Category: Indo-Canadians
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Honour killing of Indo-Canadian girl Jassi Sidhu in Punjab: 3 contract killers to serve life term
News East West NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has upheld the life term given to two contract killers of Indo-Canadian girl Jassi (Jaswinder) Sidhu who was murdered near Sangrur in Punjab in June 2000 for marrying a lower-caste man against her family’s wishes. Jassi was 24 at the time of her murder, which turned out…
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Bollywood-style ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ comes to Toronto
TORONTO: This month, Tarragon Theatre explores the connections between Shakespeare and Bollywood through its whimsical retelling of the classic comedy, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. As the play’s director Richard Rose describes, both are, more often than not, about “people suffering love” and so form the perfect marriage on the Toronto stage. With support from consulting…
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Stephen Harper’s state dinner for Narendra Modi
Modi Canada visit ends with Ross Street Gurdwara and temple visits and state dinner by the Canadian Prime Minister News East West VANCOUVER: Accompanied by his host Prime Stephen Harper, Narendra Modi visited the historic Ross Street Sikh Temple in Vancouver and the Lakshmi Narayan Temple in Surrey before he attended state dinner hosted in…
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Narendra Modi Toronto rally attracts 10,000 people
Narendra Modi Toronto rally at Ricoh Coliseum had all the trappings of a rock-star concert as Bollywood singer Sukhwinder Singh, Shyamak Davar troupe and other groups set the tone for the evening News East West TORONTO: Narendra Modi rocked Toronto on Wednesday evening and the Indo-Canadians went gaga over him. Just as the organizers had…