OTTAWA – A Conservative MP is backtracking on her claim that Canada’s spy agency knew there was a bomb on an Air India plane that exploded in flight three decades ago, killing 329 people. In a late June speech at a Vancouver church, Tory MP Wai Young said the laws at the time prevented the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from telling the RCMP about the explosive device. Young told the […]
What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘bodybuilder’? Most would say a bulky man with bulging muscles seen on advertisements for gyms and covers of men’s magazines. Very few would equate bodybuilder with a woman, much less a Indian woman. Which is what makes Ashwini Waskar, India’s first competitive female body builder, so unique. She not only defies gender stereotypes but crosses cultural barriers as well. […]
Teenager Sindhura Devalaraja is on a mission to provide sanitary napkins for all. Meet 17-year-old Sindhura Devalaraja, who dreams of a future in India where menstruation is not a taboo subject and where all the young girls have access to sanitary napkins. This youngster who lives with her parents in Boston, USA is currently in Hyderabad and talks about the experience in Tirupati that changed her life. “We went to […]
Serena Williams made Wimbledon history as the world number one became the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam title with a 6-4, 6-4 victory against Garbine Muguruza in Saturday’s final. Williams was never at her overpowering best, but she recovered from a slow start to see off the Spanish 20th seed in an 82-minute Centre court triumph that will be remembered more for its historic implications than the quality […]
Londin, UK: Maria Sharapova survived a gamesmanship row to set up a potential Wimbledon showdown with old rival Serena Williams as the Russian battled into the semi-finals with a 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 6-2 victory over Coco Vandeweghe on Tuesday. Sharapova needed two hours and 45 minutes before she finally saw off unseeded Vandeweghe to reach her fifth Wimbledon semi-final and her first since 2011. But the world number four was […]
The fire situation in B.C. remained relatively stable Monday after more than 50 new wildfires were reported over the weekend, forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes or be on evacuation alert. Smoke continues to blanket large portions of the south coast including Metro Vancouver, Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast. Air quality advisories have been issued and residents are being advised to avoid strenuous outdoor exercise or to […]
ATHENS: Greeks voted today in a tightly fought referendum on whether to accept worsening austerity in exchange for more bailout funds, or reject it in a gamble that could see it crash out of the euro. Polling stations were open across the country of 11 million people — on far-flung Aegean islands, in the shadow of the 2,400-year-old Parthenon in Athens, to the northern border shared with fellow EU state […]
Washington: NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft has captured stunning coloured images of Pluto as it gets ready for a close flyby of the mysterious planet system on July 14. The images show two very different faces of the mysterious dwarf planet, one with a series of intriguing spots along the equator that are evenly-spaced. Each of the spots is about 480 km in diameter, with a surface area that is roughly […]
The ‘living dinosaur’ measured 3 metres long and weighed about 272 kilograms A New Jersey boy has a colossal story to tell his fellow fourth graders when he returns to school this fall after he reeled in a “living dinosaur” from the Fraser River on Monday. Nine-year-old Kegan Rothman and his father, Dan Rothman, were just hours into their week-long chartered fishing trip when Kegan hooked a monster Great White […]
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has executed more than 3,000 people in Syria alone, of which 1,700 were civilians, since the group proclaimed themselves as a caliphate on the territories of Syria and Iraq as of June 29, 2014, a monitor group said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group told AFP it had documented a total 3,027 confirmed executions by IS, including 1,787 civilians, 74 among of […]
