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Illegal Indian immigrants being treated like criminals
Continued from page 01
The controversial decision however has
been reversed by Trump through an executive
order following widespread protests against
the move. "It's heartbreaking when you go in
there and you see the young kids like the ages
are close to starting from 18 onwards, 22 to 24
in those jumpsuits...and you wonder how they
ended up being treated as criminals. They've
not committed a crime, they have crossed the
border and they have asked for a refugee or
asylum and that is a law of this land," Navneet
Kaur, a community college professor said.
Over the past several weeks, Navneet has
interacted with most of the 52 Indian inmates
in the federal prison at Sheridan in Oregon.
She has volunteered to work as a Punjabi
translator for the non-profit legal firm Innovation
Law lab, which is providing legal assistance
to the illegal immigrants in jail.
The Indians form the largest group of detainees
in the total 123 illegal immigrants being
held at a facility in Sheridan.
"Right now, they are (in) a miserable (condition),"
she said. Of the 52 Indians, a majority
of them are Punjabi speaking and are Sikhs.
When they were arrested, Navneet said, the
Indian asylum seekers were chained.
"When they were in handcuffs and chains
for 24 hours they ate with their handcuffs on.
Even the hardcore criminals are not treated
like that. Then they were kept for 22 hours a
day in a cell with the people who did not speak
the language," she said. "It's inhuman," she
said. The situation is worse for the Sikh inmates
as their turbans have been taken away
in the jail. "Their turbans have been taken
away. In a country where everyone has right
to practice their own religion these men there
don't have turbans to cover (their head). Not
even a piece of cloth to cover their heads,"
Navneet said.
During the last few days the local community
leaders have managed to give beanies
to a few of the Sikh inmates so that they can
cover their head. "They (Indian inmates) are
in a state of shock," she said, adding but none
of these Indian asylum seekers want to go back
home. All of them are seeking asylum in the
US on the grounds that they fear for their life
in India and that they are subject to political
and religious persecution, she added.
"They are feeling very shocked... They are
probably all wondering like, is this worth it if
I'm going to be treated this way," Victoria Bejarano
Muirhead, development director at the
non-profit Innovation Law lab, told media
The Innovation Law lab has filed a lawsuit
to seek access to these inmates and have
been providing legal assistance to all the Indian
asylum seekers who want one.
Some of the Indian asylum seekers have
hired their own attorney. As a result of the
intervention of the Innovation Law Lab the
condition of these inmates have improved and
they are being allowed to make calls both domestic
and internationally.
Innovation Law Lab has been sending
its legal team of volunteers accompanied with
translators like Navneet to the Sheridan jail
on a daily basis. "I am horrified at how the US
is treating people who are seeking asylum. I'm
horrified at how they're treating immigrants
just in general," Muirhead said.
"Right now there's so much public attention
on this issue, but in reality many of
these issues that we have now are just getting
worse, but they were already there even before
Trump was elected as president," she said.
"For example, the mass detention of immigrants,
the mass deportation of immigrants,
those were issues that were already ongoing
before Trump was elected. But I think since
his election, it's just gotten to the next level.
We already were detaining families, but now
Trump is saying let's detain them indefinitely.
That's taking it to the next level. So it was, it's
very concerning," Muirhead said.
Canada urged to give asylum to
Afghan Sikhs, Hindus
Continued from page 01
The statement was
also posted to social media.
As first reported by
StarMetro Calgary, retired
judge Ted Carruthers
— who formerly served
as the Progressive Conservative
party president
— was hired by the UCP
to look into allegations of
ballot stuffing following
the founding constituency
association meeting for
the newly formed riding of
Calgary-North East.
Gill resigned as the
party's deputy whip soon
after the investigation was
launched.
He won the riding of
Calgary-Greenway in a
2016 byelection following
the death of former
Progressive Conservative
MLA Manmeet Bhullar.
'Example of the
moral bankruptcy'
NDP MLA Sandra Jansen
issued a statement on
Saturday, calling Gill's
resignation, "just the latest
example of the moral
bankruptcy in [UCP leader]
Jason Kenney's party."
"It's clear that the creation
of the UCP has amplified
both the bizarre
behaviour of the Wildrose
and the legacy of entitlement
from the PCs. Albertans
decisively rejected
both in 2015," she wrote.
"Before Prab Gill, Don
MacIntyre resigned facing
sexual interference
charges ... Overall, Kenney's
"united" party has
now shed [eight] out of 31
MLAs elected by the PCs
and Wildrose."
MacIntyre, the former
MLA for Innisfail-Sylvan
Lake, resigned in February
after he was charged
with sexual interference
and sexual assault.
Jansen also called on
Kenney to release the report
into the allegations
against Gill.
"He must also explain
to voters why he buried
this report until after the
two recent by-elections
(sic)," said the statement.
Kenney issued a statement
on Saturday afternoon,
saying he accepts
Gill's resignation.
"I wish Prab and his
family well in future endeavours,"
it read.
"I would also like to
thank former Justice Ted
Carruthers for his work
investigating the June 30
Calgary-Northeast (sic)
UCP Constituency Association
meeting.
I hope that we can
now all move forward
with our task of defeating
the NDP and getting
Alberta province (sic)
back on track."
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fatal shooting
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of Airport Road and Countryside Drive in
Brampton, just after 6 p.m. for reports of a shooting.
A man was pronounced dead at the scene.
He has been identified as Palwinder Singh, 27 of
Brampton.
Sean Ponto, 18, and Andrew Edward, 19, both
from Mississauga, surrendered to police and are
facing first-degree murder charges.
Police are still searching for two male suspects.
One of them is in his early 20s, five feet eight
inches tall, 150 pounds, with a medium complexion,
short black curly hair, and a black beard. At
the time, he was wearing a light blue hoodie, blue
jeans and white shoes.
The second suspect is five feet six inches tall
and 160 pounds, with a dark complexion and was
clean shaven. He was wearing a black hoodie,
black bandana and sunglasses.
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The function started with the Sukhmani Sahib Path, followed
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Mayor of Brampton and the MPs Raj Grewal, Sonia Sidhu and
Ruby Sahota.
Among the MPPs were Prabhmeet Sarkaria, Deepak Anand,
Nina Tangri and Gurratan Singh. Also present was Peel Regional
Councillor John Sprovieri, Councillor Gurpreet Dhillon and Peel
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The actual launch was done by Mr. Rod Philips, the Ontario
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Over 500 people attended the ceremony and it ended with the
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Mr. Avinash Pandey, the Chief Operating Officer of ABP News and Mr. Rajinder Saini, the CEO and President of the Parvasi
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Calgary MLA Prab Gill
resigns from UCP
Illegal Indian immigrants
being treated like criminals
Their turbans taken away in a federal prison in Oregon after getting caught
up in the Trump administration's controversial "zero-tolerance" policy
2 arrested, 2 suspects
at large in Brampton
fatal shooting
Ontario : Calgary-
Greenway MLA Prab
Gill has resigned from
the United Conservative
Party caucus, saying he
doesn't agree with the
findings of an investigation
into allegations of
ballot stuffing levelled
following a June 30 constituency
association
meeting — but he will
accept them.
"I ultimately needed
to do what was best for
my family going forward,"
reads a statement
released Saturday on
Gill's behalf by his chief
of staff, Mandeep Shergill.
"While I may not
agree with everything
from the investigation
into the June 30 Calgary-
Northeast (sic) meeting,
I accept the findings and
recognize that the party
went through a fair, independent
process with
a retired judge." Along
with his resignation, the
statement says Gill will
not be contesting a UCP
nomination for the next
provincial election and
will remain an independent
for the remainder
of this term.
Continued on page 02
Washington: Over
50 illegal Indian immigrants,
mostly Sikhs,
seeking asylum in the
US are being treated like
criminals with their turbans
taken away in a
federal prison in Oregon
after getting caught up
in the Trump administration's
controversial
"zero-tolerance" policy,
according to volunteers
from legal advocacy
groups. President Donald
Trump's tough immigration
policy has separated
nearly 2,000 children
from their parents and
guardians and placed
into holding facilities between
April 19 and May
31 of this year.
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Canada PM shakes up govt
ahead of 2019 elections
agencies
Ottawa : Canadian
Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau reshuffled his government
on Wednesday,
setting the stage for his
Liberal Party ahead of legislative
elections next year
amid tensions on global
trade and the rise of populism.
The shake-up, 15
months before voters go to
the polls in the G7 nation,
appeared designed to give
the Liberals a lift at a time
when polls show their Conservative
Party opponents
are hard on their heels.
The changes laid out by
Trudeau were more ambitious
than anticipated.
In a first, he announced
the creation of a Ministry
of Border Security and Organized
Crime Reduction,
saying the "integrity" of
Canada's frontiers was a
"top priority."
"That means effectively
managing the arrival of
irregular migrants and
asylum-seekers and preventing
the flow of illegal
drugs and firearms into
our communities," he told
reporters.
The federal government
now has 34 ministers,
up from the previous
30, and several ministries
were reorganized to reflect
global economic challenges
-- including the protectionist
policies of US President
Donald Trump.
"We need to diversify
our markets and we need
to ensure that we are not
as dependent on the United
States," Trudeau said.
Thus, the Ministry of
International Trade will
now be the Ministry of International
Trade Diversification,
under Jim Carr,
previously the minister of
We increased the tax-free
Canada Child Benefit
to up to $6500 per child
natural resources.
Carr will be responsible
for ensuring the ratification
of the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) trade
deal with 10 other countries
-- not including the
US, after Trump pulled out
of the deal -- and of concluding
a trade accord with the
four South American countries
of Mercosur (Argentina,
Brazil, Paraguay and
Uruguay). But the thorny
brief of renegotiating the
North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAF-
TA) under pressure from
Trump will remain with
Foreign Minister Chrystia
Freeland.
Fisheries minister
Dominic LeBlanc, who is
close to Trudeau, will become
the minister of intergovernmental
affairs, giving
him the delicate task
of navigating relations between
Ottawa and provincial
authorities.
That comes at a time
when the Conservative opposition
is riding high in
much of the country, with
rightist parties favored in
elections in the eastern
province of Quebec in October
and in Alberta, in the
west, next May.
Liberals saw the election
in early June of Conservative
Doug Ford as
premier of Ontario -- the
country's richest and most
heavily populated province
-- as a warning shot.
Ford is a populist and a
climate skeptic who wants
to reduce the size of the
state and drastically slow
immigration -- a reminder,
analysts say, that Canada
has not been spared from
the international rise of
populism in politics.
Nationwide legislative
elections are scheduled for
October 21, 2019.
A Brampton woman is Ontario’s latest
millionaire. Sehar Abid of Brampton recently
won the $1,000,000 grand prize through the
July 6 Lotto Max Encore draw.
Abid matched all seven Encore numbers
in exact order to win. She accepted her winnings
at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming
Corporation Prize Centre on Tuesday, July
10.
The winning ticket was purchased at
Real Canadian Superstore on Argentia Road
in Mississauga.
Brampton City Council
unanimously passes motion to
create community safety plan
BRAMPTON, ON : At today’s Council meeting, Mayor
Jeffrey presented a motion that was seconded by all
Council members to create a community safety and well
being plan for the City of Brampton.
Local Brampton MPs, Raj Grewal, Sonia Sidhu and
Ramesh Sangha, delegated to
City Council today in response
to the disturbing social media
videos that have recently gone
viral. They expressed their interest
to partner with the City
to address public safety and in
turn advocate at the Federal
level for more resources to help
tackle crime. Mayor Jeffrey,
along with Council, agreed
that public safety is everyone’s responsibility and that all
levels of government need to work together.
“I believe this motion is a collective call for action and
demonstrates our intention to create a local community
safety and well being plan that addresses Brampton’s
needs,” said Mayor Jeffrey. “Community safety must
start in the community and we at the City of Brampton
will work together with our regional, provincial and federal
partners in an integrated approach.”
Mayor Jeffrey noted that Peel Regional Police Chief,
Jennifer Evans, will be appearing at Regional Council
on Thursday. Regional Councillors will have the opportunity
to discuss public safety concerns directly with
the Chief during that time. Mayor Jeffrey noted that at
last week’s Police Services Board meeting, Chief Evans
agreed to increased participation in all local media to address
this issue directly with residents.
With the passage of today’s motion, City staff will begin
working on a community safety and well being plan
and will report back to Council with recommendations.
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Costco launches online grocery
delivery in Canada
Grocery store in Canada, starting with
some stores in southern Ontario. The membership-based
retailer has begun offering hundreds
of non-perishable grocery items, beauty
products and supplements online.
They guarantee delivery within
two days and there is no delivery fee
on orders of $75 or more. So far, the
service is only available in parts of
southern Ontario including Toronto, Oshawa
and Barrie, but not Ottawa.
Costco Canada’s Senior Vice-President and
Senior General Merchandise Manager Andrée
Brien said in a press release that the service
will eventually be rolled out to the rest of Ontario
and Quebec. “We are starting on a smaller
scale to ensure that we provide the level of
service that Canadian members have come to
enjoy across all of our businesses and services,”
she said. Canada’s largest grocer, Loblaw
Companies Ltd.,launched a home delivery service
last year. It is now available in a
number of cities including Toronto,
Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax, Ottawa,
Kitchener-Waterloo, Regina
and Guelph, Ont. Loblaws’ delivery,
which is a partnership with the company Instacart,
has as service fee of 7.5 per cent plus a delivery
fee of up to $9.99. Metro Inc. and Sobeys
Inc. have both said they are planning home
delivery options, also starting in Ontario.
Walmart.ca currently offers grocery delivery
in the Greater Toronto Area with a minimum
$50 order and a $9.97 delivery fee.

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July 20, 2018 | Toronto
People in all 124 Ontario ridings will be
consulted on sex ed, says Doug Ford
Ontario: Be consulted before
a new sex-education curriculum
is drafted, Premier
Doug Ford said Tuesday in
an attempt to quell concerns
over his government's controversial
decision to scrap
the updated lesson plan.
The newly elected Progressive
Conservatives were
accused of flip-flopping on
the issue Monday after the
education minister said in
the legislature that concepts
like gender identity, consent
and cyber safety would still
be taught in the fall only to
backtrack on her comments
hours later.
Ford had pledged to
repeal and replace the curriculum,
which the Liberals
updated in 2015, and his government
said last week that
when students return to class
this fall they will be taught a
version of the curriculum
introduced in 1998, sparking
anger from some teachers
and parents who say that
document is outdated.
"We're going to hit 124
ridings," he said, calling it
"the largest consultation ever
in Ontario's history when it
comes to education."
Ford also attempted to allay
concerns from critics that
reverting back to the old curriculum
means important issues
like cyber safety, gender
identity and consent wont'
be taught, putting children
at risk. "I think everyone is
going to be pleasantly surprised,"
he said. "I really do. I
don't think this is the end of
the world. I think it's actually
healthy. When it comes to
teaching our kids, we have to
consult with the parents."
Ford said that during
the spring election parents
across Ontario told him they
wanted more input into the
curriculum's design.
"We want to go and consult
with the parents and get
their input," he said. "Then
we'll move forward with
changing the curriculum."
Ford's opposition to the
new sex-ed curriculum during
the Progressive Conservative
leadership race
earlier this year won him
the support of social conservatives
within the party
base, helping him to victory
over longtime Tory legislator
and current health minister
Christine Elliott.
NDP legislator Peter
Tabuns said the reason the
Ford government is replacing
the curriculum is to
please social conservatives.
"Look at who (Premier
Ford's) backers are," he said.
"We're talking about some
very deeply conservative,
social conservative thinkers
who think we should be back
in the 19th century or earlier."
Going backward, Tabuns
said, puts children at risk.
Meanwhile, a group of
teachers have started an
online pledge form, urging
fellow educators to sign up
and promise to continue to
teach the updated version of
the curriculum in their classrooms
this fall.
Kate Curtis, speaking for
the group who created the
pledge, said the teachers are
acting out of a sense of moral
and ethical duty to their students.
"We as teachers know
that we have a professional
and ethical obligation to
make sure that our students
are safe, that they feel included
both in our classrooms
and also that they're reflected
in the curriculum."
Curtis said the 1998 curriculum
does not reflect the
reality of a teenager's life in
2018 and does not accurately
reference cyber safety, consent
or gender identity.
"The world has changed
immensely in the last 20
years," she said. "Students
are reflecting that change at
school ... we really have to
reflect that." Two top officials
at Canada's largest school
board said Tuesday that
they have not received any
direction from the Ontario
government regarding the
sex-ed curriculum that will
be taught this fall.
The U.S. is accusing
Canada of threatening
its national security
Tariffs on steel and aluminum threaten to
cripple the Canadian economy. Many Canadians,
especially those associated with the new recreational
marijuana industry, are experiencing
tough interrogations at the U.S-Canada border.
Earlier this month, news broke
that the American border patrol
is executing raids into soveriegn
Canadian waters off the coast of
New Brunswick.
This escalation in relations,
of course, will inevitably affect
Canada more than the United
States. The U.S. is both Canada's largest export and
import market, and around 90% of the Canadian
population lives within two hundred kilometres of
the border.
So it is especially concerning that U.S. officials
now view Canada as a threat.
In a formal complaint filed at the World Trade
Organization (WTO) this week, the U.S. calls Canadian
retaliatory tariffs "completely without
justification under international rules," despite
the Trump administration's own levies against
Canadian goods, which the complaint describes as
"wholly justified."
The letter accuses Canada of undermining
American "national security interests." U.S. representatives
at the WTO hope the international agency
will back the Trump administration agenda.
This new complaint comes just days after the
NATO summit, where Trump berated American
allies for what he perceives as their lack of military
and economic support. Days later, Trump met with
Russian president Vladimir Putin, an act many in
the United States have labelled as treasonous.
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Toronto: Stating that India
had issued a demarche to Britain,
External Affairs Ministry
spokesperson Raveesh Kumar
said: "We have seen reports
and I would like to confirm
that we have taken this matter
up with the UK government.
"We expect that the UK
government will not allow any
such group, whose intention
is to spread hatred and impact
our bilateral relations, to use
its country."
Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a
human rights advocacy group
with radical leaning, has announced
that it will hold what
it calls a "London Declaration"
on an independence referendum
for the Indian state of
Punjab in London on August
12.Kumar said the majority of
the Sikh community,
whether they be in Britain
or living in other
countries, have very good relations
with India.
"They also have good relations
with the countries in
which they are living," he said.
"As far as such small
groups are concerned, I believe
these are fringe elements
and their job is to spread hatred
and communal disharmony."

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Stand Up To Mobs
SC realised gravity of lynching
menace, proceeded full throttle.
Government must follow
What stands out about Supreme Court’s
preventive, remedial and punitive directives to
curb lynchings that central and state governments
must undertake is that these could easily
have been initiated by governments without
any need for judicial intervention. By denouncing
the new wave of mobocracy in the strongest
possible terms, Supreme Court has lived up
to its reputation as the last resort for citizens
when fundamental rights are threatened. The
court’s activist stance is in stark contrast to the
silence of top political functionaries at the central
and state levels – sometimes even implicit
encouragement as when Union civil aviation
minister Jayant Sinha garlanded lynch convicts.
Like corruption during UPA-2, the spate
of lynchings since September 2015 when Mohammad
Akhlaq was killed by a mob at Dadri
in Uttar Pradesh threatens to cloud the NDA
government’s record. By the time Congress
recognised the slide and passed a rash of anti-corruption
laws it had lost the perception
battle. Something similar threatens BJP now
and it must set in motion SC’s directions at the
Centre and in BJP-ruled states. Mobs running
amok without fear of the law are putting at risk
India’s reputation as a tourism and business
destination, if the marginalisation of minority
communities and setting aside of rule of law
are not reasons enough to act.
SC has directed police officers to use their
statutory powers to disperse mobs, identify
potential troublemakers and all areas with a
history of mob violence, conduct constant patrolling
of sensitive areas and lodge FIRs for
inciting violence and spreading explosive messages.
It also prescribed awareness campaigns,
fast tracking of cases, quick victim compensation
and free legal aid. More importantly, SC
wants police officers who contravene these directions
punished. For that reason among others,
the court has asked Parliament to enact a
separate offence for lynching.
Centre must direct states to effectively police
those who disseminate social media messages
that incite or threaten violence. This
can significantly retard the otherwise rapid
proliferation of violent messages and serve
as a warning to mobs. Fast track courts to try
lynching cases must be set up and Parliament
must enact a law on the lines suggested by the
apex court. But more than any legislation,
what is needed is political will. Government
must act before more lives and livelihoods are
threatened. TNN
Growth Is Good
Acche din comes only on the back of brute
economic growth and jobs
Gurcharan Das
Arvind Subramanian’s
recent parting shot as chief
economic adviser added a
new phrase to our vocabulary,
“stigmatised capitalism”.
By it, he was suggesting
that the free market
had still not found a comfortable
home in India. The
problem goes deeper. Many
Indians have unthinkingly
embraced the latest Western
fad of questioning economic
growth ever since
the global financial crisis.
We seem to have forgotten
the lesson we learned
in first year economics that
only through high growth
can a poor country hope to
become rich. To be sceptical
about growth may be
right when your per capita
income is $40,000 but not
when it is less than $2,000.
UPA-2 fell partly because
it traded off growth for equity;
and Prime Minister
Narendra Modi has not delivered
acche din because
he has not single-mindedly
pursued jobs and brute
growth.
I celebrated, on a TV
programme in early 2010,
India’s GDP growth crossing
10% in the previous
quarter; more significantly,
it had grown consistently
at an unprecedented 8%
for almost a decade. I said
India was finally harvesting
the rewards of the 1991
economic reform and if it
continued at this rate for
two more decades, it would
become a respectable middle
class country. I was
surprised when the other
panellists pounced on me.
The first dismissed it as
‘jobless growth’. The other
began to educate me on the
need for ‘inclusive growth’.
I felt sad and amused. Any
country would die for such
high growth year after year
and here were two worthy
politicians who were apologetic
about it.
Growth scepticism
reached a peak during the
days of Sonia Gandhi’s
advisory council. As a result,
the government took
its eyes off growth and focused
instead on NREGA,
food security and other
give-aways to the poor, and
this led to the notorious
‘policy paralysis’. Not surprisingly,
growth plunged
after 2011 and this helped
to bring Modi to power
on the promise of vikas, a
code word for high growth
and jobs. Seven years later,
the economy has still not
recovered its pre-2011 momentum
and Modi has not
fulfilled his promise.
The questioning of GDP
growth is understandable
in rich countries where in
recent decades the benefits
of growth have not been
shared equitably. This is
partially what brought
Donald Trump to power
in the US. The cautionary
lesson for India is not this
one but how the West and
the Far East became rich
in the first place.
Every country has been
poor for most of human
history. Serious growth
began in the world around
1800 with the industrial
revolution. From year 1 to
1800, average world GDP
per person was stagnant,
below $200; by 2000 it had
grown to $6,539. This increase
in living standards
is the result of unprecedented
economic growth.
Even India’s growth after
Independence has risen
from $71 per person in 1950
to $1,975 per year in 2018 on
a comparable basis. China’s
has been even more
dramatic.
Even David Pilling,
who has questioned the
concept of GDP in his recent
book The Growth Delusion,
admits: “If you are
poor, economic growth
can be transformative.” I
ask growth sceptics: is this
enormous rise in the average
standard of living in
the world such a bad thing?
There are obvious limitations
to the concept. GDP
does not reflect the distribution
of income, the value
of government services,
clean air, the work of subsistence
farmers and those
in the informal economy,
which is a quarter of the
world’s population. Nor
does it include house work
and caring for the young
and elderly, mostly by
women.
If the economy is growing
rapidly and if a large
number of people are not
benefitting, then it is fair
to ask what is this GDP
growth for. But this is not
true for a poor country,
where brute growth has
brought enormous benefits
and negated the prophecy
of the Left that markets
would impoverish the
working class.
Growth sceptics quote
the classic example of Japan,
where growth has
stagnated for 25 years and
yet its standard of living
seems to have risen with
falling or stable prices. But
between 1990 and 2007, Japan’s
real GDP per capita
actually rose by 20%. The
mystery lies in the mistake
of using nominal GDP
when the sensible way to
measure growth is in per
capita GDP, net of inflation.
I fully agree with environmentalists
who worry
about consuming more
and more water, spewing
out more and more carbon
dioxide and burning more
and more coal. Certainly,
India should clean up its
air and its rivers. But it is a
mistake to equate economic
growth with pollution
and conclude that we need
to de-prioritise growth. It
is theoretically possible to
have limitless economic
growth with a clean environment.
The problem is not
with GDP but how we use
it for policy making. If used
along with other indices,
such as Human Development
and Happiness, we
will get a better measure of
human well-being. Rather
than worry about the inequality
of the market, we
should measure the improvement
in opportunities
through investment in
good schools and hospitals
for all.
Let’s stop adopting the
latest international fashions
unthinkingly, and remember
that at our stage
of development, consistent
high economic growth,
jobs and openness to the
world economy are the
main routes to prosperity.
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was first published in The Times
of India.
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Afghan embassy holds memorial service
for Sikhs, Hindus killed in Jalalabad
Indo-Asian News Service
WASHINGTON : Contrary
to the general impression,
Hindus and
Sikhs are original residents
of Afghanistan, the
Afghan ambassador to the
US has said, as his embassy
here held a memorial
service for the members of
the minority communities
killed recently in a terrorist
attack in Jalalabad.
At least 19 people were
killed on July 1 when a
suicide bomber targeted a
convoy of Sikhs and Hindus
on their way to meet
Afghanistan's president in
Jalalabad. 18 Hindus and
Sikhs were killed in the
attack claimed by the Islamic
State.
"This occasion is one
that brings us together to
recognise a community
that has deep roots in Afghanistan,"
Afghanistan
Ambassador to the US
Hamdullah Mohib said at
the memorial service held
at his embassy in Washington
DC on Sunday.
"For many, they often
think of the minority Hindus
and Sikhs as migrants
from India. But in reality,
the Hindus and Sikhs of
Afghanistan are the original
residents of this country,"
the top Afghan diplomat
here said.
Sena Lund, president
of the New York-based Afghan
Hindu association,
read out the names of the
18 slain leaders.
Asha Kapoor of the local
Asamai Hindu Mandir
recited a speech in Dari,
the official language of Afghanistan,
to commemorate
the victims.
In his brief remarks,
Puneet Kundal, the deputy
chief of mission at the Indian
embassy here, condoled
of the loss of lives in the
"dreadful violence".
"The very fact that you
are organising this event
here today is a representation
of the sentiments that
the government of Afghanistan
feels for these communities,"
Kundal said.
Tulsi Gabbard, the first
Hindu lawmaker in the US
Congress, in a statement
read on the occasion said
that this brutal attack was
yet another example of the
fear, bigotry and hatred
that sadly exists in the
world.
"During the Taliban
regime, Hindus and Sikhs
were forced to wear yellow
patches to identify themselves
in public, furthering
extreme prejudice, and
eventually forcing many to
seek asylum in India," she
said.
"These fear tactics and
attacks attempt to divide
us, but we cannot give
into this hate. We must
confront hatred with love,
fear with understanding
and darkness with light.
We must continue to stand
up to bigotry and hatred in
Afghanistan, here at home
and around the world,"
Gabbard said.
Ambassador-at-Large
for International Religious
Freedom Sam Brownback
said the loss of these community
leaders was a terrible
blow, not only to Afghanistan,
but also to the
international community.
"The Sikh and Hindu
communities have a long
and distinguished heritage
and this horrific attack
will not diminish that. Our
office will continue to monitor
the conditions faced
by religious minorities in
Afghanistan. I stand with
you and will work toward
an Afghanistan that is
peaceful and secure for all
its people," he said.
Sounds of sacred traditional
Sikh hymns, sung
by leaders of the local
Washington gurdwara and
National Sikh Campaign,
as well as verses from the
Bhagavad Gita, recited by
Pandit Ram Kumar Shastri
of Silver Spring, Maryland's
Asamai Mandir,
filled the air.
A packed hall of
mourners from the Hindu
and Sikh communities sat
alongside officials from the
Afghan embassy, Indian
embassy, and US State Department
facing a mural
depicting the ancient relics
of the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
"We at the Hindu
American Foundation
pledge to be with you every
step of the way as Hindus
and Sikhs seek full enfranchisement
in Afghan society,"
said Jay Kansara of
the Hindu American Foundation,
which helped organise
the event by the Afghan
Hindu Association.
Rescued boys from Thai cave
make public appearance
Indo-Asian News Service
Bangkok : Twelve boys
and their soccer coach who
were last week rescued from a
flooded cave in northern Thailand
after becoming trapped
spoke to the media for the first
time on Wednesday.
Members of the Wild
Boars soccer team were discharged
from hospital earlier
in the day in Chiang Rai,
where they had been recovering
and receiving medical and
psychological support after
they were rescued from the
cave in an ordeal that lasted
over two weeks and gripped
the world's attention.
The boys, all of whom are
aged between 13 and 17, appeared
healthy and in fine
spirits as they faced the media
for the first time since
their rescue, Efe news reported.
They were joined during
the briefing by the Thai Navy
SEAL divers who had helped
with the rescue effort and
who had stayed with them after
they had been found.
At the press conference,
during which pre-vetted
questions that were approved
by a psychologist
and asked through a moderator,
the coach, 25 year-old
Ekapol "Ake" Chantawong,
described in detail how the
team had become trapped inside
the cave by a flash flood
which blocked their exit.
Coach Ake described how
the water levels rose dramatically
in less than an hour
stranding them on a ledge
and how they attempted to
dig their way out. "At least
we were trying to do something,"
he said. Ake also denied
reports that some of the
boys were unable to swim
their way to freedom. "We
can all swim. Some stronger
than others, but we could all
swim," he said, adding that
the rising floodwaters had
made any escape impossible.
Some of the boys said
they never lost hope of being
able to escape the cave. "I told
them (his teammates) to believe,
to stay strong," one of
them said.
The group also spoke of
their gratitude towards the
rescue workers and of the
bond they developed with the
Thai Navy SEALs who stayed
with them after they had
been located.
"I feel like they are my
dads," one boy said, while another
said: "I'm glad that he
kept us busy and found something
for us to do."
The team entered Tham
Luang cave located in the
northern province of Chiang
Rai during an excursion on
June 23 after completing a
soccer training session, when
a sudden storm flooded the
exit.
Their whereabouts were
not known for nine days until
they were found four kilometres
from the entrance on
July 2. They were rescued in
batches of two from July 8-10.
Former Thai Navy SEAL
Samarn Kunan, who lost his
life during the operation, was
hailed a hero.
No swachh abhiyaan at rally
MALOUT : A score of persons
accused the organisers
of the kisan kalyan
rally here of wasting a lot
of food after the rally was
over and throwing it on
the road instead of distributing
among the poor.
They further said this action
was against Prime
Minster Narendra Modi's
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
The picture showing the
food being thrown went viral
in the evening and even
a SAD municipal councillor
from Bathinda shared
these on his FB page.
Punjab fiance minster
Manpreet Badal's relative
Jaijeet Johal said organisers
not only wasted food
but created hellish like
conditions in the grain
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One of the organisers said,
"We will clear the mess. It
should not have happened.
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Oppn rallies behind
Agnivesh, slams attack
Panchkula court drops
sedition charge against
19 Dera activists
Indo-Asian News Service
'
New Delhi: The mob attack
on Swami Agnivesh in
Jharkhand saw the political
opposition unite against
the “growing culture of
mob lynching” in the
country and led to senior
Congress leader Shashi
Tharoor demanding in Lok
Sabha that Prime Minister
Narendra Modi “break his
silence” on the issue.
Tharoor not only drew
the House’s attention to the
attack on Swami Agnivesh,
but also to the vandalism of
his own constituency office
in Thiruvananthapuram,
Kerala. The vandals had
smeared black oil on the
walls of his office allegedly
in reaction to Tharoor’s
comment that a “Hindu
Pakistan” would be created
if BJP returned to power in
2019.
Raising the issue, Tharoor
said, “This is not just
an attack on constitutionally-sanctioned
MP’s office
but also a larger attempt by
incendiary elements and
their digital equivalents to
destroy the idea of India as
a pluralistic and accepting
democracy.”
He also brought up
Tuesday’s attack on Swami
Agvinesh in Jharkhand for
expressing dissent against
rising intolerance. “We cannot
and should not stand by
as communal violence,
moblynching and hooliganism
replace rule of law
and rights guaranteed by
our Constitution. I strongly
urge the PM to break his
silence on the behaviour of
his own party men and take
action against these antinational
elements and anti-
Indian elements who seek
to abridge the freedom of
speech in our democracy,”
Tharoor said.
His remarks drew
sharp reaction from parliamentary
affairs minister
Ananth Kumar saying that
the law and order situation
has to be dealt by the state
government. “There is a
state-organised terror... in
Kerala,” Kumar said, adding
that allegations against
BJP was baseless and far
from truth. He demanded
that BJP’s mention should
be expunged from the records.
Heated exchanges ensued
when Kumar said
the attack was “state-sponsored”
and was countered
by members of ruling CPM
(in Kerala), leading Deputy
Speaker Thambidurai,
who was on the Chair, to
expunge the names of BJP
and CPM from the records.
Coming as it did on the
day the Supreme Court
censured the Centre for
the growing incidents of
mob violence, vigilantism
and mob lynching across
the country, the brazen assault
on Swami Agnivesh,
80, also led to political parties
raising, once again, the
demand for legislation on
mob lynching. Former deputy
CM of Bihar, Tejashwi
Yadav alleged that the attack
exhibited the ruling
party’s inability to handle
ideological opposition.
Congress leader Mallikarjun
Kharge said Kumar
was misleading the
House as the government
had all agencies, and could
easily find out who were
involved in the attack and
demanded that the minister
tell the House who were
behind the attacks.
The Left parties, CPI
and CPM also demanded
the arrest of culprits and
an early trial through a
fast-track court. In a formal
statement, the CPM
said, “The Supreme Court
observations on mob lynching
have held up a mirror
to the PM and the BJP
Government under whose
watch such crimes are being
committed.”
Panchkula : In a blow to Haryana Police, a court
in Panchkula town on Thursday dropped the sedition
charge against 19 activists of the controversial Dera Sacha
Sauda sect.
They had been facing sedition charge in connection
with the large-scale violence
in Panchkula following
the conviction of sect's
chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim
Singh in two rape cases on
August 25 last year.
The 19 activists,
against whom the court dropped the sedition charge, include
three key aides of the sect chief -- Pawan Insan, Surinder
Dhiman and Chamkaur Singh.
This is the second time that the Haryana Police is
facing a setback over the investigations relating to the
Panchkula violence. Earlier, six activists of the sect were
acquitted of charges of rioting, by a local court here in
May this year.
A number of sect activists were booked by the Haryana
Police on charges of sedition, inciting violence and being
involved in a conspiracy to help the Dera chief escape
after his conviction by a Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) court on August 25 on two counts of rape of female
disciples in 1999.
Ram Rahim has been sentenced to 20 years of rigorous
imprisonment and imposed a fine of over Rs 30 lakh.
His rape conviction led to violence in Panchkula and
Sirsa in Haryana, leaving 41 people dead and over 260 injured.
Some of the closest aides of the disgraced sect chief,
including Honeypreet, Aditya Insan and Pawan Insan,
were booked by the police on charges of sedition, inciting
violence and criminal conspiracy.
CBI pressured to file charge
sheet against me: Chidambaram
New Delhi,: After CBI
filed a chargesheet against
former Finance Minister
P. Chidambaram and his
son Karti in the Aircel-
Maxis deal, Chidambaram
said: "CBI has been pressured
to file a chargesheet
to support a preposterous
allegation," adding that he
will contest it vigorously.
"CBI has been pressured
to file a charge sheet
to support a preposterous
allegation against me and
officers with a sterling reputation.
The case is now
before the court and it will
be contested vigorously. I
shall make no more public
comment," said chidambaram
on Twitter.
The CBI on Thursday
filed a chargesheet against
18 people in Aircel-Maxis
deal, including Chidambaram
and Karti. Special
Judge O.P. Saini has listed
the matter for hearing on
July 31.
The Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI) and
the Enforcement Directorate
are investigating Karti
Chidambaram's alleged
role in getting Foreign
Investment Promotion
Board (FIPB) clearance
for the Aircel-Maxis deal
in 2006 when his father
was the Union Finance
Minister. "We have filed
a chargesheet in Aircel-
Maxis case naming 18 persons,
including P. Chidambaram
and his son Karti
Chidambaram," a CBI official
said.

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PM Modi's Foreign Travel Since
2014 Cost Rs. 1,484 Crore: Centre
Indo-Asian News Service
NEW DELHI: An expenditure
of Rs. 1,484 crore
was incurred on chartered
flights, maintenance of aircraft
and hotline facilities
during Prime Minister Narendra
Modi's visits to 84
countries since June 2014,
according to the government.
The details of PM Modi's
foreign travel expenditure
under the three heads
were shared in the Rajya
Sabha by Minister of State
for External Affairs VK
Singh.
According to the data,
a total of Rs. 1,088.42 crore
was spent on maintenance
of the prime minister's aircraft
and Rs. 387.26 crore
on chartered flights during
the period between June
15, 2014 and June 10, 2018.
The total expenditure
on hotline was Rs. 9.12
crore.
PM Modi visited a total
of 84 countries in 42
foreign trips since taking
over as prime minister in
May 2014.
The details provided by
Mr Singh did not include
expenditure on hotline facilities
during his foreign
SP-BSP talks in final stage;
no call on Cong yet
visits in 2017-18 and 2018-
19. The cost of chartered
flights for visits in 2018-19
was also not included.
According to Mr
Singh's reply, the prime
minister visited a maximum
of 24 countries in
2015-16 followed by 19 in
2017-18 and 18 nations in
2016-17.
In 2014-15, PM Modi
had visited 13 countries
with first one to Bhutan in
June 2014. In 2018, he travelled
to 10 countries with
the last one being to China
last month.
The cost for chartered
flights to overseas destinations
in 2014-15 was Rs.
93.76 crore while in 2015-
16, it was Rs. 117 crore. In
2016-17, the cost was Rs.
76.27 crore and in 2017-18,
the expense on chartered
flight was Rs. 99.32 crore.
"Diplomatic outreach
during this period (since
May 2014) has included
first ever visits from India
to several countries at the
head of government level,"
Singh said.
He said the outreach
has led to enhanced engagement
of India's foreign
partners in its flagship
programmes.
From Oct 2, govt to free many
jailed for non-heinous crimes
New Delhi: The government has decided to release a
large number of convicts serving time for non-heinous
crimes in three phases, with senior citizens, women,
transgenders, physically challenged and terminally ill inmates
who have completed at least half their terms being
eligible. The first batch will be freed on October 2, Gandhi
Jayanti.
Thee decision was taken by the Cabinet on Wednesday.
The final batch of prisoners will be released on October
2 next year. In between, a second batch will be set
free on April 10, which is the anniversary of the Champaran
satyagraha. The government has lined up a series
of activities as part of the year-long celebration of the Mahatma’s
150th birth anniversary.
Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said special remission
will not be given to prisoners who have been convicted
of an offence for which they have drawn a death
sentence or it has been commuted to life imprisonment.
He added cases of convicts involved in serious crimes like
dowry death, rape, human trafficking and are convicted
under Pota, UAPA, Tada, FICN, POCSO Act, money-laundering,
Fema, NDPS and Prevention of Corruption Act
will also not be covered under this amnesty scheme.
Prasad said women and transgender convicts aged 55
years and above and male convicts of 60 years or more,
who have completed half of their sentence, will be released.
Convicts with 70% or more physical disability will
get the relief on similar conditions. “We will also consider
the case of terminally ill convicts and convicted prisoners
who have completed two-thirds (66%) of their actual
sentence period,” the minister said.
Lucknow: Even as talks
between SP and BSP for
an alliance in UP have
reached the final phase,
the two parties are ready
to back Congress president
Rahul Gandhi and
his mother Sonia in their
Lok Sabha constituencies,
Amethi and Rae Bareli,
respectively, sources have
revealed. However, the
total number of seats SP
and BSP will leave for Congress
has not been finalised
yet, sources said.
Sources said SP chief
Akhilesh Yadav and BSP
supremo Mayawati are in
constant touch and have
agreed not to be rigid on
particular constituencies.
SP has reportedly agreed
to give space to smaller
parties like RLD and Nishad
Party as also BJP’s
ally SBSP whose leader
Om Prakash Rajbhar has
been showing signs of dissent.
In order to make the
alliance star-studded, it
has also been decided that
Akhilesh, his father Mulayam
Singh and BSP supremo
Mayawati would
contest the polls. Mayawati
has not contested Lok
Sabha elections since 2004.
Speaking to reporters
in Agra on Tuesday, Akhilesh
said the coming together
of SP and BSP was
the beginning of a grand
alliance and Congress was
with them like a ‘friend’.
Name Change
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Ludhiana, Punjab, India, now Residing at 412-10 Laurelcrest
Street, Brampton Ontario, Canada 6S 5Y3, born on Dec/15/1964,
Solemnly declare that I am changing my Name from Balbir
Kaur Sindhu to Balbir Kaur. I make this declaration to the
inconsistencies with the names indiated on my documents. And
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