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RCMP arrest Punjabi 

youth in 2011 Surrey 

homicide 

Surrey : Samandeep Singh 

Gill (30) of Surrey has been arrested 

and charged with second 

degree murder 

and attempted 

murder, said 

the statement 

released by 

Royal Canadian 

Mounted 

Police (RCMP). 

Gill was arrested and 

charged by the Provincial Unsolved 

Homicide Unit and the 

BC Crown Prosecution Service 

for murder of a fellow Punjabi 

Manbir Singh Kajla (30) and the 

attempt murder of his 27-year 

old wife in the incident which 

had taken place 7-year ago in 

Surrey. 

Continued on page 02 

Ontario using EVM, voters' 

lists in the June 7 election 

The Canadian Press 

TORONTO : For the first time 

in a provincial election in Ontario, 

voters will use electronic 

voting machines when they 

head to the polls on June 7. 

The voters' paper lists will 

also be a thing of past in most 

ridings, replaced by an electronic 

version called e-Poll 

Book. 

Elections Ontario says the 

new technology should help 

speed up both the voting and 

ballot-counting process. 

When voters show up at a 

polling station, a machine will 

scan their notice of registration 

card, a process similar 

to scanning food at a grocery 

store. 

Then the voters will receive 

their ballot from an official, fill 

it out and hand it back to the 

official who will put it through 

the tabulating machine. 

A spokeswoman for Elections 

Ontario says the new 

technology was tested at two 

byelections in 2016, and was 

also used in a variety of municipal 

elections. 

"We're hoping this will be 

much more efficient for the 

voter," said Cara Des Granges. 

"Getting results should be faster 

and the technology is proven 

to be more reliable than 

tabulating votes by hand." 

Des Granges said the estimated 

cost of the new technology 

is just over $32 million and 

the actual election costs will be 

released next year. 


Allegations against MP Moore 

'not relevant' to Weir case: Singh 


OTTAWA: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh 

is standing by his decision to expel Saskatchewan 

MP Erin Weir from caucus 

even though his original accuser, fellow 

MP Christine Moore, has herself been 

suspended from her duties over allegations 

of sexual misconduct. 

Singh says the investigation into the 

harassment complaints against Weir was 

impartial and independent, and the fact it 

was Moore who flagged his behaviour as 

a concern is "not relevant at all." 

Less than a week after Weir was 

kicked out of the NDP's ranks, Moore 

found herself temporarily suspended 

from her caucus duties after an Afghan 

veteran accused her of inappropriate sexual 

behaviour in 2013. Retired corporal 

Glen Kirkland says many people knew 

about Moore's alleged actions, but that 

they were treated less seriously because 

of their respective genders. But Singh 

says he and his team did not know about 

the allegations until Kirkland spoke to 

the media on Tuesday, and that he takes 

all complaints seriously. Moore has said 

she welcomes Singh's decision to launch 

an investigation into Kirkland's complaints, 

tells the Globe and Mail that she 

disputes Kirkland's version of events. 

Punjab puts on hold release 

of Class 12 history book 

Indo-Asian News Service 

Chandigarh : After 

a major controversy over 

alleged removal of chapters 

on Sikh Gurus and 

Sikh history from history 

syllabus, the Punjab government 

on Tuesday decided 

to hold back the release 

of Class XII history 

books till the Oversight 

Committee examined the 

issue and decided on the 

way forward. 

"Following Chief Minister 

Amarinder Singh's 

decision to set up the 

six-member Oversight 

Committee headed by 

eminent historian Prof 

Kirpal Singh, it is felt it 

will be better for the newly 

constituted panel to 

review the book before its 

further release," a Punjab 

government spokesperson 

said here. 


15-year-old girl charged 

with attempted murder in 

stabbing of police officer 

NIA lodges FIR against Nijjar for pro-Khalistani stand 

New Delhi: The National Intelligence 

Agency (NIA) has lodged an 

FIR against Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 

the Indo-Canadian, who came into 

the limelight recently during Canadian 

premier Justin Trudeau’s visit 

to India. 

The allegations are of his involvement 

with Khalistanis and his 

links with Babbar Khalsa International 

(BKI). 

An FIR was registered at NIA’s 

police station on Thursday. The 

agency has sent a communication 

to the NIA special judge in Mohali. 



HALIFAX : A 15-year-old 

girl is facing a charge of 

attempted murder after a 

Halifax police officer was 

stabbed while responding 

to a report of a stolen 

truck. Police say the girl, 

who cannot be identified, 

also faces charges of possession 

of a weapon, resisting 

arrest, theft, break 

and enter and mischief, 

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The International News Weekly REGIONAL 

May 11, 2018 | Toronto 02 

Liberal govt still plans to eliminate 

fossil fuel subsidies: McKenna 

The Canadian Parvasi 

OTTAWA : The federal 

government still intends 

to do away with subsidies 

to fossil fuel companies, 

Environment Minister 

Catherine McKenna 

said Wednesday — even 

as Ottawa prepares to 

put cash on the table to 

get the Trans Mountain 

pipeline expansion off life 

support. 

Canada subsidizes the 

search for and production 

of fossil fuels to the tune of 

more than $3 billion a year 

in various tax credits, deductions 

and grants, while 

Export Development Canada 

routinely provides 

financing to oil and gas 

companies. 

That EDC spending 

alone has added up to $12 

billion since the Liberals 

took office, say environmental 

groups, a number 

of which gave Ottawa a 

failing grade Wednesday 

on fossil fuel subsidies in 

a report card on Liberal 

progress to date on the 

party's environmental 

promises. 

"The federal government 

has not yet defined, 

reviewed or publicly released 

a list or assessment 

of its remaining fossil 

fuel subsidies, nor does it 

have a plan to achieve its 

commitment to the G20 

to phase-out fossil fuel 

subsidies by 2025," says 

the report from a dozen 

of Canada's biggest, most 

influential environment 

groups. 

"We know we need to 

do that," McKenna said. 

"We're committed to doing 

that." 

A review of the subsidies 

intended to help 

inform the government's 

approach has been underway 

for months and is supposed 

to complete its work 

this spring. 

At the same time, Finance 

Minister Bill Morneau 

is negotiating some 

sort of financial arrangement 

with Kinder Morgan 

to offset the risk to investors 

nervous about the 

protests, court action and 

uncertainty surrounding 

the Trans Mountain project. 

Canada has not said 

how much money it's willing 

to put on the table but 

the pipeline's current budget 

sits at around $7.4 billion. 

In March, several environment 

advocacy groups 

met with the government 

to push it on fossil fuel 

subsidies. 

Those groups, including 

Environmental Defence 

and Oil Change 

International, say the Liberals 

need to define what it 

means by "inefficient" fossil 

fuel subsidies, release a 

national plan to get rid of 

them by 2025 before next 

month's G7 summit, and 

push the other G7 nations 

to commit to their own 

timely national plans. 

Wednesday's report 

card also listed areas 

where the government has 

made progress, including 

phasing out the use 

of greenhouse-gas emitting 

hydrofluorocarbons 

in refrigeration and air 

conditioning, and giving 

the public and scientific 

experts a bigger role in developing 

policy. 

But the report cites 

particular concern with 

the lack of a plan to actually 

hit emissions targets, 

and a stalled promise to 

change tax laws so charitable 

groups are no longer 

limited to spending 10 per 

cent of their budget or less 

on non-partisan political 

advocacy. 

Many of these groups, 

such as Environmental 

Defence, were audited 

over allegations they were 

spending too much money 

arguing against government 

policies, and believe 

they were targeted by the 

former Conservative government. 

The Liberals campaigned 

on a promise to 

change the laws; an independent 

review more than 

a year ago outlined how 

such a change should be 

done. 

More than a year later, 

confidence is waning the 

government will actually 

do it, said Environmental 

Defence executive director 

Tim Gray. 

A spokesman for National 

Revenue Minister 

Diane Lebouthillier said 

Wednesday the government 

is still committed to 

making the change, but is 

still reviewing the 2017 report. 

As of now, however, 

there is no timeline for 

when legislation might be 

introduced. 

Ontario using EVM, voters' 

lists in the June 7 election 

Continued from page 01 

In the Feb. 11, 2016 byelection 

in the Whitby-Oshawa 

riding, it took only 30 

minutes to count the ballots 

using the new machines, 

compared to the 90 minutes 

it took officials to count 

them by hand, according to 

an Elections Ontario report 

that examined the byelection. 

The report also said the 

new technology would help 

with another election issue: 

staffing. 

"Elections Ontario is increasingly 

unable to find the 

required number of polling 

officials," wrote Greg Essensa, 

the province's Chief Electoral 

Officer in the byelection 

report, titled "Proposal 

for a technology-enabled 

staffing model for Ontario 

provincial elections." 

It's not an easy job, he 

wrote, with election officials 

working 14- to 16-hour days 

with the meticulous votecounting 

coming at the very 

end of the day. 

In 2014, there were 76,000 

polling officials working on 

election day. As the population 

grows, and with 17 new 

electoral districts added to 

the election map, Elections 

Ontario estimates it would 

have needed 100,000 polling 

officials if the previous voting 

system remained the 

same. 

Instead, only 55,000 polling 

officials will be working 

on election day, Des Granges 

said. 

The report also said the 

agency had looked at internet 

voting, but to date it 

had not found a networked 

voting solution that would 

protect the integrity of the 

electoral process. 

On Wednesday, Essensa 

said there are 10.2 million 

eligible voters with the estimated 

cost of the election 

pegged at $126 million, a 

significant jump from the 

$78.1 million in the 2014 provincial 

election. While there 

is no cost breakdown of the 

new technology, Essensa 

said the increased costs are 

due to many factors, including 

the addition of new ridings. 

The new technology, 

however, is not perfect, noted 

the report. 

Some of the e-Poll Books 

had connectivity issues that 

forced staff to revert to the 

paper lists, some of the scanners 

didn't work and staff 

had trouble resolving the 

issues. 

In 2014, Elections New 

Brunswick used similar vote 

tabulators and there was a 

short period of chaos when 

election officials had to shut 

down the machines to figure 

out why results weren't being 

properly produced. 

Bob Fowlie, the director 

of communications for 

New Brunswick's PC Party, 

said he watched election 

results on television counting 

down, rather than up. 

Officials identified six machines 

that broke down in 

six districts where the votes 

were extremely close, he 

said. 

"The Tories were ahead 

and once the machines started 

up again the Tories were 

behind," he said. Elections 

New Brunswick did hand recounts 

in those six ridings. 

Eventually, election officials 

figured out a software 

glitch had occurred. 

"And that's with about 

400,000 voters give or take, 

here in New Brunswick. 

With the population of Ontario, 

the potential for issues 

is marvellous," Fowlie said. 

The machines won't 

be everywhere in Ontario 

on election day, however. 

They'll be in about 50 per 

cent of the voting locations, 

but will serve 90 per cent of 

the electorate. 

Another reason to 

switch to machines is driven 

by the times, the agency 

said. 

"The public has an expectation 

as a modern society to 

expect modern services and 

this is what we're trying to 

do," Des Granges said. 

RCMP arrest Punjabi youth in 

2011 Surrey homicide 


On the night of April 27th, 2011, Kajla and his new wife, 

having only been married that morning in Canada, were 

driving along 68th Avenue and 128th Street, when a minor 

collision occurred between the Kajla’s vehicle and that of 

Samandeep Gill. When Kajla approached Gill’s vehicle, he 

was shot by a suspect, who then fled the scene. 

Kajla was found suffering from multiple gunshot 

wounds and later died in hospital. 

“I want to express my sincerest condolences to the family 

of Manbir Kajla. I want to let them know that that the 

police have always been working towards an arrest. We 

appreciate their patience. This case spanned over 7 years 

and may not always appeared to be moving forward. I hope 

news of charges brings some semblance of peace especially 

given the truly devastating way that life changing day unfolded,” 

said Superintendent Ward Lymburner in the official 

statement. Superintendent Ward Lymburner is the 

Officer in Charge of Programs and Special Projects of the 

RCMP Provincial Major Crimes Section, which includes 

the Provincial Unsolved Homicide Unit. 

15-year-old girl charged with attempted 

murder in stabbing of police officer 


A 15-year-old boy is also facing charges of theft, break 

and enter, possession of a stolen vehicle, weapons possession 

and joy riding and is due in court today. Police say 

Const. Andrew Gordon approached two people seen fleeing 

from a stolen truck on Highway 102 near Ashburn Golf 

Course shortly before 6 a.m. Tuesday.They say that as Gordon 

attempted to speak to them, a suspect stabbed him and 

fled again before a police dog unit located them, along with 

four weapons. Gordon was taken to hospital where he underwent 

surgery and is reported to be in stable condition.

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May 11, 2018 | Toronto 

03 

Saskatchewan school shooter gets life in prison 


MEADOW LAKE : A judge 

on Tuesday sentenced a 

young man who shot up a 

school and a home in northern 

Saskatchewan to life in 

prison and bemoaned a lack 

of support for survivors. 

The shooter, who killed 

four and injured seven, 

won't be eligible for parole 

for 10 years. The young man 

was weeks away from his 

18th birthday when he killed 

two teenage brothers, a 

teacher and a teacher's aide 

in La Loche, Sask. He was 

sentenced as an adult, but 

can't be named until his appeal 

options are exhausted. 

Judge Janet McIvor 

called the shootings "senseless" 

and "coldly horrific." 

She also said it's a travesty 

that some people in the 

northern Dene community 

aren't receiving the support 

they need and are being 

revictimized. Since the 

shooting, she said, fewer 

teachers are willing to work 

there and there has been an 

increase in substance abuse 

and suicides. 

"They have been abandoned," 

McIvor told court. 

"They have been let down. 

"More help is needed. 

Counselling is needed. And 

it's not right that that hasn't 

been provided." 

Phyllis Longobardi, the 

school's assistant principal 

who was injured in the 

shooting, praised the judge 

for scolding the government. 

"Good for her," Longobardi 

said from her home 

in Amherst, N.S., after 

watching a livestream of the 

sentencing at her local courthouse. 

"The government has 

done nothing — absolutely 

nothing — for the community. 

It's done nothing for the 

victims. "It basically came 

out with this political line, 

'Oh, we'll help you.' And then 

when nobody's looking, they 

take it all away." 

She said she's heard the 

same complaints from other 

victims, families and community 

members she's kept 

in touch with. 

And she feels for those in 

La Loche who may see the 

shooter again if he returns 

to the community after he 

gets parole. 

The shooter pleaded 

guilty in October 2016 to two 

counts of first-degree murder, 

two counts of seconddegree 

murder and seven 

counts of attempted murder. 

Brothers Dayne and 

Drayden Fontaine were 

killed in their home before 

the teen went to the school 

where he was a student and 

fatally shot teacher Adam 

Wood and teacher's aide Marie 

Janvier. Seven others in 

the building were injured. 

Students and staff hid 

under desks in classrooms 

and frantically called relatives 

on their cellphones. 

The shooter eventually ran 

into a women's washroom 

and surrendered to RCMP. 

McIvor said the shooter 

began formulating a plan as 

early as September 2015. He 

researched different kinds 

of guns and the damage they 

could do to people. 

She pointed out that the 

night before the shootings, 

he did an online search asking: 

"What does it feel like to 

kill someone?" 

"His months and weeks 

of planning were over in a 

matter of minutes," she said. 

"These school shootings 

were planned and calculated 

to inflict as much damage as 

possible." The young man 

told court he can't undo 

what he's done, but he would 

if he could. He looked back at 

his family in the gallery and 

said: "I'm sorry. I love you." 

His motive for the shooting 

is still unclear. His lawyer, 

Aaron Fox, said his client 

told him: "I ask myself 

that every day.'" 

The young man has been 

imprisoned at a provincial 

correctional centre in 

Prince Albert, Sask., where 

Fox said he reads, plays 

cards and speaks primarily 

to the chaplain. The killer 

will serve his sentence in a 

federal penitentiary. 

But Fox said his client, 

who is now 20, could spend 

some of his sentence at a 

psychiatric centre so he can 

receive much-needed help. 

"He knows he committed 

a horrendous act and he's going 

to have to pay for it and 

is prepared to do so," he said. 

"This young man was 

lacking services and assistance 

long before this offence 

took place. Even the 

judge's comments about 

what's gone on in the community 

since ... everybody's 

gone home is pathetic." 

Canada to apologize for turning away Nazi-era ship of Jews: Trudeau 


TORONTO : Canada will 

formally apologize for turning 

away a boat full of Jewish 

refugees fleeing Nazi 

Germany in 1939, resulting 

in scores of them dying, 

Prime Minister Justin 

Trudeau said Tuesday. In 

a well-received speech to a 

sold-out Jewish fundraising 

event, Trudeau said the decision 

by Canada to force the 

German ocean liner "MS St. 

Louis" to return to Europe 

was a blight on our collective 

past. 

"An apology in the House 

of Commons will not rewrite 

this shameful chapter of our 

history," Trudeau said. "It 

will not bring back those 

who perished or repair the 

lives shattered by tragedy. 

But it is our hope that this 

long overdue apology will 

bring awareness to our failings, 

as we vow to never let 

history repeat itself." 

In the run-up to the 

Second World War and the 

ensuing Holocaust, the Canadian 

government heeded 

anti-Semitic sentiment by 

severely restricting Jewish 

immigration. From 1933 to 

1945, only about 5,000 Jewish 

refugees were accepted due 

to what Trudeau called "our 

discriminatory 'none is too 

many' immigration policy" 

in place at the time. 

He called the turning 

away of the ship a "most 

egregious" example of the 

misguided policy. 

The "St. Louis" was carrying 

907 German Jews fleeing 

Nazi persecution. Its captain, 

Gustav Schröder, tried 

in vain to find homes for his 

passengers. In addition to 

Cuba, the United States also 

turned away the refugees. 

Forced to return to Europe, 

254 of those aboard 

eventually died in the 

slaughter that became the 

Holocaust. "We cannot turn 

away from this uncomfortable 

truth, and Canada's part 

in it," Trudeau said. "We 

must learn from this story, 

and let its lessons guide our 

actions going forward." 

The March of the Living 

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David Battistelli appointed 

as supervising producer for 

OMNI News: Italian Edition 

The Canadian Parvasi 

TORONTO : OMNI Television today 

announced the appointment of David 

Battistelli as Supervising Producer for 

OMNI News: Italian Edition, effective 

today. In this role, Battistelli will oversee 

all production and editorial of OM- 

NI’s Italian newscasts produced out of 

Montreal and Toronto as well as Focus 

Portuguese on OMNI.1 in Ontario. Battistelli 

will report to Manuel Fonseca, 

Director, OMNI, Lifestyle & Entertainment 

Production, Rogers Media. 

“David is a highly respected journalist 

and producer, and his extensive 

experience both behind and in-front-of 

the camera will help us continue to produce 

engaging and informative news 

programming for Canada’s Italian community,” 

said Fonseca. “No stranger to 

the OMNI family, he also brings great 

passion and drive to the organization.” 

With 35 years of broadcast journalism 

experience, Battistelli returns 

to OMNI where he previously served 

for 20 years as OMNI’s Parliamentary 

News Bureau Chief, covering political 

and security crises, elections, foreign 

leader visits, and federal budgets. During 

this tenure, Battistelli also played 

an integral role with OMNI News 

where he interviewed various political 

figures, includingPrime Ministers Stephen 

Harper and Paul Martin. Prior to 

joining OMNI in 1995, Battistelli started 

his career at CHRO Television in Pembroke, 

ON before moving to CHNO-FM 

and CJMX-FM in Sudbury, ON, where 

he held such roles as news and sports 

reporter, producer, and anchor. 

Battistelli joins Charmaine Wong, 

Nathan Sekhon and Jake Dheer, who 

collectively oversee news and current 

affairs programming for OMNI Regional 

and OMNI Television’s local stations 

in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, and 

Vancouver. 

“Through OMNI, we’re committed 

to delivering high quality, engaging 

national and local news programming 

that is truly reflective of Canada’s vibrant 

multilingual communities,” said 

Colette Watson, Senior Vice President, 

TV and Broadcast Operations, Rogers 

Media. “With this dedicated team we 

will continue to enhance our third-language 

programming and seek out ways 

to engage multilingual audiences of all 

ages.” 

Based in Toronto, Wong manages 

all in-house productions for OMNI 

Ontario, including the Cantonese and 

Mandarin national newscasts. With 

more than a decade of television production 

experience, Wong joined OMNI 

in 2013 and has been instrumental in 

leading production and news editorial. 

From Vancouver, Sekhon oversees 

OMNI’s Punjabi national newscast 

and our local Cantonese, Mandarin 

and Punjabi current affairs programs. 

Sekhon has a wide range of duties as a 

newsroom leader, which include managing 

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Community Liaison & OMNI Ontario 

Punjabi. Dheer manages vital partnerships 

with more than 65 multilingual 

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Osler celebrates its nurses 

during National Nursing Week 

BRAMPTON/ETOBICOKE : This week, William Osler 

Health System (Osler) is honouring its more than 2,600 dedicated 

nurses as part of National Nursing Week celebrations. 

“We often hear stories about how Osler nurses go above and 

beyond to ensure patients and their families have exceptional 

experiences while they are with us,” said Dr. Brendan Carr, 

President and CEO, Osler. “Nursing Week is the perfect time to 

celebrate these achievements and honour the men and women 

who consistently deliver patient-inspired health care without 

boundaries. They are truly an inspiration and we cannot thank 

them enough for their dedicated efforts on behalf of our hospitals.” 

This year, Osler is also pleased to celebrate long-time Osler 

nurse and Clinical Services Manager Paula Manuel, recipient 

of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario’s (RNAO) 

Award of Merit. The award recognizes a registered nurse or 

nurse practitioner who has made outstanding contributions 

to the RNAO and nursing profession in Ontario. In addition, 

Osler nurses Kelly Meijs, Theresa Nitti and Gilda Theriault 

were among more than 100 Ontario nurses nominated by their 

peers and patients for the 17th Annual Toronto Star Nightingale 

Award, acknowledging nurses who have gone above and 

beyond their call of duty. 

“Our nurses are there every step of the way as our patients 

make their way through their hospital and health care experience,” 

said Darryl Yates, Associate Vice President Clinical 

Practice, and Interim Chief Nursing Executive, Osler. “It is because 

of their compassion, knowledge, positivity and boundless 

energy, we can provide high-quality care to the growing community. 

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Under pressure to clamp down on semi-automatics, Trudeau defers to police 

Agencies 

OTTAWA : Police, not politicians, 

should decide what restrictions 

to place on specific 

kinds of guns, Prime Minister 

Justin Trudeau said Tuesday, 

his Liberal government 

under renewed pressure to 

impose an outright ban on 

semi-automatic rifles. 

Trudeau's comments 

come after a group of people 

impacted by last year's deadly 

Quebec City mosque shooting 

— a number of wounded, as 

well as family members of the 

six people killed — urged him 

to outlaw the military-style 

weapons outright. 

He touted provisions of 

his government's firearms 

bill, which once passed would 

restore the authority of 

RCMP experts to classify firearms 

without political influence, 

repealing cabinet's authority 

to overrule Mountie 

determinations. 

In a letter Monday to the 

prime minister, more than 

75 people express disappointment 

the bill does not ban 

semi-automatic rifles like the 

one carried by mosque shooter 

Alexandre Bissonnette. 

Bissonnette began his 

January 2017 assault with a 

.223-calibre Small Arms VZ58 

Sporter rifle, which is legal, 

along with two illegal 30-cartridge 

magazines. 

The rifle jammed on the 

first shot, and Bissonnette 

then used a handgun, but 

the letter asks how much 

worse the carnage could have 

been had Bissonnette's rifle 

worked. 

"What kind of society allows 

a single individual to 

have so much destructive, lethal 

power at their disposal?" 

the letter says. 

Firearms in Canada 

are classified as either nonrestricted 

(such as ordinary 

hunting rifles and shotguns), 

restricted (handguns, certain 

rifles and semi-automatics) 

or prohibited (certain handguns, 

fully automatic firearms 

and sawed-off rifles). 

Restricted and prohibited 

firearms must be registered 

and entail additional safety 

training. In addition, their 

use is limited to people such 

as target shooters and collectors. 

The RCMP's firearms 

program determines the technical 

classification of a gun 

according to criteria in the 

Criminal Code. 

As such, the Mounties are 

limited to interpreting definitions 

established by the government, 

says the group Poly- 

SeSouvient, which includes 

graduates and students of 

Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, 

where 14 women were 

gunned down in 1989. 

In a brief to a House of 

Commons committee studying 

the bill, the group says the 

current Criminal Code definitions 

allow some "assault 

weapons" to be legal. 

"Unfortunately, this system 

results in classifications 

that are not consistent with 

the risks of many weapons," 

the brief says. 

"Indeed, despite the general 

objective of banning assault 

weapons of both 1991 

and 1995 legislative reforms, 

weapons designed for military 

purposes have become 

more accessible." 

Male dies following 

police-involved shooting 

at B.C. ferry dock: RCMP 


NANAIMO, B.C: The RCMP say a male has died after 

shots were fired during an attempted arrest by police at 

a ferry terminal in Nanaimo, B.C. 

Police say officers were called to the Departure Bay 

terminal today to arrest a male in connection with a "violent" 

carjacking in another part of British Columbia. 

The Mounties say initial information based on police 

accounts indicate the male got out of the vehicle with 

what was believed to be a firearm and shots were fired. 

The RCMP say the male was seriously injured and 

later died, and no police officers were injured. 

British Columbia's police watchdog says its investigators 

were on their way to Nanaimo. 

The Independent Investigations Office is a civilian 

oversight agency that looks into all incidents involving 

the police that result in serious harm or death. 

Former Saanich mayor Frank Leonard said he 

heard a loud bang and then a series of gunshots when 

he was sitting in his vehicle waiting for ferry traffic to 

unload from the B.C. mainland. 

Leonard said he was watching for the usual gush of 

traffic to leave the ferry but only a few cars were allowed 

off before he heard the gunfire. 

"I thought six to eight (shots) — witnesses always get 

that wrong," Leonard said. "Then it was all quiet, really, 

really quiet." He couldn't say if shots were exchanged. 

"The incident was away from everybody in a relatively 

confined place," Leonard added. "It certainly 

seemed to be a planned place." 

John Athey told Nanaimo News Now that the RCMP 

put a spike strip across lanes at the terminal and they 

appeared to be waiting for a vehicle. 

"I saw police smash the car and turn it around. They 

jumped out and shot into the driver's side window," 

Athey said. "It was just like a movie. When the police 

jumped out of their car they ran right up close and fired 

into the window. ... I could actually see the glass coming 

off the window. It was unbelievable." 

BC Ferries says one of its vessels departed about 45 

minutes late as a result of the incident, but sailings were 

still scheduled to proceed throughout the day. 

The ferry terminal is the main access route between 

the mainland and central Vancouver Island. 

Saskatchewan seeks intervener status 

in B.C. Trans Mountain pipeline case 


REGINA : Saskatchewan is 

seeking intervener status in 

British Columbia's reference 

case over the flow of heavy oil 

through that province. 

Attorney General Don 

Morgan says Saskatchewan 

is dismayed that the Trans 

Mountain pipeline expansion 

continues to be held up by unreasonable 

delays. 

The case before the B.C. 

Court of Appeal asks whether 

amendments the B.C. government 

is proposing to the Environmental 

Management Act 

are valid. 

The case also asks whether 

B.C. has the authority to 

control shipment of heavy 

oils based on any impact 

spills could have on the environment, 

human health 

or communities. B.C. is also 

asking the court whether the 

amendments would be overridden 

by federal law. 

The $7.4-billion Kinder 

Morgan project would double 

an existing pipeline from Edmonton 

to Burnaby, B.C., in 

an effort to sell more fuel to 

Asian markets. 

"We know that these 

pipelines are necessary for 

our energy companies to get 

their products to tide water 

to ensure a competitive price, 

and that the increased capacity 

this pipeline represents 

stands to benefit all Canadians," 

Morgan said in a statement 

Wednesday. 

B.C. Premier John Horgan 

said in late April when 

the reference case was filed 

that the aim is to protect 

the province's coastline and 

economy from the harms of 

an oil spill. Saskatchewan has 

voiced its support for Alberta 

in a dispute with B.C. over the 

Trans Mountain line. 

The Saskatchewan government 

introduced a bill in 

April that would allow the 

province to control its oil and 

gas exports. It's similar to one 

introduced in the Alberta legislature 

as well. 

The law, once passed, 

would establish a permitting 

process for people or corporations 

looking to export energy 

products outside the province.

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May 11, 2018 | Toronto 06 

World Bank denies Sharif 

laundered $4.9 bn to India 


Washington : The 

World Bank has rejected 

Pakistani media reports 

about former Prime Minister 

Nawaz Sharif laundering 

$4.9 billion to India. 

The local office of the 

Washington-based multilateral 

agency issued the 

press release hours after 

Pakistan's anti-corruption 

watchdog -- the National 

Accountability Bureau 

(NAB) -- on Tuesday announced 

the launch of an 

inquiry against Sharif 

over money laundering allegations. 

The NAB swung into 

action about two years after 

a private TV channel 

alleged that $4.9 billion 

was laundered from Pakistan 

to India in 2016, according 

to a report by the 

Express Tribune. 

"In the past day, there 

have been media reports 

citing the World Bank's 

Remittances and Migration 

Report of 2016. These 

media reports are incorrect," 

the World Bank said 

in a statement. 

It added that the World 

Bank's Remittances and 

Migration Report was an 

effort to estimate migration 

and remittances numbers 

across the world. 

"The report does not include 

any mention of money 

laundering nor does it 

name any individuals," according 

to the World Bank 

handout. 

Prime Minister Shahid 

Khaqan Abbasi on Wednesday 

strongly criticised the 

NAB for launching the 

probe. Abbasi, while addressing 

the National Assembly, 

asked the House 

to constitute a committee 

which would summon the 

NAB Chairman and investigate 

the allegations. 

The Premier said that 

the institution had "overstepped 

its domain". The 

country will not function 

if institutions will work in 

this way, Abbasi said. 

Earlier Defence Minister 

Khurram Dastagir 

Khan also criticised the 

NAB. Syed Naveed Qamar 

of the Pakistan Peoples 

Party (PPP) said he partially 

disagreed with the idea 

of summoning the NAB 

Chairman and held it tantamount 

to interference in 

NAB affairs. 

The World Bank also 

referred to a statement by 

the State Bank of Pakistan 

which rejected estimates 

of $4.9 billion in remittances 

from Pakistan to India 

on September 21, 2016, and 

provided an explanation 

of the methodology used 

in the World Bank report 

and the official remittances 

numbers. The World 

Bank's denial would also 

give a major boost to Sharif 

who has been complaining 

against "witch-hunting" by 

the NAB and courts. 

The former Prime Minister, 

disqualified by the 

Supreme Court for concealing 

facts, is already 

facing NAB references in 

an accountability court. 

Putin sworn in for fourth 

term as President 


Moscow: Vladimir Putin was sworn in on Monday 

for a fourth term as the Russian President after winning 

the election held in March. The 65-year-old, who has been 

Prime Minister or President for 18 years, took the oath 

of office in the St. Andrew Hall at the Grand Kremlin 

Palace, reports TASS news 

agency. Putin's first six-year 

term began in 2012 while the 

second will end on May 7, 

2024. 

According to Article 81 

of Russia's Constitution, an 

individual cannot serve as 

President for more than two 

consecutive terms. The presidential election was held on 

March 18. The voter turnout was 67.54 per cent. 

Putin won, gaining 76.69 per cent of the vote, in his 

best ever election performance, with over 56.4 million 

people voting for him. "I believe that peace in a prosperous 

Russia is my obligation and meaning of life," Putin 

said after officially taking office. "I believe it's my duty 

to do my best for Russia... We should develop in areas we 

have always been strong as well in the areas we haven't 

done enough. We have many decisions we have to take. 

"This year marks 25 years of the Russian constitution... 

We should change as the history changes, at the 

same time, we should stick to our roots, our history," he 

said.The President noted that Russia needed to develop 

in all sectors, which could be ensured only by a free society, 

reports Sputnik. On Saturday, riots took place across 

Russia against Putin's rule. More than 1,000 people including 

opposition leader Alexei Navalny were arrested. 

When Putin reaches the end of his fourth term in 

2024, he will have been in power for nearly a quarter of 

a century, still falling short of Soviet dictator Stalin's 31 

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Hawaii volcano eruption 

destroys 26 houses 


Honolulu: At least 

26 houses have been destroyed 

after the Kilauea 

volcano in Hawaii's Big 

Island erupted last week 

spewing molten rocks and 

high levels of sulphur dioxide 

into the area, according 

to authorities. 

As of Sunday morning, 

nine volcanic vents 

had erupted in evacuated 

neighbourhoods on the island, 

CNN quoted County 

of Hawaii officials as saying. 

All residents of Leilani 

Estates, a community of 

about 1,700 people near the 

Big Island's eastern edge, 

and nearby Lanipuna 

Gardens were ordered to 

evacuate since the eruption 

took place on May 3. 

It has showed no signs of 

stopping since then. 

The eruption was 

followed by a massive 

6.9-magnitude earthquake 

on May 4 -- the island's 

most powerful since 1975. 

"The area continues to 

be unstable with volcanic 

venting and related hazards 

of earthquake and 

poisonous gases ongoing," 

the Hawaii Civil Defence 

Agency said on Saturday 

night. 

Cracks in Kilauea volcano's 

rift zone -- an area of 

fissures miles away from 

the summit -- have been 

spurting lava near the island's 

eastern edge. 

New photos released by 

the US Geological Survey 

(USGS) on Sunday showed 

a wall of molten lava that 

came from the seventh fissure 

in Leilani Estates and 

a new crack in one of the 

subdivision's roads. 

Hawaii County Civil 

Defence administrator Talmadge 

Magno told the media 

that the vents had quietened 

on Saturday, "but 

we're pretty certain that 

we're not done yet". 

On Sunday, some 

Leilani Estates residents 

were allowed to return to 

their homes to gather additional 

supplies, belongings 

and any pets that 

may have been left behind, 

CNN reported. 

The American Red 

Cross has opened two shelters 

at the Pahoa and Keaau 

Community Centres, 

where some evacuees have 

gathered while they await 

news about their homes. 

Following the eruption, 

Hawaii Governor David 

Ige had activated the National 

Guard to help with 

evacuations and security. 

Trump nominates Indian- 

American to federal judgeship 


New York: US President Donald Trump nominated Diane 

Gujarati, a prosecutor of Indian descent, to a federal 

judgeship on Thursday in an unusual move as she had been 

former President Barack Obama's choice for the position. 

The White House announced that Trump is sending 

the nomination of Gujarati, who is the Deputy Chief of the 

Criminal Division of the federal prosecutor's for the Southern 

District of New York, to the Senate for confirmation as a 

District Judge on the Federal court for New York's Eastern 

District, which covers parts of the city as well the suburbs 

on Long Island. Obama nominated her for the judgeship 

towards the end of his term in September 2016 but she was 

not confirmed by the Senate requiring Trump's renomination. 

Her father, Damodar Gujrarati, is an emeritus professor 

of economics at the US Military Academy at West Point, 

which trains army officers. Her renomination by Trump 

shows both her legal standing as well as the administration's 

difficulty in finding candidates within its ideological 

spectrum who will be able to win Senate support. 

She is expected to have a smooth sailing in the Senate 

because of the support of presidents from both parties. A 

graduate of the Ivy League Yale University's law school, 

she has also been an adjunct professor at New York University 

School of Law. Federal New York Eastern District 

Court is located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. 

The federal prosecutor's office for Southern District of 

New York, where started in 1999, is one of the most high 

profile jurisdictions in the US as it includes Wall Street as 

well as the state's capital Albany. 

Five Australian MPs ousted over dual citizenship 

Agency 

Canberra: Five Australian 

parliamentarians 

were ousted on Wednesday 

for holding dual citizenship 

when they were elected. It 

comes as fresh blow to Prime 

Minister Malcom Turnbull's 

majority in the House. In 

what was widely viewed as 

a fresh test case, a high court 

ruled Senator Katy Gallagher 

ineligible, the BBC reported. 

Four other politicians, who 

were also under scrutiny resigned 

after the verdict. Gallagher 

and lower house MPs 

Justine Keay, Josh Wilson 

and Susan Lamb are members 

of the opposition Labor 

party. The fifth MP, Rebekha 

Sharkie, is part of minor party 

Centre Alliance. 

In 2017, 10 MPs and senators 

were removed from 

office for violating a constitutional 

rule that prohibits 

federal political candidates 

from being dual nationals, 

the BBC report said. 

The dual citizenship saga 

has destabilised Australian 

politics since July 2017, at 

times threatening Turnbull's 

majority in the House of Representatives. 

Turnbull could increase 

his majority if he wins any of 

the vacant lower house seats, 

the BBC reported. 

Gallagher was aware of 

her British passport as her 

father was born in England, 

so the court ruled that she 

did not take "all reasonable 

steps" to relinquish her British 

links, Xinhua news agency 

reported. The High Court 

of Australia ruled that Gallagher's 

seat would be filled by 

counting back votes from the 

2016 federal election. 

The other politicians are 

expected be replaced in the 

same way, or through a byelection. 

Gallagher had referred 

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her British citizenship 

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"To the people of the 

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Why is modern life so 

incredibly annoying? 

A man raised by wolves in a forest says he misses 

his old life. Living as a wolf cub in a Spanish wilderness 

was much less stressful than modern life, Marcos 

Rodríguez Pantoja told the BBC recently. Journalists 

expressed surprise at his declaration, but I totally 

get his point. Last week, my book ran out of batteries! 

I know Socrates is looking down at me from heaven 

and laughing, waving his "always on" scroll. 

Meanwhile, at home, my child is outraged. Why? 

"My snacks are so crunchy I can't hear the TV," she 

complains, furious. This is literally the worst thing 

that has ever happened to this child. I mean, how is 

she going to cope with real life, during which massively 

tragic things happen, like they forget to put 

mayo in your sandwich, a devastating incident that 

totally spoiled this columnist's day yesterday? 

I told her that in my day, the only TV was a window 

facing a brick wall and the only snacks our fingers. 

She said brick walls were probably better than 

what was on TV these days and she's probably right. 

Back at work, I was moaning about my dead e- 

book when a colleague told me about another tech 

problem. The trend spreading across Asia is to have 

a Roomba machine, a wheeled disk that quietly vacuums 

your floors in the middle of the night. 

Unfortunately no one told these machines that 

a) Koreans and Japanese people often sleep on thin 

mattresses on the floor; and b) sucking up hair on the 

floor is not a good thing to do if it is still attached to 

a human's head. On one recent occasion, firefighters 

had to be called to remove a ravenous Roomba vacuum 

cleaner from its Korean owner's head. 

East Asian owners are junking their cleaning robots 

for superior technology: Broomsticks. 

Police officers in the Indian state of Odisha recently 

demonstrated how they use pigeons to get 

messages across a vast portion of the state in just 20 

minutes. During floods and power cuts the police pigeon 

service is the only functioning communications 

system. 

So, basically, if their conversations are anything 

like mine, you send a bird across the state with your 

message, such as "LOL" and 40 minutes later, you get 

the bird back with a message saying "LMAO" (Laughing 

My Ass Off). Oh well, at least no one can complain 

about information overload. A colleague showed me 

an angry text that had been sent by a young person 

from an aircraft recently. "There's so much leg room 

in business class that I can barely reach the touch 

screen TV," she complained. What suffering! 

The odd thing is her inability to realise how the 

rest of us, sitting in economy class seats with our noses 

mere millimetres away from the seat in front, will 

take her message. Where's her brain? 

Uh-oh. I would canvass readers, contributors and 

colleagues for more examples to fill this column with, 

but the main functional section of my own brain -- 

which is housed in a smartphone in my right hand -- 

is about to run out of batteries. So I have to stop here. 

Socrates! Stop laughing! 

Creating international 

platforms for Indian arts 

In 1999, as part of a 

British Council showcase 

programme, I travelled to 

the Edinburgh Festival 

and that set in motion the 

idea of creating platforms 

for Indian contemporary 

and classical art forms 

across the world. 

Working closely with 

the Festival Fringe, the International 

Film Festival, 

the Edinburgh Tattoo and 

the Edinburgh International 

Festival, we created 

an annual offering of work, 

enlarging our presence 

from six productions to 16 

in a short period. Many 

thought we were mad, but 

our long-term objectives 

paid off in more ways than 

one. We presented an array 

of artists: Aditi Mangaldas, 

Daksha Sheth, 

Birju Maharaj and Malavika 

Sarukkai. Mrigaya, the 

world music group which 

went on to win the Herald 

Angel Award at Edinburgh 

in 2002 and a 5-star review 

from The Scotsman, Indian 

Ocean, Lillette Dubey 

and the Primetime Theatre 

Group, Adi Shakti, Lushin 

Dubey, Dadi Pudumjee and 

the Ishara Theatre Company, 

are some more names 

I recollect who were on 

our entourage. Shah Rukh 

Khan made his way to Edinburgh 

in a celebration of 

the best of Indian arts. 

It took some convincing 

to get the Edinburgh 

International Film Festival 

to agree to move Shah 

Rukh's "In Conversation" 

with Nasreen Munni Kabir 

to a larger venue. They 

cited examples of having 

presented the biggest 

stars, including Sean Connery, 

in a 300-seat venue. 

Tickets went on sale and 

sold out minutes after the 

box office opened, only to 

be resold at £100 a ticket! 

The news made it to The 

Times front page and the 

festival organisers, somewhat 

embarrassed, moved 

the venue to a 1,000-seat 

auditorium. Huge crowds 

gathered at the festival 

venue. At the after-party, 

we had to barricade Shah 

Rukh in a corner, with 

tables and bouncers guarding 

him. The Edinburgh 

festivals hadn't quite seen 

something like this before! 

They were ignorant 

of work from India as very 

few shows had ever travelled 

out. 

The year we presented 

Ishara Puppet Theatre's 

"Transposition", the infamous 

liquid bomb incident 

took place at Heathrow as 

we landed. Having being 

evacuated from the airport 

and shipped to Gatwick, 

we finally arrived in Edinburgh 

after a 16-hour delay, 

only to find that 24 of 

our 30 outsized puppet boxes 

and bags had been lost! 

Each day was spent at the 

airport warehouse searching 

for luggage. Five days 

and three cancelled shows 

later, the BBC ran a story 

on our predicament. Hours 

later, a passenger telephoned 

Dana Macleod, our 

coordinator in Edinburgh, 

to say strange-shaped bags 

were going around the carousel 

with stickers bearing 

her name. The show was 

back on the road! 

Investments in shows 

and festivals in those early 

days meant that year-onyear, 

our balance sheets 

were red. Co-presenting 

with existing festivals led 

to some degree of success, 

with annual presentations 

in Singapore, Wellington, 

Perth and Melbourne. 

Much of this was a result 

of networking at the Edinburgh 

festivals and setting 

out a plan for collaborations, 

a strategy we adopted 

for the next few years. 

As our footprint grew 

through Asia to include 

Hong Kong, Korea and Indonesia, 

we began to look 

westwards. 

Prompted by our then 

Consul General, Navdeep 

Suri, we set up the Shared 

History Festival in South 

Africa, to bring about an 

awareness of a new India 

and the many opportunities 

it offered, amongst the 

one-million strong Indian 

diaspora. We collaborated 

with the city of Johannesburg's 

annual festival, 

Arts Alive, to bring about 

resurgence in the crimeinfested 

Central Business 

District (CBD) area of New 

Town. The city planned to 

use the arts to re-populate 

the CBD and reduce crime 

and bring back the local 

populace. With audiences 

returning to theatres, New 

Town has now seen a rise 

in property prices, new 

businesses opening and 

residential blocks being 

re-built. In Durban and Johannesburg, 

the arts community 

and the diaspora 

who had earlier rejected 

everything Indian began 

rediscovering and celebrating 

their roots. Driven 

by their need to trace their 

history many have, since 

then, travelled back to India. 

We sought new opportunities 

in Austria, Germany, 

Italy and Spain, 

working through agents 

and driving box office sales 

to make projects economically 

viable. 

We produced "Bollywood 

Love Story", a musical, 

to reach new audiences. 

We were amazed to 

discover how small towns 

like Einbeck, Stuttgart, 

Eindhoven and larger ones 

like Florence, Barcelona 

and Stockholm had a huge 

appetite to celebrate and 

embrace Indian culture. 

Local arts-attending audiences 

came to our celebration 

dressed in Indian 

attire, belting out words 

of songs they didn't understand 

and eating their versions 

of Indian food. Exporting 

Bollywood should 

be the mainstay of our foreign 

missions in order to 

capture hearts and minds 

of people across the world. 

From Russia to Egypt and 

China through Canada I 

have seen an increasing 

appetite to present and understand 

the best of Indian 

culture. 

In today's polarised 

world, it is imperative that 

we use the arts as a window 

into other cultures, traditions, 

history and a way 

of working. The arts know 

no language and have a 

universality that allows 

the viewer to seamlessly 

absorb and appreciate new 

experiences. A few years 

ago, the Globe Theatre, as 

part of the Cultural Olympiad, 

commissioned an 

array of exciting productions 

played out from Afghanistan 

and India to Romania 

and Belarus. Each 

was distinct and brought 

to the fore, cultural differences 

and yet was bound 

together by the universal 

language of theatre and 

performance. Audiences 

who attended may not have 

understood the nuances 

of the languages, but this 

did not detract them from 

enjoying what they were 

witnessing. Pia Behrupiya 

by Company Theatre was 

a brilliant piece of original 

stagecraft. Based on Shakespeare's 

"Twelfth Night", 

the ensemble cast sang, 

danced and created magic 

at the Globe. Last year as 

part of "India70@UK" we 

were able to present some 

of the finest of contemporary 

theatre, dance and 

music at premium arts 

venues including the Royal 

Festival Hall, Barbican 

Theatre and the Globe. 

As the Indian economy 

continues to grow, the 

world is curious about India 

and everything Indian. 

From exotic locations: 

Ladhak to Hampi and 

Ajanta & Ellora to Murshidabad 

and Varanasi, to 

a diverse, dynamic and an 

extremely alive cultural 

matrix, we have a lot to offer. 

India needs to create a 

counter-narrative to that 

of rapes, murders and religious 

extremism, absconding 

businessmen and less 

then scrupulous business 

practices that make headlines 

the world over. The 

arts can be an anchor for 

this emerging narrative; 

not only do they create jobs 

but also educate and enlighten. 

As the third industrial 

revolution fades away 

and we look to the fourth, 

which will be the coming 

together of creativity and 

technology, India is wellplaced 

to be a world leader. 

Unfortunately, our policies 

and government are yet to 

seize the moment and set 

in place incentives and a 

route map to the future. 

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09 

Had to deal with sexual advances from people in 

and outside film world: Huma Qureshi at Cannes 


Cannes : Actress Huma 

Qureshi says she has had 

to deal with people making 

sexual advances at her, not 

only in the cinema industry 

but by people from different 

professions. 

Asked about sexual exploitation 

and harassment 

of women, Huma said: 

"Well, as a woman, absolutely, 

I have had to deal 

with people making advances 

at me, but not just 

people from the business 

of film industry, but people 

across different professions 

and different strata. I 

think it has a lot to do with 

power, it is not only limited 

to the film business." 

Here for the 71st 

Cannes Film Festival as 

a brand ambassador for 

Grey Goose, Huma engaged 

in a freewheeling 

interview with this correspondent 

on the #MeToo 

movement, freedom of expression 

and the situation 

of women in India, besides 

her own journey 

She said for many 

women at the receiving 

end, it becomes difficult 

to come out and speak. 

"In India and elsewhere in 

the world, the moment a 

woman speaks out against 

harassment, people sort of 

start making all sorts of 

character judgments about 

her, about her morality, 

about what she was wearing 

and all such things and 

I think that is not fair," she 

added. 

"If a woman is saying 

something out loud, she 

is asking for help and you 

have no business to character 

assassinating her. 

You have to reach out to 

her and help her and protect 

her and I think we 

need to protect our women 

and we need to protect our 

children." 

On the spate of incidents 

involving rapes of 

minors in India, Huma 

said the incidents showed 

the need for a major 

change, and from within. 

"Only laws cannot help, 

the change has to be more 

profound and more voluntary 

and from within," she 

said. 

Huma also emphasised 

on the need to open 

up the world of cinema to 

the common people, adding 

that the global cinema 

needed to be democratised 

to make not only watching 

films more accessible, but 

also to allow more people 

to make films and show 

them to the world. 

The actress touched 

upon the point of democratisation 

of cinema during 

her speech too at the inauguration 

of the India Pavilion 

here. 

"I think it is happening 

and it should happen. 

One thing is that more and 

more people are turning 

to digital, which of course 

makes the whole thing far 

cheaper and hence filmmaking 

is no longer a 

protected, elitist, closed 

medium anymore. More 

and more people now have 

access to making films and 

watching films. I think it is 

so important," she told this 

correspondent. 

"A lot of issues that we 

have in the world today 

rise from the fact that we 

do not know enough about 

each other's cultures, that 

we don't respect each other's 

origins and there is so 

much negativity and strife 

around because we don't 

know where the other person 

is coming from. 

"A lot of this would 

be quelled if we are able 

to embrace each other in 

terms of traditions, culture, 

language, food, beliefs 

and dress. Cinema has 

the ability to transcend 

all these differences," she 

added. 

For the "Gangs Of Wasseypur", 

"Luv Shuv Tey 

Chicken Khurana", "Dedh 

Ishqiya" and "Viceroy's 

House" actress, coming 

back to Cannes is special 

as it was here that her first 

film "Gangs of Wasseypur" 

was screened six years ago. 

"It was literally like a 

dream come true. I did not 

even for a moment think 

that a film about gangsters 

from India and that too 

set in that period and in 

the heartland, a place like 

Wasseypur, would find a 

resonance with the French 

or global audience. But I 

remember the screening 

over here and it was a very 

special occasion," she said. 

"We got a standing 

ovation and after we had 

people talking to us about 

how the film touched them 

or how they were able 

to connect with the film. 

And that for me was very 

heartening as it taught me 

that films which talk about 

your own culture, but with 

a global perspective will always 

find resonance across 

the world," she added. 

On her filmography, 

Huma said she has been 

enjoying herself, doing different 

kinds of roles and 

working in different languages. 

"I am very excited 

about the work I am doing 

right now, I am very excited 

about the people with 

who I am working. I keep 

constantly looking for projects 

that are challenging. 

A lot of people complain 

that I do less work, but I 

don't want to keep repeating 

myself and keep doing 

the same thing again and 

again. I don't want to be 

the biggest movie star in 

the world. I just want to be 

the happiest! (laughs)" 

Huma was blunt when 

asked about the spate of 

attacks on films and filmmakers 

in India. 

"That kind of hooliganism 

should not be tolerated 

by any government. I think 

film as a medium has always 

been at the receiving 

end from everybody and it 

is sad as films are meant 

to entertain and help you 

transcend to another place 

and culture," she said. 

Huma was of the view 

that any culture where 

there is no free exchange 

of ideas, where there is no 

free art, that culture itself 

is not free in any sense. 

The attacks have to be 

"constantly kept in check 

if we want to continue to 

remain a democratic and 

a free country," she added.

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May 11, 2018 | Toronto 10 

Sisodia likens BJP 

leaders with Mughals 


New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and AAP 

leader Manish Sisodia on Wednesday likened the "arrogance 

and attitude" of the BJP government in the Centre 

with that of Mughal rulers. 

"They (the BJP) should keep this in mind that the rulers 

who used to sit in the Red Fort believed that no one 

can ever defeat them and that they will forever remain 

in power even if they exploited the poor. There were people 

opposing the arrogant rulers that time and there are 

voices against such attitudes now," Sisodia said. 

"Just like Mughals, the central government has an 

arrogance and an attitude 

that they will decide everything 

for the people and will 

not let the people decide anything," 

he said, after unveiling 

a statue of Rajput king 

Maharana Pratap at Kashmiri 

Gate ISBT here on the 

his 478th birth anniversary. 

The AAP leader said Maharana Pratap may have belonged 

to a particular community or caste but his real 

descendants were those who had the courage to speak 

the truth and fought against any discrimination against 

the poor and not those "who only care about themselves 

and their benefits". 

Sanjay Singh, an AAP leader and a Rajya Sabha 

member who was present at the event, said those who 

were dividing the people on the basis of caste were "the 

real enemies of the nation and we should be careful 

about them. 

"The country will not progress by dividing people. 

We should take everyone together. 'Bharat Mata' will be 

happy only when all her children are happy and have 

food. She will not be happy if people in the country are 

dying hungry." 

Modi-Rajinikanth combine 

would do good for TN 


Chennai: The combination 

of actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth 

and Prime Minister 

Modi would be good for Tamil 

Nadu, said 'Thuglak' magazine 

Editor S.Gurumurthy. 

Speaking to reporters 

here on the sidelines of an 

event held by Ficci, Gurumurthy 

said the Modi-Rajinikanth 

combination will do 

good for Tamil Nadu, which 

is seeing a leadership vacuum. 

Rajinikanth with his 

mass appeal and Modi with 

his administrative expertise 

can bring great benefit to the 

state, he said. 

Earlier speaking at the 

special session of Ficci's National 

Executive Committee 

Meeting, Gurumurthy said 

societies based on family system 

and individualistic oriented 

ones need a different 

approach. 

"The economy, savings, 

Akal Takht Jathedar issues action 

against NZ based radio host 

Amritsar: Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan 

Singh has issued orders to investigate New Zealand based 

Radio Virsa host Harnek Singh Neki over derogatory comments 

on Sikhs Gurus and current leaders of the Sikh 

community. Giani Gurbachan Singh has called on the Supreme 

Sikh Council to submit a full report with evidence 

of the allegations against Harnek Singh Neki. 

The charges against the host relate to twisting Sikh 

history, concepts, and religious texts. 

investment pattern, human 

resources, discipline differs. 

We need to move away from 

the idea of putting all our savings 

into banks, gold and real 

estate," he added. 

According to him, the 

shelf life of ideas has been getting 

progressively shorter. 

"Colonialism and capitalism 

existed for 150 years but 

globalization is being questioned 

in 25 years," he said, 

adding that this is "because 

there is no permanence in 

direction as we have built a 

fundamentally unstable polity 

and market". 

Makkal Needhi Maiam's 

(MNM) founder Kamal Haasan 

said protectionism is a 

knee-jerk reaction and India 

need not follow Europe. 

According to him, the diversity 

of the nation calls for 

a federal outlook and there 

should not be fights for regional 

rights. 

Christian Pastors use nihang image to 

persuade Sikhs into adopting Christianity 

Chandigarh: A new wave of mass conversion into Christianity 

is taking place in Punjab where thousands have reportedly accepted 

the faith. The pastors have preached in mass to heal the 

chronic illnesses in return of the person accepting Jesus Christ 

into their life. The low income Punjabis particularly dalits have 

switched to the faith as Sikh and Hindu groups refuse to accept 

them as part of their own. The failure of the SGPC and many Sikh 

groups can be seen from the mass conversions as the population 

has left their native religion to an foreign faith. 

Punjab puts on hold release of Class 12 history book 


The Punjab School Education 

Board has also been directed to facilitate 

the committee to complete 

this task at the earliest. 

The Punjab government on 

Monday announced the establishment 

of a permanent six-member 

Oversight Committee to examine 

the issue. Eminent historian Prof 

Kirpal Singh will head the committee, 

which will comprise former 

Guru Nanak Dev University Vice 

Chancellor Prof J.S. Grewal, former 

GNDU Pro-Vice Chancellor 

Prof Prithipal Singh Kapur, Panjab 

University History Emeritus Prof 

Indu Banga, besides two eminent 

historians to be nominated by the 

Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak 

Committee. 

"The committee has been mandated 

to consider and report on the 

recommendations of the Expert 

Group constituted by the Punjab 

School Education Board in 2014, to 

review the changes made in the new 

syllabi in History subject prescribed 

for Classes XI and XII subsequent to 

the recommendations of the Expert 

Group, and to suggest corrections, if 

any," a Punjab government spokesman 

said here on Monday. 

The Committee will also examine 

the contents of the text books 

prescribed for these classes and to 

suggest corrections for factual and 

other errors, if any, and to align, 

as may be practicably possible, the 

History syllabus with NCERT, he 

added. 

The committee will also exercise 

oversight on the syllabi and 

contents of text books prescribed 

for History for all classes by Punjab 

School Education Board and to 

ensure that there are no factual discrepancies. 

The Shiromani Akali 

Dal said on Tuesday that its stand 

on the deletion of Sikh history from 

Class 12 syllabus has been "fully 

vindicated" by the setting up of the 

six-member panel. The party said 

the Amarinder singh government's 

decision was a "correct, though belated 

step in the right direction". 

"This is precisely what we have 

been demanding all along. This is 

just the step which former Chief 

Minister Parkash Singh Badal had 

urged Amarinder Singh to take. 

Had the government listened to him 

then, the entire unsavoury controversy 

could have been avoided," 

SAD Senior Vice President Daljit 

Singh Cheema said in a statement 

here. The Congress government has 

come under sustained opposition 

attack in the past after a row over 

alleged dilution of Sikh history in 

PSEB books. 

The Chief Minister on Monday 

NIA lodges FIR against Nijjar for 

pro-Khalistani stand 


According to reports, the case has been 

lodged under IPC Sections 124A (sedition) 

and 153A (enmity between different groups 

on religious, racial and other such grounds) 

and 120B (criminal conspiracy), and Sections 

10, 16 and 18 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) 

Act (UAPA). As per the reports this is 

the second FIR the agency has lodged against 

Nijjar this year. Earlier, an FIR was lodged 

against him on April 14 under IPC Section 

120B and 13, 17, 18 and 20 of UAPA. 

Nijjar was in the news last week of April 

recently when he was rounded and questioned 

by the authorities in Canada for his 

said the decision to review the History 

syllabi and print text books in 

line with NCERT syllabi was taken 

during the earlier Shiromani Akali 

Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party government's 

rule in 2014. 

"In fact, there were no History 

books earlier and what SAD President 

Sukhbir Singh Badal was citing 

was merely a guide," Amarinder 

Singh pointed out. 

The Chief Minister reasserted 

that there was no deletion of any 

part of the syllabi pertaining to the 

Sikh Gurus, and that the entire history 

of the Sikh Gurus had been 

incorporated in the chronological 

order in Class XI and XII syllabi. 

activities allegedly linked to the Khalistani 

organisations. He was let-off after questioning 

but it was clear that he was under the radar 

of Canadian Intelligence Agencies. 

The move against Nijjar by the Ministry 

of Home Affairs of India and Canadian 

Agencies is based on the intelligence input 

provided by the Punjab government based 

on its intelligence network. 

Notably, Nijjar’s name was in the list of 

nine most wanted persons, handed over to 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 

by Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh at 

the time when Trudeau visited Punjab in 

February, 2018.

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'15 to 50-year-old women, clean-shaven men 

can not visit Pak Sikh shrines without family' 


Amritsar: Following 

the recent two incidents 

of Kiran Bala and Amarjit 

Singh –who “mis-used” 

their visa to Pakistan as 

members of Sikh pilgrims’ 

jatha to Pakistan last 

month– now the committee 

that recommends the 

names of pilgrims for the 

Pakistani visa has made 

strict rules for its recommendations. 

Bhai Madana Yadgaar 

Society has decided that 

from now onwards, no 

women in the age group 

of 15 to 50 years would 

be allowed to go to Pakistan 

alone with the jatha 

(group) of Sikh pilgrims 

for pilgrimage to Pakistan 

to visit holy Sikh shines in 

the neighbouring country. 

Time for Congress to bid adieu to Karnataka: Modi 


The Society has decided 

that the women, in the age 

group of 15 to 50 year age 

group, would be allowed 

only if they are accompanied 

by their family members. 

The Society has also 

decided that from now 

onwards only Keshdhari 

Sikhs (chaste Sikhs) will 

be allowed to go with the 

pilgrims’ jatha to Pakistan. 

The clean shaven persons 

and youths will also not be 

allowed to go alone with 

the jatha. They also must 

be accompanied by their 

family members if they 

want to go to Pakistan, the 

Society has decided. 

Harpal Singh Bullar, 

president of Bhai Mardana 

Yadgaar Society, while 

speaking to News 18 TV 

Bangarapet : After having lost the assembly 

elections in Maharashtra, Goa, Assam 

and Himachal Pradesh among other 

states, it was time for the Congress to bid 

adieu to Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra 

Modi said here on Wednesday. 

"It is now time for the Congress Party to 

depart Karnataka. Wherever in the country 

there has been an election opportunity, the 

party has (lost)" the Prime Minister said addressing 

a rally here. 

"What will happen in Karnataka on May 

15," he asked referring to the day on which 

the votes cast will be counted. 

Taking a dig at Congress President Rahul 

Gandhi's statement on becoming the Prime 

Minister in 2019, Modi said: "He came like 

channel said that the decisions 

have been taken in 

view of the two incidents 

of Kiran Bala and Amarjit 

Singh. 

Notably, one Kiran 

Bala, who was among the 

Sikh pilgrims to Pakistan 

last month, had gone missing 

and then resurfaced after 

converting to Islam and 

after marrying a Pakistani 

those bullies, barging his way ahead when 

there are others who have many years of experience." 

"How can someone just declare himself as 

the Prime Minister? This is simply nothing 

but arrogance," he said. 

national. This matter was 

widely reported by the media 

of both the countries 

and a majority of people 

had criticised Kiran Bala 

for mis-using her visa to 

Pakistan for her amorous 

escapade. 

Hoshiarpur woman Kiran 

Bala who too had gone 

to Pakistan married a man 

in Lahore and refused to 

Newly-married woman gets 

husband killed for Facebook friend 


Vijayawada: In a 

shocking incident, a newlymarried 

woman in Andhra 

Pradesh's Vizianagaram 

district got her husband 

killed for her lover, police 

said on Tuesday. 

Yamaka Sankar Rao, 

who married his maternal 

cousin Saraswathi just 10 

days ago, was murdered on 

Monday. Within 24 hours, 

police cracked the case with 

the arrest of Saraswathi, 

who plotted the murder 

to live with a man she befriended 

on Facebook. The 

man has also been arrested. 

The incident took place 

near Totapalli village. 

The police investigation 

revealed that Saraswathi 

was not happy with the 

marriage as she had an affair 

with Siva, with whom 

she came in contact through 

Facebook last year while 

pursuing a graduation degree 

in Visakhapatnam. 

She stayed in contact 

with him even after the 

marriage and together 

they planned to eliminate 

Rao, an engineer employed 

at a company in the same 

district. According to Vizianagaram 

District Superintendent 

of Police P. Pala 

Raju, when the couple was 

returning home after shopping 

on Monday night, 

Swaraswathi asked her 

husband to stop the bike to 

come to India. The Sikh 

delegation came back with 

two members less — one 

was Kiran bala and the 

other Amarjit Singh. 

Similarly, a 25-yearold 

youth Amarjit Singh 

had initially gone missing 

and later traced. Amarjit 

Singh had gone to meet his 

friend without caring to 

informing the delegation 

with which he had gone to 

Pakistan as part of the pilgrimage. 

Amarjit was later 

traced to Shekhupura in 

Pakistan. It has now come 

to light that he slipped out 

without telling anyone 

that he was going to meet 

his friend. He even misled 

his friend whom he wanted 

to meet. But when his 

Pakistani friend came to 

Modi also said that the six Cs of the Congress 

-- "culture, communalism, casteism, 

crime, corruption, and contractualism" -- has 

"ruined" every state that they have been in 

power. 

"When (former Prime Minister) Manmohan 

Singh had his government in the Centre, 

the remote control was at the 10, Janpath (official 

residence of former Congress President 

Sonia Gandhi)," he said. 

Under his rule, Modi said, it is the people 

of the country who hold the remote control. 

The Prime Minister said he would continue 

to follow the orders of the "high command" 

-- the countrymen, the citizens. 

"Whenever Congress gets a chance to 

form its government anywhere, only corruption 

grows. Under the Bharatiya Janata 

Party, only good things get a chance." 

attend nature's call. 

As she went behind the 

bushes, three men came in 

an autorickshaw and attacked 

him with an iron 

rod, resulting in his death. 

Saraswathi, after breaking 

her bangles and hiding 

her jewellery in undergarments, 

raised an alarm that 

unidentified men killed her 

husband and escaped with 

the valuables. 

The police initially registered 

a case of murder for 

gain. However, during investigations 

they grew suspicious 

with the woman's 

contradictory statements 

and began questioning her. 

She later confessed to having 

hatched the conspiracy 

with Siva. 

Siva took the help of two 

friends to execute the plot. 

He was in touch with Saraswathi 

over phone as she 

kept him informed about 

their location and movement 

through the day. 

At two places, the assailants 

failed to execute their 

plan but when the couple 

reached an isolated place 

and the woman asked her 

husband to stop the bike, 

they murdered him. Police 

were on the lookout of two 

accomplices 

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know through TV reports 

that a man who was part 

of the Sikh delegation was 

missing, he immediately 

informed the authorities 

that Amarjit was staying 

with him. 

Amarjit is a resident 

of a village Nirajanpura, 

Verka in outer Amritsar. 

He had gone with the Sikh 

Jatha and was part of the 

1794 member Sikh delegation 

which visited Pakistan 

on the occasion of Baisakhi. 

When the delegation 

returned, Amarjit wasn’t 

part of the delegation. 

Later, Kiran Bala was 

granted six months visa 

to live in Pakistan. More 

importantly, Kiran Bala is 

a mother of three children 

back home in Garhshankar, 

Hoshiarpur. 

Lalu gets parole, to 

attend son's marriage 

Ranchi: Jailed RJD chief Lalu 

Prasad on Wednesday secured 

five days parole to attend his elder 

son's marriage in Patna on 

May 12. 

The parole was granted following 

consultations between 

the jail administration and the 

Home Department. Lalu Prasad 

had sought five days parole to attend 

Tej Pratap's wedding. 

The former Bihar Chief Minister 

is being treated at the Rajendra 

Institute of Medical Sciences 

(RIMS) here after he was 

brought here from the AIIMS in 

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Kejriwal's nephew arrested in 

PWD fake bills scam case 


New Delhi: Delhi Chief 

Minister Arvind Kejriwal's 

nephew was arrested on 

Thursday by the Anti-Corruption 

Bureau (ACB) in a 

graft case involving submitting 

of fake bills to claim 

money for PWD construction 

work. 

Vinay Bansal, the son of 

Kejriwal's late brother-inlaw 

Surender Bansal, was a 

partner in a firm, which was 

involved in the scam worth 

over Rs 6 crore. 

"We have arrested Vinay 

Bansal from his residence in 

Pitampura after he failed to 

give satisfactory replies to 

our queries about the firm, 

Mahadeo Impacts," Special 

Commissioner of Police Arvind 

Deep told IANS. 

The firm showed purchase 

of raw materials for 

the construction of a Public 

Works Department drain. 

"The ACB had registered 

an FIR on May 8, 2017. 

We received a complaint 

that Surender Bansal got a 

tender below 46 per cent on 

behalf of a company, Renu 

Construction on the estimated 

cost of Rs 4.9 lakhs," 

Deep, who heads the ACB, 

said. 

"The complaint also 

mentioned that the quality 

of products was not up to 

the mark. During the probe, 

it was found that iron and 

cement were bought from 

Mahadeo Impacts which 

was later found to be nonexistent." 

Earlier in May 2017, 

Aam Aadmi Party rebel 

leader Kapil Mishra had 

raised the issue following a 

whistleblower's revelations. 

Surender Bansal, who 

ran a company that worked 

with the PWD for many 

years, died the same day 

Mishra raised the issue and 

filed the complaint. 

Narrow escape for 

Navjot Singh Sidhu 

in stray bull attack 

Amritsar: It was narrow escape for Punjab Local 

Bodies, Tourism and Cultural Affairs Minister, Navjot 

Singh Sidhu here today when a stray bull attacked 

group of people standing with him. 

According to an eyewitness, Sidhu along with district 

officials visited the Durgiana Temple to inspect the 

ongoing beautification project. Incident occurred when 

Sidhu came out from the Tempe, wearing foot wears 

and was busy with media persons in casual talk, all 

of sudden a stray bull arrived, hit the people standing 

with Sidhu who had narrow escape as his alert body 

guards took him to a side and Sidhu escaped unhurt. 

Indians' abduction: 

Government in touch 

with Afghan authorities 


New Delhi: The government is in touch with the Afghan 

authorities following the abduction of seven Indians 

in Afghanistan on May 6, a senior official said on 

Thursday. 

"At this stage I can share with you that we are in 

touch with the Afghan authorities in this matter," External 

Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said 

in response to queries at a media briefing here. 

Kumar said External Affairs Minister Sushma 

Swaraj as well as National Security Advisor Ajit Doval 

had telephonic conversations with their counterparts in 

Afghanistan. 

"We have requested all possible assistance from 

them," he said, adding that this being a sensitive matter, 

he would not like to share anything more at this time. 

The six Indians, along with an Afghan, all employees 

of Indian company KEC, were abducted on May 6 

from Bagh-e-Shamal village in Afghanistan's Baghlan 

province. According to local officials, the incident occurred 

while the employees were travelling to the area 

where the company has a contract for an electricity substation. 

DJ kills Sikh youth over 

music in Delhi bar 

New Delhi: A youth who went to party with friends at 

a night club here was killed and his female friend injured 

by a Disc Jockey after a quarrel over playing of songs, 

police said on Monday. 

The incident occurred around midnight when Vijaydeep 

was celebrating with nine friends at the 'Raftar' 

Bar in Punjabi Bagh in west Delhi. 

"While dancing, Vijaydeep asked the DJ, Deepak, to 

play a song he liked. Deepak refused and Vijaydeep got 

into a scuffle with him," Deputy Commissioner of Police 

Vijay Kumar said. 

During the fight, Deepak's laptop fell down. In a fit of 

rage, the DJ killed Vijaydeep and also smashed a beer 

bottle on his girl friend's head when she came to his rescue. 

She was admitted to a hospital. 

A resident of Tilak Nagar, the deceased and his 

friends were partying at the third floor of the bar. The 

DJ was playing on the fourth floor. Deepak was arrested 

from Sant Nagar in Burari, the officer added. 

Shahkot bypoll: Punjab denies phonetapping, 

urges EC to transfer SHO 

Chandigarh: Denying accusations 

of unauthorised tapping of 

phones ahead of bypoll in Shahkot 

assembly constituency, the Punjab 

government on Tuesday urged the 

Election Commission (EC) to transfer 

a police officer who had booked 

the Congress candidate on illegal 

mining charge. 

The Congress government of 

Chief Minister Amarinder Singh 

urged the EC to transfer Mehatpur 

SHO (Station House Officer) Parminder 

Pal Singh Bajwa "in the interest 

of free and fair bypoll" on May 

28. 

Accusing Bajwa of "indulging 

in partisanship and exercising political 

bias" in his conduct, a government 

spokesperson urged the EC to 

investigate reports on the SHO's alleged 

threats to media persons who 

exposed his stay in a five-star hotel 

in Jalandhar just before the case 

against Hardev Singh Laddi and others 

was registered. 

Bajwa last week registered a case 

of illegal mining against Congress 

candidate Laddi and others, within 

hours of announcement of his name 

as the ruling party candidate. 

The spokesperson alleged a "major 

political conspiracy against the 

Congress government ahead of the 

by-election". 

The spokesperson said the developments 

in the constituency had "exposed 

a nexus between the SHO and 

certain Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) 

and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) politicians". 

Both opposition parties had accused 

the state government of tapping 

phones illegally. 

"The SHO had himself been 

heard bragging to his colleagues 

in the police station and to friends 

about his conversations with AAP 

leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira and 

SAD leader Daljit Singh Cheema," 

the spokesperson said, adding that 

all allegations of phone tapping were 

totally false and baseless. 

"The government had never indulged 

in any such illegal acts involving 

violation of the privacy and 

human rights of individuals, nor will 

it do so under any circumstances. 

The opposition had simply picked up 

a part of the Chief Minister's statement 

to divert attention from the 

operative part of his remarks, which 

had exposed the blatant nexus of 

the SHO with senior Akali and AAP 

leadership," he added. 

The spokesperson claimed that 

the SHO's role in the matter was 

questionable from the very outset, 

considering the undue haste with 

which he filed the FIR, instead of 

initiating an inquiry as directed by 

the EC. 

Polling for the Shahkot seat will 

be held on May 28. The seat fell vacant 

following the death of Shiromani 

Akali Dal legislator Ajit Singh 

Kohar in February. 

India, Ethiopia review bilateral ties 


New Delhi: Reflecting 

New Delhi's increasing engagements 

with Africa, India 

and Ethiopia on Wednesday 

reviewed bilateral ties during 

the second Joint Commission 

Meeting headed by 

External Affairs Minister Sushma 

Swaraj and her Ethiopian 

counterpart Workneh 

Gebeyehu here. 

"The discussions focused 

on building closer cooperation 

in areas of defence cooperation, 

lines of credit, human 

resource development, 

capacity building, trade 

and investment, cultural 

exchanges and enhancing 

people to people contact," the 

External Affairs Ministry 

said in a statement. 

"India reiterated its 

commitments towards development 

partnership with 

Ethiopia. "The two sides also 

exchanged views on issues of 

mutual interest at regional 

and multilateral levels including 

cooperation at the 

United Nations and other 

international organisations," 

it said. 

India-Ethiopia bilateral 

trade in 2016 stood at $1.37 billion, 

of which India's exports 

to Ethiopia were $1.30 billion 

and imports were $68.4 million, 

according to figures provided 

by the External Affairs 

Ministry. 

An MoU between the 

Foreign Service Institute of 

India and the Foreign Service 

Training Institute of 

Ethiopia was signed between 

the two countries after the 

conclusion of the meeting. 

Indian companies are 

among the top three foreign 

investors in Ethiopia. 

There are over 540 Indian 

companies in Ethiopia with 

licensed investment of over 

$4 billion of which about $2 

billion is estimated to be on 

the ground, according to figures 

provided by the External 

Affairs Ministry.

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Akshay, Tiger will help 

spreading awareness on 

thalassemia: Jackie 

Bollywood celebs wish Sonam, 

Anand 'happily ever after' 


New Delhi : Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff has appealed 

to the government to take active steps in prevention of thalassemia. 

He said he, along with son Tiger and superstar Akshay 

Kumar, will do their bit to spread awareness. 

Jackie, the brand ambassador of Thalassemics India, visited 

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here on the 25th World Thalassemia 

Day on Tuesday. He met some patients and interacted 

with doctors. 

He said in a statement: "This subject is very close to my 

heart as my younger daughter Krishna was prevented from 

being thalassemic due to awareness and tests. I appeal to the 

government to reduce the charges of medicines and take active 

steps towards prevention of this disease as it is a preventable 

disease. 

"From my side, I along with Tiger Shroff and Akshay Kumar 

will do the best to increase awareness. The message has 

to percolate not only in towns but to the villages also." 

Thalassemics can lead a near normal life with proper 

guidance and treatment, said D.S. Rana, Chairman (B.O.M), 

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. 

Jackie has joined the mission of Thalassemics India as he 

has a personal connect as he and his wife Ayesha first became 

aware of this delicate health condition, when they were expecting 

their daughter. 


Mumbai : From Priyanka 

Chopra, Anushka Sharma to 

veteran filmmaker Shekhar 

Kapur - a slew of celebrities 

wished a "happily ever after" 

to newly wed couple actress 

Sonam Kapoor and businessman 

Anand Ahuja. 

A mehendi function on 

Sunday kicked off the wedding 

revelry, followed by a 

grand sangeet celebration 

on Monday, and a Anand 

Karaj wedding ceremony on 

Tuesday afternoon. 

Their reception was attended 

by several celebrities 

like Salman Khan, Amitabh 

Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai 

Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, 

Ranveer Singh, Shah Rukh 

Khan and many others. 

Here's what the celebrities 

tweeted: 

Priyanka Chopra: Congratulations 

Sonam Kapoor 

and Anand Ahuja on your 

big day! I am so bummed I 

could not be there for the 

elegance that was your wedding. 

I wish you the happiest 

life always! Much love. 

Shah Rukh Khan: I kind 

of know, how it feels when a 

piece of your heart gets married. 

Danced and celebrated 

love for daughters with my 

inspiration Anil Kapoor. 

Anushka Sharma: Happiness, 

love and a life time 

of joy to you both Sonam 

Kapoor and Anand Ahuja 

amd Welcome to the club! It 

is such a beautiful journey 

of life, love and growth. 

Shekhar Kapur: So terrific 

and heart warming to 

see whole film community 

gathering together to bless 

the wedding of one of their 

own. Speaks so highly of 

Anil Kapoor's incredible 

goodwill in the Industry, 

and how much everyone 

loves Sonam. All my love 

and happiness to both of 

you. 

Madhuri Dixit: Bright 

lights and big city. On our 

way to Sonam's wedding 

reception. Congrats to the 

amazing bride and groom 

and to a lifetime of happiness 

together. 

Riteish Deshmukh: Congratulations 

to the newly 

weds Sonam and Anand - 

An absolute fairy tale wedding. 

You guys looked gorgeous. 

Wishing you all the 

happiness and love in the 

world. 

Genelia Deshmukh: 

Congratulations Sonam and 

Anand on your wedding... 

You guys looked lovely, radiant 

and so good together 

and marriage is only going 

to make it better. Warmest 

Regards. 

Pulkit Samrat: Congratulations 

to the lovely couple 

Anand ans Sonam! Wish 

you guys a life full of fairy 

tale adventures! Big hug 

guys and big congratulations 

to the happiest father 

Anil Kapoor sir. 

Ryan Reynolds, 'fan' Ranveer 

bond over Hindi cuss words 


Los Angeles: Popular 

Hollywood actor Ryan 

Reynolds bonded with Bollywood 

star Ranveer Singh 

over a discussion about 

Hindi cuss words. Reynolds 

quipped it would be an 

"international incident" if 

he tried to curse in Hindi. 

His comment came in 

response to a statement by 

Ranveer, who will lend his 

voice to the Hindi version 

of Reynolds' Hollywood 

film "Deadpool 2". 

Ranveer on Monday 

had tweeted that he never 

realised how fulfilling and 

rewarding foul Hindi language 

can be. 

He tagged Reynolds on 

this comment. 

"Astonishing how effectively 

I've managed to 

out-crass my Canadian 

counterpart Ryan Reynolds. 

Never realised how 

fulfilling and rewarding 

foul Hindi language can 

be! 'Deadpool 2'," Ranveer 

wrote. Reynolds, who is 

popular for his witty tweets 

and replies on social media, 

replied: "Well if I tried to 

curse in Hindi, pretty sure 

there would be an international 

incident." 

Ranveer then told 

Reynolds he has been a fan 

of his work. "I'm a fan since 

'Two Guys A Girl And A 

Pizza Place' You've always 

inspired me. I even tried being 

Van Wilder for a phase 

in College Indiana University, 

but I was definitely a 

Taj (played by Kal Penn)," 

Ranveer wrote. 

"Deadpool" tells the 

story of an adult superhero 

with a twisted sense of 

humour. Based on Marvel 

Comics' most unconventional 

anti-hero, it is the 

original story of a former 

Special Forces operative 

who turns into a mercenary. 

"Deadpool 2", brought 

to India by Fox Star India, 

will open on May 18. 

The Hindi trailer, released 

on Monday, is also 

A-rated like its English 

counterpart as the studio 

wanted to stick to the tone 

of the film which has Reynolds 

mouthing cuss-words.

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Clarke 'surprised' by Kohli's decison to skip Afghan Test 


Kolkata : Australia's 

World Cup winning captain 

Michael Clarke said 

on Wednesday he is "surprised" 

by Virat Kohli's 

decision to skip India's 

one-off Test against Afghanistan 

next month in 

order to play for English 

county side Surrey and 

prepare better for India's 

long tour of England. 

"Look I am really surprised. 

I don't know that's 

Virat's choice but I am really 

surprised. I think a 

Test match is a Test match. 

I don't care who you are 

playing against, it needs to 

be number one priority," 

Clarke said in an interactive 

session at the Indian 

Chamber of Commerce 

& Young Leaders Forum 

(YLF). 

"I still feel Virat can get 

what he wants in terms of 

coming and playing some 

games for Surrey and then 

I would like to see him fly 

back and play the Test 

match," he added. 

"I think there is a bit 

of a gap in the schedule 

which will allow him to do 

that. I think there are some 

one-dayers which he would 

be missing for Surrey. 

"In my whole career I 

prioritised my country. I 

gave up every other opportunity 

to play for whatever 

franchise or other teams. 

To represent your country 

is the most special thing in 

the world. Whatever team 

you play against, I think 

that should be the No.1 priority," 

added the 37-year 

old who led Australia to its 

2015 World Cup triumph. 

Earlier this month, 

Virat had officially inked 

a deal with Surrey and 

the decision was backed 

by Committee of Administrators 

(CoA) chief Vinod 

Rai. 

India will take on England 

in five Tests later this 

year and the right-hander 

has a poor record in England. 

During the 2014 tour, 

he managed just 134 runs 

from five Tests at an woeful 

average of 13.40 without 

crossing the 50-mark even 

once in the series. 

Hailing Virat's decision 

to play county cricket, 

Clarke said it only shows 

the 29-year old's passion 

to win and sends across a 

clear message to one and 

all that India will leave no 

stones unturned in trying 

to win in England. 

"Virat is showing how 

much he cares about India 

becoming the best team 

in the world. The fact that 

he is going and playing 

county cricket is setting a 

clear message to his teammates, 

to England and everyone 

around the world 

that he wants India to have 

a successful tour of the UK 

and wants to lead from the 

front," he said. 

"It will be fantastic 

preparation for him and 

also shows his determination. 

It shows not only how 

hungry he is to perform individually 

but how much 

he wants India to have success," 

he added. 

Clarke also backed the 

India skipper despite his 

team Royal Challengers 

Bangalore (RCB) faring 

poorly in the ongoing Indian 

Premier League (IPL), 

stating the right-hander 

has been in great form. 

"He is batting beautifully, 

RCB is losing but he 

is I think No.5 in the highest 

run-getters list in the 

IPL." 

The RCB skipper is 

fifth in the leading scorers' 

list with 396 runs from 10 

games at 49.50. 

Asked about India's 

chances in the World Cup 

next year, Clarke rated India 

as one of the favourites 

saying the one-day side is 

a superb mix of youth and 

experience. 

"India will go into the 

World Cup as one of the favourites. 

The experience of 

the players will play a part. 

They have some wonderful 

spinners. India have a very 

strong ODI team. They 

have so many match-winners. 

In 2015, we won the 

World Cup because we had 

match winners," he said. 

"I don't think the team 

is missing anything. They 

have got it right there. I 

think it's about preparation 

and form and playing 

your best cricket at the 

right time. 

"You have got the experience. 

I feel MS Dhoni 

has to be part of that World 

Cup squad. It's a good mixture 

of youth and experience," 

he added. 

Clarke also pointed out 

that the IPL has so many 

Indian captains and that is 

a huge advantage. 

"What it means is when 

India select their 11 players 

or 15 players for the squad, 

you are assured some of 

those players will use their 

leadership experience 

into the Indian setup and 

that's what you want," the 

former Kangaroo skipper 

pointed out. 

PSG win 4th straight French Cup 

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Saint-Denis: Paris 

Saint-Germain hoisted the 

French Cup for a fourth 

consecutive year after a 2-0 

victory over third-division 

side Les Herbiers. 

Based in a town with 

a population of roughly 

16,000 -- one-fifth the number 

of seats at the packed 

Stade de France -- Les Herbiers 

impressed PSG fans 

and even opposing coach 

Unai Emery with their 

spirited performance in the 

David-vs-Goliath tie here 

on Tuesday, reports Efe 

news agency. 

PSG dominated the 

play, but Les Herbiers left 

the pitch with their heads 

held high after conceding 

only two goals -- one off a 

penalty -- to France's best 

club. 

Even without the injured 

Neymar, who was 

watching from the stands, 

a PSG led on the attack by 

Edinson Cavani, Angel Di 

Maria and Kylian Mbappe 

had the potential to inflict a 

rout on Les Herbiers. 

In fact, the underdogs 

could have found themselves 

trailing 3-0 by the 

20th minute but for the 

wood-work around their 

net, which thwarted 

Giovani Lo Celso on two occasions 

and Mbappe once. 

The inevitable goal 

came in the 26th minute 

on a well-placed shot by Lo 

Celso from outside the box. 

Mbappe thought he 

had doubled the lead with 

a strike in the 50th minute 

only for the goal to be allowed 

after the Video Assistant 

Referee spotted a handball 

by PSG's Marquinhos. 

Cavani squandered 

a pair of chances before 

drawing a penalty and 

converting from the spot 

to make it 2-0 in the 74th 

minute. 

Tuesday's triumph 

made PSG Brazilian defender 

Dani Alves the mostdecorated 

footballer in history, 

with 38 trophies for 

club and country. 

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