Category: What’s Happening
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Who is this Sikh soldier in 100-year-old picture of Canadian regiment?
VANCOUVER: The British Columbia Regiment is asking for help identifying a mystery Sikh man in a 100-year-old photograph. The photograph has been hanging on the walls of the regimental hall in downtown Vancouver for decades. It shows rows of sergeants and warrant officers as they posed for an official portrait in 1913. But among the…
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Bal Krishan Kaplish: India’s first IITian to go abroad and marry a foreigner
News East-West TORONTO: Germany-based Bal Krishan Kaplish is the grand-dad of the 200,000-strong IITian diaspora as he was the first to go abroad in 1955
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Queen’s Park Diwali: McGuinty called India’s `closest friend’
News East-West TORONTO: Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty came in for praise for his role in promoting Ontario India relations and being one of the `closest friends and supporters’ of India at the Diwali celebrations at Queen’s Park (the name for the provincial assembly of Ontario) here on Thursday. Joining in the festivities, McGuinty – who…
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India, Canada sign nuclear deal
India-Canada nuclear deal signed after protracted negotiations is a major breakthrough in bilateral relations News East-West NEW DELHI: India and Canada on Tuesday made the biggest breakthrough in their relations since 1974 when they finally concluded the nuclear negotiations on the deal signed in June 2010 during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Toronto for…