News By Hans Ongsansoy

Is a ‘Quick Win’ anything like a ‘Quickie?’ Plus more on ‘ethnicgate’

SURESH KURL VANCOUVER DESI [caption id="attachment_517291" align="alignright" width="405"] If employees in B.C. Premier Christy Clark's government were being identified by their ethnicity then ...

Global business forum in Vancouver aimed at forging new B.C.-India links

LARISSA CAHUTE VANCOUVER DESI [caption id="attachment_517280" align="alignright" width="405"] Praveen Kadle, founding managing director & CEO, Tata Capital, is one of the featured speakers ...

Justice for Vancouver teen shot to death in 1999 as accused ex-boyfriend enters surprise guilty plea

KEITH FRASER VANCOUVER DESI [caption id="attachment_517267" align="alignright" width="300"] Santa Monica Police Department booking photo of Ninderjit Singh, who on March 11, 2013 pleaded ...

Local dancers all smiles as they audition for Times of India Film Awards gala event

VANCOUVER DESI [caption id="attachment_517251" align="alignright" width="405"] Members of Samba Fusion (from left), Dancarina, Naija and Andrea Monteiro, wait to audition to be ...

Where does India go from here? UBC lectures examine emergence of country post-colonization

VANCOUVER DESI [caption id="attachment_517225" align="alignright" width="405"] Journalist and author M. J. Akbar (left) speaks during the Jaipur Literature Festival as former correspondent ...

Vancouver Giants rookie defenceman Arvin Atwal is both a fighter and a dancer

STEVE EWEN VANCOUVER DESI [caption id="attachment_517217" align="alignright" width="300"] Vancouver Giants Arvin Atwal in WHL hockey action against the Everett Silvertips at the ...

Most Canadians in favour of limits on immigration, want Canadian values protected: poll

ARMINA LIGAYA POSTMEDIA NEWS [caption id="attachment_517207" align="alignright" width="405"] Jack Jedwab, the executive director of Montreal-based think-tank Association for Canadian Studies, said there is a ...

A treatise on the politics of inclusion

MANPREET GREWAL VANCOUVER DESI [caption id="attachment_517193" align="alignright" width="405"] Premier Christy Clark had the opportunity to fight to keep money and programs in B.C. ...

Former BC NDP premier Ujjal Dosanjh slams ‘ethnicgate’ debate as ‘nauseating’

DIRK MEISSNER  THE CANADIAN PRESS [caption id="attachment_517201" align="alignright" width="405"] Ujjal Dosanjh believes the ethnic vote scandal has become 'a bit of a joke.' ...

New York widow found guilty of harbouring illegal Indian maid

MICHAEL HILL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS [caption id="attachment_516722" align="alignright" width="405"] Annie George has been found guilty of keeping Valsamma Mathai in the United States ...

Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law arrested, goes on trial in New York for ‘conspiring to kill U.S. citizens’

[caption id="attachment_516659" align="alignright" width="405"] In this courtroom drawing, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, leans forward as he is handcuffed ...

India boasts child brides in 47 per cent of all marriages, says UN Population Fund

CHARLTON DOKI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS [caption id="attachment_516637" align="alignright" width="405"] A groom puts vermilion on the forehead of his bride during wedding ritual in ...

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