South Asian Observer -
LAST UPDATE : Updated : 11 Apr 2013 10:12 hrs EST E-paper  |  Tell A Friend  |  About Us  |  Feedback  |  Contact Us
South Asian Observer
The First Online South Asian News Source in Canada
 
 
Events
 
Special Story View All  

Defence expo in March 2012
( 11-Oct-2011 )

New Delhi, Oct 10 : The next edition of India's official defence exhibition, DefExpo, will be held in March next year, the defence ministry announced Monday. The biennial four-day exhibition, the seventh in he series, will be held from March 29 to April 1 at Pragati Maidan here. The exh ....
Read More
 
India's Andaman military command completes a decade
( 10-Oct-2011 )

New Delhi, Oct 9 : India's Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC), a tri-services military formation based in Port Blair, has completed a decade of its existence and has over the few years become a "spring board" for India's future military capabilities to protect the country's strate ....
Read More
 
PM, Sonia, Ansari attend Dussehra function
( 07-Oct-2011 )

New Delhi, Oct 6 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Hamid Ansari were among the leaders who witnessed the burning of the effigy of Ravana, a symbol of evil, to mark the celebration of Dussehera Thursday at Subhash Maidan near the historic Red Fort. ....
Read More
 
India seeks science and technology-driven partnership with US
( 05-Oct-2011 )

New York, Oct 5 : Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao wants India-US strategic partnership to be driven by a vibrant science and technology eco-system to address the priority needs of both the nations. "I believe this co-development of the vibrant S&T eco-system as the new foundation of the exp ....
Read More
 
PM orders development of Ambedkar memorial
( 05-Oct-2011 )

New Delhi, Oct 4 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday directed the ministry of social justice and empowerment to set up a committee for the development of a B.R. Ambedkar memorial in the capital. The prime minister issued the direction while reviewed the status of an existing Ambedkar memor ....
Read More
 
FIR has been registered under Chidambaram's pressure, says Swamy
( 04-Oct-2011 )

Chennai/New Delhi, Oct 3 : Terming the FIR registered against him to be a political vendetta, Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy accusing Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram today said the motive seems to have been his stand on the 2G spectrum scam. Swamy, who is the chief petitioner in t ....
Read More
 
Community answers call to help sick boy
( 21-Apr-2011 )

By Gurinder Gill Toronto: Hundreds of people from GTA's South Asian, particularly Punjabi community answered the call to attend the cheek swabbing event ,that was organized to find a stem cell match for saving life of Brampton resident Jasnoor Deol or Noor Deol as he likes to be called, who is ....
Read More
 
Reward offered in killing of two Sikhs in US
( 21-Apr-2011 )

Washington: Police in California and Indian-American groups have offered a reward in the case of an attack on two elderly Sikh men as the second victim of the possible hate crime also succumbed to his injuries. Gurmej Atwal, 78, and Surinder Singh, 65, were on their usual afternoon walk in the S ....
Read More
 
No conclusive link between Cellphone use, Cancer: Pulitzer Winner
( 20-Apr-2011 )

Washington: Indian American cancer specialist, Siddhartha Mukherjee who won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his very first book, says there is no conclusive study linking the use of cell phones to brain cancer. But no study conclusively ruled it out, either, says Mukherjee, an assistant professor of medi ....
Read More
 
Delhi-born Canadian cricket captain regrets World Cup exclusion
( 19-Apr-2011 )

Toronto: Delhi-born Canadian cricket team captain Ashish Bagai is dismayed at the exclusion of associate members, including Canada and Ireland, from the next two World Cups by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The ICC executive board in its meeting in Mumbai confirmed that only its 10 full m ....
Read More
 
Royal court of Indian Maharajas attended by record number of visitors
( 19-Apr-2011 )

Toronto: The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is feeling victorious after its “Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts”, exhibition ended recently on a very high note, attracting a record number of visitors. With a permanent collection of more than 80,000 works of various arts ....
Read More
 
Super 30 founder to meet 'Titanic' director James Cameron
( 22-Nov-2010 )

By Imran Khan Patna: Anand Kumar, who founded Bihar's free coaching centre Super 30 and helped many students enter the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), will share his experience with Hollywood producer and director James Cameron next month. "I will share the platform wi ....
Read More
 
Punjab drug scene hits a new 'high'
( 22-Nov-2010 )

By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh: It is one of the most prosperous states of India and produces the bulk of the country's foodgrain, but Punjab may soon take the lead in a dubious field - narcotics. Police have seized hundreds of kilograms of drugs in the first seven months of the year, the highest ....
Read More
 
Kal Penn returns to White House
( 21-Nov-2010 )

By Arun Kumar Washington: Indian-American actor Kal Penn, who is best known for his role in the "Harold and Kumar" movies, has returned to the White House after a five month break to film the third picture in the series. Penn is returning to the Office of Public Engagement to work as an ....
Read More
 
[1] 2 3 4 5 6 7

 
 


       
 
 
 
© Copyright 2008 All rights reserved. - SouthAsianObserver.com Website Design & Marketing by Rootways Inc.