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In sharp contrast to some other states including Maharashtra and Bihar which often face locals-outsiders conflicts, Punjab is perhaps India’s lone state which has been frequently hit by religion-related controversies though the pattern of Punjab’s controversies has undergone a change in the last six decades. In the 1950s and 1960s it was the controversy over the Akali Dal’s demand for a Sikh majority Punjabi Suba which used to generate communal tensions which later helped create a conducive environment for the foreign backed separatist-terrorists to spread terror. But after the curbing of terrorism in the nineties, such controversies stopped disturbing the state’s communal peace.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party’s Uttar Pradesh state President Akhilesh Yadav will lead the Rath Yatra in the state from September 12 to mobilize the people of the state against the misrule of the Mayawati Government for defeating it in the assembly elections in 2012. This Samajwadi Kranti Rath Yatra will start from Lucknow. Massive preparations are on to make it a big success.

Earlier training packages to the rural population in India have miserably failed. Most of the efforts in this regard flowed down the drain mainly on account of changing trend in rural requirement and continuously shifting government policies. It has changed the very configuration of rural employment opportunities. Many skills earlier considered important has been lately rendered almost useless. Rural industries are progressing at a snail’s pace and therefore could not accommodate even already skilled persons.

New York: Members of the technology executive committee created under the United Nations climate change convention to facilitate the use of technology to support mitigation and adaptation to climate change concluded their first meeting on Saturday, saying they had made important progress on issues discussed.

New Delhi: After Kiran Bedi, it is now the turn of another member of Team Anna, Advocate Prashant Bhushan to receive a notice for the breach of privilege of the Parliament.

Hardship takes toll of life, sometimes in thousands, as we witnessed in recent past in form of large-scale suicides of farmers in various parts of India.

New Delhi: The President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil has referred the resignation of Calcutta High Court judge Justice Soumitra Sen to Department of Justice.

BHOPAL: The last two assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh were fought on the issues of “Sadak, Paani and Bijli” (Roads, water and power) It appears that the next elections (2013) may also be fought on the same issues. Though, at least this year, Rain Gods have been magnanimous towards the State and there has been bountiful rainfall all over the State but bad roads and shortage of electricity continue to plague in the state.

NEW DELHI: Of late, hectic activities are going on in the key economic ministries of the Government of India to formulate a China Plan which has a two fold objective. First, to take optimum advantage of the vast Chinese market by stepping up the exports of Indian products, thereby reducing the trade deficit with China and second to implement a time bound programme in the other developing countries, especially in Africa and Latin America where China is beating India hollow in terms of capturing markets.

NEW DELHI: US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has asked India’s partnership in tackling global terrorism, cyber security and maritime piracy. NATO has thus indicated that India shed its non-alignment policy and come closer to the group.