Toronto: The International Fashion Festival 2012 Toronto EDITION will be held on July 2nd-8th this summer. The organizers claimed to have roped in 24 Designers to participate in the event that will have six performances featuring International Models, Top Designer Workshops, Hair & Make-up Workshops, Modeling Workshops and Great entertainment for all attendees. [...]
New Delhi: Seeking closer ties through a sustained talks process and a step by step approach to solve outstanding issues, India and Pakistan are likely to sign a “liberalised visa agreement” when their home secretaries meet in Islamabad next month, external affairs minister SM Krishna said on Wednesday. Krishna was speaking in the [...]
Washington: Around 13 percent of the world’s adults — or over 640 million people — would like to emigrate with roughly 150 million, including ten million Indians wishing to settle in America. So suggests a new Gallup survey giving the US an undisputed title as the globe’s most desired destination for would-be migrants since [...]
Toronto: The Sikh Foundation of Canada have announced the list of people who will be honoured at its annual gala on April 21 at the Ritz-Carlton. The Sikh Centennial Gala is an annual event promoting Sikh heritage and culture by celebrating and recognizing excellence achieved by Sikhs and non-Sikhs in all aspects of civil, social [...]
Kabul: India and Afghanistan Monday signed an agreement for enhancing cooperation in the field of iron and steel. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Indian Minister for Steel Beni Prasad Verma and Afghan Minister for Mines Wahidullah Shahrani on this occasion, Xinhua reported. While terming India-Afghan relations very old and cordial, Verma [...]
Toronto: Dr. Bhausaheb Ubale, a genial presence in the Indo-Canadian community of Toronto passed away in Pune during one of his frequent trips to India. Dr. Ubale, a form Human Rights Commissioner of Ontario, was a Fellow of McLaughlin College from 1985. He founded the very successful Human Rights, Participatory Growth and Poverty Eradication Program [...]
London: Up to 400 children, including from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, were coerced into or threatened with marriage in Britain last year, a government report has said. A girl aged five was the youngest victim, the Daily Mail reported citing figures from the Home Office’s Forced Marriage Unit. U.K. Ministers are considering whether [...]
Washington: An 18-year-old Indian American singer, whose parents hail from Kerala, could well emerge as America’s new singing sensation after making the top 24 on NBC’s reality singing show “The Voice” Sharon Mathai, a self-proclaimed brainiac and science expert who is a pre-med student, sang “Rumor Has It” by Adele for her blind [...]
Hamilton: Tracking health differences by ethnicity is the cornerstone of the new Chanchlani Research Centre at McMaster University. The new centre is dedicated to understanding the genetic and environmental causes of common diseases among diverse cultural groups, women and the socially disadvantaged while providing innovative training to the next generation of health [...]
Toronto: Gandhian Initiative for Development of Support Services (GIDSS), a Canadian not-for-profit, registered organization had organized a fund raising campaign at Humber college, lake shore campus to celebrate the International Women Day. The function was organized in collaboration with Humber Students Federation. GIDSS is going to provide 10 scholarships, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Scholarships for [...]
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