NEW DELHI – The Delhi High Court on Friday rejected a plea to stay the trial of senior Congress leader and former member of parliament Sajjan Kumar in connection with his role in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which six persons were killed.

Anti neo-Nazi and anti racism activists are horrified at the Canadian mainstream media platform and brazen public organizing of well-known white supremacists and neo-Nazis such as Paul Fromm following the Tamil asylum seekers landing on BC’s coast.
VANCOUVER – Anti neo-Nazi and anti racism activists are horrified at the public platform and brazen public organizing of [...]

This car’s Indo-Canadian driver lost track of whether he was going forward or backward and smashed into a glass building on Kent Drive (near Ross) South Vancouver (on the back side of Southhall) last Saturday. According to photographer Bal Singh, the “apna guy was going to back out of a parking stall but he accidentally [...]

Iqbal Vinepal was arrested last week following the murder of Naib Toor who was stabbed to at a house in the 12800-block of 99th Avenue, where Vinepal lived. A 42-year-old woman named RS Salaam, who was apparently in a relationship with the murdered man, was also attacked but survived with serious knife wounds. Neighbours described [...]

Vancouver’s scenic English Bay was the stunning backdrop for ISKCON Hare Krishna Temple’s 37th Annual Chariot Festival of India held on Sunday, August 15th. Sunny weather and a fabulous, colourful parade made for a great atmosphere.

BURNABY — Opposition labour critic Raj Chouhan is calling for a full investigation into how the squalid conditions of a discredited South Asian run silviculture company’s camp factored into the death of a 46-year-old Indo-Canadian treeplanter earlier this summer.
Chouhan, NDP MLA for Burnaby-Edmonds, said the revelations of the substandard conditions in the camp are justification [...]

Anti-HST crusader Premier Bill Vander Zalm warn BC Liberals that his timetable for repealing the HST has not changed, and that the government has until November 15th to get rid of the hated tax, or he will begin Recalls.
VANCOUVER – BC Supreme Court Chief Justice, Robert Bauman, ruled Friday that the Initiative petition to [...]

DELTA– After her initial attempt at Delta Council was unsuccessful, local cultural activist Amy Ghuman Sara is giving it another try at municipal politics, running in the upcoming byelection in Delta.

KARACHI – One week after launching a fundraising effort to help victims of Pakistan’s devastating floods, a coalition of Canadian charities has raised just $200,000 for the region.

NEW YORK – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tops Newsweek Magazine’s list of 10 world leaders who have won respect and is described as “the leader other leaders love” though India figures at 78th place in the list of 100 best countries.