The Canadian government has revealed its immigration plan to welcome half a million immigrants each year by 2025 to tackle the problem of labour shortage....
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a woman from Kansas who organised and led an all-female battalion of the Islamic State (IS) terror group in Syria has been sentenced to 20 years in jail. ...
Rachna Singh, a Punjab-origin Parliamentary Secretary for anti-racism initiatives in Canada's British Columbia, has made history by addressing the legislature in Punjabi....
Influenza is hitting the US unusually early and hard, resulting in the most hospitalisations at this point in the season in more than a decade, a media report said. ...
Hindu prayers opened the Board of Commissioners meeting of Nye County, reportedly the third-largest county in the contiguous USA, on November one; containing verses from world’s oldest extant scripture. ...
Rishi Sunak put his own stamp on history last week when he became the first coloured Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Add a few more firsts here in the same vein: The first person of Indian origin to hold the same post, and the first South Asian descent person to do the same....
Some Indian students in Canada are accusing the country of using them as a cheap source of labour and discarding them once they're no longer needed, a media report said on Tuesday....
US President Joe Biden on Monday expressed his deepest condolences to the victims of Gujarat's Morbi bridge collapse in which at least 134 people, including women and children, were killed and over 100 injured....
The US Supreme Court heard arguments on the use of affirmative action in college admissions. ...
Covid-19 cases caused by new variants are growing fast in the US, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
