Ratan Tata gets Global Indian award
( 19-May-2010 ) Vancouver: Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata was honoured with the Chanchlani Global Indian award by the Canada India Foundation at the third annual gala here Saturday.
Tata has been given the award for his leadership, vision and professional excellence. The award carries a special cash prize of $225, ....
Indian Canadian restored to cabinet post after exoneration
( 05-May-2010 ) Vancouver: Kash Heed, the Indian-origin solicitor general of British Columbia province in Canada who was cleared of any wrongdoing in his poll campaign last year, was Tuesday restored in his office.
Premier Gordon Campbell announced his restoration as solicitor general and minister of public safe ....
Surrey Vaisakhi parade erupts in controversy
( 21-Apr-2010 ) Surrey: The Surrey Vaisakhi parade, organized by the Gurdwara Dashmesh Darbar, on April 18 was surrounded by controversy.
Even before the start date of the parade, controversy erupted when the organiser Inderjit Singh Bains told a Punjabi-language radio talk show that Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh and L ....
Notorious Indo-Canadian gangster sentenced
( 12-Apr-2010 ) Vancouver: Indo-Canadian gang leader Manny Buttar was handed down a 15-month sentence for hitting a man with a beer glass.
The notorious gangster will be under house arrest. He will be under strict conditions
According to local media reports, Manny's brother Bal Buttar was involved in conspira ....
Indo-Canadian minister under scanner quits post
( 10-Apr-2010 ) Vancouver: Kash Heed, the Indian-origin solicitor general of British Columbia province in Canada who is under scanner for alleged election malpractices, resigned Friday.
A former chief of West Vancouver City Police, Kash Heed (short from Kashmir Heer) is one of the three Indo-Canadians serving in c ....
Apology for cutting Sikh's beard
( 29-Mar-2010 ) Observer News Service
Vancouver; Heath officials issued an apology for shaving a Sikh man's beard weeks before his death.
B.C.'s Fraser Health Authority has confirmed after one of its employees mistakenly cut the beard off an elderly Sikh man weeks before he died.
David Plug, a Fraser Hea ....
Women share strength and stories at forum
( 19-Mar-2010 ) Surrey, BC: Women, men and children of all ages and walks of life joined the South Asian Family Association for its second International Women’s Day celebration on March 7 at Simon Fraser University’s Surrey Campus.
The theme of the day was “Sharing the Strength from ....
Sikh breaks own record for longest beard
( 17-Mar-2010 ) Surrey: A Surrey man has set a new Guinness World record - by a whisker.
Bhai Sarwan Singh, head priest at Surrey's Guru Nanak Sikh temple, was recently in Rome where he broke his own record for the world's longest beard.
Singh got into the brewer's record book in 2008 when his beard r ....
Ex-Mountie Sidhu arrested again on impersonating charge
( 12-Mar-2010 ) Vancouver: Indo-Canadian Rob Sidhu has been arrested for impersonating a police officer to get access to information about the Bacon brothers, according to media reports.
The ex-Mountie, who lives in Abbotsford, was earlier charged with assault and uttering threats in connection with a domest ....
Indo-Canadian, Chinese communities upset
( 19-Feb-2010 ) Vancouver: The Indo-Canadian and Chinese communities want representation at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics as they felt ignored at the opening ceremony.
Both communitiesmake up 30 per cent of the Greater Vancouver area.
Indo-Canadian activist Sukhi Sandhu told The Associated Press tha ....
