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Canadian honour for M.S. Swaminathan
Vancouver, Sep 3 - M.S. Swaminathan, one of the pioneers of the Green Revolution in India, will receive an honorary doctorate from Canada's University of Alberta for his contribution to food security in the world.The Edmonton-based university, which has forged strong relationship with India thanks to its Sri Lankan-born president Indira Samarasekera, said the world-renowned Indian agriculture scie ...
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Economic recovery in N.America slipping: Bank
Toronto, Sep 3 - Despite reports from the US Thursday that initial jobless claims fell to 472,000 last week and pending home resales were up 5.2 per cent in July, Canada's top Toronto Dominion - Bank said the economic recovery in North America is slipping after positive hints four months ago.'Does the world look as good as it did four months ago? No, it doesn't really,'' TD Bank CEO Ed Clark told ...
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Canadian woman judge in inter-racial porn scandal
Toronto, Sep 2 - In a shocking sex scandal that has hit the Canadian judiciary, a black man is suing a white lawyer for harassing him to have sex with the lawyer's wife who herself is now a senior judge.In his $67-million lawsuit Wednesday, Alexander Chapman, a 44-year-old black man who is a computer specialist by profession, says lawyer Jack King, 64, repeatedly harassed him in 2003 to have sex w ...
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Air India bomber faces fresh trial next week
Vancouver, Sep 1 - Air India Kanishka bombing convict Inderjit Singh Reyat, who was released last year after spending 15 years in jail, faces a fresh perjury trial from Sep 9. If convicted, he faces another 14 years in jail.Reyat was the only person jailed in the 1985 Air India bombing by Khalistani extremists to avenge the Indian Army operation at the Golden Temple against Sikh militants in 1984. ...
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Microsoft takes Word patent battle to US apex court
Toronto, Aug 31 - Microsoft, which lost its patent battle over Word processing software to a tiny Toronto firm i4i Inc. and was ordered to pay $290 million in damages last year, has taken the matter to the US Supreme Court.The Canadian company had taken the software giant to court in 2007 over violations of its patent in Word applications and won the case and got $290 million in damages last Decem ...
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Canada `pleased' with reprieve for BlackBerry
Toronto, Aug 31 - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion - Monday refused to comment on concessions it has granted India in getting a 60-day reprieve for ban on its services from Aug 31. But Canadian International Trade Minister Peter Van Loan was 'pleased' with the developments between RIM and the Indian government.'We'll let you know when we have any further updates,'' RIM told IANS in its brief re ...
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Speak up against Roma expulsion by France, India told
Toronto, Aug 29 - India must speak up against France for the en masse expulsion of Indian-origin Roma people, said Ujjal Dosanjh, former Canadian health minister and top Indo-Canadian leader.The Roma people - also called gypsies - claim their roots in north India from where they were enslaved and taken away by invaders from Afghanistan and Turkey almost a millennium ago. In the 14th and 15th centu ...
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India asked to speak up against Roma expulsion by France
Toronto, Aug 29 - Ujjal Dosanjh, former Canadian health minister and top Indo-Canadian leader, has condemned France for en masse expulsion of Indian-origin Roma people and urged India to speak up against the French action.The Roma people - also called gypsies - claim their roots in north India from where they were enslaved and taken away by invaders from Afghanistan and Turkey almost a millennium ...
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Canadian parliament was target of terror plot
Toronto, Aug 28 - The Canadian parliament was reportedly on the hit-list of the Al-Qaeda-linked terror plot unearthed in the capital Ottawa Wednesday with the arrest of two suspects.Another suspect was held Thursday and one more Friday, taking the number of arrests to four. Three overseas collaborators remain at large in the plot which security agencies have traced to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran a ...
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We don't have 'master key' to access encrypted data: BlackBerry
Toronto, Aug 27 - With India's Aug 31 deadline for access to its ultra-encrypted messenger and email services approaching, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion - said it has no 'master key' or 'back door' to accommodate requests for access to encrypted data.In a bid to dispel what it called three 'misperceptions' about its smart phone, the Canadian company Thursday said that the first misperception ...
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