Category: Top News
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Vijay Thomas steers his Toronto start-up Tangentia into top league
Goa-born techie wants his company to become global player in AI and e-commerce By our reporter TORONTO: A techie who has been honoured by the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce with this year’s Technology Achievement Award, Vijay Thomas is a driven man. He talks in short quick sentences and walks briskly as if a thousand ideas…
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Sindhis in Canada and their unique Gurmandir Temple in Toronto
There are over 11,000 Sindhi families settled across Canada, says Sindhi Cultural Association of Toronto president Jai Chandwani TORONTO: The Sindhis are one of the most enterprising Indo-Canadian communities today. Among the earlier Sindhi settlers in Canada were Mahtanis, Hiras, Shahanis and several others. Some of them had successful businesses back in Sindh (before and after…
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How Brampton’s Sandeep Gupta creates multimillion-dollar textile business
He does business worth $100 million annually in Latin and South America By Gurmukh Singh BRAMPTON: Brampton businessman Sandeep Gupta is a quiet self-effacing man. But behind his quiet exterior burns a fiery desire to succeed, succeed…and succeed. Indeed, this Indian-born multimillionaire textile entrepreneur is a workaholic who wishes there were 48 hours in a…
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Bikram Choudhury: Yoga guru who became sexual predator
TORONTO: In the times of #metoo, the American documentary Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator, which premiered at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival here, brilliantly captures the rise and fall of the famous Indian yoga guru Bikram Choudhury after a series of sexual allegations against him. The yoga guru, who came to the US in the…