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Punjab-origin minister’s kin found murdered in Canada

Thursday, 16/07/2015

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OTTAWA: An Indo-Canadian Sikh provincial minister’s brother-inlaw was found murdered in his own home in Canada’s Kelowna city. Police described the incident as a ‘targeted homicide’.

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New UK crackdown on students visa soon, Indians to be affected

Tuesday, 14/07/2015

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LONDON: Indian and other nonEU students at British colleges (not universities) will be banned from working during the period of their courses from August as part of a new crackdown on student visa fraud. A Home Office spokesperson told HT on Monday that working rights of non-EU students at further education colleges were being removed to ensure that they did not use them as a “back door to the country’s job market”.

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Punjab-born pilot 4th in pre-European paragliding contest

Saturday, 11/07/2015

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DHARAMSALA: India’s top ranked paragliding pilot, Gurpreet Dhindsa, who resides in Himachal Pradesh, secured the fourth position in the recently held pre-European and & Hungarian Championship at Kruševo, Macedonia. The championship, a traditional competition in Macedonia that was also the pre event for the 2016 European Championship, was held from June 29 to July 4.

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Varsity to honour Indian surgeon in UK Iran nuke deal: Impasse over weapons persists

Friday, 10/07/2015

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LONDON: Shiv Pande, a Liverpoolbased doctor who has made major contributions in the areas of charity, academia and broadcasting besides his medical profession after moving to Britain in 1971, is to be honoured by the University of Central Lancashire on Monday.

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Seven years on, Sikh gets respite from Disney discrimination

Friday, 10/07/2015

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NEW YORK: A Sikh-American employee at the Walt Disney World in Florida, who was barred for seven years from working in full view of customers due his religious appearance, has achieved a significant victory with the company agreeing to end the segregation.

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RANA GURJIT SINGH INAUGURATES MARKFED SALES BOOTH AT LOHIAN

Thursday, 01/08/2019

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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.

 

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

Sunday, 04/08/2019

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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.