Canadians can now cast their vote for the Top 25 Canadian immigrants of 2012 Toronto: Canadian Immigrant magazine and RBC Royal Bank have kicked off the voting for the fourth annual Top 25 Canadian Immigrant awards. Canadians are encouraged to visit www.canadianimmigrant.ca/top25 until April 13, 2012 to cast their vote for the most inspiring [...]
Ottawa: The Government of Canada and the Anglican Church celebrated a joint agreement under which approximately 50 refugee families have been brought to this country from countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia and Iran. “Canada has a long and proud tradition of providing a safe haven to those around the world most in need of protection,” [...]
New Delhi: Although the government of India has announced its resolve to keep heavily-in-debt national carrier, Air India, afloat with fresh funding, airlines sources say that nothing is been put into concrete action. So the Air India management, according to a report appearing in local newspaper, is planning some cost-cutting measures, beginning with pruning [...]
London: British born writer Bobby Singh Bansal, who just recently returned from a fact finding mission to Afghanistan, has spent several days visiting the local Sikh and Hindu community which he discovered had dwindled from 60,000 to a mere 1000. This is a war-ravaged country where the ubiquitous American and foreign troops are very [...]
New Delhi: A group of doctors has returned to India after two successful liver transplants in Lahore, with “lots of love and lots of goodwill” from Pakistan. A seven-member team led by Subhash Gupta of Apollo Hospital here along with Pakistani doctors conducted the lengthy surgeries in Lahore’s Shaikh Zaid Hospital — the equivalent of [...]
New Delhi: The Indonesians, Indians and Mexicans are the happiest peoples on earth, according to a recent survey. More than three-quarters of people around the globe who were questioned in an international poll said they were happy with their lives and nearly a quarter described themselves as very happy. “The world is a [...]
Washington: Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf knew where Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was hiding and said nothing, a former head of Pakistani spy agency ISI has said. Former CIA official Bruce Riedel quoted ex-ISI chief Gen (retired) Ziauddin Khwaja alias Ziauddin Butt, as saying that Musharraf “knew bin Laden was in Abbottabad” in [...]
New Delhi: Pakistan and Bangladesh have stayed away, for unspecified reasons, from attending a two-day SAARC anti-terror meeting that began in the capital Thursday. Official sources said the meeting of eminent experts from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries was attended by delegates from Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Representatives of [...]
Beijing: Pitching for stronger India-China relations, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Wednesday formally inaugurated the Indian embassy’s new $10 million complex here which has been built with sandstone. “A modern and expansive chancery clearly reflects our expectations of ties with China,” Krishna, who is on a three-day visit to China, said at the inauguration [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan Thursday refuted media reports suggesting a meeting between Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Afghan Taliban representatives had been planned in Qatar during his three-day visit which concluded a day ago. According to Pakistan’s foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit, the visit only focused on bilateral relations between Pakistan and the [...]