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IndiaMay 28, 2024

Big relief to Dera Sirsa chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, Dera manager Ranjit Singh acquitted in murder case

The Punjab-Haryana High Court has acquitted 5 people including Dera Sirsa Chief Ram Rahim in the case of Dera Manager Ranjit Singh's murder. The CBI court had sentenced him to life imprisonment in this case. Despite being acquitted in this case, Ram Rahim will have to remain in jail because apart from the Ranjit murder case, he is also serving the sentence for the murder of journalist Ramchandra Chhatrapati and the sexual abuse of sadhvis. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the murder of the journalist and 10 years each in two cases of sexual harassment. Currently, Ram Rahim is lodged
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WorldMay 28, 2024

Nawaz Sharif re-elected party president after six years

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been re-elected as party president after six years. Only last year he was acquitted in all corruption cases. Nawaz alleged that various forces tried to create a rift in his relationship with his brother and party supporters but Shahbaz Sharif remained loyal. It is to be noted that Shahbaz Sharif had recently resigned as the party president and said to hand over the reins to his elder brother Nawaz Sharif, who was unanimously elected as the party president on Tuesday. With their direct entry into politics, the political environment is expected
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IndiaMay 28, 2024

Smriti Irani's chopper did not land in Mansa, Parampal Kaur was furious

An election rally was held today in Mansa of Punjab in favor of BJP candidate Parampal Kaur. Union Minister Smriti Irani was supposed to participate in this rally but she could not join the rally because the administration did not give a signal to her helicopter to land. BJP candidate Parampal Kaur accused the state's Aam Aadmi Party and said that earlier they found various obstacles to prevent her from contesting the election, now to make her rally a failure, Union Minister Smriti Irani's helicopter was not allowed to land. It is to be noted that Parampal Kaur is the daughter-in-law of Shiro
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IndiaMay 28, 2024

Shock to Kejriwal, Supreme Court's refusal to extend the interim bail for another 7 days

In the Delhi liquor scam case, the Supreme Court has refused to hold an immediate hearing to extend the bail of Arvind Kejriwal. The Chief Minister of Delhi had demanded to extend the bail for another 7 days on medical grounds. His current bail expires on June 1. A bench of Supreme Court judges said that the decision to extend the interim bail will be taken by the Chief Justice. At the same time, Delhi's Tis Hazari Court has rejected the bail plea of ​​Arvind Kejriwal's PA Vibhav Kumar in the case of beating up his own Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal. Swati Maliwal had threatened the fa
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BCMay 28, 2024

Nature Conservancy of Canada buys B.C. grasslands for new conservation area

The Nature Conservancy of Canada says a new conservation area north of Cranbrook, B.C., will protect important bird habitat and preserve grasslands in the province's southeast. The conservancy says money from the federal government and private donors went to buying up 271 hectares of land in the Skookumchuk Prairie in the province's southeast corner. Richard Klafki, a B.C. program director with the Nature Conservancy, says the land which also includes wetlands and forests is a "key biodiversity area," and came up for sale when the former owner, a local rancher, decided to downsize. Klafki says
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IndiaMay 28, 2024

Bhai Amritpal Singh and Sarabjit Singh stand in favor of Khalsa Daduwal, appeal to defeat Harsimrat Badal

Political rallies are going on in Punjab in view of the Lok Sabha elections on June 1, in the meantime, Panthak leader Baljit Singh Daduwal has invited Shiromani Akali Dal's candidate from Bathinda to defeat Harsimrat Kaur Badal. Daduwal, who reached Bathinda, invited the voters to vote for any candidate who can defeat Harsimrat, but the Badal family must be disciplined in this election because they have earned a heresy with Punjab and Panth. He alleged that the Akalis' role in the desecration and Behbal shooting incident in Punjab was anti-Sikh and the closeness of the Badal family with the
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IndiaMay 27, 2024

Arvind Kejriwal reached the Supreme Court, demanded to extend the bail by 7 days

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, who is campaigning for elections in Punjab, has requested the Supreme Court to extend the current bail by another 7 days citing health issues. His bail is ending on June 1 in the Delhi liquor scam case. The Supreme Court granted him 21 days bail on May 10 for the election campaign and on June 2 asked him to return to jail anyway. In the latest petition, Kejriwal has said that his weight has decreased by seven kg, some medical tests need to be done and therefore the period of interim bail which expires on June 1 should be extended.
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CanadaMay 27, 2024

Miller increases cap on applications for Palestinians to join relatives in Canada

Immigration Minister Marc Miller is increasing the number of applications that will be processed under a much-criticized program to reunite Palestinians with Canadian relatives. The move comes as he testifies about measures introduced months ago that were meant to bring relatives of Canadians from conflict zones in the Gaza Strip and Sudan to safety. The Gaza program initially had a cap of 1,000 applications that could be "accepted into processing," but Miller is now increasing that number to 5,000, each of which can include multiple family members. Palestinian Canadians have complained about
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IndiaMay 27, 2024

Another rally will be held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi a day before the Lok Sabha elections

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold another rally a day before the Lok Sabha elections in Punjab. He will address the rally in Hoshiarpur on May 30. On the same day, election campaigning will end at 5 pm and voting will be held for 13 Lok Sabha seats of Punjab on June 1. PM Narendra Modi will campaign for BJP candidate Anita Som Prakash in Hoshiarpur. Earlier last week, he addressed election rallies in Patiala, Gurdaspur and Jalandhar.

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AlbertaSep 12, 2025

Boy, 14, charged after report of student with gun at Alberta high school

A 14-year-old boy is facing weapons charges after police were called to a high school near Edmonton for a report of a student with a gun. RCMP say a teacher called 911 on Thursday afternoon, after a student was seen with a gun in a classroom at a high school in Sherwood Park, a suburb community east of Edmonton. They say a suspect was taken into custody and Mounties recovered what they think is an imitation gun. No injuries were reported. Police say the boy, who can't be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, has been charged with assault with a weapon, possession of a
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CanadaSep 12, 2025

High-speed rail construction could begin in four years, LeBlanc says

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc says the government's new major projects office will work to get construction underway on the Alto high-speed rail line within four years. He says the work would determine the final route for the planned high-speed rail project between Toronto and Quebec City. Former prime minister Justin Trudeau announced in February that the government had awarded a $3.9-billion, six-year contract to a consortium to design the project. The 1,000-kilometre high-speed rail network would take passengers from Montreal to Toronto in just three hours on trains travelling
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CanadaSep 12, 2025

G7 finance ministers meet to discuss increasing pressure on Russia

Canada hosted a virtual meeting of G7 finance ministers today to discuss further measures to increase the pressure on Russia. John Fragos, press secretary for the minister of finance and national revenue, says the group also talked about ways to limit Russia's "war machinery." Fragos says the G7 is united in its opposition to Russia’s "illegal and unjustified" war on Ukraine. He also says Canada is deeply concerned by Russia’s escalation of the conflict in the wake of Wednesday's Russian drone incursion into Polish airspace. The G7 group is made up of Canada, the United States, France, Ger
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AlbertaSep 12, 2025

Mounties recover bodies of two missing boaters from lake in Rocky Mountains

Alberta RCMP have recovered the bodies of two boaters who disappeared last month after a canoe capsized on a lake in the Rocky Mountains. Mounties have identified them as a 33-year-old woman from Banff, Alta., and a 34-year-old man from Canmore, Alta. Four people were in the canoe when it overturned on Upper Kananaskis Lake, an area tucked behind several mountain tops near the Alberta-B.C. boundary. RCMP have said bystanders in boats and on paddleboards pulled a 30-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman from the water but the two others were unaccounted for. It was the second ti
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BCSep 12, 2025

400 new affordable homes coming to Metro Vancouver

People living in Metro Vancouver will soon have access to more affordable housing with 400 new rental homes opening and breaking ground in Coquitlam, North Vancouver and Vancouver. “We’re taking meaningful action to deliver homes for people throughout Metro Vancouver that give people a place to build their futures,” said Christine Boyle, Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs. “These latest 400 affordable homes will bring added stability and opportunity, helping even more people find a place to call home in the communities they love." The Province, through BC Housing, provided nearl