Diaspora

WINNIPEG: A street in a new development in Canada’s Winnipeg has been named after Indian-born Canadian doctor Gulzar Cheema.

BRITISH COLUMBIA: Five young Sikh men used their turbans to rescue two hikers who had fallen into a waterfall pool at Golden Ears Provincial Park in Canada were honoured by Ridge Meadows RCMP.

OTTAWA: Punjab-origin Canadian politician Anita Anand has been appointed as Canada’s new Defence Minister in a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

SURREY: Two men who pleaded guilty last June to the August 2019 second-degree murder of Hells Angel Suminder Singh Grewal (who was also known as “Allie” and had joined the Hardside chapter in Surrey a few years ago) were recently sentenced to life in prison and will not be eligible …

ONTARIO: A 31-year-old Indian driver who allegedly fled the scene of a collision on a Toronto highway earlier this month that left a woman dead has been arrested, police say.

ENGLAND: A 28-year-old Indian-origin man who stabbed his wife multiple times before driving to a nearby street where he left her body on the pavement has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a UK court on Monday, after pleading guilty to murder.

OTTAWA: Indian-origin Amarjeet Sohi has been elected mayor of the city of Edmonton in Canada’s Alberta.

SURREY: The police in Canada are requesting the public’s assistance in locating 55-year-old Punjabi man.

TORONTO: Two Punjab-origin girls died while two other persons suffered multiple injuries after a car carrying five people collided with a goods train at a railway crossing near Brampton.

BRAMPTON: A 36-year-old Punjab-origin man is dead after he was shot in a commercial plaza in Brampton, Canada early on Tuesday morning.