News East-West
MISSISSAUGA: Zainab Naveed has been crowned Miss Pakistan World and Shan Virk Mr Pakistan at a pageant here
Archives for August 2012
Mistakes that new immigrants make while buying a home
By Rita Jethi
TORONTO: The biggest mistake that newcomers to this country make is to buy a home immediately on their arrival on the advice of some ill-informed advisors.
Sholay maker Ramesh Sippy set to return after 17 years
By Subhash K Jha
MUMBAI: Finally after years of abstinence from what he was born to do, Ramesh Sippy is all set to return to direction with a thriller which will reportedly have the Big B
Amrita Pritam – the wailing voice of millions of women
Prof Sehdev Kumar remembers the late Amrita Pritam on her 93rd birth anniversary which falls on August 31
It’s the turban, stupid
How immigrant doctor Birinder Singh Ahluwalia broke the ceiling in Canada
News East-West
TORONTO: By creating one of the biggest diagnostic centres in Canada, Dr Birinder Singh Ahluwalia has raised the bar for Indian doctors
IIT Bombay team to visit Toronto
TORONTO: A delegation from IIT Bombay will visit North America in October and travel to Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston and New York.
The delegation includes director Devang Khakhar, deputy director (finance and external affairs) HS Pandalai, dean (alumni and corporate relations) Ravi Sinha,
Sonu Saree Palace of Toronto once used to sell sarees to India
News East-West
TORONTO: Imagine sarees being exported from Canada to India!
Yes, this is true and it happened in the 1980s and 90s when Sonu Saree Palace of Gerrard Street used to export polyester sarees to India – the mother country of sarees.
“We were the first shop to introduce quality polyester sarees in Canada,
Mallika Kapur is Miss India-Canada
News East-West
TORONTO: Indian-born Mallika Kapur, 21, was crowned as Miss India Canada at a pageant at Double Tree by Hilton Hotel here on Saturday night
Mira Nair’s Reluctant Fundamentalist is the first Indian film to go to Venice
