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Indian-Origin tennis player wins Wimbledon boys’ singles Samir Banerjee, an American tennis player of Indian-origin, on Sunday won the Wimbledon boys singles title. Banerjee defeated compatriot Victor Lilov, with a straight sets, winning 7-5 6-3 in the final that lasted one hour 22 minutes. This was the first all-American final since 2014, and Banerjee’s second grandslam. Sameer Banerjee is a 17-year-old who had previously ranked 19 in the world had crashed out in the junior French Open. Wimbledon was his second appearance at a junior Grand Slam. Banerjee’sparentshadmovedtoAmerica, in the 1980s, years before he was born.

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Canada’s mobile data prices the highets World in world, and India’s is the cheapeat Sweden-based mobile analytics firm, Tefficient, released its latest report on mobile data usage from 44 countries around the world today, sharing insights on data usage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the

firm says mobile data usage accelerated in 2020, with some countries seeing a slower growth rate. When it comes to mobile data, Tefficient says “using mobile data has never been cheaper but the erosion in the revenue per gigabyte varies a lot between markets.” Continued on page 6

Federal Liberals filibuster to stop opposition call for inquiry into parliamentary funds paid to Trudeau’s close friend Liberal MPs on Monday filibustered an attempt by opposition parties to hear testimony from the party’s chief digital campaign strategist regarding constituency work that his company is being paid by taxpayers to perform. The House of Commons ethics committee had been recalled during Parliament’s summer

break to discuss whether to investigate the hiring with parliamentary funds of two companies – Montreal-based Data Sciences and U.S company NGP VAN – that are also central to the Liberal Party’s voter-outreach operations. Conservative, NDP and Bloc Québécois MPs particularly wanted to hear Continued on page 7

Entire communities ready to leave on short notice as BC wildfires rage India celebrates woman who flew into space on Virgin Galactic Indians are celebrating Sirisha Bandla’s flight to the edge of space on billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic rocket plane. Ms Bandla is the second woman born in India to go to space after Kalpana Chawla who died when the Columbia Space Shuttle crashed at reentry in 2003. The rocket flew high above New Mexico in the US before returning to Earth just an hour after leaving the ground. Sir Richard called the trip the “experience of a lifetime”. Sunday’s trip makes the UK entrepreneur the first of the new space tourism pioneers to try out their own vehicles, beating Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and SpaceX’s Elon Musk. Bandla, who developed an early interest in space, works as the vice president of government affairs for Virgin Galactic. Her grandfather told Reuters that “from the beginning, she was fascinated towards the sky, looking at the sky, space, how to enter space and what is there”.

All but small corners of British Columbia were listed at high to extreme risk of wildfires as continuing hot, dry and windy conditions fuel the more than 300 blazes burning in most regions of the province. Evacuation orders affecting more than 1,400 properties were posted for 10 of the 26 fires listed by the BC Wildfire Service as potentially threatening or highly visible by mid-morning. Most of the orders covered huge areas of the central Interior, but residents of 41 properties in the Okanagan,

Rajasthan man sleeps for 300 days a year, dubbed as real-life Kumbhakarna A man from western Rajasthan’s Nagaur district sleeps for 300 days in a year and is being called a real-life ’Kumbhakarna’ by villagers. Purkharam, 42, a resident of Bhadwa village, suffers from a rare disorder known as Axis hypersomnia. He apparently runs his day-to-day activities such as bathing, work, and eating in his sleep, Zee News reported. While most of the people usually sleep for 6 to 8 hours a day, Purkharam sleeps for 25 days at a stretch once he takes a nap. He was first diagnosed with the rare disorder 23 years ago, and since then, the condition has

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west of Peachland, were ordered out before dawn as the Regional District of OkanaganSimilkameen said a new fire threatened safety. The wildfire service website shows the roughly 250-hectare wildfire is one of at least 19 sparked overnight, adding to fires elsewhere in the province that have closed Highways 1, 97 and 20, key transportation routes through the Cariboo. Those fires also prompted an evacuation alert for the entire Continued on page 6 community of 100 Mile

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Saturday, July 17, 2021 Surrey’s water supply continues to be ‘safe and clean’ to drink, annual report says Surrey’s water supply continues to be “safe and clean” to drink with no E-coli bacteria detected in 3,095 samples taken, according to the City of Surrey’s water system annual report for 2020 which came before council on July 12. Scott Neuman, Surrey’s general manager of engineering, noted in a corporate report to council that the city’s water distribution mains are 1,864 kilometres in length, with nine pump stations and 38 pressure zones. It is the longest water distribution network in the province. Surrey bought all of its water, which comes from the reservoirs of the North Shore Mountains, from Metro Vancouver last

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By Ian Madsen, Senior policy analyst Frontier Centre for Public Policy

In early April, the government of Canada announced it would support Air Canada through the rest of the lockdown-induced decline in air travel, with loans and, in a return to its previous status as a stratospheric ward of the state, $500 million in equity capital. It’s understandable that the government would

Saturday, July 17, 2021 We can’t just pour more money into Air Canada want some chance of an upward revaluation of its investment once the pandemic panic ends and semi-normal air travel resumes. But it’s an open question whether the government should expose itself to business risk and revert to being a holder of shares in commercial enterprises. This may also indicate that Ottawa will

do something similar with Air Canada’s competitors, including WestJet, Porter, Flair and Chorus. That presumably means yet more millions of dollars committed to an industry that’s volatile and erratic in profitability and financial viability at the best of times – which these are emphatically not. The lockdowns and travel bans are a government-caused calamity for the industry, which should, morally, be addressed by the government that initiated them. However, there are other means to do so, including paying for laid-off employees, paying the interest on loans for airplanes, and paying the landing and other fees that airports demand whether or not flights are arriving, leaving or empty. The government could also offer advance tax losses or refunds on corporate losses. Another alternative could be to let Air Canada declare bankruptcy. Creditors could decide whether to liquidate the company or recapitalize it, along with some restructuring and cost-slashing. Since the federal government needs to treat the rest of the domestic airline industry fairly visà-vis Air Canada, there will likely be more millions, perhaps billions, of dollars flung into the ether, hoping that domestic air travel as it was in 2019 can revive intact. Such a revival may be a desperate dream. Corporate travel, conferences and convention travel may not recover to previous levels, as managers realize that internet teleconferencing can usually suffice, is much cheaper and, theoretically, less time-consuming. Leisure travel may not recover quickly, as pandemic restriction and wariness of travellers to lingering disease threats put a damper on demand. A strong return of international travel is unlikely in the near term as well. So, the government could be stuck with this dubious and speculative investment and others that may soon be forthcoming for quite some time. While the circumstances of the Trans Mountain pipeline investment are different, the essence is the same. The government created a problem, causing financial uncertainty and investor concern, and then papered over it with hundreds of millions of dollars; in the case of Trans Mountain, several billion.

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Saturday, July 17, 2021 Asa Singh Johal’s contribution to Punjabi Since his passing away on July5, there has been a lot of well-deserved media coverage of Asa Singh Johal’s life, achievements and so many of his positive attributes. According to the family’s wishes and the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr. Johal’s funeral on Sunday, July11 was private. As such, only family, close family friends and a few other selected people were able to attend the funeral. However, quite a few of Mr. Johal’s well -wishers and admirers made it to Gurdwara Nanak Niwas over three days-July9 to 11 to attend the Akhand Paath in his memory. A number of representatives of various Gurdwaras including Khalsa Diwan Society, Vancouver, Khalsa Diwan Society, New Westminster, Punjabi Market Association and many others were able to pay tribute to this icon of our community. Various speakers including members of Asa’s family paid very fitting tributes to this pillar of our community. As everyone knows, Asa Singh Johal provided employment to thousands of people. A large number of his former and current employees made it to the Gurdwara and expressed their gratitude. During these conversations a lot of his acts of generosity came to light that Mr. Johal never mentioned to anyone. Certainly, his generous donations to Children’s Hospital, Vancouver general Hospital, Richmond Hospital, BC Cancer Society, and UBC and to his ancestral village Jandiala are well known. However, a lot of his acts of generosity have not been mentioned. One such act of generosity of Asa Singh Johal is his contribution to promoting Punjabi.

Punjabi language instruction at UBC has been going on since early1987. Asa Singh Johal’s donation for Punjabi language to UBC ensured the continuation of the Punjabi program at UBC. My friend Sadhu Binning who has taught Punjabi at UBC for more than 20 years has brought this to my attention. A large number of South Asian and mainstream students at UBC have benefited greatly from learning Punjabi at UBC. AS a matter of fact both of my sons as well as my daughters –in-law are among many of the young professionals who have benefitted from Mr. Johal’s generous contribution to the Punjabi program at UBC. P u n j a b i Language Education Association (PLEA) holds International Mother Language Day every year. At this annual function, PLEA honours some distinguished persons who have made significant contribution to promotion of Punjabi language here. A few years ago, our PLEA Board decided to honour Mr. Johal on this special day. We were glad to see Mrs. Kashmir Kaur Johal and their son Darcy join Mr. Johal at this function. Thus, it was an honour for PLEA to recognize Mr. Johal and his family. A few days after this event, Mr. Johal and I were chatting at the Gurdwara. Suddenly, he pulled out a cheque for a fairly large amount made out to PLEA from his pocket and presented it to me. I was taken aback and thanked him for this kind gesture. This is a reflection of this great pioneer, philanthropist, humble lumber king and an Icon. We will ever be so thankful to him for what he has done for all of us. We will sorely miss him. Balwant Sanghera, President,

BC records 41 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths on July 14 The BC govt announced 41 new cases of Covid-19 and no new deaths on Wednesday. In a written statement, the province said there are currently 639 active cases of people infected with the novel coronavirus in B.C. A total of 65 people are in hospital, with 11 in intensive care. Overall hospitalizations, which typically lag behind spikes and dips in new cases, are down by 24 per cent from last Wednesday, when 86 people were in hospital with the disease. The number of patients in intensive care is down by about 45 per cent from 20 a week ago. The provincial death toll from the disease is now 1,760 lives lost out of 148,228 confirmed cases to date. The province says 79.3 per cent of eligible British Columbians aged 12 and older have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 47.3 per cent have received a second dose.

In total, 5,872,611 doses have been administered. Vaccination ‘makes a big difference’ Health officials have stressed the importance of vaccinations as activity levels increase for all British Columbians. Earlier this week, the federal government announced funding for the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre to hold weekly COVID-19 vaccine pop-up clinics at single room occupancy dwellings and homeless shelters for homeless or transient populations in Vancouver and New Westminster. “Vaccines are an important tool to protect Canadians against COVID-19. Getting vaccinated is a small action that makes a big difference – which is why we’re helping everyone in Canada get vaccinated against COVID-19,” said federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu in a statement Monday.

Sarbjit Bajwa’s funeral services will be held on Monday July 19 The funeral of well known Surrey realtor and former RCMP officer, Sarbjit Singh Bajwa, will take place on Monday, July 19 in Surrey, BC. The Bhog ceremony will be at 12 Noon at Gurdwara Dukh Niranjan on 152 Street in Surrey. For more information, please contact Anmol Bajwa at 604-8970327. Sarbjit Singh Bajwa passed away suddenly last Saturday. He was 70 years old. Born in Dharampur (now in Himachal Pradesh), Bajwa grew up in village Kauli in district Patiala, Punjab. He moved to Canada as a young man in the early 1970s. he was the second South

Asian to be a RCMP officer. After serving in the RCMP faithfully, he became a licensed real estate agent. He leaves behind a huge family, including his widow, Mrs Raminder Kaur Bajwa, son Anmol Bajwa, daughter in law Varinder Bajwa and two grand daughters, Eikam and Sargun, and three of his five surviving sisters, brothers in law, cousins, nephews and nieces. Bajwa was well known for helping friends and strangers alike and will be missed by his huge community of friends and relatives in BC and Punjab.

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PM Trudeau says Cubans deserve democracy after crackdown on protesters Canada, one of Cuba’s closest Western allies, on Thursday condemned the violent response and arrests of protesters this weekend by the Cuban government, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying the people in the country deserve democracy and freedom. “We are deeply concerned by the violent crackdown on protests by the Cuban regime,” Trudeau said at a news conference in Montreal, in one of his few comments on Cuba in recent years. Cuba protests spark demonstrations in Latin America... “We stand with the people of Cuba who want – and deserve – democracy, freedom, and respect.” Canada maintained ties with Cuba after its 1959 revolution, and Trudeau paid an official visit

to the island in November of 2016. That has meant that Canada has sometimes acted as a go-between with the Cuban government and the United States and other countries on issues such as the disputed elections in Venezuela. On Sunday, thousands of Cubans staged the biggest anti-government protests in decades to protest against a deep economic crisis that has seen shortages of basic goods and power outages. They were also protesting against the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and curbs on civil liberties. Trudeau’s first state visit to Cuba happened when he was four years old and accompanied his father, Pierre, who was then prime minister.

Canada’s mobile data prices the highets World in world, and India’s is the cheapeat From page 1 One chart shared by Tefficient, showing the total mobile service revenue per gigabyte (Euro) of countries worldwide, shows just how much of an outlier Canada is, when it comes to wireless data pricing.

Entire communities ready to leave on short notice as BC wildfires rage From page 1 House, menaced by an 87-square-kilometre blaze that broke out last week, while alerts also cover the villages of Ashcroft, Cache Creek and Savona as a nearly eight-squarekilometre fire reported M o n d a y r e m a i n s uncontrolled. E r i n Bull, a fire information officer with the BC Wildfire Service, says some progress has been made against the

Canim Lake fire, burning just north of 100 Mile House, but it’s a tough situation for residents to find themselves in. “It’s very difficult for people to have to leave their homes, especially in a tactical evacuation when it’s at a moment’s notice,” she said. More than 40 firefighters, along with structural protection teams, have been battling the blaze, while air crews are working against the Flat Lake fire to the south. The head of the Flat Lake fire is roughly a kilometre wide and largely inaccessible to ground crews, Bull said. More than 1,760 square kilometres of land has burned in B.C. since the wildfire season began on April 1, and Environment Canada shows no end in sight for drought-like conditions, although forecasters say the central Cariboo could see a trace of rain by the weekend. “There is a lot of fire on the landscape across the region,” Bull said

Rajasthan man sleeps for 300 days a year, dubbed as real-life Kumbhakarna From page 1 impacted his wellbeing and lifestyle. Due to his condition, Purkharam is able to operate his grocery shop just five days a month. Once he sleeps, it becomes challenging for him to wake up. His family say that initially, Purkharam slept for over 7 to 8 days at a go, the symptoms, however, became worse as years passed, and now he sleeps for 20 to 25 days in one go. The family members have to feed and bathe him while he is asleep. In fact, he might even fall asleep while he is at work.

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Liberals filibuster to stop opposition call for inquiry into parliamentary funds From page 1 from Tom Pitfield, the founder of Data Sciences and a close friend of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. His company works with NGP VAN during election campaigns and The Globe and Mail has revealed that both companies are also being paid to do constituency work for Liberal MPs out of parliamentary budgets. The Globe reported last week that NGP VAN, a U.S. database software company that runs Liberal digital voter outreach, has been paid $1-million from parliamentary funds since 2016 to exclusively handle constituency case work for party MPs. Payments have also been received by Data Sciences to help Liberal MPs use NGP VAN software. The opposition wanted Mr. Pitfield to appear before the ethics committee later this week for two hours of testimony, but Liberal MPs prevented the motion from coming to a vote by talking out the clock. After more than five hours of debate Monday, the Liberals voted to adjourn with support from the Bloc. Filibustering, or delaying votes by prolonged debate, is a tactic members of the governing Liberal caucus have repeatedly used in recent months, including on the Commons’ health, defence and foreignaffairs committees. It’s been used to stymie efforts by opposition parties to demand more information. The Conservatives accused the Liberals of blocking scrutiny over their Data Sciences and NGP VAN contracts. “Canadians have seen this playbook from the Trudeau Liberals time and time again,” Conservative MP Michael Barrett said in a statement after the marathon meeting.

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Saturday, July 17, 2021 Bank of Canada will act to cool inflation if prices run too hot, Macklem says The governor of the Bank of Canada says the central bank will rein in inflation if temporary price pressures stubbornly stick around and appear more permanent. Tiff Macklem says the central bank largely expects higher prices right now are temporary and the inflation rate will fall back to the bank’s two-per-cent target as the economy opens further. In its updated outlook this week, the central bank forecast inflation will run above three per cent this year, and above two per cent in 2022 and 2023, before coming back to target in 2024. Some of the pressure on inflation has to do with comparing prices now to the lows of one year ago, while higher gasoline prices and a surge in consumer demand are also playing a role. Macklem says the central bank plans to keep a close eye on how prices and these underlying factors play out over the coming months. In an interview, Macklem said the bank will use the tools available to it, such as its key interest rate, to bring inflation under control if temporary issues

look to become a permanent problem. “As we reopen the economy there are some imbalances,” he said, adding that “supply doesn’t respond at exactly the same pace as demand and so you get some sharp price movements. “We think those are temporary, we think those will work their way out,” Macklem told The Canadian Press on Wednesday after the release of the bank’s updated economic and inflation outlook. “But if they don’t, and if we start to think that inflation will remain above our target range, we have the mandate, we have the tools and we will control inflation. We will get it back to target.” Macklem didn’t detail the specific steps the central bank might take, but suggested it would almost give Canadians a heads-up about what might come. For now, the bank plans to keep its key policy rate at 0.25 per cent, which is as low as Macklem says it will go and where it has been since the onset of the pandemic. The bank said Wednesday that the rate would remain at near-

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Saturday, July 17, 2021 RCMP warn public, call for witnesses following 2 sex assaults in Surrey parks RCMP in Surrey, B.C., are calling for witnesses to come forward following two sexual assaults in city parks each taking place within days of each other. In a statement Wednesday, police said the first attack happened on July 9, just before 10 p.m. PT. A woman was walking along 104 Avenue at the southwest corner of Hawthorne Park when she met an unknown man. The woman followed the man into the park where he then sexually assaulted her, police said. She was able to fight off the suspect and get away, but had to be taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the statement said. No suspect was found, but police said the man is described as a Black male, about

six feet, two inches tall, 180 pounds with a muscular build and short messy dreadlocks. RCMP is asking two witnesses who were near the entrance to Hawthorne Park at the time to come forward. A police composite sketch of the suspect in the July 12 sexual assault in Tynehead Park. (Surrey RCMP) Just three days later on July 12, a female youth was walking in Tynehead Park just after midnight when she was pushed from behind, then sexually assaulted. Police said the suspect was again able to flee the scene, and the youth was able to leave the area for help. In this incident, the suspect is also described as a Black man, Continued on page 10

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Saturday, July 17, 2021 Bank of Canada holds benchmark interest rate steady at COVID-19 low, but slows down other stimulus The Bank of Canada kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 0.25 per cent on Wednesday, noting that while the economy is improving in line with vaccinations, the spectre of coronavirus variants makes the recovery uncertain. Canada’s central bank said Wednesday that it has no plans to raise its benchmark interest rate, known as the target for the overnight rate, until Canada’s inflation rate shows signs of settling in at around two per cent. Official data shows the inflation rate is currently at its highest level in a decade at 3.4 per cent, but the bank thinks that spike is only temporary and will come back into a more normal range once “transitory” imbalances in things like supply and demand for consumer goods, shipping bottlenecks and a global shortage of semiconductors level off. Canada’s GDP shrank by 0.3% in April as COVID-19 continues to squeeze the economy “In the Bank’s July projection, this happens sometime in the second half of 2022,” the bank said, which means it expects to keep its rate right where it is for about another year at least. “The global economy is recovering strongly from the COVID-19 pandemic, with continued progress on vaccinations, particularly in advanced

economies. However, the recovery is still highly uneven and remains dependent on the course of the virus.” Canada’s inflation rate rises to highest level in a decade, at 3.6% The bank’s benchmark rate impacts the rates that borrowers and savers get from retail banks on things like variable rate mortgages, lines of credit and savings accounts. All things being equal, the central bank cuts its rate when it wants to encourage spending and investment to stimulate the economy. It raises it when it wants to cool down inflation. While the bank’s decision Wednesday makes it clear it’s comfortable keeping its rate steady, it is still taking its foot off the stimulus gas pedal in other ways. In the early days of the pandemic, the bank created a series of bond-buying programs that all had the aim of maintaining the supply of money and keeping lending cheap for banks so they could pass on those savings to consumers. Known as “quantitative easing,” the central bank has added hundreds of billions of dollars to its balance sheet via the programs. So-called QE stimulates the economy by making sure creditworthy borrowers have access to cash, and making sure banks have enough on hand to lend to anyone that needs it.

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Jagmeet Singh says NDP would tackle Canada’s deficit through taxing the ‘ultra rich’ Jagmeet Singh is promising that infrastructure projects funded by a New Democratic government would use Canadian steel and other domestic goods to help get people working. “Any time we talk about big infrastructure, there has to be a commitment that the infrastructure is made with Canadian products, Canadian steel, Canadian aluminum,” the NDP leader said Wednesday at a campaign-style stop in Windsor, Ont. “The Liberals have talked about a highspeed train. They’ve never mentioned once that they’re going to use Canadian products in a high-speed train,” he said. Singh stopped short of calling his proposal a “Buy Canadian” policy along the lines of the “Buy American” rules for government in the United States. President Joe Biden has committed to strengthening the policy and doubled down on that when he announced his $2-trillion infrastructure program earlier this year. The infrastructure spending promise is one part of an NDP plan to create one million jobs — a goal the Liberals and Conservatives have also pledged to reach. The NDP’s jobs blueprint focuses heavily on past promises, including better

supports for workers through a national pharmacare program, 10 days of paid sick leave and higher minimum wages. Besides building public infrastructure, including transit, Singh says an NDP government would create economic activity through building 500,000 new homes — a promise he made in the 2019 election campaign — and bolstering the country’s domestic manufacturing capacity. “The NDP announcement might sound good, but there was no detail and plan to back it up,” a Liberal government spokesperson wrote in a statement. June left the country about 340,000 jobs, or almost two per cent, below pre-pandemic employment levels seen in February 2020. When factoring in population growth, Statistics Canada said the employment gap is likely closer to 540,000 jobs. The Bank of Canada also said Wednesday it estimated about 550,000 people would need to be hired. When it comes to Canada’s deficit, Singh said Wednesday people are worried, partially because past Liberal and Conservative governments have dealt with it through higher taxes or program cuts.

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Sonam Kapoor back in Mumbai Sonam Kapoor returns to Mumbai after a long time she had been living away in London. Sonam landed at Mumbai airport wearing blue jacket & skirt. The actress was holding a black tote in her hands. It seems she got emotional seeing father, Anil Kapoor she started crying. Some people assumed that she was pregnant, but the actress’ outfit has been heavily trolled by netizens.

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Paresh Rawal reveals reason why he didn’t launch his son in Bollywood We often come across many Bollywood stars providing a launchpad for their kids to help them make a stunning debut in the industry. However, veteran actor Paresh Rawal has stayed away from launching his son Aditya Rawal and the reason will shock you. Also Read - Paresh Rawal’s son Aditya is not the only one to make his Bollywood debut with Bamfaad! Find out who else is... “I did not launch him as my son because I don’t have that kind of money. To launch

my son, you require a big machinery,” Paresh Rawal told The Indian Express adding that he is proud that “his work is fetching him work without any recommendations.” Also Read - ‘We had some amazing fun as a team and the result seems to be great,’ says producer of Aditya Rawal’s debut film Pradeep Kumar Aditya made his debut with Bamfaad. Though it wasn’t a grand one, but it was enough to fetch him work based on it. “Through his own effort, he got noticed. People loved his work in Bamfaad.

Deepika launches an initiative to provide mental health support to frontline workers Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone, who has been quite vocal about her battle with depression, recently launched the ‘Frontline Assist’ initiative to provide mental health support to the country’s frontline workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic. As people are facing a strong negative impact of Covid-19 on their mental health, Bollywood’s dimple queen has decided to join hands with Sangath, a non-profit organisation that is committed to improving health and evidence-

based interventions in mental healthcare. Through this initiative, Deepika, under her ‘Live Love Laugh’ non-profit organisation (that deals with mental health issues), will support Sangath’s Covid-19 wellbeing centre with sale proceeds from her clothing line, ‘The Deepika Padukone Closet’. For the unversed, Deepika’s clothing line has been already dedicatedly supporting her ‘Live Love Laugh’ foundation. Every purchase a person makes from Deepika’s

Bollywood love birds & their divorces Hrithik Roshan - Sussanne Khan One of the best ‘made for each other’ picture perfect couples of Bollywood who fell in love and married in 2000, the year that made Hrithik an overnight star. Hrithik’s divorce to Sussanne turned into one of the most shocking divorces of Bollywood. Arbaaz Khan – Malaika Arora Arbaaz & Malaika’s divorce was one of the most talked about Bollywood divorces in recent times. The couple had met during a coffee ad long ago and they instantly fell in love after that. Himesh Reshammiya - Komal - One of the most shocking divorce in Bollywood was that of singer Himesh Reshammiya and his wife Komal. Himesh ended his 22-year long marriage with wife Komal when the Court granted them divorce in 2017. Farhan Akhtar – Adhuna Bhabani He was trying to get a foothold in direction and she was a hair-stylist, Farhan and Adhuna met each other in 1999 and got married in 2000. Farhan became a big director after the release of Dil Chahta Hai and went on to direct and act in other films too. Pooja Bhatt – Munish Makhija Pooja Bhatt and tv host Munish Makhija also feature in the list of divorced celebrities of Bollywood. Married in Goa in 1997 on the sets of ‘Paap,’ Pooja and Munish were married for 11 years before they called it quits. The couple decided to get a divorce for reasons best known to them.

Om Puri – Nandita Puri Bollywood actor Om Puri’s first marriage to Seema Kapoor ended in a divorce. Subsequently, the actor married journalist, Nandita Puri who also wrote the actors biography. Nandita filed for divorce due to physical abuse and domestic violence which came through in early 2016. The couple has a son Ishaan. R a n v i r Shorey Konkona Sen Sharma Actor Ranvir Shorey and Konkona Sen Sharma courted for four years before getting hitched in 2010. The couple’s marriage hit rock bottom when they decided to mutually part ways after five years of marriage due to incompatibility. Karan Singh Grover – Jennifer Winget One of TV’s perfect star couples Karan Singh Grover and Jennifer Winget met during the shooting of their TV serial Dill Mill Gayye, in 2007. After a five year courtship, the couple got married in 2012 but was shortlived due to Karan’s extramarital affairs. Karisma Kapoor - Sunjay Kapur Actress Karisma Kapoor’s marriage to Delhi based businessman Sunjay Kapur too fell apart. The couple who got married in 2003 couldn’t hit it off due to Sunjay’s casanova ways. Though the couple did give it another try but drifted apart and finally filed for divorce in 2014.

Jackie Shroff praises his son Jackie Shroff has spoken about working with Disha Patani in Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai. He was also a part of Bharat but they did not have any scenes together. In an interview with a leading daily, the veteran actor has spoken about Disha Patani as an artiste, and how it is to work with her. He said, “Disha is a charming lady, and there’s a disarming honesty in her eyes. She can look really simple, but at the same time, when she dances, she is all oomph. I am also aware

of the fact that she has a huge number of followers on social media.” The actor also spoke about the kind of discipline and work ethics the young generation has saying that they are “far beyond” him in that context. Though Disha Patani is very close to the Shroff family he said the equation on sets was a professional one. He said he treats all his leading ladies respectfully. Jackie Shroff said that they shared food on some days. It seems Disha Patani is very fond of gathia.

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Kareena’s new book causes controversy A police complaint has reportedly been filed against actor Kareena Kapoor in Maharashtra. A Christian group is said to have objected to the title of a book written by her. The police complaint has been filed against Kareena & two others in Beed on Wednesday. Titled as ‘Pregnancy Bible’, Kareena’s book has a second author

named Aditi Shah Bhimjani. Kareena Kapoor launched her book on July 9, calling it her third child. The 40-year-old actor gave birth to her second child, a boy, in February this year. Kareena shared a series of posts to promote the book on social media. According to her, the book is a personal account of her experience through both pregnancies.

Mandakini is prepping for a comeback to Bollywood films Mandakini, known most for her scintillating role in Raj Kapoor’s ‘Ram Teri Ganga Maili’ (1985) is finally making a comeback to Bollywood after two decades of absence. The actress is at present reading scripts and will soon decide which project will mark her comeback. Her manager Babubhai Thiba spoke exclusively to ETimes and said, “Mandakini is definitely making a comeback and at present reading scripts and inviting narrations, too. She is open to working in web series and films, but wants to play central characters

the projects.” It was Mandakini’s brother Bhanu who convinced her to return to acting. Bhanu said “When she would visit Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata, I could see that she still has a huge fan following. So, I told her that she must start acting again. She was offered the central role in a serial called ‘Chhoti Sardani’, which Mandakini refused but she suggested Anita Raaj’s name for the role instead.” Her manager also revealed that Mandakini has expressed her desire to interact with the media at a later date, as right now, she is focussed on identifying her comeback project.

Parineeti Chopra gets vaccinated, credits Priyanka & Jonas There’s hardly any Bollywood celebrity who hasn’t been vaccinated for Covid-19. Most of them have even shared pictures and posts on social media with fans. The next one on the list is Parineeti Chopra, who has already given three releases in the first seven months of 2021. She had ‘The Girl On The Train’, ‘Saina’, and ‘Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar.’ Two of them came in cinemas, and the third directly streamed on Netflix. The actress shared three pictures and in two of them, she could be seen flashing her biceps and in deep pain in the third one. Maybe it could be due to the Covid-19 vaccine. The

courtesy for the pictures went to her cousin Priyanka Chopra. Parineeti wrote- “Got my vaccine here. Took some photos. Then reality hit.@priyankachopra. #Pfizer #London. P.S. To all those extra smart people in the comments .... selfies get inverted. Left arm it is.” [SIC] She will now be seen in Sandeep Vanga’s ‘Animal’ along with Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, and Ranbir Kapoor. Talking about her upcoming films, Chopra told midday.com, “Today is the age of content and anything that’s sub-par won’t be accepted by audiences who have access to clutter-breaking content emerging from across the world.

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Burrard SkyTrain station to close for 2 years to complete ‘major upgrade’: TransLink A busy downtown Vancouver SkyTrain station will be closed for two years to complete “a major upgrade,” TransLink announced Tuesday. Upgrades to Burrard SkyTrain Station will begin in early 2022, the transportation authority said in a news release. The station will close during that time so work can be “done safely and more efficiently that were it to remain partially open during construction.” Upgrades will include doubling the number

of escalators and elevators, relocating the entrance, redesigning the outdoor plaza and upgrading the station’s power supply. “These significant upgrades are necessary to keep our transit system operating effectively and efficiently for our customers,” said TransLink interim CEO Gigi Chen-Kuo in a news release. “With more than 7.6 million annual boardings in 2019, Burrard Station is the fourth busiest station on our SkyTrain network.

Conservation officer advises the public to stay away from Stanley Park following another coyote attack The B.C. Conservation Officer Service is advising the public to avoid a popular park in downtown Vancouver as aggressive coyotes continue unprovoked attacks on visitors. “Use the park at your own risk at this point,” Sgt. Simon Gravel said Wednesday. Gravel said it’s hard to predict where coyotes will attack, as they roam throughout Stanley Park, and there is no way to protect the public from these attacks at this time.

More than 30 people have been attacked by coyotes in the park since December 2020, including a two-year-old child who was taken to hospital after an attack Monday. Nadia Xenaxis with the Stanley Park Ecology Society said coyotes first arrived in Vancouver in the 1980s, and between then and late last year, only eight attacks had been recorded. “It’s an unprecedented, unusual change that’s happening with the coyotes right now,” she said.

Kelowna councillor ‘disgusted’ by racist tirade against COVID-19 vaccine site security guard A city councillor in Kelowna is “disgusted and horrified” after a racist tirade directed at a security guard at one of the city’s Covid-19 vaccine clinics, and says she will be meeting with the police superintendent to discuss what action can be taken. Coun. Mohini Singh is one of many in the city who shared the video, first posted by Infotel, to social media, condemning the comments. The man yelling at the security guard is, according to

Singh, an outspoken opponent of the effort to immunize people against the coronavirus. “My first response was absolute disgust. I was horrified that this individual would attack a guy who’s just trying to do his job. He’s telling him to go back to India. He’s telling him he is not a Canadian. I think he’s more Canadian than the fellow doing the attacking because there he is working to make sure those who are going in to get a vaccine, are able to get in properly.

Plans show proposed park on top of new Oakridge Mall New plans are coming forward for Vancouver’s Oakridge Centre. A section of the proposal is ready for public comment, with parkland, pedestrian areas, and a running path all on top of the new mall, along with a 28-storey residential tower. The proposed park would have six areas, according to the application. Some would be at different elevations, with the running path connecting to all of them. Amenities in the park would include a terraced community garden, orchard trees, an off-

leash dog park, a water feature, a stage, a playground, a space for events like exercise classes, and even an area for a forest-like space. “The landscape is draped over the buildings, enveloping the program spaces below and spilling down to grade (ground level) at the corners of the site, providing access to the park above. The fabric of the landscape is cut and lifted to allow light to enter into the mall below and to create space for programs such as the food hall and performance stage to emerge from the landscape above,” write the applicants.

New Richmond Hospital tower to cost $860.8 million, construction to last decade Richmond residents can look forward to a decade of construction at Richmond Hospital. On Tuesday, the province announced it will cost $860.8 million to build a new north tower, renovate the south tower and expand emergency, mental health and diagnostics services with a final completion date of 2031. The project’s original budget was about $350 million, but last summer the premier and minister of health came to Richmond to announce several hundred million dollars were being added to the budget. Premier John

Horgan said, at Tuesday’s announcement, they looked at the business plan and decided to make it bigger “to meet the needs of a growing population.” Health Minister Adrian Dix added the “re-envisioned project” was necessary, and, if the initial concept plan had been built, it probably would have immediately needed to be expanded. “It’s an extraordinary amount of money, but in the context of the things that will happen here at the hospital in the next decade, it’s absolutely affordable and it’s what’s needed,” Dix said.

BC nurse’s driver’s licence suspended after she couldn’t do breathalyzer test due to facial paralysis A B.C. nurse whose face is partially paralyzed says her driver’s licence was suspended and her car impounded after she was unable to provide a breathalyzer sample during a roadside check — and that Canadian laws about alcohol breath tests leave people with certain disabilities no way to prove their innocence. Jamie van der Leek, 44, of Port Alberni, says she developed a severe case of Bell’s palsy — damage to the facial nerve which left her paralyzed on one

side of her face — during one of her pregnancies. The palliative care nurse was vacationing with her husband and children in Penticton, in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley, on Saturday, when an RCMP officer stopped her for a roadside check after a day at the lake. The officer asked van der Leek to provide a breath sample to test for alcohol. She says she tried, but because of her condition, she failed to create a seal over the device and blow in enough air for a viable test.

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Saturday, July 17, 2021 Seniors to get extra Old Age Security payments Seniors may be in store for some extra cash over the months ahead, namely: an Old Age Security indexation adjustment, a special $500 one-time payment for “older” seniors, and, come 2022, an extra 10 per cent annually for those over the age of 75. The objective of the OAS program is “to ensure a minimum income for seniors and help reduce the incidence of low income among Canada’s seniors.” The OAS benefits include: the OAS pension, which is paid to all individuals aged 65 and older who meet residence requirements, the Guaranteed Income Supplement for lowincome seniors, and the Allowances for low-income Canadians aged 60 to 64 who are spouses or common-law partners of GIS recipients, or who are widowed or widowers. This month, OAS benefits will automatically increase by 1.3 per cent, so the maximum monthly OAS pension amount will increase to $626.49, from $618.45. The GIS and the Allowances for lower-income seniors will also be adjusted for inflation. Higher-income seniors could see some of their OAS clawed back due to the dreaded

15-per-cent OAS “recovery tax.” For 2021, your OAS is reduced if your net income is more than $79,845 (line 23400 of your return) and is fully clawed back once income hits $129,581. Because OAS benefits are determined on an individual net income basis, a couple could have an annual household income up to about $160,000 and still receive full OAS benefits, or household income as high as about $258,000 and still receive partial OAS. Most seniors, however, have low and modest incomes, with about 84 per cent of OAS pensioners having individual incomes of less than $50,000. Last week, the government announced that during the week of Aug. 16, 2021, it will be paying “older” seniors the $500 one-time Old Age Security payment that was originally announced in the 2021 federal budget. This additional payment, worth $1.7 billion in total, is in addition to the one-time GST/ HST credit most seniors would have received in April 2020 (worth $1.3 billion in total) and the one-time OAS/GIS payment seniors received in July 2020 (worth $2.5 billion in total).

TD says its US banking operations were hit by an unexpected technical issue Toronto-Dominion Bank TD-T +0.19%increase is having an unexpected technical issue in its U.S. operations affecting both customers and employees, the Canadian lender said on Twitter on Thursday. In response to customer complaints that they were unable to access their accounts online or on the bank’s app, the bank’s U.S. Twitter account acknowledged the issues and said its team was “working diligently to have

things up and running” as soon as possible. Customers earlier also complained about delays to direct deposits, but the bank tweeted that issue had been fixed. A TD spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Be smart with your money. Get the latest investing insights delivered right to your inbox three times a week, with the Globe Investor newsletter.

Carolyn Rogers named senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada Carolyn Rogers, a familiar regulatory face in Canada and abroad, is coming home later this year to become second-incommand at the Bank of Canada. Rogers has spent the past two years as secretary-general of an international regulatory body overseen by the world’s central bankers and was a former senior official at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, which regulates banks in Canada.

Rogers’ seven-year term as senior deputy governor starts Dec. 15, one week after the bank makes its final scheduled rate announcement for 2021 and just over a year after Carolyn Wilkins stepped down from the role. In many of her speeches at OSFI and more recently at the Bank of International Settlements, essentially a central bank for the world’s central bankers, she has stressed the need for regulators to be good referees.

Canada Life signs deal to buy employer health, dental services provider ClaimSecure The Canada Life Assurance Co. has signed a deal to buy ClaimSecure Inc., a company that provides health and dental claim management services to Canadian employers. Canada Life says the acquisition grows its role as a third-party payer and third-party administrator, which provide a variety of services for employers that offer benefits. Canada Life executive vice-president Brad Fedorchuk said the company isn’t disclosing financial terms of the transaction but he said it offers potential for growth.

“Canada Life has not had as big a footprint in the third-party payer and third-party administrator space, so this will give us significant growth in that market channel,” Fedorchuk said. ClaimSecure’s customers are about 7,000 employers with providing benefits for about 1.125 million Canadians, including 400,000 employees plus their dependants. “There would be little if any duplication of customers within that base,” Fedorchuk said.

More paramedics and dispatchers will be hired in B.C., health minister announces More paramedics, dispatchers, and new ambulances are some of the changes Health Minister Adrian Dix announced on Wednesday after several paramedics told reporters the system had failed during the deadly heat wave at the end of June. Workers told CBC News that some dispatchers had more than 200 calls waiting for a response and lower-priority calls were left unattended for anywhere from four to 16 hours.

On Wednesday, Dix said the B.C. Emergency Health Services board of directors has been tasked to solely focus on ambulance services and look into what other changes can be made to improve the emergency system to better support workers and those who rely on the service. He said calls increased during the record-breaking heat wave, but paramedics were already under pressure from the overdose crisis.

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More than 1,400 properties ordered to evacuate in central More than 1,400 properties in British Columbia’s Cariboo region have been placed on evacuation order as wildfires rage across the province. The order from the Cariboo Regional District covers roughly 1,000 properties south of 100 Mile House and 482 properties in the Canim Lake area, with residents warned of “immediate danger” from wildfires. The District of 100 Mile House, roughly 200 kilometres north of Kamloops, has been placed under an evacuation alert, which means residents have been told they

may have to leave their homes with little notice. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has issued an evacuation order for 117 properties near Young Lake due to the encroaching Sparks

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Kelowna crane collapse sparks calls for mandatory training, certification for operators The union representing operating engineers in B.C. is calling on the province to bring in mandatory regulations governing crane assembly and dismantling after a workplace accident that left five people dead in Kelowna on Monday (July 12). The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 115 said it h as been lobbying for mandatory tower crane operator certification and improved industry safety standards for nearly two decades. The union said that there are around 280 cranes operating around B.C. and they are often set up and taken down under tight timelines. “We strongly encourage the B.C. government to legislate mandatory training and certification of workers involved in the assembly and dismantling of tower cranes, setting out minimum qualification standards, as well as establishing a registry of individuals who work in this industry,” said Brian Cochrane, Business Manager of IUOE Local 115. “It is a shame that it sometimes takes major incidents like this to prompt action from Government regulators.” It’s unclear what made the crane in Kelowna collapse on Monday. The incident killed five people and the body of the last man was not extricated from the rubble until around midnight on Tuesday night. The effort required a specialized team from Vancouver. Four of the dead were workers on the job site, including the crane operator, while the fifth was working on an adjacent building. Another man was taken to hospital but has since been released. The RCMP are investigating to ensure the collapse was not criminal and a WorkSafeBC investigation will also determine what occurred. Union representatives have met with the City of Vancouver’s engineering department and created a working group, involving the city, the operating engineers union, the B.C. Association for Crane Safety, contractors and industry stakeholders to review tower crane safety regulations. The working group has led to several safety recommendations being implemented as part of a pilot project in the City of Vancouver, including pre- and post-assembly meetings and checklists, full lane closures for vehicles, bicycles and sidewalk closures for pedestrians, better traffic control, weekday tower crane erections and dismantling, larger staging and mobile crane set up areas and granting permit extensions and allowing additional full days for crane assembly and dismantling.

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Farmers stir shakes up BJP in Punjab as leaders held up, some offer support BJP’s democratic right to campaign as a political party is being thwarted in Punjab by the farmers and there seems to no rule of the law with the police being mute spectators, the Punjab BJP Chief Ashwani Sharma has told News18. This comes after 14 BJP leaders were held hostage in a house by farmers for nearly 12 hours in Punjab’s Rajpura on Sunday night and were rescued after the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s intervention. BJP state leaders, who are facing the anger of the farmers on account of the three farm laws brought by the Centre last year, went and met the Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday to complain that their safety was in grave danger. “Don’t we have the democratic right as a political party to campaign in Punjab? There

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have been 131 cases of violence against BJP leaders so far but the police always lodges a case against unidentified farmers and does not make any arrests though faces of farmers are visible in video footage and in the media reports in newspapers and TV channels. So are these governmentsponsored protests against the BJP in Punjab?” Sharma has told News18 in an interview. Sharma said they have pointed it out to the CM that protesting teachers and unemployed youths are not allowed to come near the CMs residence and water-cannons and tear-gas is used to disperse them. “Then why are farmers allowed to enter our preannounced programmes in Punjab about which prior intimation is given to the police?

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday indefinitely barred Mastercard Inc (MA.N) from issuing new debit or credit cards to domestic customers for violating data storage rules, dealing a blow to the U.S. company in a key market. In a notification, the RBI said Mastercard had not complied with data storage rules from 2018 that require foreign card networks to store Indian payments data “only in India” so the regulator can have “unfettered supervisory access”. Notwithstanding lapse of considerable time and adequate opportunities being given, the entity (Mastercard) has been found to be non-compliant with the directions,” the RBI said. Mastercard did not respond to a request for comment. The ban takes effect on July 22. The move comes less than three months after India’s central bank barred American Express

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Modi govt finally sets up bad bank hoping to tackle NPA mountain, boost credit flow India formally set up a bad loan bank as part of the nation’s ongoing efforts to remove one of the world’s largest piles of soured debt from the balance sheet of financiers and accelerate lending. The firm was registered as the National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd. on July 7 with Padmakumar Madhavan Nair as the managing director, according to filings with the Registrar of Companies, where firms must register before becoming operational. NARCL’s paid-up capital is 746 million rupees ($10 million), according to the filing. Nair previously worked at the State Bank of India where he handled stressed assets resolution. Sunil Mehta, chief executive officer of the Indian Banks’ Association, will be a

director, while SBI’s Salee Sukumaran Nair and Canara Bank’s Ajit Krishnan Nair are nominee directors on the board, according to the filing. The bad loan bank will provide a much-needed relief to Indian lenders struggling to bring down their massive problem debt pile that has eroded profit and constrained their ability to lend. It’s intended as a fillip to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attempts to boost credit flow to pump up the South Asian economy that has shrunk the most in nearly seven decades as a fallout of the pandemic. The government’s decision to start the bad loan bank comes after an overhauled bankruptcy process rolled

India to protect subsidies for small fishers India will deal with defending the subsidies given to its small and artisanal fishing neighborhood on the WTO ministerial assembly on Thursday, the place members will try and push the continuing negotiations in the direction of conclusion. “New Delhi will insist on exclusion of all subsidies supplied to its small and artisanal fishers, with out a time-limit, as such fishers should be supported for a very long time to come back,” a supply monitoring the matter instructed BusinessLine.

The ministerial stage assembly, more likely to be attended by Commerce & Trade Minister Piyush Goyal, will probably be held in digital mode, with every minister supplied an allotted time to make an intervention. The assembly is aimed toward narrowing gaps within the ongoing negotiations for elimination of dangerous subsidies, estimated at $14-20.5 billion yearly, resulting in overcapacity and overfishing, in order that an settlement may very well be reached on the full-scale WTO Ministerial meet scheduled in November 2021 in Geneva.

No govt job or subsidy for those with more than two kids, UP govt proposes People having more than two children in Uttar Pradesh will be debarred from contesting local bodies polls, applying for government jobs or receiving any kind of subsidy, says a draft of a population control bill put up on the state law commission website. The draft bill, for which suggestions have been invited from the public till July 19, also prohibits promotions in government jobs for such people, while offering incentives to those limiting their children to two. The draft says it is necessary to control and stabilise the population of the state for the promotion of sustainable development with more equitable distribution. Population control legislations

are a political hot potato in the country, and recently Assam, another BJP-ruled state, had announced that it will gradually implement a two-child policy for availing benefits under specific schemes funded by the state. The draft bill drew flak from the opposition parties on Saturday, with the Congress alleging it was intended to serve the BJP’s “political agenda” ahead of next year’s assembly elections in UP. Samajwadi Party leaders called it a “murder of democracy”. The UP government, however, said it will also announce a new population policy for 2021-2030 on Sunday to incentivise people to help in population control.

Cops raid homes of foreign nationals to find those overstaying The Central Crime Branch wing of the Bengaluru Police conducted searches on houses where foreign nationals were residing in various parts of the city on Thursday, July 15. The police said that they were carried in a bid to prevent the distribution of drugs and other banned substances, allegedly by foreign nationals, and to identify those who were overstaying or without valid documents. According to the CCB, two people were found in possession of ganja, seven were found with expired visas and

38 people did not have valid documents A statement from the police said, “The Bengaluru CCB Police have been continuing operations to eradicate drugs. In an investigation, it has come to light that some foreigners who are residing here illegally are distributing illegal substances in higher numbers. To put an end to this, on July 15, in the early hours of the morning, the CCB conducted a surprise search of 65 houses where foreigners had been residing

Biden administration appoints Meena Seshamani as Director of Medicare Dr Meena Seshamani has been appointed to lead the US Centre for Medicare, as the Biden administration continues to show confidence in Indian Americans. She will serve as CMS Deputy Administrator and Director for Medicare. Seshamani will lead the Centre for Medicare that caters to those aged 65 and older, people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease who solely rely on Medicare coverage. She is an Indian-American health policy expert who worked as a health care executive, health economist and a

physician, and has served on the Biden-Harris transition Health and Human Services agency review team. Seshamani also served as Vice President of Clinical Care Transformation at MedStar Health and was entrusted to implement population health and value-based intensive care. Prior to that, she was director in the office of Health Reform at the US Department of Health where she is credited with the strategy and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Having graduated in both economics and medicine, Seshamani completed her

Biden administration nominates 2 US-Indian doctors to key posts US President Joe Biden has nominated a prominent Indian-American physician and a surgeon to serve in key roles in his administration. West Virginia’s former health commissioner Dr Rahul Gupta was nominated on Tuesday as the next director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Atul Gawande, a surgeon and popular author, was nominated for Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health at the US Agency for International Development. A practising primary care physician of 25 years, Gupta previously served under two Governors as the Health Commissioner of West Virginia.

Man went for a COVID vaccine but was sterilized instead The family of a man with disabilities in Uttar Pradesh, India claims that a government healthcare worker took him to the hospital on the pretext of getting him a COVID-19 vaccine, but he ended up sterilized instead. Over the weekend, a community health worker picked up 40-year-old Dhruv Kumar, who has speech and hearing impairment, from his home and took him to a local hospital

where he was allegedly sterilized without his consent, his brother Ashok told news outlets on July 13. According to Ashok, Dhruv fell unconscious shortly after the health worker brought him home, and the family rushed him back to the hospital, where they were informed about his sterilization. The healthcare worker, Neelam Kumari, promised to pay Dhruv INR3,500 ($47) for getting the “vaccination,” Ashok added. The hospital has launched an investigation into the incident.

Saturday, July 17, 2021

Punjab Protesting Punjab doctors examine patients at hospital lawns Punjab’s government doctors, who are protesting over the issue of non-practicing allowance (NPA), on Thursday examined patients at their own cost in the lawns of hospitals even as they boycotted the government outpatient departments (OPDs). Doctors at government hospitals have been protesting against the recommendations of the state’s sixth pay commission, delinking the non-practicing allowance from the basic pay. They are also agitated by the pay

commission’s recommendation of reduction in the NPA from 25 per cent to 20 per cent. Doctors had announced to boycott government OPDs from July 15 to July 17 but had also said that parallel OPDs would be run during this period in the lawn of hospitals so that the needy persons are not deprived basic health services. This decision was taken by the the Joint Government Doctors Coordination Committee (JGDCC), which has members

Sacrilege issue weighs on voters’ mind, likely to impact poll outcome Six years and several investigations later, the last word on the sacrilege and police firing cases is yet to be heard. While the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), under whose tenure the incidents took place, rues that it’s a victim of propaganda on the issue and suffered much in the 2017 Assembly elections, the incumbent Congress has failed to solve the vexed issue and ensure justice.

Why dera chief not quizzed so far? The first SIT under IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap had summoned Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. It sought permission of the Haryana Government to question him in the jail. The permission was denied. He is currently hospitalised. A cross-section of voters The Tribune spoke to feel the issue is still hot and can affect the electorate’s mind in the 2022 Assembly elections.

Temperatures hover below normal in Haryana and Punjab The maximum temperatures hovered below normal limits at most places in Haryana and Punjab on Thursday. After receiving rains in the past two days, mainly dry weather prevailed in most parts of the two states on Thursday, the Meteorological Department said. However, heavy rains lashed Karnal in Haryana during the day.

According to the Meteorological Department here, Karnal received 49 mm rainfall. Notably, during the past two days, Karnal has received over 300 mm of rain. Karnal’s maximum temperature on Thursday dropped by six notches below normal to settle at 28 degrees Celsius.

Pakistan Govt wanrs public as fourth wave of Covid-19 starting There are “clear early signs” of a fourth Covid-19 wave starting in Pakistan due to not proper compliance with the standard operating procedures and the spread of the Delta variant, Minister for Planning said. The minister said field reports were showing

a complete disregard for the standard operating procedures (SOPs) and warned that field reports were showing a complete disregard for the standard operating procedures (SOPs) and warned that the government would be forced to shut down wedding halls, indoor restaurants and gyms if they ignored the rules.

Govt to withdraw cases against 350 accused in temple burning case Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Tuesday said that criminal cases against 350 people accused of burning down a temple last year will be withdrawn, claiming that the minority Hindu community has pardoned them. According to the interior department sources of the province, members of the Hindu community decided to pardon the accused persons in a jirga constituted by the government to settle the matter. A jirga is a traditional assembly of

elders to make decisions by consensus. They said that the government had constituted the jirga which amicably resolved all the issues that created an unrest between the local Muslim and Hindu communities in the area. However, the Hindus maintained that despite assurances by the government, the construction of a resting area adjacent to the temple is being unnecessarily delayed, creating unrest among the minority community.

Prime Minister is waiting for a call from Joe Biden but the phone hasn’t rung Around mid-year, one starts assessing how the year could have looked up had things gone a certain way or if a powerful friend had kept some of the promises they made at the start of the year. Now, what if that powerful friend lives in the White House? Getting an invite is door ki baat, even a telephone call means

a lot. But things don’t always go as you plan. US President Joe Biden must be among those having mid-year regrets. How he could have done things differently, arranged a couple of playdates, or at least made one “important” long-distance phone call to Pakistan.

Court forces 13-y-o Christian girl to return to captor’s home as his ‘wife’ A court in Pakistan’s Punjab Province has granted custody of a 13-year Christian girl to a Muslim man who has three wives and allegedly abducted her and forced her to marry him and convert to Islam. Shahid Gill, the Catholic father of the girl, Nayab Gill, pleaded that his daughter was underage and could not legally marry or change

her religion on her own, but the Lahore High Court upheld a ruling of a lower court, giving custody to the Muslim man, identified as 30-yearold Saddam Hayat, Morning Star News reported. Justice Shahram Sarwar Chaudhry last week rejected the girl’s official birth documents showing she was 13, while siding with Hayat who claimed she had converted

FIJI Ten more deaths reported in Fiji from Covid-19 Fiji health authorities have reported an additional ten deaths from Covid-19 over the past week. In his daily statement on Covid-19 cases health secretary James Fong said there were 634 new cases for the 24 hour periiod ending at 8am yesterday. All of the dead were aged from 42 to 90 and nine had not been vaccinated, with the tenth having had one dose of vaccine. Another two deaths of covid positive people are being investigated as they also

had pre-existing medical conditions. There have now been 69 deaths in Fiji from Covid 19, 67 of those since the latest outbreak began in April. Fiji now has 10,033 active cases. As of Tuesday the government reports that 370,219 people had received their first dose of vaccine and 70,917 had had both doses, meaning just over 12 percent of the population is fully innoculated. Dr Fong said people are still dying at home or coming into medical facilities

Fijians urged to get vaccinated as soon as possible to build up immunity as COVID-19 spreads wo weeks ago, Lepani Raiyala lost his partner Maree Stewart to COVID-19. Ms Stewart, a popular radio personality in Fiji, was only 39 when she died in hospital after contracting the virus amid the Pacific nation’s deadly outbreak. Mr Raiyala, who also tested positive for coronavirus, was forced to watch Ms Stewart’s funeral service “helplessly” via Zoom while

isolating at a COVID-care facility in the capital, Suva. “The fact that I’m not able to make it [to the funeral] and to be there to perform one last thing for her before she goes … that hurts a lot,” Mr Raiyala said. The number of infections has surged past 12,000 in Fiji and more than 90 people have died after contracting the virus. Catch up on the main COVID-19 news from

Fiji reports 1220 new cases of virus in 24 hours Fiji has recorded more than 1000 cases of Covid-19 over a 24-hour period. The country has been battling an outbreak of the Delta variant since April, however the situation has become increasingly dire over the last week. For the day ending 8am on Thursday, the country saw 1220 people test positive

for Covid-19, the Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services said in a statement. There are now a total of 11,033 active cases, with a seven-day average of 746 new cases daily. Case numbers have increased so much that heath officials are running out of isolation spaces and have asked Fijians to self-isolate in their own homes. The health authority also reported the deaths of five people from

INDIA

Saturday, July 17, 2021

Kerala’s Covid-19 woes continue, 13k new cases Kerala has again bucked the national trend, reporting 13,773 new cases on Thursday with a high test positivity rate (TPR) of 10.95, according to the data released by the state health ministry. The state also reported 87 deaths, taking total fatalities to 15,025. In last 24 hours, the country reported 41,806 new cases with a TPR below 3 per cent. The state has been contributing the highest number of cases since June 15. In last one week, average cases in the state were 12,000 and TPR 10.2, almost one-third of the total caseload of the country, statistics show. The state’s contribution to the national numbers has risen steadily even as the national numbers

started to slide two months ago. The state’s different virus pattern and slow progression rate have baffled medical experts. “It has to be studied well. We need an in-depth scientific study,” said public health expert Dr N M Arun. Among the infected are 57 health workers. Though most of them had two doses of vaccine, many workers are getting infected for the second and third time. Malappuram district topped with 1,917 cases. In last 24 hours, 125, 742 samples were tested. Covid-19 third wave is “inevitable and imminent,” the Indian Medical Association said earlier this week and urged state governments to disallow large gatherings as these could become “potential super spreader” events.

NDP silent as B.C. agriculture and aquaculture industries devastated by heat wave Press release As B.C. farmers, growers and fishers heat wave could pose on people — that same contend with damaged crops, stressed 2019 report that they ignored also warned poultry and livestock, dead shellfish and them about the high risk of agricultural significant economic losses following damage. The true extent of the impacts of the the recent heat wave, John Horgan and heat wave continue to emerge, as berry and the NDP are offering little reassurance tree fruit growers, poultry and dairy farmers, they will do anything to help them. and aquaculture operators share their stories. “These are strong, resilient people by nature “Just as the heat wave tragically affected but they need to know their government is people, it’s also having a serious effect on the there for them in difficult times,” says BC agriculture and aquaculture sectors,” says Liberal Agriculture & Food Critic and Delta BC Liberal Fisheries & Aquaculture Critic South MLA Ian Paton. “Instead, they’re Jordan Sturdy, MLA for West Vancouvergetting dismissed by Agriculture Minister Sea to Sky. “Instead of dismissing the Lana Popham who believes ‘B.C. food concerns of farmers, growers and fishers, producers don’t need (our) sympathy.’ It’s this minister and Premier need to tell them just another example of the NDP’s dismissive what supports might be available to help attitude toward people’s suffering.” ease their catastrophic losses — losses which And just like John Horgan and the NDP are coming on the heels of the negative were warned about the damaging effects a impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

BC Liberals announce date of first leadership debate Press release The BC Liberal’s Leadership Election be allocated on a first come first serve basis. Organizing Committee (LEOC) Party members will be invited to submit is excited to announce the date of themes and questions in advance of the debate. the first debate of Leadership 2022. “This debate will be an exciting The first debate will be streamed online at 7:00 opportunity for our members to hear directly PM (PST) on Wednesday, September 8th 2021 from the leadership candidates about their This will be the first in a series of debates vision for our Party moving forward.” that will be held across the province as said Colin Hansen co-chair of the Party’s the Party moves towards selecting a new Leadership Election Organizing Committee. leader on February 5th 2022. Additional The election of a new leader will take place dates and locations will be announced soon. on February 5th. In order to be eligible to vote, There will be limited capacity for media the deadline for individuals to join the Party to attend the debate due to ongoing physical or renew a membership is December 29, 2021. distancing requirements. If you are interested The full rules and information regarding in attending in person, please RSVP to david. the 2022 leadership race can be found on wasyluk@bcliberals.com, available spots will the BC Liberal website: www.bcliberals.com

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