Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM)- an umbrella body of farmers has announced it is beginning a 75-hour sit-in in Lakhimpur Kheri from Thursday to press for their pending demands. SKM is an umbrella group comprising around 40 farm organisations, primarily demanding the proper implementation of minimum support price (MSP) for crops. Earlier on July 31, farmers in Punjab had blocked the railway track at Vallah in Amritsar, Bathinda and protested at Shambhu toll plaza in Ambala, Panchkula's Barwala and Kaithal's Cheeka against the Union government for not fulfilling their demands. On December 14, the S

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is meeting the U.N. chief and Turkey's leader in Lviv near Ukraine's border with Poland. Thursday's talks will focus on the recent deal to resume Ukraine's grain exports, the volatile situation at a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant and efforts to help end the war. Turkey and the United Nations helped broker an agreement last month clearing the way for Ukraine to export 22 million tons of grain stuck in its ports since Moscow invaded Feb. 24. The U.N. chief will focus on containing the volatile situation at a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant, wh

Calgary police say they are trying to find a woman who's believed to be involved in the hate-motivated harassment of two teenagers on a bus. Police say that two 13-year-old girls were travelling around 8:30 p.m. last Thursday to a community in southwest Calgary from the Somerset-Bridlewood light-rail transit station. They say the girls were approached by an unknown woman who was speaking aggressively and yelling racial slurs at them. Const. Matt Messenger says harassment won't be tolerated in the city. He says it was completely unprovoked and left the two teenagers scared and upset. Messenger

On August 16, 2022, a police officer with Surrey Police Service (SPS) was arrested by the Surrey RCMP and subsequently released on conditions, pending further investigation. SPS has chosen to release this information now in the interest of transparency. The SPS officer is facing a charge for an alleged Breach of Trust, however the charge has not yet been approved by BC Prosecution Service (BCPS). SPS has notified the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner about the incident. The officer was hired by SPS in May 2022, with just over one year of previous policing experience. On August 17t

A child is unhurt after what police in Abbotsford, B.C., describe as a possible attempted abduction. A statement from Const. Jody Thomas says an unknown man tried to pull the youngster from a ground floor bedroom window of a home on Abbotsford's east side. It happened just before 9 p.m. Monday. The child managed to break free and the man could not be found when police arrived. The statement says the preliminary details are being released as a precaution and this case is a reminder that windows and doors should always be locked. Detectives are checking surveillance cameras in the neighbourhood

More than 35,000 cases of monkeypox have now been reported from 92 countries and territories, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. Speaking at the media briefing on monkeypox, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that almost 7,500 cases were reported last week, which is a 20 per cent increase over the previous week. "More than 35,000 cases of #monkeypox have now been reported to WHO, from 92 countries and territories, with 12 deaths. Almost 7,500 cases were reported last week, a 20 per cent increase over the previous week, which was also 20 per cent more than

One person has died in an early morning crash on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Calgary. Emergency crews responded to the crash about 20 kilometres west of the city around 7 a-m. Mounties say one person who was riding a motorcycle has died. It was not immediately clear if other vehicles were involved, but traffic heading west was down to a single lane this morning. One westbound lane of the highway was closed to traffic following the crash but reopened at around 9:30 a.m.

A supplementary chargesheet was filed by the Enforcement Directorate in the Rs 200 crore extortion case against conman Sukesh Chandrashekar in a Delhi Court on Wednesday. The chargesheet is mentioning the name of Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez as an accused. The chargesheet has been filed before Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh on Wednesday. Jacqueline Fernandez is named as an accused in the chargesheet first time in the case. Jacqueline Fernandez has been summoned by ED several times in the matter for the purpose of investigation. ED's earlier chargesheet did not mention her nam

Gurdeep Singh Randhawa has been elected as the first representative of the Indian community in Germany on Wednesday. Randhawa is the first Indian representative of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) Thuringia. CDU is Germany's strongest political party, currently headed by Friedrich Merz, and has been in power for most of the period since the end of World War II. Randhawa's task is to make the concerns of Indian community heard and at the same time encourage them to become politically active. The 62-year-old entrepreneur is a member representative of the local CDU association in