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.

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.

VANCOUVER — The thought of keeping a backpack containing $400,000 worth of jewelry never entered the mind of Jai Kirpal, a longtime Blacktop cab driver, who found it left behind in the back seat o of his cab and returned it to their rightful owners.

VANCOUVER – The Canadian Tamil Congress says it’s “deeply concerned” over what the federal Conservative government is saying about the arrival of almost 500 migrants in B.C.

By SANSAD
Four hundred and ninety two Tamil men, women, and children, including some pregnant women have arrived in Vancouver, BC, after several months on the sea aboard the modified cargo ship, Sun Sea. They are being held in custody while the Immigration and Refugee Board hears their claims for refugee status.
Processing of claims for refugee [...]

Langley police probe racist motive following assault on Indo-Canadian man and racist slurs against an Indo-Canadian woman.
LANGLEY – Police in Langley, B.C., are investigating whether an attack on a 20-year-old Indo-Canadian man Saturday was racially motivated.
Two White men yelled racist slurs while they attacked the victim in a Superstore parking lot on Willowbrook Drive [...]