Chandigarh: Ensnared in love for a girl here, NRI Shaganpreet Singh never wanted to return to his parents in Canada. So the 22-year-old staged his own kidnapping with the help of a friend so that he could miss his flight but the plan was laid bare by the police. Shaganpreet and his friend Satinder Singh, 31, left their village Dhurkot in Punjab's Bathinda district April 20 for Delhi, from where...
03:35 PM, Apr 25, 2011
Vancouver: In a major decision on Thursday, the Canadian supreme court allowed the government to recover of legal fees of $5.2 million from Air India Kanishka bombing accused Ripudaman Singh Mailk who was acquitted in the case in 2005. A Vancouver-based millionaire businessman, Malik had expressed his inability to pay his legal fees for the trial, forcing the provincial British Columbian government to shell out $5.2 million to his defence...
06:10 PM, Apr 22, 2011
Washington: India has ranked 71st in happiness with only 17 per cent people describing themselves as "thriving" in a new study of well-being that gives Denmark the top spot among 124 countries surveyed. With Danes ranked the most contented people on the planet with a whopping 72 per cent of residents considering themselves "thriving," Sweden and Canada followed close behind, each at 69 per cent in Gallup's 2010 Global Wellbeing...
11:32 AM, Apr 21, 2011
Ottawa: Wearing neon colours, dancing and flashing "I vote" signs for video cameras, students in Canada's capital on Monday joined a growing movement of youth "vote mobs" aimed at shaking up the May 2 national election. The flash rally at Carleton University in Ottawa was the latest in a series of events on campuses across the country aimed at mobilizing first-time voters and challenging the notion that youth don't care...
11:14 AM, Apr 19, 2011
Toronto: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government was toppled by opposition after Parliament passed a no-confidence vote and the country appeared headed for elections in May, the fourth in seven years. The snap polls was forced following the passage of the no-confidence vote against the minority government engineered by the opposition Liberal Party and backed by two other opposition parties, on the heels of a historic contempt of...
06:10 PM, Mar 26, 2011
Ottawa: Canada has suspended its diplomatic presence in Libya and evacuated its embassy staff from the strife-torn north African country, an official said in Ottawa. "The government has decided today to suspend its diplomatic presence in Libya and has instructed all Canada-based staff to depart Libya," Dimitri Soudas, communications director for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said at a news briefing. He said such a decision was based on the recommendation...
08:08 AM, Feb 27, 2011
Mumbai: Beautiful, strong, brave and paralysed waist-down, Morgan Van Breda, a 32 year old Canadian woman is cycling through India to raise funds and awareness about spinal cord injuries. At the age of 24, Morgan suffered a T-12 injury, when a soccer post collapsed on her back, shattering her T 11/12 vertebrae. The injury left her paralysed waist down. Doctors declared she will never be able to walk again. But...
11:12 AM, Feb 25, 2011
Toronto: Canada has refused to re-admit the mastermind of the 1984 Indian Airline hijacking who was deported to India last year. Parminder Singh Saini, 47, who was the leader of five Sikh militants who hijacked the Srinagar-Delhi flight to Lahore July 6, 1984, had filed a plea in a federal court on February 3 to seek re-entry into Canada. However, in its ruling February 9, the court dismissed Saini's plea,...
06:19 PM, Feb 24, 2011
Toronto: India and China lead the pack as Canada welcomed the highest number of immigrants in more than 50 years by admitting 280,636 permanent residents in 2010. This new number is about 60,000 higher than the average annual intake of permanent residents in recent years, according to a statement by Immigration and Citizenship Canada. Canada has admitted between 240,000 and 265,000 immigrants annually in recent years. Though there is no...
01:20 PM, Feb 14, 2011
Washington: Supporters of Binayak Sen, the jailed human rights activists, over the weekend held peaceful demonstrations in about a dozen cities in US, Canada and Britain, demanding the Indian Government to release him immediately. The Free Binayak Sen Coalition - a broad coalition of 55 civil society groups from the United States, Britain and Canada - in a statement said demonstrations were held in front of the Indian consulates in...
08:03 AM, Feb 02, 2011
Toronto: Canada has said it will comply with the new Tunisian government's request to extradite the brother-in-law of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Belhassen Trabelsi, a billionaire Tunisian businessman and brother of former first lady Leila Trabelsi, reportedly arrived in Canada last week with his family. Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon on Friday said that "we don't want criminals like him in Canada, and we will comply with...
09:03 AM, Jan 29, 2011
Washington: A broad coalition of 55 civil society groups from the US, Britain and Canada are coming together to demand the immediate release of jailed Indian rights activist Binayak Sen, who was recently given a life sentence by a Chhattisgarh court. In a statement, the coalition on Thursday demanded the repeal of alleged 'draconian laws' giving arbitrary power to the State that infringe on the fundamental rights of free speech,...
08:38 AM, Jan 28, 2011
Toronto: Canadian police have made the biggest date rape drug seizure in the country's history with the arrest of five Chinese smugglers. Making the announcement in Vancouver on Wednesday, police said they have seized over 1,000 kg of the date rape drug ketamine, valued at $15 million, from a container that came from Hong Kong. Five Chinese men, including three Canadian nationals, linked to the smuggling ring have been arrested....
05:26 PM, Jan 27, 2011
London: A Canadian man is on a tour across the world and imagine who is accompanying him - six sex dolls, each wearing glamorous outfits, lingerie, wigs and stilettos. Dave Hockey, 57, has taken his 'silicone beauties' on trips across Britain and the US and insists his wife 'doesn't mind'. He has splashed out a whopping 16,000 pounds ($25,000) to travel around the world with the dolls, The Sun reported....
04:26 PM, Jan 26, 2011
Toronto: Canada is the most web-addicted nation on the planet. Canadians spend more time on the web and its offshoots - Facebook, YouTube and Twitter - than people anywhere else in the world. They are neck and neck with Indians for the number of Facebook accounts, says a report. According to comScore, the leading online measurement service, Canadian online users log in more than 2,500 minutes a month, followed by...
12:55 PM, Dec 29, 2010
Toronto: Prime Minister Stephen Harper has invited Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Canada. The Nobel peace laureate, who was freed from house arrest by the military junta on November 13, is an honorary Canadian citizen along with other famous leaders such as Nelson Mandela, the Aga Khan and the Dalai Lama. The 1991 Nobel laureate was awarded the honorary citizenship in 2007. She is linked to...
11:10 AM, Dec 28, 2010
Los Angeles: On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic where no trees now grow, a newly unearthed mummified forest is giving researchers a peek into how plants reacted to ancient climate change. That knowledge will be key as scientists begin to tease out the impacts of global warming in the Arctic. The ancient forest found on Ellesmere Island, which lies north of the Arctic Circle in Canada, contained dried...
12:16 PM, Dec 17, 2010
London: Governments, airlines and aviation authorities around the world were reviewing security on Monday after US-bound parcel bombs sent by air from Yemen were intercepted in Dubai and Britain. In London, Prime Minister David Cameron convened a crisis committee to decide Britain's response after one of the packages was found on a United Parcel Service cargo plane at East Midlands Airport, north of London, on Friday. The other bomb was...
10:54 AM, Nov 02, 2010
Toronto: The Dalai Lama, who wound up his three-day visit here by leading prayers at the newly opened Tibetan cultural centre, doesn't rule out a female successor. The purpose of the Dalal Lama's reincarnation is to serve the Buddha, the 14th Dalai Lama told a week-end audience of more than 15,000 at the city' Rogers Centre. "If a female reincarnation is more useful - why not?" he retorted when asked...
10:17 AM, Oct 25, 2010
