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Punjabi awarded life in jail for killing 3 in 2013

Saturday, 03/10/2015

http://epaper.dailypostindia.com/Details.aspx?id=141383&boxid=57776&uid=&dat=2015-10-03

Toronto: A Punjab-origin man was sentenced to life in prison for killing three people in separate attacks in 2013, a media report said. The British Columbia Supreme Court in New Westminster on Wednesday handed out the sentence to Sarbjit Bains after he pleaded guilty in April this year to killing Amritpal Saran, Jill Lyons and Karen Nabors, surreyleader.com reported on Thursday. Justice Miriam Maisonville set Bains’ parole eligibility term at 18 years, which means he will not be allowed to apply for release before 2033.

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15-yr-old UK boy gets life sentence for terror plot

Saturday, 03/10/2015

http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

LONDON: In one of the first convictions of its kind, a British teenager, who hatched an Islamic State-inspired terror plot to behead police officers at a parade in Australia, has been sentenced to life.

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Indo-American prof wins MacArthur ‘Genius’ grant

Thursday, 01/10/2015

http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

WASHINGTON: Kartik Chandran, an Indian-American associate professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia Engineering, has been named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow with a “genius grant” of $625,000 with no strings attached.

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Punjabi jailed for wife’s murder in NZ

Wednesday, 30/09/2015

http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Tribune/

Melbourne : A 29-year-old Indian origin man has been sentenced to life for stabbing his wife to death in New Zealand earlier this year.

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39 INDIANS TAKEN PRISONERS IN IRAQ STILL ALIVE: MEA

Wednesday, 30/09/2015

http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

NEW YORK: The ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Tuesday confirmed that the 39 Indians, who have been taken as prisoners in Iraq, are still alive and said that the government would do the necessary to secure their release after gathering more information.

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RANA GURJIT SINGH INAUGURATES MARKFED SALES BOOTH AT LOHIAN

Thursday, 01/08/2019

https://www.brightpunjabexpress.com/index.php/2019/07/31/rana-gurjit-singh-inaugurates-markfed-sales-booth-at-lohian/

Jalandhar : In a major step to boost the rural economy besides providing employment to youth in villages, MARKFED has launched a sale booth in Lohian, which would, provides more than 100 eatable items.

 

NRI NEWS

Indian-Americans urge Trump to ‘fully support’ India on Kashmir

Sunday, 04/08/2019

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/indian-americans-urge-trump-to-fully-support-india-on-kashmir/813832.html

Washington : The Indian-American community in the US has urged the Trump administration to “fully support” India’s decision to revoke the constitutional provision that accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir and to continue to exert pressure on Pakistan to end its support to cross-border terrorism.