Category: What’s Happening
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Angry Capt Amarinder Singh refuses to meet Canadian high commissioner Nadir Patel
News East West NEW DELHI: Former Punjab chief and current state Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh has rebuffed the Canadian High Commissioner in New Delhi by refusing to meet him. Capt Amarinder Singh is angry after Canada for disallowing him to convass among the Punjabi diaspora last month. He cancelled his visit to Canada and…
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Canada apologizes for Komagata Maru incident
Komagata Maru apology by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the 1914 incident in which 376 Indians were returned from Vancouver News East West TORONTO: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put a closure on the 102-year-old Komagata Maru issue on Wednesday by apologizing to the Sikh community for the 1914 incident in the House of Commons…
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Nehru-Gandhi family has too many places named after it
News East West NEW DELHI: The Nehru-Gandhi family has too many places, welfare programmes, tournaments, stadiums, hospitals, buildings, roads, airports, ports, awards and educational institutions and chairs named after it? Yes. There is denying the fact the Nehru-Gandhi family which has ruled most of the time since independence in 1947 acquired the aura of India’s…
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Air India bombing acquitted Ripudaman Singh Malik among those deleted from India blacklist
News East West NEW DELHI: Vancouver-based Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was accused in the Air India Kanishka bombing and later acquitted, is among 21 Sikhs whose names have been deleted by India from its blacklist of those banned from entering the country. The blacklist was prepared by the home ministry during the militancy period in…