The two suspects are being described as: the first is an Indo Canadian, approximately 45 to 55 years of age, with a moustache, balding dark hair, wearing wire rim glasses, a blue and...

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Premier Christy Clark was defeated by the NDP candidate in her riding of Vancouver Point Grey but she was back with her troops this week in Vancouver, already laying out an ambitious summer...

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Azmi Also Receiving Honourary Degree From SFU On June 12! VANCOUVER - An icon of Indian cinema and an internationally recognized humanitarian, the award winning Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi will speak about her life...

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Clark’s Victory Also Resurrects Her Friend And Most Loyal Supporter Sukh Dhaliwal Back To Power Player Status In The Indo-Canadian Community! By R. Paul Dhillon SURREY - Miracle is the only way to describe what...

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By R. Paul Dhillon Although advance polls have opened, Tuesday (D or E Day) can’t come soon enough for frontrunner Adrian Dix and trailer Christy Clark in what has been the one of the...

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There was controversy Thursday night at the River-Rock show theatre as Camille Monroe of Regina was crowned 2013 Miss World Canada winner. ...

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Here is what former NDP Premier Mike Harcourt, who did not have an amicable parting with his successor Glen Clark, the former boss of current NDP leader Adrian Dix, had to say about...

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Even Freshly-Minted Indo-American Congressman Dr Ami Bera, Whom India Had Pressured Not To Join, Ignored India’s Wishes And Joined The Sikh-American Lobby Group! WASHINGTON - All politics is local, former US House Speaker Tip...

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Will The NDP Change Track And Attack BC Liberals On HST, Basi-Virk $6 Million Payout And Other Scandals! While fresh polls released late this week show that the NDP’s nearly 15 point lead has...

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Indo-Canadian Campaign Worker From Alberta Charged Under Canada Elections Act OTTAWA – An Indo-Canadian campaign worker in the 2008 federal election faces two charges under the Canada Elections Act, reported Canadian Press. Elections Canada says...

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Rising young rapper-poet Sid Bhullar, who is glad that his anti-bullying rap song Won’t Stop has connected with students and other youngsters and that his positive message is getting through in a musical...

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NEW DELHI - “Indian spy” Sarabjit Singh, the death row convict who was undergoing treatment in a Lahore hospital, passed away late Wednesday night, according to TV reports. Sarabjit Singh, 49, suffered critical head...

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Voice Group chairman and Indo-Canadian media pioneer Munish Katyal met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s wife Laureen Harper in Vancouver on Thursday. The two had a lengthy heart-felt discussion on many topics including...

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The LINK has chosen former Burnaby Hindu mandir priest Pandit Sharadbhai Chandra as our first VIP! As we announced earlier, the LINK will feature one VIP from the South Asian community in our...

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Criticizes Canada For Linking Alleged Train Derailment Planners To Iran! DUBAI - Iran on Tuesday denied involvement in a plot to derail a passenger train in Canada that Canadian police say was backed by...

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If polls are any indication, the election is clearly Dix to lose but the BC Liberals are so far down that even if the veteran NDP politician blows it, the NDP will still...

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Indo-British Couple Married For 87 Years Invited To Special Buckingham Palace Party »

Indo-British Couple Married For 87 Years Invited To Special Buckingham Palace Party Karam Chand and Kartari Chand Karam and Kartari Chand tied the knot in 1925 in the Punjab in northern India LONDON – An Indo-British couple married for 87 years...

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Indo-American Teen’s Invents Fastest Cellphone Battery Charger »

Indo-American Teen’s Invents Fastest Cellphone Battery Charger Eesha Khare, from Saratoga, California, was awarded the Young Scientist Award by the Intel Foundation after developing the tiny device that fits inside mobile phone batteries, that could...

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Indo-British Doctor Gets 12 Years In Jail For Raping And Filming Patients »

Indo-British Doctor Gets 12 Years In Jail For Raping And Filming Patients Dr. Davinderjit Bains admitted to 39 charges of sex offences at Swindon Crown court on Thursday. LONDON – A UK-based Indo-British doctor, originally belonging to Mangalore who was earlier...

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Indo-Canadian honoured With Citizen Award Form City Of Brampton »

Indo-Canadian honoured With Citizen Award Form City Of Brampton BRAMPTON – An Indo-Canadian was among the City of Brampton’s annual Citizen Awards honours last week. Vishal G. Arora was presented the Long Term Service Award in recognition for...

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Wellness Issues Of Seniors Discussed At Victoria University »

Wellness Issues Of Seniors Discussed At Victoria University By- Gian Singh Kotli VICTORIA – In his series of discussing various health and wellness issues of the seniors Dr. Patrick McGowan, Director of Self Management Programs and...

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Indian Sentenced To 3 Years For Human Trafficking In U.S. »

Indian Sentenced To 3 Years For Human Trafficking In U.S. WASHINGTON -  An Indian has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment on charges of trafficking immigrants from India into the United States, the Department of Justice said. Kaushik...

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Are The Blue Jays Off-Season Moves Panning Out? »

Are The Blue Jays Off-Season Moves Panning Out? By Jessy Dhillon I have been watching the Toronto Blue Jays since I was a six year old. I remember when Joe Carter caught the ball at first base...

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Indo-American Tech Billionaire Buys Sacramento Kings Basketball Club For $535 Million »

Indo-American Tech Billionaire Buys Sacramento Kings Basketball Club For $535 Million Indo-American tech tycoon Vivek Ranadive has purchased the Sacramento Kings for a record USD 535 million. SACRAMENTO – Indo-American tech tycoon Vivek Ranadive has purchased the Sacramento Kings for...

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Clintons’ Surrogate Desi Daughter Under Scrutiny »

Clintons’ Surrogate Desi Daughter Under Scrutiny WASHINGTON – She’s been called Hillary Clinton’s “body woman,” her “second shadow,” and her surrogate child. Most famously, at a speech preceding her wedding to a young congressman,...

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Australian Gets 45-Year Jail For Raping, Killing NRI Woman »

Australian Gets 45-Year Jail For Raping, Killing NRI Woman MELBOURNE – A 21-year-old Australian man was today sentenced to 45 years in jail with a minimum non-parole period of 30 years for the “planned and premeditated” rape...

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iGate Fires CEO Phaneesh Murthy Over Sex Scandal »

iGate Fires CEO Phaneesh Murthy Over Sex Scandal NEW YORK – Nasdaq listed iGate Corporation, an information technology outsourcing services provider announced that it has sacked Chief Executive Officer, Phaneesh Murthy following an investigation into a...

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Racist Looking For Sympathy Following Hateful Tirade And Assault Of Rodeo Protestor »

Racist Looking For Sympathy Following Hateful Tirade And Assault Of Rodeo Protestor

“I’m A F**king Racist. I’ll Blow Your f**king Country Up,” The Racist Woman Tells The South Asian...

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Dix To Remain Leader In Light Of Lack Of Immediate Successor »

Dix To Remain Leader In Light Of Lack Of Immediate Successor

“A Victory Has A Thousand Fathers, A Defeat Is An Orphan,” Says NDP’s Bill Tielman, Adding Dix...

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Shocking Election Can Only Happen In BC »

Shocking Election Can Only Happen In BC

BC Liberals Won 50 Seat Majority With Less Than 25 Percent Of Total Electorate In BC But...

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MP Sandhu And NDP Continue Pushing For Komagata Maru Apology »

MP Sandhu And NDP Continue Pushing For Komagata Maru Apology

SURREY – May 23rd, 2013, marks the 99th anniversary of the arrival of the SS. Komagata Maru...

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99th Anniversary Of Komagata Maru Observed! »

99th Anniversary Of Komagata Maru Observed!

The Komagata Maru Heritage Foundation hosted a Candle Light Vigil on  remembrance of the 99th Anniversary of...

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Canada Lures Entrepreneurs With New “Startup Visa” »

Canada Lures Entrepreneurs With New “Startup Visa”

OTTAWA -The Canadian government has launched attractive schemes and provisions, to lure potential entrepreneurs, including Indians who...

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Drugs And Alcohol Ruled For Red-Light Running Driver Who Killed Indo-Canadian Family »

Drugs And Alcohol Ruled For Red-Light Running Driver Who Killed Indo-Canadian Family

BURNABY – The BC Coroners Service says impairment by drugs or alcohol has been ruled out as a...

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Many South Asian Among Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Recipients »

Many South Asian Among Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Recipients

VICTORIA – The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Gold Certificates were presented by His Royal Highness The Duke...

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VPD Soccer Tournament Brings Out 500 Inner City Youth »

VPD Soccer Tournament Brings Out 500 Inner City Youth

VANCOUVER – Vancouver police detective Kal Dosanjh, through the Department Athletic League, organized a soccer tournament for...

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Triumphant Clark Meets The Troops, Sets Summer Agenda »

Triumphant Clark Meets The Troops, Sets Summer Agenda

Premier Christy Clark was defeated by the NDP candidate in her riding of Vancouver Point Grey, leaving...

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Alberta’s Wildrose Party Criticized For Supporters’ Racist Facebook Comments About Calgary Sikh Parade »

Alberta’s Wildrose Party Criticized For Supporters’ Racist Facebook Comments About Calgary Sikh Parade

CALGARY — Alberta Progressive Conservatives are chiding the Wildrose party over comments on the party’s Facebook page...

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Thieves Steal Wedding Gifts Of Newlywed South Asian Couple »

Thieves Steal Wedding Gifts Of Newlywed South Asian Couple

TORONTO – A newlywed South Asian couple had their special day interrupted when two men allegedly stole...

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Bollywood Actress Shabana Azmi To Speaks On Sex And Sensibility At SFU »

Bollywood Actress Shabana Azmi To Speaks On Sex And Sensibility At SFU

VANCOUVER – An icon of Indian cinema and an internationally recognized humanitarian, the award winning Bollywood actress...

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Sikhs For Service Establishes Bhagat Puran Singh Sikh Community Bursary At SFU »

Sikhs For Service Establishes Bhagat Puran Singh Sikh Community Bursary At SFU

SURREY – Sikhs for Service, a community organization dedicated to serve the Lower Mainland community, has established...

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Globalization Promotes Pseudo-Intellectualism Through Market Forced Commerciality »

Bollywood and contemporary Punjabi music and cinema has also played a big role in promoting the new distorted image of the Jatts. This Chauvinistic, superficial and artificial portrayal actually negates the glorious progress made by the community under the influence of the Sikh religion. The new Jatt chauvinism glorifies exactly the opposite values than Sikh...

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Globalization Promotes Pseudo-Intellectualism Through Market Forced Commerciality

Sony Cuts Sales Target For Digital Devices »

TOKYO – Sony Corp cut its sales targets for digital cameras, smartphones and tablets by 13-17% for the year to end-March 2015, but said there were “encouraging” signs of a revival in its electronics business. CEO Kazuo Hirai told a press briefing on Wednesday that Sony would assess a proposal from its biggest shareholder, billionaire...

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Sony Cuts Sales Target For Digital Devices

Pandit Sharadbhai Chandra Continues To Spread The Spirit Of Devotion After Retiring From Burnaby Hindu Temple »

Growing up in a Gujarati household in Ahmedabad, the young Sharadbhai took to Sanskrit early on, learning about the Vedas and the ways of priesthood from his priest father before going to Banaras, Uttar Pradesh to partake in higher religious studies just like his father had done before him. By R. Paul Dhillon After more than five...

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Pandit Sharadbhai Chandra Continues To Spread The Spirit Of Devotion After Retiring From Burnaby Hindu Temple

The Iceman (PG) * * * * »

Can A Ruthless Killer Be A Good Family Man! by  ALAN SAMUEL Brutal force delivered with ultimate precision is the calling card of the lead character in The Iceman.  Just like the title suggest, cool as a cucumber if the leading manin this EOne Entertainment thriller now delivering the goods at The Empire Studio 12, Colossus and...

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The Iceman (PG) * * * *

Sex Selective Abortions Are Culturally Repugnant And Socially Backward »

But How Do We Stop Them? – By Outlawing Sex Selective Abortions In Canada – That’s How! By Suresh Kurl A family kitchen by nature is a warmer place. But during the recent political campaign, I felt it was the hottest spot in the entire household. I realize it was not only the heating fuel that...

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Sex Selective Abortions Are Culturally Repugnant And Socially Backward

International

Kashmir’s Self-Styled Godman Arrested For Rape Of Young Girls

Kashmir’s Self-Styled Godman Arrested For Rape Of Young Girls »

SRINAGAR – A 42-year-old self-styled Sufi dervish Gulzar Ahmed Bhat was arrested on Wednesday by Jammu and Kashmir police for raping and sexually abusing several young girls at his religious...

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Senseless Violence!

Senseless Violence! »

Two more people have been arrested by officers investigating the hacking death of a U.K. soldier in London. Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, was killed Wednesday in an attack by two...

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Bollywood

Bollywood Is In The mood For Love Again »

Bollywood Is In The mood For Love Again

NEW DELHI- Much bashed for the fact, but mushy love was Bollywood’s  identity for a long time. Movies such as Maine Pyar...

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Aishwarya’s Many Failed Avatars At Cannes 2013 »

Aishwarya’s Many Failed Avatars At Cannes 2013

MUMBAI – In a rare reversal of the Midas touch, every bit of gold this Bollywood superstar wore on the Cannes red...

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Kamal Hassan’s Daughter Shruti Haasan Thought She Was Too Ugly For Films

Kamal Hassan’s Daughter Shruti Haasan Thought She Was Too Ugly For Films »

MUMBAI – Actress Shruti Haasan, daughter of legendary actor Kamal Haasan and actress Sarika, always wanted to be in showbiz, but was skeptical about facing the camera because she didn’t...

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