Film director chidananda S Naik NEW DELHI: The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is celebrating a significant achievement with its student film, ‘Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know‘, directed by Chidananda S Naik, qualified for the Oscars 2025 in the Live Action Short Film category.This milestone follows a series of accolades, including…
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown (File Image/X) AMRITSAR: An attack by Khalistani activists on Hindus who had gathered at Hindu Sabha Mandir in Brampton, Canada, Sunday for a meeting with Indian high commission officials drew widespread condemnation besides leading to a huge protest outside Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara in neighbouring Malton.Brampton mayor Patrick Brown said a…
Dubbing the violence outside a temple in Brampton in Canada “absolutely condemnable”, Congress Monday urged the Centre to take up the issue “very strongly” with the Canadian authorities.Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said, “It is absolutely condemnable, in no uncertain words. We urge govt of India to take up the issue very strongly with Canadian authorities….
JALANDHAR: Emphasising that the Nov 1984 anti-Sikh violence was not mere ‘dange’ (riots) but a Sikh genocide and massacre, Punjab Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira said justice still eluded the victims and that the maxim “justice delayed is justice denied” was appropriate in this case, reports I P Singh.Khaira added that he was aware that…
BATHINDA: Canada‘s Khalistani-Hindu altercations, from Brampton to Malton and Surrey, have left many Indians and temporary visa holders, especially those from Punjab, fearing for their safety and their families back home worried.The conflict sparked by an attack on a Hindu Mahasabha temple in Brampton city of Canadian province Ontario’s Greater Toronto Area underscores divisions around…
NEW DELHI: Canada’s accusation without “evidentiary proof” that India got designated pro-Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar killed on its soil contrasts with its refusal to acknowledge what New Delhi calls irrefutable evidence about Canadian Border Security Agency harbouring the wanted mastermind of Shaurya Chakra awardee Balwinder Singh Sandhu’s October 2020 assassination in Punjab’s Tarn Taran….
People at the consular camp at Hindu Sabha Temple in Canada’s Brampton. Canadian authorities were intimated about the camp, which was organised for the benefit of local life certificate beneficiaries NEW DELHI: India condemned violence by proKhalistan separatists at a Hindu temple, and their efforts to disrupt Indian consular activities, in Brampton, Canada, with PM…
AGRA: Gyarah Sidi Park, an iconic spot across the Yamuna in Agra that provides a picturesque sunset view of Taj Mahal, is at the centre of a land dispute. Local farmer Munna Lal has claimed a chunk of the park as his own. A native of Nagla Devjit, Kachhpura, he insists he has won a…
ALMORA/DEHRADUN: In one of the worst road accidents in Uttarakhand in recent times, 36 people died and 27 were injured when a bus operated by Garhwal Motor Owners Union (GMOU) and going from Naini Danda in Pauri Garhwal to Ramnagar in Nainital fell into a 200- metre-deep gorge near Marchula in Almora district around 7…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to take a decision either way on mercy plea of death row convict Balwant Singh Rajoana or it will decide his plea seeking commutation of sentence. He was convicted in the former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh assassination case and spent 29 years in jail. As…
