North America

BRAMPTON: A Punjabi councillor from city of Brampton, Canada has been suspended following allegations of sexual assault by a woman.

WASHINGTON: The United States had diagnosed at least 4,937,441 cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began.

FRESNO: A Punjabi youth who tried to rescue three children from the Kings River on Wednesday has died.

PULASKI COUNTY: A Punjabi truck driver died in a horrific seven-vehicle crash in Virginia, US.

WASHINGTON: Indian-origin politician Sara Gideon, currently serving as Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, has been endorsed by former US President Barack Obama as the senatorial candidate for Maine.

OTTAWA: Canada has struck deals in place with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and U.S.-based biotech firm Moderna to secure millions of doses of their experimental COVID-19 vaccines, in case either of the candidates is approved for wide-scale use.

WASHINGTON: The United States recorded 52,810 new Covid-19 cases and 1,388 virus-related fatalities on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

BRAMPTON: Peel Regional Police have issued a wanted notice for Indian-origin Jay Kumar, on the morning of August 4.

NEW YORK: An image of Lord Ram, and the design of the Ram temple set to be built in Ayodhya, was displayed at New York’s Times Square on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said US generals told him that the blast in Lebanon’s Beirut was caused due to a “bomb of some kind”.