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Vol 20 - Issue 22
Film legend Dilip Kumar dies at 98 Film star Dilip Kumar 1922 - 2021
Dilip Kumar, India’s enduring film actor, a legend through the decades, died at Mumbai hospital on Wednesday, July 7 after prolonged illness, his family and doctors said. He was 98. The actor, known to generations of film-goers as ‘tragedy king’ for his portrayal of the brooding, intense romantic in classics such as “Mughale-Azam” and “Devdas”, is survived by his wife Saira Banu. The last rites will be held at 5 pm at the Juhu Qabrastan at Santacruz Mumbai, a post from his Twitter handle said.Dilip Kumar, who embodied the best of India through his work and seven decades in public life, had been admitted to the Hinduja Hospital, a nonCovid facility in Khar, since last Tuesday. “He passed away peacefully at 7.30 am,” Dr Jalil Parkar, who had been treating Dilip Kumar, said.“With a heavy heart and profound grief, I announce the passing away of our beloved Dilip Saab, few minutes ago. We are from God and to Him we return,” family friend Faisal Farooqui posted from the actor’s Twitter handle at 8.01 am. The Hindi cinema veteran, the last of the golden troika with Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand.
Saturday, July 10, 2021
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has been called after firefighters found the body of a five-year-old child inside a Surrey house. According to Surrey RCMP, officers responded to a report of a woman being stabbed at a home on the 15400-block of 94 Avenue at
about 9:15 p.m. on Monday. The woman, who was “seriously injured,” was able to run out of the house and call police; however, a five-year-old child remained inside the home. “The suspect in the stabbing, who is known to the victims, allegedly set a fire inside the Continued on page 7
India’s cabinet reshuffle that holds out no promise of good governance Wednesday’s massive reshuffle is a tentative return of the cabinet system. About time. As it is, seven years of prime ministerial overlordship has battered the system out of shape; only now, when comprehensive collapse and failure have come to gnaw at national well-being has a feeble
attempt been made to arrest the precipitous fall towards misgovernance. Is the new Council of Ministers better equipped to roll back the tide of misgovernance and incompetence? The answer cannot be in a simple affirmative. With the possible exception of Ashwini Vaishnaw,
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India’s billionaires Ambani & Adani got richer while Coronavirus pushed millions of vulnerable people into poverty India has been hobbled by an economic slump and a brutal wave of coronavirus that new research shows pushed millions of people into poverty. But as these Indians struggle to live on a few dollars a day, the country’s ultra-wealthy have gotten even richer and more influential, as
their combined fortunes have soared by tens of billions of dollars in the last year. Mukesh Ambani — chairman of the sprawling conglomerate Reliance Industries — is now worth more than $80 billion, some $15 billion more than a year ago, according Continued on page 6
Sirisha Bandla to be second Indian-born person to go to space Thirty-one-year-old Sirisha Bandla will be the second Indianborn person and the first of Telugu origin to go to space. The aerospace engineer with her roots in Andhra’s Tenali is part of the Virgin Galactic’s crew that will fly into space on July
Sikh pioneer, South Asian businessman Asa Singh Johal passed away at 98 BC businessman Asa Singh Johal, a revered Sikh pioneer, died at the age of 98. Asa Singh Johal, who would have turned 99 in August, immigrated to Canada in 1924 with his parents and went on to establish sawmills, manufacturing plants and a trucking operation. He left school to start working at the age of 14 and established Terminal Forest Products in 1965, which became B.C.’s largest independent lumber company. The company grew and expanded from its sawmill operation on Richmond’s Mitchell Island. New book spotlights the Sikh pioneer
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Five-year-old child found dead in arson in Surrey
who created B.C.’s largest independent lumber company His son-in-law Avtar Opal said Asa Johal was very particular and his goals in life were clearly defined. “He had a target and he always tried to fulfil it and he did more than that in terms of his whole life, in terms of his family and his business. So we’re very proud of him for all his accomplishments. We’re happy and he’ll be remembered forever,” said Opal. Continued on page 5
11 from New Mexico. Sirisha will be the fourth person of Indian origin to fly into space after Rakesh Sharma, Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams. Virgin Galactic is an American private space agency that will launch its spacecraft ‘Unity Continued on page 8