The cameras installed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the Surrey (British Columbia) house of Indo-Canadian journalist Tara Singh Hayer were reportedly not working the night he was assassinated on November 18, 1998, the Air India inquiry, now in progress in Ottawa, was told on Thursday.
The death of George Floyd -- a 46-year-old Black man -- on May 25 in Minneapolis, United States as he was being detained by four police officers sparked fury across the United States, but has also proven to be the catalyst for anti-racism movements around the world. The killing has spurred millions of people into taking action, with protesters filling the streets and taking to social media. Agora, a photography app company that compiles photographs submitted by its users -- both amateur and professional -- and that runs photography awards to showcase the best submissions has released a series of images taken during the Black Lives Matter movement as part of the company's own #StopRacism campaign.
Canadaian police took no action despite a warning from Air-India that extremists planned to bomb the airline.
Organizations and individuals involved in terror cells are buying pre-paid merchandise cards and using cell phones and the Internet to buy items and transfer money, a British expert told Kanishka bombing inquiry Commissioner John Major
Cowsik retired from foreign service and will now settle down in Pune, said Indian High Commission spokesman, Vinod Sachdev. She is being succeeded by R L Narayan, who's currently Indian Ambassador in Kuala Lumpur.
During the Baisakhi Day parade in April in Surrey, there was a float 'honoring' Talwinder Singh Parmar, the alleged mastermind of the Kanishka terrorist attack that killed 329 people. Dosanjh had strongly criticized federal and provincial politicians who attended that parade and did not speak out.
The head of intelligence at the Indian high commission in Ottawa, when the Air India 747 was blown up on June 23, 1985, speaks to Senior Editor Ajit Jain.
"It was a historic visit to Canada and Prime Minister Harper and His Holiness met for 40 minutes," said Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism, also a close adviser to Harper.
Mark Stagg, the watch officer on the Laurentian Forest, told in a quavering voice of being handed a dead infant to place in a makeshift body bag.
India has progressed extremely well and probably better than any country near the Indian Ocean in establishing a tsunami warning system, an internationally acclaimed tsunami expert said on Thursday.
"I would have loved a jury trial to have made the factual findings in that case," Justice Ian Josephson of B C Supreme Court said
It is now clear that the bags were not properly screened either in Toronto or in Montreal, leading to the death of 329 people.
The inquiry will have done its job if it makes victims' families -- many of whom immigrated to Canada from India -- feel like real Canadians, Major said.
The US authorities are checking people's social media accounts for their political views before allowing them into the country after the recent travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump on people from seven predominantly Muslim nations, a media report said.
Balpreet Singh was ordered off for wearing a kirpan
'India is going ahead with a tsunami warning system. The public may feel that there is an increase in disasters, but disasters are not particularly increasing,'says Dr Tad Murty.
The TCS CEO spoke about the IT major's operations in Canada.
Former Intelligence Bureau joint director M K Dhar on the worst act of aerial terrorsim before 9/11.
Britain reached the Davis Cup quarter-finals in bizarre circumstances on Sunday when Canadian Denis Shapovalov defaulted for inadvertently blasting a ball into the umpire's face.
The size of bilateral trade is only $6 billion a year.
After receiving the award, Chanda Kochhar said, "As I see the list of past recipients of this honour, I feel inspired to be counted as one among them.
'Stand-alone' trip to North American nation and a strong track record in Gujarat open doors to business.
The company has been developing donor-derived stem cell platforms.
The United States maintained their record of having reached every semi-final of the women's World Cup after their 1-0 win over China set up a last four encounter with Germany.
United States striker Abby Wambach has escaped with nothing more than a warning from FIFA after she said a referee at the women's World Cup had targeted two of her team mates on the verge of suspension.
"This is a very significant visit," Modi said.
One indictment accuses Huawei of trying to steal trade secrets from T-Mobile, and of promising bonuses to employees who collected confidential information on competitors. A second indictment claims the company worked to skirt US sanctions on Iran.
PM Narendra Modi will embark on an eight-day tour of France, Germany and Canada on April 9.
Canada's Denis Shapovalov was left mortified after joining tennis's hall of infamy on Sunday, offering an apology and promising that he would learn from his momentary explosion of temper that left a Davis Cup umpire needing a visit to hospital.
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