Calgary/11July/Karanveer :

The Stampede is getting back to activity this year after it was dropped in 2020 without being canceled for more than 100 years.

A Punjabi trucker has been arrested in Canada for smuggling about 112.5 kg of cocaine into the country from the US.

Two Ayurveda doctors, who are originally from India's Kerela state and now based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have received the Gulf nation's coveted Golden Visa, according to a media report on Saturday.

Kathmandu, June 20 :
Two Indian nationals died in a fire that broke out at a steel factory in Nepal's Bara district.

The victims have been identified as Pradeep Godh, 40, and Ramnath Mahato, 45, and both are said to be residents of Bihar.

Toronto, June 20 :

Three Punjabis were appointed as Ministers in a Cabinet reshuffle in Canada's Ontario province.

Moga-born Parm Gill, 47, was on Friday appointed as Ontario's new Minister of Citizenship and Multiculturalism.

Prabmeet Sakaria, who in 2019 became the first turban-wearing minister in Ontario when he was appointed Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction, now gets a full Cabinet rank as President of the Treasury Board.

New York, June 12 :

ndian-origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan has won the US' top journalism award, the Pulitzer Prize, for innovative investigative reports harnessing satellite technology that exposed China's mass detention camps for Muslim Uighurs and other minority ethnicites.