CARACAS: Called “mad as a goat” by Uruguay’s Jose Mujica this week, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro retorted laughingly on Thursday that the former president was right – but he was only crazy with love for […]
OTTAWA (TIP): Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally apologized in the House of Commons for the Komagata Maru incident in 1914, in which hundreds of Sikh, Muslim and Hindu passengers were denied entry to Canada […]
BRASILIA (TIP): Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer called on his country to rally behind his government of “national salvation,” hours after the Senate voted to suspend and put on trial his leftist predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, […]
NEW DELHI: Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau notched up another signal honour as a liberal humanist by pledging to make a full apology in the House of Commons for a century-old slight against Indians, mainly […]
SAN FRANCISCO: An Indo-Canadian Toronto-based Sikh comedian and YouTube and Vine star, Jasmeet Singh — better known online as ‘JusReign’ alleged that he was forced to take off his turban at the San Francisco airport […]
WASHINGTON(TIP): President Barack Obama will become the first sitting U.S. President to visit Cuba in 88 years, when he visits Havana, Cuba in March as part of a broader trip to Latin America. He will […]
TORONTO (TIP): Canada’s first Sikh defence minister Harjit Sajjan has been heckled in Parliament with an opposition member shouting that MPs needed an “English-to-English” translation as he spoke, an act dubbed as “racist”. Veteran Conservative […]
MAXICXO (TIP): The world’s fattest man has died of a heart attack at the age of 38 after reportedly drinking more than six energy drinks a day. Andres Moreno, from Ciudad Obregon in Mexico, reached […]
TORONTO (TIP): The only person ever convicted over the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people was released from a Canadian prison on Wednesday, January 27 after serving two decades behind bars. Inderjit Singh […]
NEW YORK: A Sikh man along with his four friends were kicked out from an American Airlines flight allegedly because their appearance made the captain uneasy, claims a $9 million lawsuit against the airline. Shan Anand, […]
TORONTO (TIP): A Canadian who was held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2010 has been released. Canadian foreign minister Stephane Dion said in a statement on Monday that efforts to secure the release of […]
Jwala Rambarran, Indian-origin Central Bank Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, has been removed for being “discourteous” to the government by making public details about foreign exchange and recession. The 47-year-old embattled governor, the second person […]
BRASILIA (TIP): Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled Dec 17 that Congress must restart impeachment proceedings against Dilma Rousseff from scratch and overhauled the procedure, in a badly needed win for the embattled president. In an 8-3 […]
NEW YORK: Although using soap and water has remained the standard practice of wound cleaning before surgery, this method is actually less effective than just using saline water, say researchers, including one of Indian-origin. The findings […]
TORONTO: A 30-year-old Punjabi singer, who visited Canada for a music performance, has gone missing, prompting authorities to seek the public’s help in locating him. Lehmber Singh missed his return flight to India on November 5 […]
TORONTO: A 40-year-old Indian-origin woman is facing murder charges for stabbing to a woman death in the heart of Toronto, police said. Rohinie Bisesar stabbed the victim at a Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto’s financial district […]
The police in California and the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Sunday, December 13, opened a hate crimes investigation after two mosques were vandalized overnight. One mosque had “Jesus is the Way” spray-painted across the front. Another […]
Punjabi is officially the third language of the Canadian Parliament. The first and second official languages of the country and its parliament are English and French. Four years back Punjabi was recognised as Canada’s third most […]
MONTREAL: Researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist and his team from Concordia University have developed a novel technology that harnesses electrical energy from blue-green algae that could be used to power cell phones and computers in future. […]
TORONTO: An innocent Canadian Sikh journalist was wrongly accused of being involved in the Paris attacks after his Photoshopped image went viral on social media and a Spanish newspaper printed the snap identifying him as a […]
TORONTO (TIP): Hindus are highly concerned after reports of vandalism of Shri Ram Dham Hindu Temple in Kitchener in Ontario (Canada). There were reports of smashing of windows of Shri Ram Dham Hindu Temple on […]
TORONTO: Canada’s newly-appointed Sikh Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has allegedly faced racist remarks by a soldier on social media, prompting the Canadian Armed Forces to launch a probe. The military declined to identify the soldier or […]
TORONTO: Andhra-born Dipika Damerla, who is the first Indian-origin woman minister in Canada’s biggest province of Ontario, is blazing a trail in community service. If thanks to her efforts Indian-Canadians in the neighbouring Mississauga just enjoyed […]
NEW DELHI: With eyes set on the 2017 Punjab Assembly polls, a delegation of AAP leaders has flown to Canada to woo the NRI Punjabi Indian community settled in the North American country in a bid […]
OTTAWA Nov 4: The Punjabi community in Canada made history when two turbaned Sikhs, among four Indo-Canadians, were sworn in as cabinet ministers, as 42-year-old Justin Trudeau took oath as the country’s 23rd prime minister […]
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