Happy Independence Days Vol 19 - Issue 28
The sad details of how actor Sanjay Dutt learnt he has cancer It shouldn’t happen to anybody, but life continues to throw up unpleasant surprises just when we think that all’s going well. And this is exactly what happened with Sanjay Dutt. Anxiously waiting for COVID-19 to get over, the Munnabhai star could not wait to get back on the sets of biggies like ‘Bhuj’, ‘Prithviraj’, ‘Shamshera’ and ‘KGF 2’. According to media reports, “On Saturday, August 8, Sanjay Dutt felt breathless and sought medical help. He was very anxious to know if he had contracted COVID-19 because he had found on his oximeter at home that his oxygen levels had dropped. Sanjay was then advised to come to Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital (Bandra) where they could even check him for COVID-19. At this point, he informed the hospital authorities that he had already got himself tested for the virus in question and the result had come negative. However, it was still bothering him that what if he had been infected with COVID-19.� According to media reports it is confirmed that 61 years old actor is suffering from stage3 lung cancer. He will soon be going abroad for treatment.
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Kamala Harris’ selection makes history for Indians in North America Atlanta lawyer Amol Naik was surprised by his emotional reaction to Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate. It’s not that Harris will be the first Black woman to be a major party’s vice presidential nominee; it’s that she will be the first Indian American. “I have just been moved by it in a way that I didn’t expect,� said Naik, whose parents immigrated from India to KAMALA HARRIS, (back row from left), with grandparents Rajam North Carolina. “It’s just Gopalan, P.V. Gopalan and sister Maya Harris. In front are Maya’s daughter, really a remarkable thing Meena, left, and the Harrises’ cousin Sharada Balachandran Orihuela. that this could happen. among Indian Americans, a growing force in It gives you a lot of faith in the country.� The Democratic politics. They could reward Biden California senator’s ascent to the top tier of and Harris with crucial votes in the handful of American politics drew an outpouring of pride
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The importance of Kamala Harris’ South Asian heritage Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate has been rightly hailed as historic: If elected, she would be the first female vice president of the United States as well as the first Black woman to hold that office. But what’s getting less attention in global media is the fact that Harris will also be the first vice president of South Asian heritage— and to Indian Americans like myself that is inspiring but also instructive. How might Harris’s South Asian identity shape a Biden
administration’s foreign-policy agenda? To tackle global problems, the United States needs a leader with a global mindset. As the daughter of an immigrant from Chennai, in southern India, it’s likely that Harris will share a perspective on foreign policy that looks at the world’s two largest democracies as critical allies. And while that lens of partnership could play a role in U.S.-China relations, on matters related to immigration, technology, trade, and defense, it will perhaps be most
UK should form ‘global superpower’ with New Zealand, Canada, and Australia - historian
BC announces 78 new cases of COVID-19 and a new outbreak at the Okanagan jail
A British historian has suggested the United Kingdom form a new “global superpower� with New Zealand, Australia and Canada. In an article for The Wall Street Journal, Andrew Roberts considers how the United Kingdom “survive[s] Brexit� and prospers in “a world solidifying into the three empire blocs of the US, China and the European Union�. He suggests there is a “mounting case� that a form of federation among the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand “would create a global superpower� that could ally with the US. While the nations are already part of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, this proposed
bloc could have “free trade, free movement of people, a mutual defence organisation and combined military capabilities�. The idea, Roberts says, has become worth considering due to the cooling relations between the nations and China. He notes Boris Johnson’s decision to ban Huawei and China’s recently aggressive stance towards Australia. The four countries have also recently suspended their extradition agreements with Hong Kong in light of China’s decision to impose a new national security law on the city. Likewise, they are becoming increasingly vocal about the treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang.
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The number of COVID-19 cases in B.C. continued to climb Thursday as health officials announced 78 new confirmed transmissions. There are now 578 active cases, up from 531 on Wednesday, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said. The death toll remains unchanged at 196. Nine people are in hospital, with four in intensive care. Henry confirmed a new community outbreak at the Okanagan Correctional Continued on page 6
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