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Amarinder calls Punjabi Ministers in Trudeau govt ‘Khalistani sympathizers’ Canada termed on Thursday as “disappointing and them,” Singh had further claimed. Reacting to the remarks, inaccurate” the comments by Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder the Candian High Commission here said, “The comments Singh that five ministers in the Justin Trudeau government, regarding Canada’s ministers are both disappointing and inaccurate.” including Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, were “Khalistani It also asserted that Canada sympathisers”. greatly values its relationship with Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh today said he the people and the government would not meet Canadian Defence Minister Harjit of Punjab, and look forward Sajjan during the latter’s visit to India later this month. to further advancing this In an interview with a Delhi-based TV channel, he relationship. dubbed Sajjan as a “Khalistan sympathiser.”

“We regret that the Chief The CM claimed five ministers in the Trudeau Minister of Punjab is unavailable government were Khalistanis and would have truck to meet with Canada’s Minister with neither. “These Khalistani sympathisers had of Defence. The Chief Minister is Singh had on Thursday said last year prevailed upon the authorities to block my welcome to visit Canada,” the high that Sajjan, like his father is a entry into Canada. I only wanted to meet my Punjabi commission added.

“Khalistani sympathiser” and he brethren there,” he said.

Sajjan is scheduled to travel to In protest, Amarinder had written a letter to the India next week during which he would not meet him during his scheduled visit to India later this Canadian PM and later refused to meet the Canadian will hold talks with the leadership High Commissioner in India. here as well as speak on ‘conflict month.

Capt: I will not meet Sajjan

“There were, in fact, five ministers in the Justin Trudeau government who were Khalistani sympathisers and I will not have any truck with

US drops ‘mother of all bombs’ on ISIS The United States dropped a massive GBU43 bomb, the largest nonnuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday against a series of caves used

by Islamic State militants, the military said.

It was the first time the United States has used this size of bomb in a conflict. It was dropped from a MC-130 aircraft in the Achin district of Nangarhar province, close to the border with Pakistan, Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said.

Also known as the "mother of all bombs," the GBU-43 is a 21,600 pound (9,797 kg) GPS-guided munition and was first tested in March 2003, just days before the start of the Iraq war.

The security situation in Afghanistan remains precarious, with a number of militant groups trying to claim territory more than 15 years after the US invasion which toppled the Taliban government.

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prevention and peacekeeping in changing world’ on April 18 at a think-tank here.

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Liberals table bills to legalize pot, clamp down on impaired driving The Liberal government has tabled legislation to end the prohibition on pot, checking off a major promise from the 2015 campaign.

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Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, however, said he stood by his principled stand of not associating himself with any ‘Khalistani sympathiser’.

Reiterating his stand on the issue, the Chief Minister said while, as a democratic nation, India believed in the freedom of speech, which was enshrined in the Constitution, he would personally not meet any Khalistani sympathisers.

Captain Amarinder also lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Dal Khalsa for their criticism of his refusal to meet the Canadian defence minister during the latter’s expected visit to India later this month. He accused these outfits of playing into the hands of forces inimical to India.

“I’m not bothered about what Sajjan or others in the Canadian government think about my stand. I am concerned only about the detrimental impact of these Khalistani sympathisers on the country, particularly on Punjab,” said Captain Amarinder, reacting Canada’s response to his statement.

Meanwhile, SGPC has decided to honour Sajjan on his visit to the Golden Temple.

SGPC president Kirpal Singh Badungar said rise of Sajjan to the post of Defence Minister has given recognition to Sikhs in Canada.

More in Canada govt pro-Khalistan: Capt Hardening his stand against Canada’s Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan, whom he had dubbed a “Khalistani sympathiser” on Wednesday, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today said not only Sajjan but Canada’s other Sikh ministers and MPs — including Navdeep Bains, Amarjit Sohi, Sukh Dhaliwal, Darshan Kang, Raj Grewal, Harinder Malhi, Ruby Sahota and Randeep

Sarai — were known for their pro-Khalistan leanings. Canada, meanwhile, termed Capt Amarinder’s comment that five ministers in the Justin Trudeau government, including Sajjan, were Khalistani sympathisers as “disappointing and inaccurate”. Rejecting Canada’s defence, Capt Amarinder said he stood by his “principled” stand and would not meet any “Khalistani sympathiser”.

The CM seems to have politically scored over the Aam Aadmi Party, the main Opposition party, whom he had during electioneering accused of aligning with radical Sikh groups.

Reacting sharply, AAP said the CM has not only insulted Sajjan, but “Sikhs in particular, who have proved their mettle in foreign lands”.

The CM said Sajjan was welcome to attend conferences in Punjab and visit the Golden Temple but he would not play host to him as he had information that like his father Kundan Sajjan, a board member of the World Sikh Organisation, he too was sympathetic to the Khalistan cause. “The state government will provide security to the minister and ensure that he is treated as per the protocol,” Amarinder said.

He lashed out at AAP and Dal Khalsa for attacking him on the issue, accusing the two of playing into the hands of forces inimical to India. He said his sole concern was the future of Punjab that had lost 35,000 innocent lives during militancy.

The CM said he had never believed in public posturing and “from breaking away from the Congress in the wake of Operation Bluestar to resigning from the Lok Sabha over the SYL issue,” he had only upheld values to protect the interests of Punjab and its people.

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General John Nicholson, the head of US and international forces in Afghanistan, said the bomb was used against caves and bunkers housing fighters of the Islamic State in Afghanistan, also known as ISIS-K. It was not immediately clear how much damage the device did. White House spokesman Sean Spicer opened his daily news briefing speaking about the use of the bomb and said, “We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that IS fighters used to move around freely, making it easier for them to target US military advisers and Afghan forces in the area.”

Last week, a US soldier was killed in the same district as the bomb was dropped while conducting operations against Islamic State.

“The United States takes the fight against ISIS very seriously and in order to defeat the group, we must deny them operational space, which we did,” Spicer said.

He said the bomb was used at around 7 p.m. local time and described the device as “a large, powerful and accurately delivered weapon.”

The United States took “all precautions necessary to prevent civilian casualties and collateral damage,” he said.

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Consumers can grow up to four plants at home or buy from a licensed retailer. Dried and fresh pot and cannabis oil will be available first, with edible products to become available later.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has repeatedly said the goal of legalization is to restrict access of marijuana to minors and choke off profits from sales by organized crime.

Bill Blair, who Trudeau appointed as his point man on the marijuana file, said there is no plan to promote the use of pot and stressed that buying, selling or using marijuana outside the regulatory regime will remain a serious criminal offence with stiff penalties.

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BC political parties begin election race to May 9 finish British Columbia’s Liberal party began its bid for a fifth straight majority government on Tuesday as Premier Christy Clark visited the lieutenant-governor to formally dissolve the legislature.

The campaign has been underway unofficially for weeks with the Liberals, NDP and Greens releasing platform details for an election that polls suggest will be a tight battle.

Clark has tried to make NDP Leader John Horgan’s judgment an issue, accusing the New Democrats of siding with fringe advocates over the mainstream interests that drive job creation in a province that has led the country in economic growth.

Horgan has attacked Clark on social policies, arguing too many people have been left behind by a Liberal government that is out-of-touch after 16 years in power as he promotes a daycare program that would cost $10 a day and a significant increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Green Leader Andrew Weaver, the first member of his party to win a seat in a provincial legislature, is asking voters who are tired of the status quo to give his party a chance, promising a revamped economic plan that encourages growth in emerging business sectors while protecting the environment.

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Voting for the NDP or the Green party would mean higher taxes that would kill jobs, Clark said.

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Weaver campaigned Tuesday in Vancouver’s Olympic Village on his party’s housing policy that he says aims to cool the overheated real estate market by, among other things, improving the supply of homes through capital spending to build about 4,000 new units a year.

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NDP promises to introduce housing speculation tax and eliminate interest on student loans The B.C. NDP is promising to increase corporate income tax, introduce a speculation tax and eliminate interest on current and future student loans as part of its 2017 election platform.

The platform includes $717 million in new spending for the current fiscal year and projects a budget surplus of $108 million for the 2017/2018 year.

To generate new revenue, the party wants to increase corporate taxes as well as income taxes on the top 2 per cent of earners and introduce a new speculation tax.

It also plans to reallocate the $500 million in Christy Clark’s LNG prosperity fund over the next three years. Once the money from the prosperity fund is used, they say they will

have created a new transportation plan for the entire region in consultation with Metro Vancouver mayors. The NDP also says it will cut waste from the current budget and that— combined with an increase in revenue based on higher GDP growth than the Liberals are forecasting — will allow for the budget to be balanced. Anyone who owns a home in B.C. but doesn’t pay income tax in Canada will have to pay the new tax, which it estimates will raise $100 million in this fiscal year.

In an effort to appeal to younger voters, the party — if elected — promises students who are are qualified for financial assistance will receive a $1,000 grant when they graduate from a college or university in B.C. to cover part of their student loans.

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Bring basic income to BC, says politician behind Ontario pilot project A pilot project to give people struggling under the poverty line a guaranteed salary with no strings attached is currently underway in Ontario and the man behind the idea is in Vancouver today, making the case that it's time for a basic income in B.C. too.

Former Conservative Senator Hugh Segal, a strong advocate for the basic income model, penned the provincial discussion paper that prompted the pilot project in Ontario. He explained to On The Coast host Stephen Quinn why he believes spending is key to saving when it comes to poverty reduction.

"Folks who are on a low income will get sick sooner, they will go to hospital for longer periods of time, they will have less constructive educational outcomes, they will have more difficulties with the law— all of which end up costing us quite a bit of money," he said.

Instead, Segal proposes that everyone between the ages of 18 to 65 should earn a basic income that, if not reached through employment, is topped up by the provincial government. In Ontario, the basic income level for the three-year pilot project is $1,320 per month, with an additional $500 for those with a disability.

"The bottom line is, unlike welfare which discourages people from working, this would give people a base they could rely on and then they could end up working and earn more and be taxed fairly," Segal said.

B.C is the only province in Canada without a poverty reduction plan and, despite being one of the wealthiest provinces, has among the highest poverty rates in the country.

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is considered working poor — someone who is employed but still falls under the poverty line.

Poverty reduction advocates in B.C. have also called for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, establishing $10-a-day child care, reducing housing prices and investing more in current social assistance program.

But Segal is convinced that a guaranteed

income is the solution. The pilot project in Ontario will illustrate the net costs and gains, he said, and then it is up to the other provinces to make a decision about poverty reduction.

"When you go forward and test an idea, test it constructively and see what it's results are, that is the best way to build a plan that is tied to reality," Segal said.

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Metro Vancouver cities need more help from the B.C. government to deal with what the region calls an “unprecedented surge� in homelessness documented in the latest homeless count, said Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson.

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who are homeless, most with their parents in family shelters, but seven children with their parents were without shelter, the report found, Robertson, co-chair of the region’s homelessness task force, called the numbers “shocking and horrific� Tuesday at city council. “Clearly, a lot more support is required from provincial and federal governments,� he said.

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Class-action suit seeks damages for people who got sick from Robin Hood flour

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Higgerty Law say they’re seeking damages from Smucker Foods of Canada Corp. following a national recall of 10-kilogram bags of Robin Hood Original All Purpose Flour.

A statement of claim says the representative plaintiff lives in Victoria, B.C., and became so sick after eating cookie dough that her kidneys began shutting down.

Robin Hood flour recall expanded nationwide due to E. coli The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a recall in Western Canada for the flour late last month, and the Public Health Agency of Canada says an outbreak of E. coli O121 has been linked to the flour.

The health agency says there have been 26 cases of people being infected with the bacteria in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador.

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The recall applies to flour with a bestbefore date of April 17, 2018 (2018 AL 17) and the production code 6 291 548.

No one from the company could be immediately reached for comment about the lawsuit. A spokeswoman for the J.M. Smucker Co., Maribeth Burns, said last week that the recalled flour was produced at a mill in Saskatoon.

Burns said consumers should note public health warnings telling people not to taste raw dough or batter, and that eating a small amount could make people sick.

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‘Yoga’ among top 15 popular words in UK: Study ‘Yoga’ along with words like ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter’ are among the top fifteen most popular words in the British society, say scientists who found that the internet age has had a massive influence on the English language. The need to communicate with a wider-world coupled with a move away from the cosy, close-knit communities of the 90s has dramatically changed the way British people speak over the last two decades, researchers said.

The study, by Lancaster University and Cambridge University Press in the UK, looked at the most characteristic words of informal chit-chat in today’s Britain.

The internet age has had a massive influence on the words we use, researchers said.

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Secret NDP documents show sharing of British Columbians’ personal info between federal and BC NDP Newly revealed documents from senior NDP officials reveal that NDP organizers at both the central and local level actively work with their federal counterparts to access voter data, in apparent contravention of Section 36(1)(a) of the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) of British Columbia in order to try identify NDP and Green supporters from the 2015 federal election.

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In a newly revealed report from a September 12, 2015 BCNDP Provincial Council meeting, Saanich South representative Ellen Godfrey reports that Party President Craig Keating told the Council, “We have to gather data from the federal election—who are our voters?”

In a section of her report titled, “Notes from the committee reports,” Godfrey writes, “We need to coordinate getting data from the federal election bingo cards. The sheets coming back need to be collected to see where our ‘1’s’ are,” which is an apparent violation of BC’s strict privacy legislation.

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David McLauren, Ph.D. Easter is the time for holidays, festivals and a time for giving chocolate Easter eggs. But Easter means much more. On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate the resurrection of the Lord, Jesus Christ. They believe, according to Scripture, that Jesus came back to life, or was raised from the dead, three days after his death on the cross. As part of the Easter season, the death of Jesus Christ by crucifixion is commemorated on Good Friday, always the Friday just before Easter. Through his death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus paid the penalty for sin, thus purchasing for all who believe in him, eternal life in Christ Jesus.

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South Asian man won’t be tried for his wife’s death because it’s taken too long to bring the case to trial The Montreal police officer who was first on the scene in the slaying of a woman in 2012 says he’s outraged that proceedings against the woman’s husband aren’t going ahead due to the long delay in bringing the case to trial.

On Thursday, a Quebec Superior Court judge ruled that Sivaloganathan Thanabalasingam would not be tried for the death of his wife Anuja Baskaran because too much time had passed since his arrest on the allegation against him.

Thanabalasingam, now 31, was arrested in August 2012 and spent 56 months in jail without a trial, which is almost double the ceiling set out in a Supreme Court ruling referred to as the “Jordan decision.”

His is the first murder charge in Quebec to be placed under a stay of proceedings since the high court decision was delivered last summer. The ruling set a deadline of up to 30 months in superior courts and 18 months for cases at the provincial level.

“I’m outraged,” said Montreal police officer Hugues Olivier. “It doesn’t make sense.” Olivier was first to arrive on the scene where Baskaran, 21, was found in her Montreal home with her throat slit. Thanabalasingam, her husband, was arrested soon after.

In a phone interview, Olivier told The Canadian Press the police investigation had been properly done and there was “nothing

especially complex” about the case that would justify a lengthy delay.

He was asked to testify at the preliminary inquiry in 2014 and remembers it being fairly brief.

“I’ve seen some messes in my life but…if you were to ask me to testify without notes, I’d easily be able to do it,” said the 18-year veteran of the force.

He said he rarely comments publicly on cases but is making an exception because he’s so angry.

“I can still see it,” he said, referring to the crime scene. “And he’s getting off (without a trial).”

Thanabalasingam’s lawyer, Joseph La Leggia, would not discuss the arguments that led to his client’s release.

He pointed out that cases aren’t automatically dismissed after 30 months and each is judged on its own circumstances.

The initial trial date proposed by the court was February 2018, later changed to April 2017, he said.

La Leggia said he understand that some Quebecers are shocked at the ruling.

“I did the work I had to do as a defence lawyer,” he said. “I represented the best interests of my client.”

The Crown prosecutor’s office refused to comment on the reasons why the case wasn’t proceeded with, but indicated it was considering an appeal of the decision.

NDP says rest of province will help pay to get rid of tolls NDP Leader John Horgan clarified today his party's position to get rid of tolls on two Lower Mainland bridges — that the rest of the province would make up the lost revenue.

Horgan has said, if elected, his government would eliminate tolls on the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges.

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"I think British Columbians understand if we can't move goods and services through our ports then that has an impact on rural B.C. If we've got congestion, that hurts everybody," he said.

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Pakistani International student lost $6,000 in scam involving terrorist accusations An international student studying at a Halifax university said he lost $6,000 in a telephone scam involving accusations that he was a terrorist and would be arrested if he didn’t comply with the caller’s demands.

Mehran Durrani, who is from Pakistan, said he got a phone call from someone claiming to be from Immigration Canada on March 28.

He said the caller knew his address and told him he was suspected of being involved in terrorist activity and got him to cross-check the caller ID online to confirm the caller’s claim of authenticity.

During the conversation, he also got a call from a number he believed was from the Halifax Regional Police and was told he was going to be arrested within a couple of hours.

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“He then made me merge the call with the immigration officer, and they kind of got into an argument. The immigration officer wanted more time. The cop was like, ‘We don’t have time,’” said Durrani. Durrani, who works two jobs, said he became increasingly worried when they told him he was being watched, leading him to transfer money for what was described as legal help from the United States.

He was promised that if his criminal background check came back clean, he would be refunded his money which totalled about $6,000. Durrani said he felt pressured to do what the callers asked because he was concerned with completing his final semester of school and making sure nothing negatively impacted his career.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's vacation to the Aga Khan's private island in the Bahamas cost taxpayers more than the government revealed to Parliament.

In addition to the initial $127,187 disclosed in documents tabled in the House of Commons, the government spent $6,695 to transport a Privy Council Office technician from Nassau to Bell Island by seaplane along with 400 pounds of equipment.

That brings the total cost to taxpayers as a result of Trudeau's vacation to the exclusive island to $133,883. The revelation also raises questions about Trudeau's explanation for why he travelled from Nassau to Bell Island aboard the Aga Khan's private helicopter.

Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson is conducting an investigation following complaints about

the trip and allegations that Trudeau violated government rules, which prohibit the prime minister, cabinet ministers and parliamentary secretaries from accepting free travel on non-commercial chartered or private aircraft without prior approval from the ethics commissioner.

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Spike in fentanyl-related deaths forces Ontario to overhaul investigation process Ontario is moving to overhaul the way it collects and analyzes data on opioid overdoses and deaths in an effort to get a better understanding of the extent of the problem in the province, officials said Tuesday.

“We are making significant efforts to completely turn our investigative process for opioid and other drug-related deaths on its head,” said Chief Coroner Dr. Dirk Huyer.

Police forces and health units across the province have complained about the lack of timely data, and many are struggling to come up with their own methods to track the use of the deadly opioid fentanyl.

The Office of the Chief Coroner said 718 people died in from opioid-related toxicity in 2015, the most recent year that data is available.

“We are in the latter stages of developing a new investigative approach to these cases that will provide us with more timely data,” said Huyer, adding his goal is to have those statistics made public within months, not years.

In British Columbia, which has been the epicentre of the opioid crisis, the Coroners Service releases monthly reports on opioidrelated deaths.

Under the new system, Ontario’s coroners will expand the amount of data they collect earlier in the process, said Huyer.

“The current investigative process doesn’t allow identification of opioid-related deaths, or drug-related deaths, at the front end, in our way of managing the cases,” he said. “Our whole process means we determine that it’s an opioid-related death ... many months after the death has actually occurred.”

At the moment, the coroner’s office has to search back through its files to create statistics on overdose deaths, but under the new system that information will be proactively collected and standardized so it can be analyzed more quickly and consistently, Huyer said.

That information, he said, will include the type of drug, whether it was prescribed or illicit, a detailed history of the person’s health and if that person used opioids previously.

Accused hacker Karim Baratov denied bail Karim Baratov, the Canadian charged in connection with a massive Russian hacking scheme, has been denied bail.

The Crown, represented by Department of Justice attorney Heather Graham set out three grounds for Baratov to be remanded until his extradition hearing.

Firstly, he is a flight risk, Graham argued, because of his large amount of available funds, his alleged ties to Russian officials, and the severe prison term he could face if convicted.

Secondly, said Graham, there is a strong

chance that Baratov could commit crimes while on bail. Graham pointed to 80 websites that U.S. Investigators say Baratov has maintained for the purposes of hacking, beyond the alleged Russian intelligence scheme.

Thirdly, Graham argued that keeping Baratov in custody was a matter of preserving public trust in the effectiveness of the justice system.

The onus was on Baratov’s lawyers to counter all three of Graham’s arguments.

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Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina rejects Mamata’s plan, wants only Teesta Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina signed off her hugely successful India visit on Monday

with a restructured strategic relationship with India, but rejected Mamata Banerjee’s

proposal for sharing rivers other than the Teesta.

Addressing a civic reception held for her by think tank India Foundation, Hasina spoke about the importance of water sharing between India and Bangladesh.

“On Teesta issue, PM Modi once again reiterated his government’s strong resolve to conclude the water sharing treaty at the soonest. Once it happens, the face of Indo-Bangladesh relations would undergo another transformation.”

Then, switching to Hindi, she said, “Lekin mujhe nahin pata didimoni kya karega (but I

don’t know what Didi i.e. Mamata will do).”

For the first time, giving a sense of the conversation between her and the West Bengal chief minister, Hasina revealed Mamata had put forward some alternative proposals.

But she held PM Modi to his words that Teesta would be the one being negotiated.

Mamata, she said, had offered to give her electricity. “Paani manga, bijli mila,” Hasina laughed. But PM Modi, she noted, said he would ensure a successful Teesta deal. But the ice has been broken, both between Mamata and the Centre and between Mamata and Bangladesh.

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Conservationists today captured a rare one-horned rhinoceros in Nepal as part of an attempt to increase the number of the vulnerable animals, which are prized by wildlife poachers.

Five rhinos -- one male and four female -- will be released into a national park in Nepal's far west over the coming week in the hope of establishing a new breeding group.

The first, a large male estimated to be around 12 years old, was located by rangers in Chitwan National Park after a four-hour search on elephant-back.

"He is one of the dominant males in this area," said park chief Ram Chandra Kandel.

The team of vets, wildlife experts and mahouts hope to capture a second rhino later Monday before departing for Shuklaphanta National Park, a 12-hour drive away.

It will take at least a week to capture and transport the remaining rhinos to their new habitat, which is already home to an estimated eight of their kin.

The first group of rhinos was released into Shuklaphanta in 2000, Dr Kanchan Thapa, a biologist from conservation group WWF, told AFP. The latest rhinos are needed to replenish the population, he added.

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India says Pakistan refuses to give information on Jadhav India has no information on retired Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav’s location in Pakistan or his condition, the external affairs ministry said on Thursday, noting that it is in touch with the government there on this “immensely important” issue.

It is also understood that India, which has been denied consular access to Jadhav 13 times, has again moved a request for access.

Asserting that the whole country’s sentiment is with Jadhav, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay said the government will not spare any effort in securing justice for the “innocent” Indian national but refused to divulge details.

Jadhav, 46, has been awarded death sentence by a Pakistani military court on charges of alleged “espionage and sabotage” activities.

“India has no knowledge of Kulbhushan Jadhav’s location and his condition. We are making all efforts to get him back but we can’t reveal the steps that will be taken to achieve it,” he said. The government is in touch with Pakistan through the Indian High Commission on this

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immensely important issue, he said.

Baglay said Jadhav is an innocent Indian who is a retired officer of the Indian Navy and these two things were conveyed to Pakistan in March 2016.

On reports of Jadhav carrying a fake passport, Baglay said, “We cannot ascertain anything since we did not have any consular access. Which kind of spy keeps an original passport with him so I have my doubts on any allegation of his being a spy...We need to know how he came to be in Pakistan in the first place.” Jadhav trial was opaque and farcical, no due process was followed and all legal and international norms were defied, Baglay said.

Pakistan’s top military officials said they would not “compromise” on Jadhav’s death sentence. The decision was taken at a Corps Commanders meeting presided over by Army Chief General Qamar Bajwa at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the military’s media wing Inter- Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.

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BJP wins 5 seats, Cong bags 3 in Assembly bypolls The BJP on Thursday continued with its winning streak, registering convincing wins in five of the eight states where bypolls were held on Sunday and claiming five of the 10 seats.

Though the Congress lost in the party-ruled Himachal Pradesh, the big boost came from Karnataka where the party managed to retain two seats and in Ater in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh where it defeated BJP with just about 857 votes.

Otherwise it was a BJP’s day as it decimated the ruling AAP in Delhi’s Rajouri Garden, replaced Left in its traditional bastion West Bengal to emerge as the direct challenger to Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in Kanthi Dakshin and snared the Bhoranj Assembly constituency in the Congressruled Himachal Pradesh. The wins in party-ruled Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Assam came with good margins, making Karnataka the only weak point for the BJP in the results declared today.

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A defiant Calcutta High Court Judge Justice C S Karnan on Thursday asked the Chief Justice of India and six judges of the Supreme Court, who have issued contempt notice to him, to appear before him at his “residential court” on April 28.

Justice Karnan claimed that the seven judges of the bench have insulted him “wantonly and deliberately and with malafide intention”.

He said the judges have been asked to defend themselves against the charge of violating the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, levelled by him. Justice Karnan has been insisting that he is being discriminated against because he is a Dalit.

Addressing journalists at his residence Justice Karnan said, “On 28.04.2017 at 11.30 am the Hon’ble seven judges as mentioned above will appear before me at my Rosedale Residential Court and give their views regarding quantum of punishment for the violation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Atrocities Act.” He passed the “suo motu judicial order” from his residence which, he said, has now become his “makeshift court”.

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In today’s order, Justice Karnan said CJI Justice J S Khehar had on March 31 raised a question as to how his mental health was.

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BJP bags Rajouri Garden Assembly seat, AAP loses deposit The BJP has registered a thumping victory in the Rajouri Garden Assembly bypoll in the national capital crushing the hopes of both the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party, which finished a distant third and even lost its deposit.

Celebrations in the winning camp broke out outside the counting centre at Hari Nagar after the result was announced a little before noon by the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer (DCEO) while the ruling AAP downplayed the result.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the result would have no bearing on the April 23 MCD polls.

Sisodia said the bypoll result is not a setback for the party while attributing it to disenchantment of the electorate due to forsaking of the constituency by party MLA Jarnail Singh.

BJP-SAD candidate Manjinder Singh Sirsa, who maintained his lead till the last

round, was elected as the new MLA from the seat by a margin of 14,562 votes over Congress’s Meenakshi Chandela.

With this victory, the BJP’s count in the

70-member Delhi Assembly has gone up to four.

Chandela polled 25,950 votes whereas AAP’s Harjeet Singh polled 10,243 votes and lost his deposit.

Indian sailors freed by Somali pirates on way home A Somali official says 10 Indian sailors rescued from pirates have left Somalia’s waters under the escort of an Indian navy vessel.

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Baisakhi celebrated across Punjab & Haryana Devotees across Punjab and Haryana on Thursday thronged gurdwaras, including Golden Temple at Amritsar, to mark the

festival of Baisakhi which is being celebrated with joy and enthusiasm.

For the predominant Sikh population of Punjab, Baisakhi is a big festival as it marks the foundation day of Khalsa panth or Sikh order by tenth Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh.

Farmers are jubilant over the festival as for them it marks the start of harvest season.

The Sikh community celebrated Baisakhi by participating in the special prayer meets and Baisakhi processions.

In Amritsar, several devotees paid obeisance in the sanctum sanctorum of Golden Temple.

In the villages of Punjab and Haryana, cries of ‘Jatta aayi Baisakhi’ reverberated in the skies as gaily-dressed men and women

moved towards the fields to celebrate the occasion.

In some villages, performance of traditional folk dance ‘bhangra’ and ‘gidda’ was performed by men and women respectively.

Taking an early bath in ponds or rivers, people visited gurdwaras to express gratitude to the Almighty for the bountiful harvest and to pray for prosperity and good times in future.

At several places in Punjab colourful Baisakhi fairs were also organized to celebrate the day.

People participated in these fairs with a lot of enthusiasm.

After Ardas (prayer as per Sikh rituals) and distribution of Karah Parshad (sweet pudding), langar (community kitchen) was served. People greeted friends and relatives by exchanging a box of sweets or other traditional gifts.

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More than 100 incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib have taken place in the state in the last two years. The police have been able to identify the culprits/suspects only in 50 such cases.

This has come up in a comprehensive report prepared by the state police to know the extent of the crime. Officials found that more than 100 sacrilege incidents took place since June 1, 2015. The report belies claims by certain politicians and police officials that there were only a few cases. The first incident took place in Burj Jawahar Singh Wala in Faridkot. Later, a series of incidents happened in mid-October in 2015, including in Bargari village which led to massive protests. Subsequently, two youths were killed in police firing at Behbal Kalan village. The first incident and the Bargari incident among several others have remained unsolved. The series of sacrilege incidents became an emotive issue for the masses. It led to violence and a major reshuffle in the

police also. The previous SAD-BJP regime was criticised widely for its failure to solve the cases.

However, two alleged incidents of sacrilege of the Sikh holy scripture have occurred since Capt Amarinder Singh-led Congress government took over. While one took place in Tarn Taran, the other in Muktsar. The Chief Minister ordered another reshuffle of top-ranking officers following the Muktsar incident.

The government has already announced setting up a new commission to investigate all these instances of sacrilege.

Earlier, the Justice Zora Singh Commission set up by the SAD-BJP government had inquired into a few main incidents. It probed the cases in and around Faridkot only.

Its report was neither made public nor implemented. However, the Aam Aadmi Party had accessed the report somehow and released it to the media.

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Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has asked Malout SDM Vishesh Sarangal to probe the incident and submit report in a week.

The cremation of 62-year-old Gurdev Singh was attended by former CM Parkash Singh Badal and senior SAD leaders of the area. They demanded a government job for the family as well.

Congress MLA from Malout Ajaib Singh Bhatti visited the family and handed them a cheque of Rs10 lakh.

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Baljot Singh Rathore, SSP, Muktsar, said: “The investigation is underway and as of now, only ASI incharge of Bhai Ka Kera police post Gurdeep Singh has been booked and arrested in the case.”

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IT was total domination tonight as the Fiji Rugby 7s team won the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong 7s title defeating South Africa 22-0.

South Africa, the series leaders had no room to score and could not hold on to position as Fiji attacked mercilessly and defended ruthlessly.

Sevuloni Moceinacagi ended a shaky start from both sides to begin Fiji’s onslaught with a try in the 4th minute. Mesake Kunavula’s try in the 6th minute set Fiji up with a 10-0 score line heading into half time.

Man of the match, Hong Kong debutant Kalione Nasoko’s two tries gave Fiji sure victory over the blitzbokkes who have won elsewhere but never at So Kon Po. As we look ahead to the Singapore 7s from April 15- 16, the World Rugby 7s ranking is as below:South Africa 145, Fiji 122, England 113

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The financial status of the TISI Sangam is very healthy and its’ net asset of the organisation has increased by two million dollars in the last 12 months.

This was highlighted the by TISI Sangam’s National President, Sadasivan Naicker at the TISI Sangam Convention% in Labasa today.

Naicker says their temples and other entities are well managed and he has thanked GUARANTEED the board members for their commitment.

He says the Sangam College of Nursing’s new center in Ba is scheduled to open on the 4th of next month. Naicker says Sangam’s largest investment is in Labasa which is the Sangam College of Nursing.

He says other campuses are in Suva and Lautoka. Naicker says that the College of Nursing has this year partnered with APTC to establish age care courses that will start in Labasa from July.

He says soon similar projects will be established in other branches.

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Indian sentenced to death by Pakistan Pakistan’s response to India’s note verbale in the form of a letter of assistance seeking help to probe the alleged charges against Kulbhushan Jadhav has left India seething about the farcical nature of the proceedings against him. As foreign minister Sushma Swaraj said in Parliament, Islamabad levelled ridiculous allegations against senior Indian officials in its response.

Indian authorities said Pakistan sought to draw a false equivalence by claiming Jadhav was acting at the behest of top Indian security and intelligence officials.

“In fact, the announcement of Jadhav’s arrest days before a visit to Pathankot airbase by a Pakistan team was the worst form of propaganda and gamesmanship.

They clearly wanted to deflect international attention from cross-border terrorism

promoted by Pakistan,” said an Indian official.

The most significant authentication of India’s stand that Jadhav was abducted from outside Pakistan came from a former German ambassador to Pakistan, Gunter Mulack, who said last year that Jadhav was picked up by Taliban from near the BalochistanAfghanistan border and later sold to ISI. He made the remark speaking in Karachi in a seminar, Crisis in Middle East -- A German Perspective, after Pakistan announced Jadhav’s arrest.

“The person who is being presented as an Indian spy was actually apprehended

by Taliban years ago, and is now sold off to Islamabad. However, the case is in favour of Pakistan since India has accepted that he was a member of Indian Navy,” he was quoted as having told a news channel later.

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Kidnapping, forced marriage: Pakistan’s Hindu women hope for protection in new law Sapna Gobia is busy preparing for her wedding in Pakistan in a few weeks. In many ways, her wedding will follow traditions passed down through generations, with the bride and groom circling a sacred fire lit by their families.

But unlike the marriage of her parents, Gobia’s will be formalized by a government certificate under a new Hindu marriage law.

The 25-year-old will be one of millions of women from Pakistan’s Hindu minority who now have the right to a certificate establishing her marital status under the Hindu Marriage Act 2017 that was signed into law on March 19.“We Hindu girls and married women have lived in the shadow of constant fear ... of being kidnapped, forced to abandon our faith and

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She hopes the new marriage law will help prevent such incidents of kidnapping of Hindu minority women and their forced conversion to other faiths for bigamous, forced marriages.

“With our marriages now legally registered with government authority ... no one could be able to stop us and our husbands from proving our marital status,” Gobia told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “More importantly, bigamy has now been termed an unlawful and punishable crime in the new law - that is a big relief.”

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A 26-year-old Indian-origin soldier in the UK is on trial for killing his ex-girlfriend by slitting her throat from ear to ear after she ended the relationship due to his “abusive” and “manipulative” behaviour.

Lance Corporal Trimaan “Harry” Dhillon is accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend Alice Ruggles’ flat and murdering in north-east England, the Newcastle Crown Court was told.

Dhillon, described in court as obsessive, controlling and manipulative, denied murdering Ruggles in October last year.

“From an early stage the defendant was abusive, controlling and manipulative.

Those who knew Alice, knew her as a lively fun-loving girl whose personality changed in a months before her death as a consequence of her relationship

with Harry Dhillon. She was withdrawn, isolated, deeply troubled by his behaviour after she ended their relationship,” prosecutor Richard Wright told the jury.

Dhillon is accused of using his skills as a signaller with 2 Scots, the Royal Regiment of Scotland, to hack the 24-year-old victim’s emails, phone messages and social media.

She was found dead in a pool of blood by her flatmate, Maxine, just days after she had told a police officer that she did not want Dhillon to be arrested for harassment.

“Maxine had seen the obsessive and manipulative manner in which Dhillon had harassed and stalked Alice before her death.

She had seen first-hand how Alice’s happy, bubbly demeanour had changed over time,” Wright said.

NRI doctor inducted into Global Medical Missions Hall of Fame A 26-year-old Indian-origin soldier in the UK is on trial for killing his ex-girlfriend by slitting her throat from ear to ear after she ended the relationship due to his “abusive” and “manipulative” behaviour.

Lance Corporal Trimaan “Harry” Dhillon is accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend Alice Ruggles’ flat and murdering in northeast England, the Newcastle Crown Court was told.

Dhillon, described in court as obsessive, controlling and manipulative, denied murdering Ruggles in October last year.

“From an early stage the defendant was abusive, controlling and manipulative. Those who knew Alice, knew her as a lively funloving girl whose personality changed in a months before her death as a consequence of her relationship with Harry Dhillon. She was withdrawn, isolated, deeply troubled by his behaviour after she ended their relationship,” prosecutor Richard Wright told the jury.

Dhillon is accused of using his skills as a signaller with 2 Scots, the Royal Regiment of Scotland, to hack the 24-year-old victim’s emails, phone messages and social media.

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US Sikhs launch advertising campaign that seeks to push back on hate Sikhs in the United States are launching a million-dollar awareness campaign that seeks to stop hate-fueled attacks by explaining more about who they are and what they believe.

The “We are Sikhs” campaign was years in the making, funded by Sikh leaders and their

families across a dozen cities, who have been swept up in anti-Muslim sentiment since the September 11 attacks. Their beards and turbans - symbols of equality in a religion that opposes India’s caste system - make American Sikhs easy targets for the angry and uninformed.

“Our hope was that as the memory of 9/11 goes down, things would get better. But they have not,” said Rajwant Singh, a dentist from suburban Washington and one of the campaign’s volunteer organizers.

The ads, which will air on CNN, Fox News and on TV stations in Fresno, California, home to a large Sikh community, make no mention of the more than 300 hate crimes reported by Sikhs in the US since the 2001

terrorist attacks. Rather, they feature Sikh families explaining how the world’s fifthlargest religion, founded in India, aligns with American values.

Internet advertising will begin immediately as well, and subsequent TV ads are planned for at least three more cities with large Sikh populations.

“We teach our kids the American values go hand in hand with the Sikh values: tolerance, religious freedom, gender equality,” a bearded man in a red turban says in one of the ads shared with The Associated Press.

Another ad highlights Sikhs embracing US pop culture: “We like ‘Game of Thrones’,” one person says. “I’m obsessed with ‘Star Wars’,” says another.

The ads, developed in consultation with Republican and Democratic consulting firms, do not mention Republican President Donald Trump, whose candidacy hammered on illegal immigration and Islamic extremism.

While fundraising events in Sikh communities across the nation coincided with Trump’s rise, organizers insist the $1.3 million effort has no connection to the tough-talking president.

“It’s a coincidence,” says Gurwin Ahuja, a 27-year-old political operative who also helped organize the new campaign. “Administrations have changed, and we still experience violence regardless of who’s president.”

This type of religious outreach has some precedent. Muslim advocacy groups launched a billboard campaign in recent years, while others developed public service announcements soon after Sept. 11.

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‘H-1B visas help uplift welfare of Americans’ Even as uncertainty continues to mount over H-1B visa regulations promised by US President Donald Trump, a new study has found that foreign computer scientists granted such visas have helped increase welfare of Americans.

The H-1B visa allows US companies to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialised occupations. The number of these visas granted annually is capped by the federal government.

The researchers found that the highskilled immigrants had a positive effect on innovation, increased the overall welfare of Americans and boosted profits substantially for firms in the IT sector.

Researchers John Bound and Nicolas Morales of the University of Michigan and Gaurav Khanna of the University of California San Diego studied the impact that the recruitment of these foreign computer scientists had on the US economy.

They selected the time period of 19942001, which marked the rise of e-commerce and a growing need for technology workers.

Immigration lowered prices and raised the output of IT goods by between 1.9 per cent and 2.5 per cent, thus benefiting consumers, the findings showed.

Such immigration also had a big impact on the tech industry’s bottom line.

“Firms in the IT sector also earned substantially higher profits thanks to immigration,” said Morales in a statement released by the University of Michigan.

On the flipside, the influx of immigrants

dampened job prospects and wages for US computer scientists, the study said.

US workers switched to other professions, lowering the employment of domestic computer scientists by 6.1 per cent, according to the model developed by the researchers.

Indian techies have been the biggest beneficiaries of the H-1B visas—obtaining about 70 per cent of such visas—with companies posting thousands of employees to the US. This visa allows work in the particular area for six years, extendable after that. It is also

the route to a US permanent residency or a US Green Card.

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on March 31 issued a clarification that computer programmers, to be eligible under the H-1B visa norms, must prove that theirs is a specialty occupation.

Merely obtaining a computer degree may not be enough.

Coming just ahead of start of the new season for H-1B visas for skilled workers, it was largely seen as the tightening of norms by the US authorities for hiring computer programmers.

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