Diaspora

CANADA: Police have charged three people, including Harmnadeep Tiwana, in what is believed to be Alberta’s largest seizure of GHB, also known as the “date-rape drug.”

BRAMPTON: Peel Police have arrested two Indian-origin men for a series of break-ins into warehouses and stealing goods in Brampton.

VANCOUVER: The victim in the gang war shooting at Cactus Club has been identified as 23-year-old Jaskeerat Kalkat.

SURREY: A 100-year-old Surrey resident Harbhajan Kaur has gotten her first dose of the vaccine, saying she hopes to encourage others to do the same.

WASHINGTON: Indian-American Neera Tanden will serve as a senior adviser to US President Joe Biden.

EDINBURG: Pam Gosal created history when she became the first member of the Scottish Parliament who recited Gurbani on the occasion of taking oath as Member Parliament.

ALBERTA: A GoFundMe campaign is underway to get the body of a Punjab youth slain in Sherwood Park last week back to his family in India.

LONDON: Two Indians detained by British Border Force officials on suspicion of immigration offences in the Scottish city of Glasgow has been released after residents swarmed the street for eight hours to block their van from leaving, according to media reports.

LONDON: India-born entrepreneur Rajesh Agrawal has been re-appointed as London’s Deputy Mayor for Business by Mayor Sadiq Khan after he won a second term in local elections last week.

ASHKELON: Amid the ongoing airstrikes by Hamas in Israel, a 30-year-old Indian woman died on Tuesday, according to officials.