal enforced
Bengal Regulation 1 of 1824. More
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| COMMENT |
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A new dawn for agriculture
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 THE breakthrough could result in new breeds of
disease resistant crops which could be producing
higher wheat yields in as little as five years'
time, raising the prospect of lower bread prices
and greater food security in a more populated
world.
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Indians have slashed 500 billion dollars of black
money in Swiss banks
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a major step towards the Indian government getting
hold of details of Indian money stashed in Swiss
bank accounts, a revised agreement with
Switzerland will allow investigators to access
information relating to not just tax fraud but
evasion as well. More
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Angloa: how imperialists ruin countries
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CONSIDER how Angola, a country so rich in the
most coveted resource of our time--oil--can fall
to the bottom of almost every scale of human development.
Twenty-seven years of civil war fueled by a lethal
mix of oil, diamonds and cold war enemies have
left one of Africa's potentially richest countries
a shambles. More
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