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Shocked by dog murders, Dr Deekha for better laws

A hundred sled dogs were recently killed in Whistler, British Columbia. The incident came to light when the person who killed them -- an Outdoor Adventures Whistler employee -- filled out a......

Canada's first gurdwara restored

The Abbotsford gurdwara in British Columbia -- the only gurdwara in the world to have 'national heritage' designation -- was formally re-opened on April 1 after two years of restoration work with......

'Gandhi did not oppose science'

Professor Akeel Bilgrami is the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University in New York. He is also director of Columbia's Heyman Center for the Humanities. A Rhodes Scholar, the......

New gen in US takes more chances

Deepti Hajela was elected president of the South Asian Journalists Association in January. Born at Columbia University, New York, in 1994, SAJA fosters ties between journalists from South Asia in......

Scholar Edward Said dies at 67

Edward W Said, 67, professor of comparative literature at Columbia University and leading spokesman in the United States for the Palestinian cause, died in a New York hospital on Thursday,......

Indian appointed head of Indo-Canadian biz forum

An Indo-Canadian professor has been appointed as British Columbia's regional research chair on Canada-India Business and Economic Development. D J Sandhu of the University College of the Fraser......

Foreign universities awaiting govt nod

Stanford University, Georgia Tech University, British Columbia University, McGill University, Simon Fraser University, Cubec University, and Montreal University are some of the international......

'Govt is running from one crisis to another'

India may need to take a fresh look at its monetary policy, says Amartya Lahiri, professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia. Lahiri, who has written several papers, including......

What good are economists, anyway?

Economists mostly failed to predict the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Now they can't agree how to solve it. People are starting to wonder: What good are economists anyway? A commenter on a......

6 reasons why Indian BPOs will keep booming

In recent months articles in The Wall Street Journal and Forbes.com have postulated that outsourcing information technology work to India was losing appeal.They said that high employee turnover in......

Special: Walking the last walk with Gandhi

Richard Attenborough's Gandhi celebrated 30 glorious years on November 30.On Friday, some key players gave Rediff.com fascinating accounts about the making of the epic.Aseem Chhabra looks back on......

Ranbir Kapoor's gori girlfriend in Raajneeti

Hollywood beauty Sarah Thompson Kane is reportedly heading to Bollywood to act as hero Ranbir Kapoor's American girlfriend in the blockbuster drama Raajneeti.Los Angeles born Sarah, with a Southern......

Aziz Ansari is Funny in People

Russell Peters and several other Indian Americans have mined quite successfully their ethnic background but 26-year-old Aziz Ansari, who has a small but significant role in the new Judd Apatow......

'Comedy is really hard'

In the late 1990s, British-Indian filmmaker Bharat Nalluri thought he had it all -- a burgeoning Hollywood career and a line of action adventure movies to pick from.Miramax selected him to direct......

Shonali Bose, on making Amu

Her first feature film Amu, based on a street playShonali Boseco-wrote on the 1984 Delhi riots --in which some 5,000 Sikhs were killed following the assassination of then Indian prime minister......

Two Canadian athletes pull out of CWG

The spate of withdrawals from the Delhi Commonwealth Games continued with Canadian diver Meaghan Benfeito and badminton player Alvin Lau becoming the latest to opt out of the event citing......

Phelps could face criminal charges

Record-breaking Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps could face criminal charges following the publication of a photograph purportedly showing him smoking marijuana, The State newspaper of Columbia,......

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Q. According to a University of British Columbia study, youth, prison inmates and individuals with multiple tatoos that cover large parts of their bodies are at a higher risk of contracting Hepatitis C and other blood-borne diseases. The researchers reviewed an analysed 124 studies from 30 Countries...What's yur take on this??? Have you ever done any tatoos on any part of your body? I am speaking from experience as I have done recently and it was so painful if your skin is very sensitive....Your views?
: A. Mehandi is better than tatoos . more

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Q. Full name of CNC
Cyrus Irani: A. Cadet Nurse Corps, an American World War II program to train nursesCivil Nuclear Constabulary, a United Kingdom police force responsible for...... more

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Q. WHAT IS THE FULL FORM OF BC ?
Pramodkumar: A. BC or B.C. may stand for:Before Christ, an epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus of Nazareth....... more

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Q. Enoch Daniel, Piano Acordianist. I need to know more about him ?
Always Fresh: A. A much loved and well-respected figure in the Bombay film-industry (a.k.a. 'Bollywood') for almost five decades, Enoch Daniels (fondly known as...... more

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Q. 18 th July Foundation day of Mumbai University, in the year 1857, Any message Please
Shamima Yasmin: A. The University of Mumbai (मुंबई...... more

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Display Week Celebrates 50 Years Of Display Innovation And Achievement Next Week In Vancouver, B.C.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Society for Information Display (SID), announced its final program line up for Display Week 2013, which will be taking place in... ...

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MAXIMUS to Discuss the Organizational Challenges of Implementing the Affordable Care Act

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Woman's Surgery May Not be Effective Over Long-Term

In women, the initial success rates of the most durable surgery for a common condition declines over the long-term. This is according to data... ...

http://www.medindia.net/news/womans-surgery-may-not-be-effective-over-long-term-118998-1.htm

UK trade may struggle to stand still after EU exit

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - As British Prime Minister David Cameron struggles to accommodate euroskeptics in his own party, trade experts warn... ...

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/05/16/us-britain-europe-trade-idINBRE94F0I420130516

Climate Change Making Fishes Move towards North

As per a newly published research in journal Nature, climate change is making fishes head towards north from around two decades so as to look for... ...

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