VICTORIA – BC government is pumping $5 billion into the economy to help British Columbians affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The $5 billion in income supports, tax relief and direct funding will help people, businesses and services. “The COVID-19 pandemic challenges our health, our economy and our way of life. People and businesses urgently need […]

The clash came on the day that the World Health Organization said more cases and deaths had been reported in the rest of the world than in China, where the new coronavirus virus was first detected late last year. WASHINGTON – The United States and China on Monday each demanded that the other stop smearing […]

LONDON – Indian students in the UK are desperate to return to India and have flooded the Indian High Commission here with queries about when they are likely to get back home and be with their families, as New Delhi bans travellers from Britain starting on Wednesday due to the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic. India on […]

AMRITSAR – Volunteers of the Birmingham-based Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha on Thursday started the kar sewa at the Golden Temple here. Golden Temple manager Jaswinder Singh Deenpur said about 25 volunteers of the jatha washed the gold-plated domes of the sanctum sanctorum with “reetha” water and lemon juice. The jatha had cleaned the gold-plating […]

Of a group of 170 patients who died in January in Wuhan, the first wave of casualties caused by a pathogen that’s now raced around the world, nearly half had hypertension. BEIJING – Patients with hypertension appear to be at a higher risk of dying from the coronavirus, said a top Chinese intensive care doctor […]

SYDNEY – A 16-year-old boy, his uncle and aunt, all of Samana, were killed in a road accident in Australia on Monday. The boy’s mother, who sustained severe injuries, is admitted to a hospital in Melbourne. Her condition is stated to be critical. Ishpreet Singh, a student of Class XI at a private school in […]

JALANDHAR –Many NRIs visiting Punjab are staying put for now while calls come from their adopted countries to return home. It was supposed to be a spring vacation for travel freak couple Amit Taneja and Monika Taneja and their children as they were to head to New York on March 3. As the kids’ school […]

JALANDHAR – With the support of both the Congress and the SAD, US-based NRI Kirpal Singh Sahota was today elected NRI Sabha president. A total of 363 NRIs cast their votes, of whom 260 voted for Sahota. Former president Jasvir Singh Shergill got 100 votes. Another former chief Pritam Singh Narangpuri, who had backed out […]

Police have identified the victim as Theepa Seevaratnam, of Toronto. Following an autopsy on Saturday, the cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound to the chest. Seevaratnam was fatally shot in Scarborough on Friday, March 13. TORONTO – Toronto police have identified the 38-year-old Indo-Canadian woman as the person who was fatally […]

Arinjay Banerjee, who is a postdoctoral researcher at McMaster University’s Institute for Infectious Disease Research and specialises in coronaviruses and in bats, said: “Now that we have isolated the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we can share this with other researchers and continue this teamwork. The more viruses that are made available in this way, the more we […]