By Bhupinder Singh Liddar Canada, this year, is celebrating 150 years of becoming a unified country, forming of a confederation, in 1867. There is regret in the history of this country, much to celebrate now, and a lot to look forward to! The Confederation is the result of three conferences: in Charlottetown and Quebec City, […]
“ Stopping Pollution Is The Best Solution!” By Zile Singh The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm (Sweden) from June 5-16, 1972. It was the first major conference on the subject and marked a turning point in the development of international environment politics. It was attended by 113 delegates and […]
McQuarrie, the largest law firm in the Fraser Valley and one of BC’s most enduring, marked 50 years with a rebrand and client event in Surrey. The firm presented a $75,000 cheque to Surrey Hospital & Outpatient Centre Foundation to help complete a 10-bed psychiatric unit for children. The Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Stabilization Unit […]
SAN FRANCISCO – When Wal-Mart Stores Inc bought online retailer Jet.com for $3 billion last year, it marked a crucial moment – the world’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer, after years of ceding e-commerce leadership to arch rival Amazon, intended to compete. On Friday, Amazon.com Inc countered. With its $14 billion purchase of grocery chain Whole Foods […]
NEW DELHI – India is ready to launch the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on July 1, the official steering the process told Reuters, saying the technology that will drive it is robust and dismissing fears the tax is too complicated. Hasmukh Adhia, revenue secretary at the finance ministry, also said rules will be issued […]
NEW DELHI – Coca-Cola’s shakeup of its top management in India is drawing to a close with a slew of key appointments. As part of its strategy to establish a new team and revitalise sales in the country, the Atlanta-based soft-drink company started shuffling its top deck last year. The exercise began with the advent […]
Free Canadian Eyesight Clinic Free Eye Health Clinic shall be held on Sunday June 25, time 1:00-4:00pm at the Khalsa Diwan Society, 8000 Ross Street, (Museum Building) Vancouver. BC. A team of an eminent eye surgeon Dr. David R.S. Neima, MD, FRCS(C), Ophthl. will participate. Every one is welcome. Contact: Anup S. Jubbal, Canadian Eyesight […]
Have you ever been told that consuming more salt will make you thirstier? Well, it could be just an old wives’ tale, say new studies by Russian cosmonauts. So far we have known that if your salt, or sodium chloride, intake is high, you will get more thirsty and hence, drink more water. This will […]
Most of us label sugar as the biggest evil today. We try our best to eliminate it from our diets and feel guilty whenever we ocassionally give in. But did it ever occur to you if these white crystals that were once an inseparable part of our daily diets, may not be that big […]
Thursday, June 15 was an extremely busy day at India Cultural Centre of Canada Gurdwara Nanak Niwas (8600, #5 Road in Richmond). Grade 12 students from one of our neighbourhood schools-Richmond Christian High School- were busy learning about various religions. About 50 students in three different groups visited Gurdwara Nanak Niwas to learn about Sikhism […]
