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Parvaaz: From the Rolling Stone cover to Canadian Music Week
TORONTO: The grand annual Canadian Music Week (CMW) that ran from May 6-12, specially flew in India’s latest highly acclaimed rock band Parvaaz to perform at its festival this year. Parvaaz is a Bengaluru-based band that was formed in 2010-2011 and their crowning achievement, as one of the members put it, was to be on…
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How Naresh Goyal, Indian leaders abandoned 23,000 Jet employees
I am totally shaken and at dismay after hearing about Jet Airways CEO Vinay Dube and CFO Amit Agrawal stepping down from their respective roles. These both men were the last hope of the 23,000 Jet employees whose future now looks bleak. Jet boss Naresh Goyal had already abandoned these employees and their families in a…
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Asia Bibi is the kind of people Canada should grant asylum
Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi, 45, who was sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy against Islam in 2010 and acquitted by the Supreme Court last October, has been granted asylum in Canada. Bibi’s counsel Saiful Malook and Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) sources confirmed her departure for Canada, according to Express Tribune. A poor farm worker…
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Gulzar’s soulful music and poetry Gulzarish coming to Toronto on May 31
By Renu Mehta TORONTO: Indian Women in Canada (iWINC), in partnership with Imagebuilderz, has announced one of the classiest shows coming to Toronto later this month. GULZARISH, an artistic display of soulful poetry and captivating music by renowned lyricist and film director Gulzar, will be presented at the Aga Khan Museum on May 31, bringing a unique…