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INDIAN PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI MET WITH THE US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IN OVAL OFFICE AT WHITE HOUSEIN WASHINGTON DC, IN USA AND DISCUSSED MATTERS OF MUTUAL INTEREST (PIB).

India huge priority market for Liberal government; Trudeauto visit India soon, dates not confirmed: Chrystia Freeland

Richmond, BC Developer AmarjitSandhu Brutally Murdered

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DESK REPORTTORONTO -Amarjit Singh Sandhu, a promi-nent 56-year-old Richmond developer was brutallymurdered outside a Tim Hortons coffee shop, not farfrom his company's Richmond head office in BritishColumbia recently. After being shot he was rushed tothe hospital where he died. Sandhu was active incharitable causes and often donated for local initia-tives. According to police, it was target killing as histruck was riddled with bullets but no suspect hasbeen nabbed as yet. In a statement Staff Sgt. JenniferPound of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) has said: "The act ofhomicide is one that is selfish and cold. There is an extra element of concern whenone chooses to commit this crime in such a bold and brazen manner ina very public setting." Police is urging witnesses to come forwardand share any information that they might have in this regard.

ICCC honours contribution ofleading Indo-Canadians

TORONTO - The Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce's (ICCC) AnnualAwards and Gala Night is an impor tant event on the annual calendarof the Indo-Canadian community, a premier social and business eventthat sees enthusiastic participation of more than a thousand guests. Leadingentrepreneurs, professionals, decision-makers in the government, andacademics attend the event.The ICCC honours the contribution of leading Indo-Canadians to thefabric of the Canadian society in eleven different categories. An Advi-sory Board, acting independently of the ICCC's board, selects winnersin the following categories:" Female Entrepreneur" Male Entrepreneur" Professional Female" Professional Male" Young Achiever" Technology Achievement" Corporate Executive" Humanitarian" Lifetime / Outstanding Achievement

Channel Y launches two newexciting shows

MISSISSAUGA - Going from strength to strength, Channel Y haslaunched two new programmes in its morning transmission - GoodWali Morning and HozpitalityBuzz. Good Wali Morning is aired be-tween 9am to 10am from Monday to Friday and HozpitalityBuzz fromMonday to Friday at 1pm. Good Wali Morning is conducted by Kavitaand Raj where they discuss fashion, beauty, food, films, health andsome other issues that interest the community.On the other hand HozpitalityBuzz showcases the best in hospitalityindustry and covers the top five-star hotels of Dubai with a Canadiantwist. A highly glamorous show, it highlights the exciting lifestyle inDubai with celebrity chefs such as Sanjeev Kapoor sharing his reci-pes, spas, and all that Dubai's hospitality industry stands for. So sub-scribe today and enjoy these high-heeled shows, exclusive only toChannel Y that is available on Rogers 857 and Bell at 828.

BY SHAZIA MALIKTORONTO - India is a huge priority market for the Liberal government'strade agenda as it is one of the world's fastest grow-ing markets. This was stated by International TradeMinister Chrystia Freeland in an exclusive sitt ingwith Midweek.Freeland said that the Liberal government desiresto fur ther the current $8 billion trade with India inseveral sectors including innovation and technol-ogy. Chrystia said a large number of Indian studentswho admire the Canadian education system are al-ready pursuing higher education in Canadian uni-versities and colleges, and the government is fo-cusing to attract more Indian students to its academic institu-tions.She mentioned that as a priority market, Prime Minister JustinTrudeau is planning to visit India sometime this year however dateshave still not been confirmed. She added Canada and India havelongstanding bilateral relations, built upon shared traditions of de-mocracy, pluralism and strong interpersonal connections with an In-dian diaspora of more than a million in Canada.She said India is a huge impor ter of vegetables and as a growing

market grains and pulses that account for over 95 per cent of Cana-dian agri-food expor ts to India. As India is harnessing green tech,

Canada is interested in investing in India's 100-hightech smar t cities initiatives and offer its exper tise asit has more know-how in this more energy and re-source efficient sector. Canada can also offer a lot insolar and green technologies to India.While at the G-7 summit recently, she got the chanceto meet Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State forCommerce and Industry (Independent Charge) andinvited her to Canada. Nirmala was expected to visitCanada soon but due to unforeseen circumstances,for now, she has cancelled her Canada visit but will

soon travel here. Thus Chrystia said, from technology to agricul-ture, Canada has a lot to offer to India and attract Indians to comehere instead of going elsewhere.Talking about the G-7 summit, she informed the prime ministerand the Canadian delegation had constructive meetings with autogiants there. The main purpose of the visit was to increase people-to-people contacts and sell brand Canada as a safe haven for futureinvestments. Chrystia concluded therefore, it was a highly success-ful tour and will translate into future opportunities.

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Vancouver gangster SukhDeo shot to death in Toronto

A former Metro Vancouver gangster was shotto death in Toronto Tuesday afternoon in abrazen attack . Sukh Deo, 34, was inside awhite Range Rover when two men star tedfiring at him just before 3 p.m. local time in analley near the busy intersection of Yonge Street andEglinton Avenue as per reports in Vancouver Sun.Sukh Deo was well-known to police in the LowerMainland and was a suspect in at least onecontinuing investigation here at the time of his murder.Regarding the suspects Toronto Police tweetedSHOOTING:

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SHAHID YEARNS TO WORKWITH KAREENA

AKSHAY KUMAR, JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ, CHUNKY PANDEY AND ABHISHEK BACHCHANDURING THE PRESS CONFERENCE OF FILM HOUSEFULL 3 IN MUMBAI (IANS).

MUMBAI, (IANS) Actor ShahidKapoor doesn' t th ink aboutwhether he will ever again sharescreen space with his former girl-friend Kareena Kapoor. However,he says he is open to the ideaand that it will be great if it hap-pens. Shahid and Kareena are apar t of "Udta Punjab", but they arenot paired together. In the past,the audience has loved theirchemistry in movies like "ChupChup Ke" and especially "Jab WeMet".Asked if he is open to work withKareena again, Shahid said: "Ihave always said 'yes'. I havebeen asked this question 30 times,and I have always said 'yes'. If it

happens, it's great and if it doesn'thappen, I have no problem. I re-ally don't think about it beyond apoint." For now, it's "Udta Punjab"and fatherhood on his mind. Theactor, who is married to MiraRajput, is excited about the im-pending arrival of their baby. "I

am really excited and looking for-ward to it. It's a really nice feel-ing. It will be a new responsibil-ity. From being an independentindividual, you become par t of afamily and of a wonderful unit. Soyou feel responsible not just foryourself, but for others as well."

What does AkshayKumar hate doingback-to-back?MUMBAI, (IANS) Superstar AkshayKumar says that he would hate thefeeling of going on the sets when hewas doing back-to-back action filmsand that's why he considers it impor-tant to break away from genres. At apromotional event for his next film"Housefull 3", Akshay was askedwhich is the most difficult genre andwhich genre he enjoys the most. "Ob-viously comedy is the most difficult.But I enjoy everything," he said."I just want to give away comedy fora while because how long can youdo one genre. You can do it for 3-5months, then you start getting boredof it. Like when I used to do a lot ofaction films, I used to actually feelbad about having to go every day anddo action films. I needed a change,"the actor added. Akshay was knownas an 'action star' during the 90s whenhe featured in action movies like"Mohra" and "Main Khiladi Tu Anari".But then he did "Hera Pheri" and manycomedy films followed. Recently,Akshay has showcased his versatil-ity as an actor by doing content-driven films like "Holiday", "Baby","Airlift" as well as comedies like"Singh is Bliing". After "Housefull 3",he will be seen in "Rustom" -- a seri-ous story about a naval officer.

Bipasha Basu's'wife skills' on testMUMBAI, (IANS) ActressBipasha Basu, who recentlymarried Karan Singh Grover,got a chance to test her wifelyskills when she appeared onpopular comedy show "TheKapil Sharma Show" alongwith her actor-husband. Thecouple was welcomed on theshow in a grand style and theset was decorated with lightsand flowers. "While Karanand Bipasha shared interest-ing anecdotes from theirwedding and honeymoonwith Kapil, a member fromthe audience decided to testBipasha on her home skillsand asked her to do someregular household chores thatwives usual ly do," said asource from the set.

Neha Dhupia doesn'twant to be part ofRoadies, why?MUMBAI, (IANS) ActressNeha Dhupia gets upset andbreaks down in tears in theupcoming episode of"Renault MTV Roadies X4".As the gang leaders as-sembled for the final voteouts, VJ Gaelyn's remarksmade Neha extremely angryand she burst into tears.Neha's gang is the only gangwhich is left with two con-testants and Gaelyn's re-marks didn't go down wellwith the actress. A sourcesaid: "This was extremelyshocking. We have never seenNeha getting so upset. She walkedout of the voting ground, sayingthat she doesn't want to bepar t of 'Roadies'."


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MPP JAGMEET SINGH'S MOTION ON TERMING SIKHKILLING IN 1984 AS 'GENOCIDE' DEFEATED

QUEEN'S PARK - Deputy Leaderfor Ontar io 's NDP JagmeetSingh's motion call ing on theOntario Government to formallyrecognize the November 1984state organized violence perpe-trated against Sikhs throughoutIndia as genocide was debatedand voted down by the OntarioLiberal Government."Today, the liberals turned theirback on human rights, social jus-tice, reconciliation and healing.They turned their back not onlyon Sikhs but every Hindu andMuslim family that risked theirl ives to shel ter their Sikhneighbours," the MPP fromBramalea-Gore-Malton said fol-lowing that day's devastat ingvote.Despite receiving suppor t fromboth the NDP and ProgressiveConservative caucuses, Ontario'sLiberal Government defeated themotion 40 to 22. The state orga-nized anti Sikh violence has com-monly been referred to as a riot.However the term riots suggestthe violence was spontaneousand communal."It is impor tant to clarify the mis-concept ion that the v io lenceagainst Sikhs was communal innature. This could not be fur therfrom the truth," Singh said to kickoff the debate. Under McGuintythe Liberals welcomed KamalNath an alleged perpetrator ofGenocide, Kathleen Wynne wasa par t of these meetings."Ontario is a place where peoplesee democracy as a way to healfrom the wounds of the past, buttoday Kathleen Wynne and theLiberals denied this oppor tunityto Sikhs," Singh explained. "It's

unfor tunate that the Liberal Gov-ernment does not understand theimpor tance of accurately describ-ing the violence as a genocide,which works to remove the blamefrom innocent members of thecommunity and instead placesthe blame squarely on those whoorganized this atrocity."Former Justice of the Indian Su-preme Cour t , author of theNanavat i Commission Repor tstated that the killing of Sikhswas planned and organized. Hu-man rights organizations havealso repor ted that the voter listswere used to identify and targetSikh businesses and homes."While, we cannot change thehorrific events of 1984, as Mem-bers of this Legislature, we hadan oppor tunity to clear miscon-ceptions which divide the com-munity" Singh explained."The first step to healing and rec-onciliation is to recognize theharm that was committed andthat's what this motion, if passedwould have done." The OntarioGovernment would have been thefirst legislative assembly to for-mally call the events of Novem-ber 1984 a genocide in the world.Meanwhile, MPP Harinder Takharsaid: "This is a great oppor tunityfor me to speak on this important sub-ject matter. But before I do, I want torecognize the members of the Sikhcommunity who are in the Legis-lature to watch this debate."We are debating a motion per-taining to the events of Novem-ber 1984 in India. This week, wemark the 32nd anniversary of theinvasion of the Golden Temple.Earlier this year, as par t of Pre-mier Wynne's trade mission to

India and Punjab, I had the honourto visit the Golden Temple again.The tragic events leading up toand following the invasion of theGolden Temple and the assassi-nation of Prime Minister IndiraGandhi resulted in the unneces-sary loss of thousands of inno-cent lives. We have all heard-andthe member f rom Bramalea-Gore-Malton talked about-someof the hear t-wrenching storiesfrom the families of the victims,seen through print media, throughTV interviews and some personalcontacts. We can all share somepersonal stories as well."Those stories are true. Innocentpeople, for no fault of their own,were killed. Mothers witnessedtheir young sons at their primeage being killed. Wives saw theirhusbands, fathers, fathers-in-lawand brothers dragged out of theirhomes and murdered in front oftheir own eyes. Young childrensaw their parents being killed infront of their own eyes. Parentssaw their daughters being raped,and they watched helplessly.Their homes and shops were ran-

sacked and set on fire."I salute the human beings whoprovided shelter to, and saved thelives of, some of the people whowere targeted. Several countrieshave recognized the grave atroci-ties that took place in 1984. Inresponding to an online petitioncampaign that had generated over30,000 signatures in 2013, Presi-dent Obama, even though he re-fused to declare the 1984 anti-Sikh violence as genocide, notedthat grave human rights violationshad occurred and continued tosay that, "We continue to con-demn-and more impor tantly, towork against-violence directed atpeople based on their religiousaffiliation."" In offer ing his government 'sapology in 2005, then-Prime Min-ister Manmohan Singh said thefollowing: "I have no hesitation inapologizing to the Sikh commu-nity. I apologize not only to theSikh community but to the wholeIndian nation, because what tookplace in 1984 is the negation ofthe concept of nationhood en-shrined in our constitution. On

behalf of our government, on be-half of the entire people of thiscountry I bow my head in shamethat such a thing took place.""Then-Prime Minister ManmohanSingh went on to say the follow-ing: "We cannot rewrite the past.But as human beings, we havethe willpower, and we have theability to write a better future forall of us." For some victims andtheir families, the 1984 event'swounds may have healed. Forothers, this tragedy still carrieson as an open wound to this day."For 32 years, families of the vic-tims have been asking that thoseresponsible be brought to justice.Mothers have been raising theirchildren by doing manual labourwithout any relief or suppor t. Inaddition, some bad elements insociety have fur ther committedcrimes and taken advantage ofthe s i tuat ion by demandingmoney, extor ting money and ex-ploiting young women. This isshameful . My words in th isHouse today are really emptywords, and they are no relief tothose families.

"Moreover, this is not a par tisanissue. It is so unfor tunate that themember who brought up this mo-tion failed to discuss it with theother four members of the Legis-lature who are also Sikh mem-bers. If he had done that, we couldhave introduced this motion to-gether, which could have madethis motion more effective andmeaningful. I want to watch thisimpor tant debate. I have an openmind on this issue. My objectiveas a legislator is to ensure thatjustice is served, those who com-mitted crimes are punished, re-lief is provided to mothers whohave been struggling to raisetheir children, steps are taken sothat these kinds of unfor tunateacts do not happen again, and badelements of society do not exploitsituations again. I look forward tothe debate."MPP Amri t Mangat spoke onSouthasian PULSE Radio and saidthat she condemned the violenceagainst the Sikhs in November1984 in the provincial parliamentbut she did not vote in suppor tof the motion brought by MPPJagmeet Singh and abstainedfrom voting as she thought thiswas not the right place to dealwith this issue. She also de-manded more time to study themotion and said Jagmeet Singhshould have discussed the mo-tion with her and other liberalMPPs before bringing it beforethe parliament.Harjit Jaswal who ran as a can-didate from PC par ty in the lastprovincial e lect ions also saidthat this is a very sensitive issuefor the community and we shouldnot play politics over this.



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TORONTO REMEMBERSD-DAY ON JUNE 6TORONTO - Mayor John Tory along with members of CityCouncil welcomed veterans, their families and the publicto commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the D-Day andthe Battle of Normandy. On June 6, 1944, 14,000 Cana-dian troops took par t in Operation Overlord, commonlyknown as D-Day, when they landed on Juno Beach inNormandy, France. The allied invasion marked thebeginning of the liberation of Europe during the SecondWorld War. The ceremony was hosted on Nathan PhillipsSquare on Monday. Lieutenant-General Richard Rohmer,one of Canada's most distinguished and decoratedcivilians and a veteran of D-Day, spoke on his experi-ences during the invasion.The City of Toronto also hosted two photo exhibits in therotunda of City Hall to commemorate D-Day. My DearVeterans, by photographer Ludmila Schnaider, featurespor traits of Canadian citizens who served allied armiesaround the world during the Second World War. Thesecond exhibit was of archival photographs taken duringthe war and personal images provided by D-Dayveterans and their families. Both exhibits were availableuntil noon on June 7.

MPP JAGMEET SINGH WITH MEMBERS OF THE GRASSYNARROWS FIGHTING FOR CLEAN WATER (TWITTER.COM).TORONTO MAYOR JOHN TORY SUPPORTS WALK NOW FOR AUTISM, A 3KM WALK THROUGH THE CITY (TWITTER.COM).

TORONTO - The Daughters for Life Foundation (DFL) recently held its Fourth Annual Gala at the Carlu. The gala hadan excessive success as both a night to celebrate the achievements of a group of inspirational activists and DFLscholars, but also as a phenomenal fundraiser. Thanks to all those who attended, DFL has raised thousands insupport of our educational programs to help send young women in the Middle East to achieve the higher leveleducation.The gala included work of a number of Canada's most talented artists like Charles Pachter, Barbara McGivern, andMike Hammer, whose decorative piece, Chroma, served as a highlight of the cocktail reception along with thetalented violin duo of the Royal Conservatory.Not inconsequentially, the master of ceremonies for the event was Toronto media personality Erin Davis, the host of98.1's The Morning Show, who acknowledged during the evening's festivities that earlier this month was the firstanniversary of the sudden passing of her own daughter. Erin Davis started off the night by introducing The HonorableElizabeth Dowdeswell, the 29th Lieutenant Governor, who set the tone of the gala with her moving opening remarks.Guests were taken on an emotional and evocative journey during the poignant discussion between journalistEldarShlomi, who was the first to be called by DFL founder Dr. Abuelaish after the tragic deaths of his daughters andniece, and executive publisher and vice President of Penguin Publishing House, Louise Dennys.Following a spectacular aerial show by Angola Murdoch and Holly Treddenick from Lookup Theatre and a powerfulspeech about a partnership between DFL and New college of Florida by its Provost, Stephen Miles, DFL scholarcame to the stage.LoureenSayej graduated through our scholarship this year and spoke about her experience withDFL and how her education has fueled her ambitions.After ILAC spokesmen, Jonathan Kolber delivered his speech Milena Protich livened up the audience with aninvigorating live auction. The evening ended with the highlights of the gala, the honoring of this year's three Luminaryawardees. For the first time, a couple, Michele Landsberg and her husband, Stephen Lewis were honored with theLifetime Achievement Luminary award. Michelle, in her brief address, made one comment that resonated deeply.She said, "Those who have lost the most give back the most."

Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai, the parents of 2014 Nobel PeacePrize award winner Malala Yousafzai, accepted an honour on behalfof their daughter. Malala would have attended in person had it notbeen for her exams, but the world's supreme campaigner for theeducation of girls could not skip out of an exam merely to be feted inToronto. Malala's Yousafzai got awarded the Courage and Inspira-tion Luminary Award which was received by her parents on herbehalf while also sending a thank you video of herself to be shownduring the awards' ceremony. Ziauddin Yousafzai spoke so elo-quently, passionately and skilfully. He concluded his remarks bydeclaring, "The greatest gift to peace in the world was through theeducation of women."Finally, Maria Campbell was awarded the Trailblazer Luminaryaward. She was presented her award by Roberta Jamieson, theCanadian lawyer and First Nations activist. Maria has addressed adeep acceptance speech and thank you note. To wrap up a wonder-ful night, teen social activist Hannah Alper spoke, impassioned,about her experiences as an activist and her role models, like Malala,who inspire her to keep speaking for the voiceless. Shatha Abuelaishformally ended the gala with gratitude to our sponsors and guests.We celebrated the night with over 390 guests who celebrated ourscholars and awardees as well as our vision for peace and genderequality in education in the Middle East and worldwide.

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MPP DIPIKA DAMERLA AT THE LAUNCH OF ETHNIC WEAR SECTION AT THE THRIFT STORE OF THE SALVATION ARMY ON DIXIE ANDDUNDAS (TWITTER.COM).

MP RAJ GREWAL AT THE GRAND OPENING OF THE BHAVANISHANKAR MANDHIR IN BRAMPTON EAST (TWITTER.COM).

ALBERTA PREMIER RACHEL NOTLEY AT PRIDE PARADE (TWITTER.COM).

MARKHAM ARTS COUNCIL (MAC) HOSTED A MULTICULTURAL ARTS PERFORMANCE AT THEUNIONVILLE FESTIVAL. PERFORMERS FROM THE EVENT.

MPP Damerla Launches First-everEthnic Wear Section at Salvation Army Thrift Store

MISSISSAUGA-MPP Dipika Damerla from Mississauga East-Cooksville, inaugurated the ethnic wear section at the Salva-tion Army Thrift Store located on Dixie and Dundas recently. The dedicated section was at MPP Damerla's request andpresently consists of clothing donated through her multi-cultural clothing drive. MPP Damerla said that she got the idea afterseeing people lug used ethnic clothing back to their countries of origin in South Asia and elsewhere. "I realized that with somuch immigration, there was a need for gently used Indian clothes right here in the Greater Toronto Area. Having a dedicatedarea at the Salvation Army Thrift Store will make it easy for people who are looking for such clothing to find them," she said.The donated clothes include saris, shalwar, kameez, kurtas, lehngas, dupattas, etc."We welcome this generous donation from MPP Dipika Damerla that will go a long way in not only positively impacting thiscommunity through The Salvation Army services', but that will also assist our neighbours in need of ethnic wear," said SyedHussain, The Salvation Army Thrift Store Manager for Dundas Street East. "In the very short time that the pieces have beenon our store floor we have received a lot of positive feedback and seen considerable movement. We encourage others todonate your gently used clothing, furniture and household items with us."MPP Dipika Damerla's multi-cultural clothing drive is ongoing. For more information please call 905-238-1751 or email [email protected]. The clothing drive is par t of the many initiatives MPPDamerla has launched in the constituency. Last month, over 1000 lbs of non-perishable food was donatedto the Mississauga Food Bank.

SCARBOROUGH - AALAA, A 10-YEAR-OLD GRADE 4 STUDENT OF TOM LONG BOAT P.S. EL-EMENTARY SCHOOL ALONG WITH HER FRIENDS HAS STARTED A NEW INITIATIVE TO CLEARSOME OF THE MISCONCEPTIONS AND STEREOTYPES ABOUT MUSLIMS AND SO HAS STARTEDCOLLECTING DONATIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY. THE SPONSORSHIP MONEY SHE HAS RE-CEIVED WILL GO TOWARDS GETTING AN ELECTRONIC SIGNBOARD FOR HER SCHOOL ANDCOVER MEDICAL COSTS FOR STUDENTS INJURED IN AN ATTACK ON A SCHOOL IN PAKISTANAS SHE BELIEVES EVIL CAN ONLY BE DEFEATED THROUGH EDUCATION.

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Required 1 position- Home Support Worker-Private homein Markham, full time

Salary- Can$ 13.76/hour, language known – English,qualification: secondary (high) school. Elderly Care.

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PREMIER WYNNE PARTICIPATED IN THE ANNUAL BEEF FARMERS OF ONTARIO BBQ AND CARVING AT QUEEN'S PARK(PREMIERPHOTOS).

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Required 1 position- Home Support Worker-Private homein Markham, full time

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full responsibility for household (in absence ofhouseholder), Provide companionship, Provide personalcare, Launder clothing and house linens, Perform light

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MPP DIPIKA DAMERLA, PRESENTING ONTARIO PREMIER KATHLEEN WYNNE'S GREETINGS AT 125TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY CEL-EBRATIONS OF DR BR AMBEDKAR (TWITTER.COM).

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By Abhishek Kapoor , Somerset Drive Public School, Grade 4Father you are tool of my day,You're the sleigh of my dreams,My father is a jewel,Together we'rea great dual.Your Smile is true,Kids look up to you,Today is a day to celebrate you.DADD is for every day you spend with meA is for the amazing thing you doD is for your kindness and happiness you give

ONTARIO - Ontario is expanding pension coverage to over four millionworkers without an adequate workplace pension plan.Today, the province passed the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan Act(Strengthening Retirement Security for Ontarians), 2016. The OntarioRetirement Pension Plan (ORPP) will bring financial security anddrive economic growth for generations to come, by providing Ontarioworkers with a predictable stream of income in retirement, paid forlife. The ORPP will also offer a survivor benefit for all plan members.Along with regulations expected this summer, the legislation givesemployers and employees the information they need to prepare forthe launch of the ORPP. This is a crucial step forward in fulfilling thegovernment's commitment that every eligible employee is par t of theORPP or a comparable workplace pension plan by 2020.Strengthening the retirement income system is critical to the futureprosperity of the province. Studies show that many of today's work-ers are not saving enough to maintain their standard of living in retire-

ment. Pension coverage is also low for many Ontarians, with onlyone in four younger workers - aged 25 to 34 - par ticipating in a work-place pension plan."Two-thirds of ?our workers do not have the benefit of a workplacepension plan. We are delivering on our commitment to strengtheningretirement security for millions of Ontario workers and their families.Our main objective is to intensively look at ways to meet the goals ofthe ORPP through an enhanced CPP framework, while preserving ourability to implement the ORPP, should that not be possible." - CharlesSousa, Minister of Finance"The ORPP is the most significant improvement in retirement secu-rity since the introduction of the Canada Pension Plan in 1966. Thislegislation will expand workplace pension access to more than fourmillion Ontario workers, meaning greater security and confidence inretirement for current and future generations." - Mitzie Hunter, Asso-ciate Minister of Finance (Ontario Retirement Pension Plan)

VAIGHAN - Premier Kathleen Wynne recently visited the site of thefuture Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station at Highway 7 in York Re-gion to mark the completion of track work on the Toronto-York SpadinaSubway Extension. Ontario has provided $870 million towards thisproject that will provide subway service beyond regional boundariesin the province for the first time.The Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE) will connect theToronto Transit Commission's (TTC) Line 1 from its present terminusat Downsview Station to the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, makingcommuting more convenient and efficient in the Greater Toronto andHamilton area. The subway extension will also add 36 million transittrips and eliminate 30 million car trips annually, helping to improveair quality and fight climate change.

Ontario's funding for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension ispar t of the largest investment in public infrastructure in the province'shistory -- $160 billion over 12 years -- for projects such as roads,bridges, transit systems, schools and hospitals. The planned invest-ments will suppor t 110,000 jobs on average every year across theprovince. In 2015, Ontario announced suppor t for more than 325projects that will keep people and goods moving, connect communi-ties and improve quality of life.Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said on this occasion: "With thisinvestment, we will provide subway service that moves beyond re-gional boundaries for the first time. We are confident Ontario's recordinvestments in infrastructure will pay off for people in their everydaylives, and will also help our economy grow and create jobs."

TRACK WORK COMPLETE ON TORONTO-YORKSPADINA SUBWAY EXTENSION

Ontario Passes NewWaste-Free Ontario Act

BY MPP YASIR NAQVIOTTAWA - Ontario has passed legislation that will divert more wastefrom landfills, create jobs and help fight climate change. Currently, Ontariois producing too much waste, and not recycling enough. Over eight milliontonnes of waste is sent to landfill each year. Absolute greenhouse gasemissions from Ontario's waste have risen by 25 per cent between 1990and 2012 as the amount of waste disposed in landfills has increased.To help divert more waste from landfill, the province has passed the Waste-Free Ontario Act that will:" encourage innovation in recycling processes and require producers totake full responsibility for their products and packaging" lower recycling costs and give consumers access to more convenientrecycling options" help fight climate change by reducing greenhouse gas pollution thatresults from the landfilling of products that could otherwise be recycled orcomposted" overhaul Waste Diversion Ontario into the Resource Productivity andRecovery Authority, a strong oversight body with new compliance andenforcement powers that will oversee the new approach and existingwaste diversion programs until transition is complete.The province will also be finalizing its draft Strategy for a Waste-FreeOntario: Building the Circular Economy within three months of the legisla-tion coming into effect. The strategy outlines Ontario's vision for a zerowaste future and proposed plan to implement the legislation.Harnessing the value of waste as a resource is part of the government'seconomic plan to build Ontario up and deliver on its number-one priority togrow the economy and create jobs. The four-part plan includes investing intalent and skills, including helping more people get and create the jobs ofthe future by expanding access to high-quality college and university edu-cation.The plan is making the largest investment in public infrastructure inOntario's history and investing in a low-carbon economy driven byinnovative, high-growth, export-oriented businesses. The plan is alsohelping working Ontarians achieve a more secure retirement. If youhave any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out tomy office: [email protected] or 613-722-6414.

MISSISSAUGA - Give them one week and Mississauga Fire and EmergencyServices (MFES) will show 20 teenaged girls, ages 15 to 19, what a career infire service could look like through the new program Camp Ignite."Diversity in our fire service is an extremely impor tant issue forus. It's essential that residents are able to see themselves inthe crews that are proudly serving their City," said Tim Beckett,Fire Chief, MFES. "We are encouraged that women are applyingto the fire service but it's not happening in the numbers that itwould take to make a significant difference and we want tochange that."The camp is being led by the City's first female firefighter, ShelliVarela. Varela joined MFES in 1994 and was later promoted to the

position of captain in 2008. "Girls often don't have that same natural con-nection to firefighting that young boys frequently embrace," said Varela."Because the connection isn't there, girls generally don't investigate acareer in firefighting. With Camp Ignite, we want to show young womenthat firefighting isn't just possible but could be the ideal path for them."During the week, girls will learn a diverse set of skills including:" basic firefighting" basics of pump/ladder operations" aerial ladder climb" auto extrication" basics of technical rescue" forcible entry.

CAMP IGNITE: MFES INTRODUCES TEENAGED GIRLS TOA POTENTIAL CAREER IN FIRE SERVICE

THE BRAIN PROJECT HITSTORONTO'S STREETS

TORONTO - The Brain Project, presented by TELUS, is now opento the public. One hundred sculptures designed by a diversegroup of ar tists, designers and celebrities, including Mr. Brain-wash, Karim Rashid, Ekow Nimako and Gary Taxali, can be foundthroughout the city of Toronto.In its inaugural year, The Brain Project encourages the public to get outside,explore the city and most importantly, start a conversation while supportingcare and research into aging and brain health atBaycrest Health Sciences.Fans of the project are encouraged to join The Brain Project's#noblankbrainsmovement by texting the word "BRAIN" to 45678. Every $5 dona-tion will be matched by TELUS up to a total of $50,000. Brainsculptures can be found at 50 Toronto locations including land-marks such as Union Station, Nathan Phillips Square, First Ca-nadian Place, the Distillery District and TELUS House.


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Analysis: Congress says exaggeration marksModi government's two years in power

NEW DELHI, (IANS) The Congress on Monday said the NarendraModi government's two years in power at the Centre have beenmarked by exaggeration and prevarication. "We have alreadyseen that this is a government of exaggeration and prevarica-tion, that of misrepresentation of facts and drum beating,"Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi told mediahere."Modi ji unfor tunately presides over a government of greatevent management skills but event management becomeshollow in the absence of all fundamental facts," he said. Heaccused the central government of lying and misrepresentingfacts related to crucial schemes. "No less than the primeminister said that Rs.15,000 crore was saved by plugging LPGsubsidies and leaks but some media repor ts have suggestedthat only Rs.143 crore was saved from cash transfers andsubsidies for LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) in over two years,"the Congress leader said."Even the government's Chief Economic Adviser ArvindSubramaniam says that potential savings from these schemes

could be Rs.12,000 crore as against the claimed IRs15,000crore," Singhvi added. He also said that the government hadissued only IRs60 lakh new LPG connections to the poor in thelast two years, instead of IRs3 crore connections claimed bythe prime minister."This is very clear because the government's press release inJanuary 2016 said that by January IRs45 lakh gas connectionshad been issued through 'Give Back' scheme. In April, Petro-leum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told the media that IRs60lakh new gas connections had been released," Singhvi said andwondered aloud: "Where did this mythical three crore connec-tions come from?"He said Modi claimed more than IRs1.65 crore fake rationcards were cancelled since May 2014 while the actual figurewas only IRs66 lakh. Singhvi also accused Finance MinisterArun Jaitley of misrepresenting facts."The Finance Minister says more than IRs20 crore bankaccounts were opened during the first 100 days of the 'Jan DhanScheme' but the actual figure is IRs8.7 crore, which is less than

40 per cent of what you are claiming," the Congress leadersaid. "The government's own repor t says on the 100th day ofthe government, IRs8.7 crore bank accounts were opened. "Sowhere did the IRs20 crores figure come from?"The Congress leader alleged that the central government did notgive out the country's actual Gross Domestic Product figures."India is the fastest growing country in the world. Remember,the 7.6 per cent GDP is on the basis of a new calculationsystem. Even Arvind Subramaniam and RBI GovernorRaghuram Rajan have publicly expressed scepticism about thenew method of calculation," Singhvi said while asser ting thatthe government's own figures show at least three other coun-tries ahead of India."They are not big countries but the figures should be correctwhen the country's Prime Minister speaks. The GDP inMyanmar is the highest at 8.6 per cent, followed by Ivory Coastat 8.5 per cent, Bhutan at 8.4 per cent and India at 7.5 per centas per the new method of calculation which is doubted by manyexper ts," Singhvi said.

Modi's US visit: Consolidating & celebrating a relationshipWASHINGTON, (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi's four th visit tothe US next week is seen here as consolidating and celebrating theIndia-US relationship that has undergone a transformation since 2000under three presidents.An impor tant dimension of Modi's June 6-8 visit at the invitation ofPresident Barack Obama will be his address to a joint meeting of theUS Congress on June 8 - eleven years after Washington revoked hisvisa under a religious freedom law passed by that very body.

BY ARUN KUMAR Modi, the fifth Indian Prime Minister to address the US Congressstar ting with Rajiv Gandhi, will also get another rare honour - a lunchhosted by the Republican Speaker Paul Ryan and a reception by theRepublican chairs and top Democrats on the House and Senate For-eign Relations panels. "Many people have ar ticulated that the invita-tion and the visit are really a par t of consolidating and celebrating theIndia-US relationship," said Arun Singh, Indian ambassador to the US.The visit will consolidate "what has been achieved so far and seeingwhat more can be done as we move into the next year when there willbe transition of the administration in the US and also elections to theUS Congress". It will also celebrate the achievements in the relation-ship "because in a sense the new phase in India-US relationship wasstar ted from 2000 when President (Bill) Clinton went to India," henoted.Then President George W. Bush transformed it with the landmarkCivil Nuclear Deal and Barack Obama with his two visits to India -including the one as chief guest at India's Republic Day - saying theIndia-US relationship will be a "defining par tnership of the 21st cen-tury". Singh also noted Obama's ar ticulation of suppor t for India'smembership of the UN Security Council, US suppor t for India's mem-bership of multilateral expor t control regimes and advances made inIndia-US defence par tnership. These include through the US-IndiaDefence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) where among othersthings the two sides are looking at cooperation in projects related toaircraft carrier technology and jet engine technology.Celebrating a lot of progress made in the two Obama terms, the visitwill in a sense launch into the next administration, he said. "That hasbeen the thrust and effor t related to this visit." The unique receptionon the Capitol Hill is also seen "as a reflection of the bipar tisan sup-por t in the US to the relationship", Singh said. "It's also a reflection ofthe value that people attach to this relationship.""Clearly people feel that India-US relationship has matured signifi-cantly," he said citing the growth in the par tnership in trade andeconomy, defence and technology among others. Modi who lands in

Washington on June 6 after a visit to Switzerland, will meet Obamaon June 7 to review the progress made in key areas of defence,security and energy over a working lunch at the White House.He will also have an interaction with top corporate leaders and ad-dress the annual meeting of the US India Business Council (USIBC)comprised of over 300 top American and Indian companies seekingstronger trade and commercial ties with India.

In addition to the NGOs, including the one run by Teesta Setalvad, thesaffron brotherhood's new target is a formidable one - Reserve Bankof India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan. Till now, the Hindutva camphadn't trained its guns on one so high who is not a politician. There islittle doubt, however, that the Sangh Parivar's motive is political.The attack on Rajan is not a frontal one. It is a flanking movement withnone other than the new Bharatiya Janata Par ty (BJP) Rajya Sabhamember, the perennially combative Subramanian Swamy, leadingthe charge. It is not clear if the targeting of Rajan has the approval ofthe BJP's top brass, for there are conflicting indications.While Finance Minister Arun Jaitley disapproves of the personal na-ture of the attacks, he has been silent on the question of extendingRajan's term beyond September considering that Swamy wants hisimmediate dismissal. However, the problem with Swamy's offensive- he has accused Rajan of acting at the behest US multinationals todamage the Indian small and medium industries - is that the volubleMP cannot always be taken seriously.The reason is that he is a maverick to beat all mavericks. As a result,he is perceived of as something of a loose cannon who can go off at atangent from his par ty's line. As much is clear from his earlier back-ing of the disgraced godman, Asaram Bapu, to the more recent call forbuilding the Ram temple by the year-end, about which the BJP hasbeen more than circumspect. Moreover, he is supposed to have beenelevated to the Rajya Sabha only to serve a specific purpose - that ofneedling the Nehru-Gandhis - and not open fire at random.Swamy has been per forming the first task with considerable zeal,pursuing the allegations against the Congress's first family in theNational Herald and AgustaWestland cases. More recently, he hascalled upon the Enforcement Directorate to probe the supposed trans-gressions of the business deals of Rober t Vadra, the first family'sson-in-law. In the midst of these endeavours, the sudden turning ofhis attention to Rajan is surprising.In view of the government's eagerness to maintain friendly ties withthe corporate sector, the latter's unfavourable reaction to Swamy'santics was only to be expected. The Confederation of Indian Industryhas already expressed its displeasure. None of this is unexpected, forRajan is known to be a favourite of India Inc. and of the media, espe-cially the financial newspapers. Narendra Modi's evasive statementon the issue - he told Wall Street Journal that Rajan's tenure can be ofno interest to the media - is unlikely to clear the scene.In any event, Modi's probable view is that nothing should be of inter-

Will Modi bow to RSS on Raghuram Rajan?BY AMULYA GANGULI

est to the media, which explains why he doesn't hold any press con-ferences. The hullabaloo created by Swamy appears to have per-suaded Rajan to decide not to seek a second term although he hasdescribed the controversy as evidence of a "noisy" democracy andthe "sign of its vibrancy". It is possible that Rajan's observation aboutIndia being the king in a land of the blind hasn't pleased the BJP.



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TORONTO MAYOR JOHN TORY AT HSF RIDE FOR HEART EVENT (TWITTER.COM).

DEFENCE MINISTER HARJIT SAJJAN MET WITH HIS INDIAN COUNTERPART MANOHAR PARRIKAR IN SINGAPORE ON THESIDELINES OF SHANGRI-LA DIALOGUE (TWITTER.COM).

Gold mining surge liftsCanadian stocks higherTORONTO, (IANS) Canada's main stock market in Toronto waspushed higher as gold mining stocks surged after weaker-than-expected US jobs data reduced expectations for an inter-est rate hike by the Federal Reserve. The Toronto StockExchange's benchmark Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite In-dex gained 89.79 point, or 0.64 percent, to close at 14,226.78points on Friday, Xinhua news agency repor ted. Half of the TSXindex's eight main sub-sectors were higher. Barrick Goldsoared 11.61 per cent to 24.81 Canadian dollars ($19.17 ),Kinross Gold jumped 13.36 per cent to 6.45 Canadian dollars,and Yamana Gold rose 11.71 per cent to 6.20 Canadian dollars.Diversified miners also gained as a range of base metals priceswere boosted by a weaker US dollar. The overall TSX metals &mining group, which includes precious and base metals min-ers and fer tilizer companies, registered a uncommon 5.47percent increase. Teck Resources advanced 7.28 percent to13.85 Canadian dollars and First Quantum Minerals gained6.40 percent to 9.15 Canadian dollars. The Canadian dollartraded higher at $0.7726, compared with Wednesday's closingrate of $0.7631.

Minister Sajjan Commends EffortsOf Men, Women in Uniform OnCanadian Armed Forces DayOTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit S. Sajjan today issued the follow-ing statement to mark Canadian Armed Forces Day: "This year, forthe first time, I am celebrating Canadian Armed Forces Day out ofuniform. I was proud to serve in our military for over 20 years, andnow I am honoured to serve as Minister of National Defence."Today marks an oppor tunity to thank the soldiers, sailors, andair personnel who stand ready to protect Canada and defendour freedom and values, at home and abroad. While we honourour armed forces personnel, let us not forget their family mem-bers, who make tremendous sacrifices to suppor t their lovedone who is a soldier or veteran."Those who wear the uniform and stand on guard for Canadaare among our finest citizens. These are women and men whohave volunteered for a life of service. As Canadians, we arefor tunate to be able to count on our armed forces. We see theirhard work, professionalism, and dedication on a daily basis,but especially during times of need. Residents of Nor thernAlber ta saw this first hand in the armed forces' quick responseto the recent wildfires, and the world saw it with the CAF'sassistance to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees from Lebanon, Tur-key, and Jordan to Canada."I am humbled by their sacrifice and dedication. My promiseis to continue to ensure that they have the right equipment, re-sources, and support measures in place so that they can continue toserve Canada proudly. I encourage all Canadians to join me in send-ing a Bravo Zulu to those who serve Canada, and to take thetime today to thank a member of the Canadian Armed Forces."

FORT MCMURRAY - The Canadian Red Cross in a media release hasannounced a commitment of $50 million to suppor t community initia-tives in the region affected by the devastating wildfires in Alber ta hasbeen possible, thanks to the generosity of Canadians.This financial suppor t will help For t McMurray and its surroundingarea by encouraging community recovery initiatives through grantoppor tunities for community-based organizations and municipali-ties to plan projects or events intended to rejuvenate the spiritand vibrancy within their communities."Experience has shown that community groups are par t of thefabric that is critical to providing services to assist with the fullrecovery of the people and communities affected by disaster,"

said Conrad Sauvé, President and CEO, Canadian Red Cross. "Whenresponding, the Red Cross works alongside community groups tostrengthen local initiatives or services and to avoid duplicatingeffor ts. By working collaboratively, we are confident that For tMcMurray and its surrounding communities will build back stron-ger than before."Generous individuals, corporations, and community groups fromacross Canada have so far donated $125 million to assist thepeople affected by this disaster, of which $115 million has alreadybeen spent or committed. With this additional announcement today,the Red Cross has now spent or committed $165 million dollars onthe Alber ta wildfires response.

TRUDEAU MEETS CHINESE MINISTEROF FOREIGN AFFAIRS WANG YI

OTTAWA - Prime Minister JustinTrudeau met with China's Minister ofForeign Affairs, Wang Yi recently. Thetwo discussed the growing linkagesbetween Canada and China in thecommercial, cultural and educationalspheres. The Prime Ministeremphasised the strength of therelationship and the potential as wework together on oppor tunities andchallenges, including consular issues.The Prime Minister welcomed theinaugural meeting of the Canada-ChinaForeign Affairs Ministers' Dialogueheld between the Minister of ForeignAffairs Stéphane Dion and MinisterWang hosted in Ottawa on June 1,2016. This new dialogue will fur therreinforce bilateral ties.

PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU MEETS CHINA'S MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRSWANG YI (PHOTO BY ADAM SCOTTI).

$1 BILLION FOR LIGHT RAILTRANSIT IN OTTAWAONTARIO - Ontario is committing more than $1 billion towardthe City of Ottawa's Light Rail Transit (LRT) expansion projectto help grow the economy, reduce travel times and connectpeople to jobs. Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the in-vestment in Ottawa recently.The funding represents the largest provincial transit invest-ment in Ottawa's history. New, modern light rail vehicles ontracks separated from regular traffic will offer fast, efficientservice and improve travel for people across the region. Theexpanded LRT will also lower greenhouse gas pollution, im-proving air quality and fighting climate change.The Stage 2 LRT project will add 30 kilometres of new rail and19 new stations, extending the LRT network to the east, westand south. Ontario's funding commitment will also help sup-port the capital costs of two additional extensions: a spur to the OttawaMacdonald-Cartier International Airport and an extension to Trim Road inOrléans. These will add 6.5 kilometres of new rail and three stations.Construction on Stage 2 is expected to start in 2018, once the Stage 1Confederation Line is completed. Stage 2 is expected to enter service in2023. Ontario's funding for Stage 2 is par t of the largest invest-ment in public infrastructure in the province's history -- $160billion over 12 years -- for projects such as roads, bridges,transit systems, schools and hospitals. The planned invest-ments would suppor t 110,000 jobs on average every yearacross the province. In 2015, Ontario announced support formore than 325 projects that will keep people and goods mov-ing, connect communities and improve quality of life."Our investment in the Ottawa LRT will make a big difference inpeople's everyday lives. It's one of a number of historic investments ininfrastructure that our government is making. It will help to create jobs andgrow our economy now and for years to come." - Kathleen Wynne, Pre-mier of Ontario"The province remains committed to working with the City of Ot-tawa as it moves forward with implementing its Stage 2 LRTproject. We know how impor tant public transit is to managingcongestion, curbing emissions, creating jobs and buildingcommunities." - Steven Del Duca, Minister of Transpor tation.



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INDIA, US INK EIGHT AGREEMENTSTO BOOST DEFENCE, COUNTER-TERROR COOPERATIONWASHINGTON, (IANS) India and the US inked eight agreements, in-cluding in the sphere of defence and energy cooperation and counter-terrorism after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and USPresident Barack Obama in the White House here.The first one is for exchange of terrorist screening information be-tween the Multi-Agency Centre/Intelligence Bureau of India and the TerroristScreening Center of the US under which the two sides shall "provide eachother access to terrorism screening information through the designated con-tact points, subject to domestic laws and regulations".The arrangement will enhance the counter-terrorism cooperation betweenthe two countries, said a statement.The second is a MoU to enhance cooperation on Energy Security, CleanEnergy and Climate Change through increased bilateral engagement andfurther joint initiatives for promoting sustainable growth.Another MoU is to enhance co-operation in Wildlife Conservation and Com-bating Wildlife Trafficking in areas such as Wildlife Forensics and Conserva-tion Genetics; Natural World Heritage Conservation and Nature Interpreta-tion; and Conservation Awareness.Another MoU is between the Consular, Passport and Visa Division of India'sMinistry of External Affairs and US Customs and Border Protection, Depart-ment of Homeland Security for the Development of an International ExpeditedTraveler Initiative - the Global Entry Programme, which is a US Cus-toms and Border Protection programme.The programme allows expedited clearance for pre-approved, low-risk travellers upon arrival in the United States. After joint scrutinyand clearance by both countries, the approved Indian travellers willbe extended the facility of expedited entry into the US through auto-matic kiosks at select airpor ts, the statement said.The fif th agreement is a Technical Arrangement between the IndianNavy and the US Navy concerning Unclassified Maritime InformationSharing that will allow sharing of unclassified information on WhiteShipping as permitted by respective national laws, regulations and

policies, and provides a frame-work for mutually beneficial mari-t ime information. A MoU wasinked between India's Petroleumand Natural Gas ministry and theDepar tment of Energy of the USfor cooperation in Gas Hydrates.The MOU aims to increase theunderstanding of the geologic oc-currence, distribution, and pro-duction of natural gas hydratesalong the continental margin ofIndia and in the US.In defence cooperation, an Infor-mation Exchange Annex (IEA) washeld between the Ministry of De-fence and the US' Depar tment ofDefense regarding Aircraft CarrierTechnologies. The IEA is aimedto enhance data and informationsharing specific to aircraft carri-ers between India and the US, itsaid.The final one was a Logistics Ex-change Memorandum of Agree-ment between the two defenceministries aimed at facilitatingmutual logistic suppor t betweenIndia and the US for por t visits,joint exercises, joint training andHA-DR (humanitarian assistanceand disaster relief).

N-JOY: US FIRM TO FINALLY START WORK ONNUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN INDIA

WASHINGTON, (IANS) The civilian nuclear agreement signed between India and the US over a decadeago has finally borne fruit with the two sides deciding to star t preparatory work on six nuclear powerplants in India following bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President BarackObama. The US also recognised India as a major defence par tner."Culminating a decade of par tnership on civil nuclear issues, the leaders welcomed the star t of prepara-tory work on site in India for six AP 1000 reactors to be built by Westinghouse and noted the intention ofIndia and the US Expor t-Impor t Bank to work together toward a competitive financing package for theproject," a joint statement issued following Tuesday's talks between the two leaders said."Once completed, the project would be among the largest of its kind, fulfilling the promise of the US-Indiacivil nuclear agreement and demonstrating a shared commitment to meet India's growing energy needswhile reducing reliance on fossil fuels."The US-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation, also known as the 123 Agreement, was signed by then PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh and then US President George W. Bush on July 18, 2005.The AP 1000 is a nuclear power plant designed and sold by Westinghouse, a subsidiary of Japan'sToshiba. "Once completed, the project would be among the largest of its kind, fulfilling the promise of theUS-India civil nuclear agreement and demonstrating a shared commitment to meet India's growing en-ergy needs while reducing reliance on fossil fuels," the joint statement said."Both sides welcomed the announcement by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, and Westinghousethat engineering and site design work will begin immediately and the two sides will work toward finalisingthe contractual arrangements by June 2017."The statement said the US and India shared common climate and clean energy interests and were closepar tners in the fight against climate change. "Leadership from both countries helped galvanise globalaction to combat climate change and culminated in the historic Paris Agreement reached last December,"it stated. India was also elevated to the status of a major defence par tner of the US which, apart fromsending a strong message to the world, will also act as a catalyst for defence production under the Makein India initiative."Noting that the US-India defence relationship can be an anchor of stability, and given the increasinglystrengthened cooperation in defense, the United States hereby recognises India as a Major DefencePar tner," the joint statement said.According to the statement, both Modi and Obama expressed their desire to explore agreements whichwould facilitate fur ther expansion of bilateral defence cooperation in practical ways.

US COMPANIES INVESTING $45 BN IN INDIA:JOHN CHAMBERS

WASHINGTON, (IANS) Members of the US-India Business Council have already invested $28 billion inIndia since September 2014 and another $45 billion is in the pipeline, Council Chairman John Chamberstold Prime Minister Narendra Modi here."In September 2014, USIBC members indicated an investment figure of $41 billion that was likely to beinvested over a 2-3 year period. Today I'm happy to announce that in less than two years, about 20 percentof USIBC members have already invested $28 billion," Chambers said."In next 2-3 years, we will see this pace accelerating -- again with 20 percent of our members indicatingthat USIBC members are on track to invest an additional $45 billion, which is a conservative estimate," headded.Chambers met Prime Minister Modi just after his roundtable with USIBC members, which included the topbrass of companies like PepsiCo, Master Card, Warburg Pincus, Lockheeed Martin, Boeing, Westinghouse,Intelsat, Emerson and 8Minute Energy.The prime minister also presented the USIBC Global Leadership Awards to Dilip Shangvhi of Sun Pharma-ceuticals and Jeff Bezos of Amazon.According to Vikas Swarup, Spokesperson for India's foreign office, the prime minister outlined thestrengths of Indian economy and its talented workforce to the chief executives and discussed with themthe prospects for solar energy and digital connectivity.Later at a gala in his honour, Modi lauded the contributions of the Indian diaspora in the US and said apar tnership between the American capital and innovation, with Indian human resources and entrepre-neurship can prove a powerful combination.

Congress dares Modi, Shah for Vadra's prosecutionPANAJI, (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah should ensure the pros-ecution of the Congress president's son-in-law Rober t Vadra instead of just levelling allegations if theyhave the guts, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh said on Friday. "The fact remains -- has heviolated any law? The BJP can institute any enquiry, any commission, any investigation if he hasviolated any law. If you (Modi, Shah) have guts, why don't you prosecute him?" Singh said. Vadra facescharges regarding a land scam in Haryana, and also benami ownership of a residential proper ty inLondon. Singh said that despite being in power at the Centre for two years, the BJP had not been ableto come up with a credible charge against Vadra.


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ICCC HONOURS CONTRIBUTIONOF LEADING INDO-CANADIANSTwo additional awards are presented - the President's Award, forunsung heroes, and the Members' Award, for voluntarism and com-munity services. Held annually on the second Saturday of June at theMetro Toronto Convention Centre, the Annual Awards and Gala Night,the evening promises to be an enthralling mixture of enter tainment,awards presentations and speeches by eminent public figures.It is the Chamber's marquee event where it promotes trade and com-merce between India and Canada and recognizes the achievementsof Indo-Canadians from all across Canada by way of an award pre-sentation.In a statement issued in Toronto, Sanjay Makkar, President of theICCC, said, "This year's award winners are among the best Indo-Canadian talent that is serving to make Canada a more inclusivesociety. Their contributions are exemplary and laudatory. On behalf ofour members, stakeholders and par tners in success, I congratulatethem."

Profiles of the 2016 ICCC Award Winners:Female EntrepreneurGeeta SankappanavarCo-Founder, President and ChiefOperating OfficerGrafton Asset ManagementGeeta Sankappanavar is suc-cessful entrepreneur and profes-sional business leader. She isco-founder, President and ChiefOperating Officer of Grafton As-set Management Inc. She hasbeen instrumental in bui ldingGrafton into Canada's 3rd largestenergy investment firm.She began her business careeras a consultant with McKinsey & Company out of the NY office and isa graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("MIT").Ms. Sankappanavar has been recognized as one of Canada's Top 100Most Powerful Women, Alberta's 50 Most Influential People, Calgary'sTop 40 under 40, and one of Dataquest's top women in IT. She haspublished ar ticles in Bank Technology News "Financial ServicesOutsourcing.She is committed to the cause of women in leadership, business,maternal and child healthcare globally. She is donating her time andfinancial suppor t to Empowering Minds, WXN, UNICEF, The CanadianWomen's Foundation, Student Energy and more.Ms Sankappanavar serves as a board member of the Norlien Founda-tion, is a board member UNICEF Canada, Patron's Council Member forthe UNICEF Water for Life Gala and is a proud member of the UNICEF25th team- a group of 60 powerful women who have come togetheracross Canada alongside the 24 Women's World Cup teams to pro-mote positive impact in maternal and child healthcare.

Male EntrepreneurKarnail Singh SidhuBrimming with over 20 years ofknowledge and experience in or-ganic agriculture. He foundedKalala Organic Estate Winery in2006 and continues to own & op-erate the business with his fam-ily members. He named the win-ery "Kala la" af ter the v i l lagewhere he grew up, located in thestate of Punjab in India.Karnail came to Canada in 1993with an Electrical Engineering Di-ploma. Karnail's passion for or-ganic growing and winemakinghas put him on a path towards constant education and he obtained hisOrganic Inspector designation in 2003. He par ticipates in many sci-entific research projects with the University of British Columbia,Okanagan and Summerland Research & Development Center. Karnailis actively involved in R&D at Kalala Organic Estate Winery to con-tinually improve organic practices and winemaking techniques. He isa sought-after viticulture consultant and the proud winner of myriadwine awards from all across the globe.His most recent success was for his 2013 Chardonnay Icewine, whichwas named the best Chardonnay in the world at the prestigious 2016Chardonnay du Monde competition in France. He also actively givesback to his community through working with interns from differentcolleges&universities, conducting educational tours of his vineyards,contributing to various charities, and saving funds to build an educa-tional institute in his home village of Kalala.

Female ProfessionalRituBhasin: Leadership & Inclu-sion ExpertRituBhasin, LL.B. MBA, is theFounder and Principal of BhasinConsulting Inc. She has extensiveexperience in delivering program-ming, consulting and coachingacross a range of people manage-ment areas with a focus on lead-ership development, diversity,inclusion and advancement ofwomen. Ritu works primarily with senior leadership teams, boards ofdirectors, middle management and emerging leader groups.Ritu is known for her diversity and inclusion exper tise in CulturalCompetence and unconscious bias, and is cer tified to administerCultural Competence assessment tools including the InterculturalDevelopment Inventory (IDI) and the Intercultural Conflict Style In-ventory (ICS). Ritu is also cer tified in neuroscience coaching strate-

gies for leadership growth.Ritu spent ten years in practicing civil litigation, and then spent sevenyears on the senior management team of a preeminent Canadian lawfirm as director of legal talent.Ritu has won several awards and distinctions reflecting her passionand commitment to her work, including the City of Toronto's 2014William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations. Ritu is also the Co-Founder of Insayva, a platform for self-empowerment for those seek-ing personal and professional growth. She is a trained instructor inseveral yoga disciplines and, when she is not working, you will findher in a downward dog. Ritu's book The Authenticity Principle, will bereleased in early 2017.

Male ProfessionalDr Samir K. SinhaMD, DPhil, FRCPCDr Samir Sinha is a passionate and re-spected advocate for the needs of olderadults. A Rhodes Scholar, Dr Sinha cur-rently serves as Director of Geriatricsat Sinai Health System. He is the Peter& Shelagh Godsoe Chair in Geriatrics atMount Sinai Hospital, Assistant Profes-sor in the Depar tments of Medicine, Uni-versity of Toronto and Johns HopkinsUniversity School of Medicine.Dr Sinha's international training and exper tise in health policy, deliv-ery of services related to the care of the elderly have made him ahighly regarded exper t in the care of older adults. In 2012 he wasappointed by the Government of Ontario to serve as the exper t lead ofOntario's Seniors Strategy. Dr Sinha has fur ther consulted and ad-vised hospitals in Britain, China, Iceland, Singapore and the UnitedStates on the implementation, integrated and innovative models ofgeriatric care that reduce disease burden, improve access and ca-pacity and ultimately promote health.In 2014, Canada's Maclean's Magazine proclaimed him to be one ofCanada's 50 most influential people. In 2015, Dr. Sinha was againrecognized by the Indo-Canadian communities' Council of AgenciesServing South Asians (CASSA) Excellence in Equity Award. Dr. Sinhais very proud of his Indo-Canadian heritage and has done much toadvance diversity, health equity issues across the Greater TorontoArea.

Young AchieverAditya MohanAditya Mohan is a youth leader inSTEM from Ottawa, Ontario whohas always keenly interested inscience and the potential it holdsto make a difference in the world.Over the years, Aditya has com-pleted and has been awarded innumerous scientific competitions with his work on biofuels, HIV, andcancer research. In 2012, to help mitigate the issue of costs, Aditya designed a novelAlgal Biofuel extraction process that produced industry-grade biofuelat the fraction of its current cost.Soon af ter, Aditya began working at a research lab and has beenstudying the cellular interactions found in chronic diseases such asHIV. He began to research molecular immunology and developed anovel HIV treatment to stimulate the production of anti-viral CD8+ TCells. This project won many national and regional award includingthe prestigious Canadian Manning Innovation Award.Aditya's latest project involves bioengineering the common cold vi-rus for applications in cancer treatment. His virus has worked verywell in on multiple cancers and hold a lot of potential moving forward.His project has earned him many international and national acco-lades including the 1st place award at the International Science andEngineering Fair and beingnamed as the Nat ionalBioGENEius of Canada.

Corporate ExecutivePavi BinningPavi Binning is President&CEO of George Weston Lim-ited. George Weston Limitedis one of Canada's largest pub-lic companies and the parentcompany of businesses in-cluding Loblaw CompaniesLimited, Shoppers Drug Mart,Choice Proper ties REIT, Weston Foods, President's Choice Financialand Joe Fresh.Pavi's first role in business was with Electrolux, the global domes-tic appliance manufacturer. Following this he joined Diageo plcwhich is one of the world's leading consumer goods companies.Pavi was appointed CFO and a Board Member of Marconi, a glo-bal supplier of telecommunications equipment. This was the firsttime a visible minority had ever been appointed to a senior ex-ecutive position in British public company. Pavi become CFO ofHanson, building materials and construction companies in theworld.In 2007, Pavi relocated to Toronto as CFO and Chief RestructuringOfficer at Nor tel. Pavi led the company through its complex andchallenging restructuring.In 2010, Pavi joined George Weston Lim-ited and was instrumental in the creation of Choice Properties REITand the acquisition of Shoppers Drug Mart.Pavi has also been very involved in community work. His rolesinclude Business in the Community, inter-faith race relations and anAdvisor to Local Authorities and the Police. His work has focused onthe Prince of Wales Responsible Business Network, helping to raisefunds for hospitals and other community groups and being a mentorto young people.

Lifetime/Outstanding achievementVirendra JhaDr Virendra Jha has over 42 yearsof exper ience in the CanadianSpace Program. Dr Jha began hisspace career in 1972 with Aero-space g roup o f RCA L im i t edMontreal. In 1988, he became theDirector of Engineering at SparAerospace Limited. In 1991 DrJha joined the Canadian SpaceAgency(CSA) as Director of theSpace Mechanics Group. In 1996he was promoted Director Gen-eral, Space Technologies Branch of the CSA. From 2003 - 2008 hewas the Vice-President responsible for Science, Technology andPrograms. Dr Jha served as Acting President of the CanadianSpace Agency. He was Chief Engineering Adviser at the CanadianSpace Agency until his retirement in 2014.Dr Jha received his B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from theIIT Delhi and his Master's from McMaster University, Hamilton,Canada, and his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering fromConcordia University, Montreal, Canada and the C. Dir. (Char teredDirector) Degree from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.Dr Jha'sgot Queen's Jubilee Medal in 2002, recipient of the Cana-dian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI)'s "Alouette Award"for 1999, appointed full member of the International Academy ofAstronautics(IAA) in 2004, and the recipient of the ProfessionalMan of the Year award in 2004 from the ICCC. Chosen "GreatConcordian" by Concordia University in 2015. Recipient of the AllanD. Emil Memorial Award of the International Astronautical Federationin 2015.

Member of the YearNareshkumar ChavdaPresident, Globayan Immi-gration Corporation. Nareshkumar Chavdaprac t i c ing Immig ra t i onLaw as an Immig ra t i onconsultant in Toronto.He rep resen tthousand+clients par t ofhis professional work anddeal with many diplomaticmiss ion ab road (H ighCommiss ion , Consu la teOffices) of various coun-tries too.He studied Immigration Consultant with Honor from Humber Col-lege, Canada. He did LLB, LLM with Two Gold Medals, MBA,PGDHRM and Bachelor of Engineering from India.He is Director and Secretory General of National Alliance of IndoCanadians.He was par t of PBD Panel discussion as immigrationlaw exper t in March 2016 to improve Indian Consulate servicesworldwide. He also served as National Executive Committee (NEC)member of RANA for year 2016.As a Life member and Chair of Membership Committee of IndoCanada Chamber Of Commerce (ICCC) for year 2015-2016, ICCCable to set a record of achieving the highest growth rate in mem-bersh ip wi th in a shor tes t t imef rame in the las t decade o fChamber's history. ICCC always give very good platform of pro-fessional networking, leadership, ethical values and esteemedprofessionalism among members and various organizations. ICCCprovide oppor tunity to interact and sharing ideas with various busi-ness communality lead-ers, government andsemi government organi-zat ion of India andCanada. ICCC pack calen-dar of variety of eventsalways give chance toeach and every membersto get benefit of it.

President's AwardBharat MasraniGroup President andChief Executive OfficerTD Bank GroupBharat Masrani was appointed Group President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of TD Bank Group on November 1, 2014. Bharat has more than27 years of banking experience and is a member of the TD BankGroup Board of Directors. He most recently served as Chief Operat-ing Officer for TD Bank Group from July 2013.Bharat has held many senior executive roles across the bank. In2006, he became the President of TD Bank nor th, and in 2007,President and CEO. In 2008, he was named Group Head U.S. Per-sonal and Commercial Banking and President and CEO of TD Bank,America's Most Convenient Bank®. Previous to his role at TDBank, he served as Vice Chair and Chief Risk Officer of TD BankGroup, a position he held from May 2003. Bharat also served asSen io r V ice P res iden t and Ch ie f Execu t i ve O f f i ce r o f TDWaterhouse Investor Services in Europe; Senior Vice President,Corporate Finance and Co-Head in Europe; Vice President andCountry Head for India; and Vice President and Head, CorporateBanking Canada. He began his banking career with TD Bank Groupin 1987 as a Commercial Lending Trainee.Bharat received a Bachelor of Administrative Studies degree withHonours from York University in 1978 and obtained his Master ofBusiness Administration from the Schulich School of Business, YorkUniversity in 1979. He and his wife, Shabnam, are currently makingtheir home in Toronto and have two grown-up children.



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US ANNUAL REPORT ONTERRORISM 'RIDICULOUS': IRAN

DEMONSTRATORS PROTESTING AGAINST GANG RAPE OF A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN RIO DE JANEIRO AND VIOLENCE AGAINSTWOMEN IN BRAZIL (IANS).

MODI THANKS SWITZERLANDFOR SUPPORTING INDIA'SNSG MEMBERSHIPGENEVA, (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra India on Mondaythanked Switzerland for its understanding and suppor t forIndia's membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)following delegation level talks with Swiss President JohannSchneider-Ammann. "India and Switzerland also share a com-mitment to reform international institutions in line with cur-rent global realities,Â" Modi said at a joint press statementwith Schneider-Amman after the talks."We have both agreed to suppor t each other for our respectivebids for the non-permanent membership of the UN SecurityCouncil," Modi said. "I am also thankful to the President forSwitzerland's understanding and suppor t for India's member-ship of the Nuclear Suppliers Group." On his par t, Schneider-Ammann said that Switzerland was "interested" in India'smembership. "Switzerland welcomes India's contributions tonuclear non-proliferation," he said."Switzerland is interested in India's membership in NSG," headded. Switzerland is an impor tant member of the NSG andits suppor t is crucial for India's membership in the 48-mem-ber group. The issue of black money also figured in Modi'sbilateral talks. "Combating the menace of 'black money' andtax evasion is also our shared priority," Modi said.

Trump to visit Britain on June 22LONDON, (IANS) Republican Par ty's presumptive presiden-tial nominee Donald Trump is set to arrive in Britain on June22, a day before Britons go to polls to decide whether to re-main in the European Union (EU). Trump said he will come tothe country on a whistle-stop tour of his golf resor ts in Brit-ain and Ireland, the Guardian reported on Friday. According to offi-cials, Trump was initially due to appear at the relaunch of his Turnberryhotel golf course, in south-west Scotland, on June 24, the day of thereferendum result. But now he will arrive on June 22 and will visit his golfresort in Doonbeg in Ireland by the time polls have closed. Thechange in timing raises the question of whether Trump willmeet Prime Minister David Cameron,who will be in themidst of campaigning to keep a sceptical British publicfrom voting to leave the EU. It also raises the prospect that Trump,who is pro-Brexit, will attempt to lend political weight to the leavecampaign, the officials added.

New permanent seats inUNSC won't make it morerepresentative: PakistanUNITED NATIONS, (IANS) Reiterating its opposition to an in-crease in the number of permanent members of the UnitedNations Security Council, Pakistan has questioned how add-ing new permanent seats could enhance the panel's repre-sentativeness and effectiveness.Speaking in the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Coun-cil Reform on Thursday, Pakistan's Permanent Member to the UNMaleeha Lodhi said no cogent answer has ever been given tohow the move would make the Security Council more repre-sentative. Adding new permanent members to the 15-mem-ber body would in fact have the opposite effect, the Pakistanienvoy said.

TEHRAN, (IANS) Iran has described the US's annual repor t on terror-ism, which accuses Tehran of being one of the biggest sponsors ofglobal terrorism, as "ridiculous" and "false". Iran's Foreign AffairsMinistry in a statement on Saturday said both Iran and Syria, whichhave been placed on the repor t since 1984, increased their "terroristlinks" in 2015, Efe news repor ted.Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari responding to the repor tsaid: "The US State Depar tment's repor t on terrorism has ridiculedblatant realities and has turned into the best document for lack ofcredibility of the US by justifying the false accusations of Iran's sup-por t for terrorism." Jaberi said the struggles of nations that are underoccupations to achieve freedom and independence "are not instancesof terrorism". He said that par ts of the repor t based on such struggles

are rejected because they "reflect the will of the Zionist regime as thebiggest symbol of occupation, state terrorism, violation of humanrights and implementation of the policies based on massacre, sup-pression and denial of the existence of the Palestinian nation".The statement called the US the "biggest suppor ter of state terrorism,by unconditional support for the Zionist regime ... and now by practi-cal suppor t for the growth of extremism and terrorism as well as byignoring the large-scale financial and political suppor t by Saudi Arabiaand its other allies for the spread of this heinous phenomena through-out the world." The US report said Iran continued during 2015 to sup-por t terrorism-related activities by Lebanese Shia Islamist groupHezbollah, Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza, and several othergroups in Iraq and throughout the Middle East.

INDIA, QATAR SIGN 7 AGREEMENTS;WANT TIES BEYOND TRADING

DOHA, (IANS) India and Qatar on Sunday signed seven agreements,including on investment and tourism promotion, as the two sidesdiscussed ways to take bilateral ties beyond the current normal trading relation-ship. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led delegation-level talks with the Qatarileadrship, as well as holding restricted meetings with Emir Sheikh Tamim BinHamad Al Thani and Qatar Prime Minister Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa AlThani. "The main issues that were discussed, first of course, the Indian community'swelfare. The Prime Minister thanked them (the Qatari leadership) for taking care of

them (Indian community) plus their security and their general welfare," AmarSinha, Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs, said at amedia briefing here following the day's official engagements. "Second issue ofcritical importance was how we could partner together in investments and gobeyond this trading relationship," Sinha said. Though Qatar was the larg-est source of LNG for India, both sides felt that the time has come tomove beyond the trading relationship and get into strategic invest-ments, he said.



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INDIAN PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI WITH HIS HIGHNESS SHEIKH TAMIM BIN HAMAD AL THANI AT THE DELEGATIONLEVEL TALKS AT EMIRI DIWAN IN DOHA, QATAR (IANS).

TURKEY RESPONDS FIERCELY TOGERMANY'S 'DISGRACEFUL' VOTE

France to welcome 400 refugeesper month from GreecePARIS, (IANS) France pledged to take in 400 refugees per monthfrom Greece, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announcedrecently. In a statement, Cazeneuve added that 97 refugees ar-rived this week from Greece and Italy. An additional 253 asy-lum seekers are due to come next week, Xinhua repor ted. TheFrench minister also reiterated determination to honour com-mitment to help handling migration crisis. France promises toreceive 30,000 refugees over the next two years. Last Septem-ber, European leaders agreed on the EU proposal to redistribute160,000 refugees across European states in order to help strug-gling Greece to cope with chaotic flows of migrants at its doors.Escalating wars in Syria and Iraq, adding to persistent politicalinstability in many African countries and in the Middle East,forced millions of people to risk their lives by boarding ricketyboats to seek better life on the other Mediterranean rim.

Don't trust 'Great Satan' US,'evil' Britain: KhameneiTEHRAN, (IANS) Iranians were warned by the country's su-preme leader not to trust the US and other "small and big en-emies" of the country during commemorations of AyatollahKhomeini who led the country through the 1979 Islamic Revolu-tion. "We have many small and big enemies, but foremost amongthem are America and this very evil Britain," said SupremeLeader Ali Khamenei in a televised speech dedicated to the27th anniversary of the death of Sayeed Rouhollah Khomeini,who was the first person to hold the highest office in post-revolutionary Iran. The driving force behind the 1979 revolutionwas the rallying point for public outrage against Iran's ShahMohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had strong backing from the USand Britain while using secret police and mar tial law to subju-gate his people. During his reign, a CIA-sponsored coup over-threw Iran's elected government in 1953 for nationalising Brit-ain-owned oil companies.According to Khamenei, "America has continued its enmity to-wards Iran since the revolution. It is a huge mistake to trust evilBritain and the Great Satan," he added, referring to the US by anickname often used by Iranian officials in anti-Americanspeeches. Any individual or current which is working for Islam,if they trust America, they will be slapped in the face," he said.The Iranian leader said Iran would not cooperate with the US inregional affairs, because "their aims in the region are 180 de-grees opposed to Iran's."Iran and the US have a common enemy in the region, the terror-ist group Islamic State. The US was leading an internationalcoalition, which uses airstrikes and commando raids in an ef-for t to eradicate the IS powerbase in Iraq and Syria. Tehranprovides commanders for militias fighting against IS in Iraq andSyria and is a major ally of the Syrian government. The US, onthe other hand, said it wants the Syrian government ousted andhad been suppor ting armed groups in Syria, which Washingtondeems moderate.

ANKARA, (IANS) Turkish media on Friday was splashed with bitter condem-nation of Germany's vote to recognize the 1915 massacre of Armenians byOttoman Turkish forces as a genocide, with some even comparing GermanChancellor Angela Merkel with Adolf Hitler."Comrade stabs us in the back", "Turkey will not forget" and "Open the gates"are just some of the headlines splashed across Turkey's newspapers Fridaymorning, reports Turkish Anadolu Agency. "Shame on You" screams the non-government funded Hurriyet along with a picture of the voting German parlia-ment. Sozcu, a secular-nationalist newspaper wrote caustically: "The grand-children of Hitler accusing Turkey of genocide!", with a photo of Merkeloutfitted with a Hitler moustache and Swastika flag.The strongest cover came from the AK Party-related journal, Star, whichdevoted a full page to Merkel with a Hitler moustache, with the headline:"Everything for the PKK", referring to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).Turkish security forces are currently engaged in operations against the PKKin southeast Turkey. Holocaust comparisons to match those harsh wordscame from within the Turkish government too. "They burned Jews in fur-naces and now they slander the Turkish people by accusing us of somegenocide. Why don't you look at your own history first," Justice Minister BekirBozdag was quoted by the Anadolu Agency. On Friday the Turkish foreign

ministry responded to the German vote in a written statement, published ontheir official website and translated by Anadolu Agency, where they describethe vote as "an example of ignorance" and "disgraceful."

Pakistan unveils agri-focusedbudget, increases defence tooISLAMABAD, (IANS) Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar onFriday presented the country's budget for the upcoming fiscal year 2016-17,with a 10 per cent increase in defence allocations. Dar unveiled an budgetoutlay of $41.99 billion (Pakistani Rs 4.394 trillion) - a 7.3 per cent increaseover the previous year, and targetted growth of 5.7 per cent. Finance MinisterDar, outlining the economy's performance in the past two years, said: "In thepast two years progress went over 4 per cent and reached 4.7 per cent -- thehighest in eight years." Dar increased the country's defence budget by 10 percent to Rs. 860.2 billion from Rs. 781 billion last fiscal year. Dar concededthat the agriculture sector's negative growth of -0.19 percent had draggedthe economy down, and there were expectations that the budget would comeup with new measures to spur growth in the sector.

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JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ, VARUN DHAWAN AND JOHN ABRAHAM DURING THE TRAILER LAUNCH OF FILM DISHOOM INMUMBAI (IANS).

MUMBAI, (IANS) Actor Shahid Kapoor says that he intentionally didn't want tobe clicked with his 'Udta Punjab' co-star Kareena Kapoor Khan at the trailerlaunch of the film as the media would then only talk about it. There wererepor ts that former lovers Shahid and Kareena felt awkward in each other'scompany at the trailer launch where their co-star Alia Bhatt, director AbhishekChaubey among others were also present.Present at a radio station for the film's promotion, when Shahid was askedabout the issue, he said: "Just tell me how is it decided that two people feelawkward. That we were looking at each other in a par ticular way? What youdid find awkward?" When pointed out that they maintained distance and didn'tclick pictures together, Shahid said: "...because if I and Kareena click picturestogether then people will just write about it and keep talking about it only."The fourth actor in the film, Punjabi star Diljit Dosanjh was missing from thetrailer launch and Alia launched the song 'Ikk Kudi' without the other actors.Even at the radio station on Friday, only Shahid and Alia were there. Askedabout all four star actors in the film not coming together at any of the events,Shahid said: "We have just star ted the promotions. Abhi toh picture shuru huihai." 'Udta Punjab' was earlier slated for June 17 release, but the film's issueswith the censor board might push it ahead.

NEW DELHI, (IANS) Actress Shradha Kapoor says that that her longworking hours have taken a toll on her skin and to bring back her lostglow, she star ted using a face diet of strawberries and peach on adaily basis."As an actress, my long filming hoursand exposure to harsh elements cantake a toll on my skin. I have no-ticed that my skin looks dull anddehydrated. And this is why I havetaken up this amazing diet ofstrawberries and peaches to bringback my natural blush and glow,"Shradha told IANS."Using a daily cleanser that is rich instrawberry extract gives an instantglow to my face while the peach en-hanced facewash gives my skin animmediate moisture boost. It's theperfect cure for the hot summer,"she added. The actress, whois also the brand ambassadorof Lakme - the brand that haslaunched Blush and GlowStrawberry facewash andBlush and Glow Peachfacewash - says her se-cret diet for her face liesin the amazing benefitshidden in strawberryand peach. She hasrecently taken on thisas a part of her dailyregime that havehelped her get thatperfect glow.

Sunny Leone's take on reality showsNEW DELHI, (IANS) Actress Sunny Leone, who will be seenhosting the new season of youth-based reality TV show "MTVSplitsvilla", feels the genre garners attention because peopleare interested in knowing about others' life. "We watch differentTV shows because we find it interesting. It's in the nature to findother people's life interesting. We find other persons' lives in-teresting, which is why reality television is so big in showbiz,"Sunny told IANS. "Splitsvilla", which goes into its ninth editionthis time, is a televised 'hunt for love', wherein boys and girlsfight it out with each other to stay put in the 'villa'. Past editionsof the show have seen a lot of verbal spats between contes-tants. Asked that don't verbal spats and violence make realityshows disturbing, Sunny said: "I think reality shows (are) some-where showing the reality of life or a situation. Yes, people doget upset and sometimes don't know how to control their emo-tions. It wouldn't have been a multi-million dollar industry if itwas just roses and flowers the whole time.

PAES AND HINGIS WINMIXED DOUBLES TITLEPARIS, (IANS) Leander Paes and Mar tina Hingis won the mixeddoubles title at Roland Garros beating Sania Mirza and IvanDodig in a thrilling encounter 4-6, 6-4, 10-8 after being lockedat one set all. In the process, they completed a "Career Slam"in Mixed doubles. It was a historic day for Indian tennis as it was thefirst time the two legends of Indian tennis were facing each other withso much at stake.A Grand slam title was on the line and even more for Paes and hispartner Martina Hingis who were looking to complete a career slam.There were the two best teams out of the 32 that had started thetournament and both pairs had to play two matches on Thursday toset up a showdown.It was another cold evening at Paris with temperatures touching 14degrees Celsius which meant that the players had to put on morelayers of clothing. Paes started in typical fashion looking to poachany weak replies as he took up his favoured place at the net.There were even some smiles exchanged between Mirza and Hingisas a Hingis volley found the line when the umpire came down tocheck the mark. Games went with serve till the end of the set whenHingis' serve was broken when Mirza came up with a spec-tacular passing shot to clinch the opening set 6-4.

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GROUP PHOTO OF PEEL POLICE MEMBERS WITH STUDENTS OF FOUR SCHOOLS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE FIRST HIGH SCHOOL KABADDIFESTIVAL RECENTLY IN BRAMPTON. HARKIRAT SINGH, PEEL DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE FOR BRAMPTON WHO HELPED GET THE EVENTGOING, SAID IT WAS THE FIRST KABADDI SCHOOLS TOURNAMENT IN NORTH AMERICA AND SHOWED MIRTH ON ITS OUTCOME.



JIMMY SHERGILL DURINGTHE SONG LAUNCH OF FILMSHORGUL IN MUMBAI (IANS).

Remove references to Punjab, CBFC tells 'Udta Punjab' makersMUMBAI/CHANDIGARH, (IANS) The makers of Bollywood film "UdtaPunjab" are said to have been asked by the Revising Committee ofthe censor board to remove all references to Punjab -- a decisionperhaps taken under pressure from the ruling dispensation in thestate which is dealing with a festering problem of drugs."Udta Punjab", a Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor Khan andDiljit Dosanjh starrer movie, delves into how the youth there havesuccumbed to drugs. The release of the movie in a year when thestate is less than nine months from assembly elections is likely to beseen as politically disastrous for the state's ruling par ty, the ShrimoniAkali Dal which is a par tner with the ruling-National Democratic Alli-ance at the centre.

Earlier, there was buzz that the Central Board of Film Cer tification(CBFC) had refused a release cer tificate for the Abhishek Chaubeydirected movie, but later the makers had clarified that no ban wasimposed on it. On Monday, repor ts emerged that the Revising Com-mittee of the CBFC has asked the makers to make 89 cuts.A source in the know of developments told IANS that the board'sprimary demand is to remove all the references to Punjab, but thenumber of cuts is not clear as they are still awaiting an "officialletter". "We haven't received a letter yet. We don't know how manycuts, but we can tell you that their basic demand is that any refer-ence of Punjab should be deleted from the movie... Which then meansa lot of cuts," the source told IANS.

Dia Mirza namedambassador for SwachhSaathi programmeMUMBAI, (IANS) Actress DiaMirza has been named the am-bassador for Swachh Bharat'syouth based Swachh Saathi (stu-dent internship) programme."Swachh Bharat is amongst themost impor tant initiatives takenup by the government and I be-l ieve that the Swachh Saathiprogramme will be an extremelyimpor tant par t of our dream torealise a clean, healthy and envi-ronmentally conscious youth andcountry," Dia said in a statement.Under the programme more than2000 interns would be enrolled,who would coordinate witharound 10,000 schools across thecountry and ensure that all stu-dents in these schools take thepledge for Clean India. "Dia is ayouth icon and has been an ac-t ive campaigner for SwachhBharat. We felt that she would bethe best person to help us reachout to more youngsters. Our aimis to make it a viral youth ledmovement," said Swachh BharatMission Director PraveenPrakash.As the brand ambassador, Diawould be interacting with thou-sands of school and college stu-dents from across the countrythrough awareness sessions,community cleaning activit iesand motivational videos. "Overthe years I have tried to engageas many minds as possible tounderstand that our planet and ourcountry need the immediate in-volvement of all its citizens, sothat we can take responsibilityand make our world a better placeto live in," said Dia.

Arjun Kapoor's'fanboy' momentwith MS DhoniMUMBAI, (IANS) Actor ArjunKapoor had a fanboy momentmeet ing cr icketer MahendraSingh Dhoni at a charity footballmatch between India's Test skip-per Virat Kohli-led cricket starsand Abhishek Bachchan-ledBol lywood celebr i t ies here.Arjun, who was also a par t of thematch, shared a photograph ofhimself with Dhoni on the foot-ball ground. "Fanboy moment onfield with M.S. Dhoni, I don't thinkI've smiled so much in a while... Greatgame, great cause, great fun," Arjuncaptioned the image on Sundayevening. The match, 'Celebrity Classico2016', between cricketers' team 'AllHear t' and the filmstars' team 'AllStars', took place at the MumbaiFootball Arena in Andheri Spor tsComplex on Saturday.

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Upcoming Toronto artistShah merging Big L's lyricswith Future's style

TORONTO - Shah's music has been described as merging Big L'slyrics with Future's style, showcased by the fanbase Shah's drawnranging from hip-hop heads of rap's golden age to pop rap fans oftoday's youth. What's allowed Shah to rapidly develop a fanbase is hisability to make lyrically meaningful music that remains addictivelycatchy for broader, mainstream audiences.Growing up in Toronto, Shah didn't have desi role models, to look up toand he's now striving to be that person for today's youth. Creatingmusic is what Shah loves to do and he wants desi kids to feel that theyhave the ability to pursue any career they're passionate about, specifi-cally the arts. Shah is by no means a political rapper, his personalbeliefs can be heard in his music "God, please forgive me, Imma buyup your churches, let the homeless move up in 'em." Shah is also aproponent of a monthly sexism fee that would allow women to receivecompensation for all the societal inequality they face.Shah credits his Day One team with enabling his creation of music thathas been embraced by audiences across genres. Beyond his Toronto-based team that he describes as his music's "heart and soul," Shah'sHarlem-based engineer Eddy Nunez oversees Shah's studio sessionsin Bob Marley's former studio. Shah's production team extends interna-tionally, including Trindad's Young Scoona and Australia's Beatscraze.While Shah's music has early-adopters and desi fans buzzing, hisinnovative audiovisual series has provoked just as much interest. Thecinematic music video series involves some of the most prominentyoung producers, filmmakers, and fine artists from Toronto, New York,and Los Angeles. With collaborators from this groundbreaking projectdubbing Day of Shah a cultural phenomenon in the making, Shah's timehas arrived. To view Shah's groundbreaking videos, check out http://thisisdayone.com/videos/.

NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI, VICKY KAUSHAL AND SOBHITA DHULIWALA DURING LAUNCH OF SONG, QATL-E-AAM FROM FILMRAMAN RAGHAV 2.0 IN MUMBAI (IANS).

ANURAG KASHYAP BLOCKS TROLLERS ON SOCIAL MEDIAMUMBAI, (IANS) Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who is an avid user of social media platforms, says he blocks trollers on social media.Kashyap, among many other celebrities, has been trolled on digital platforms. The filmmaker was criticised on social media after thefailure of his film "Bombay Velvet".Asked how he felt on getting trolled, Kashyap said: "I felt attacked, but I can't waste my time thinking about it. I don't know what happened.When I get trolled, I block people. I cannot live my life thinking about it." The "Dev.D" helmer says that there is a difference betweencriticism and trolls. "Criticism and trolls are different. Trolls are people who are just trying to poke you... Those are the people I block.Criticism is healthy. Criticism that's unhealthy, I block it. Anything that works towards my growth, I will take it," he said.He stressed that people who make personal attacks are not critics. "I deal with trolls like that because for me, it's done. I reactimmediately and it's over for me. I have survived so much. I am a very strong survivor," he added. Kashyap says he is in the industry tobe a filmmaker and that "he will make movies till my dying day."

VARUN DHAWAN FINDS UNDERWEAR SEQUENCE IN 'DISHOOM' FUNMUMBAI, (IANS) Actor Varun Dhawan, who will be seen clad only in an underwear with his co-star John Abraham in their film "Dishoom",says the sequence was "fun". At the trailer launch of the film on Wednesday, Varun spoke about the underwear sequence, saying: "It wasvery good... It was 'mast' (fun). There was a good breeze, and John was there, so you get good inspiration. We were happy." ActressJacqueline Fernandez, who is also a par t of the Rohit Dhawan directorial, shared that for the par ticular sequence, John and Varun had toundergo intensive workout sessions and were following a strict diet.

ILEANA CALLS HERSELF 'ABSOLUTE SHOE PERSON'MUMBAI, (IANS) Actress Ileana D'Cruz says that she is an "absolute shoe" person. "I am an absolute shoe person," Ileana told IANS. "IfI had it my way, I would have an entire room of shelves of shoes everywhere," she added. The actress, who was last seen on screen inthe 2014 film "Happy Ending", is all set to share screen space with actor Akshay Kumar in the upcoming film "Rustom". Directed by TinuSuresh Desai "Rustom" is slated to release on August 12.



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Rob Kardashian, Blac Chynato get their own reality showLOS ANGELES, (IANS) Rob Kardashian and his fianceeBlac Chyna will have their own reality TV show titled "Rob& Chyna", TV channel E! has announced. The new six-episode docu-series will chronicle Rob's relationship withBlac, star ting from their engagement, reports eonline.com.The show will culminate with a separate special at a latertime celebrating the bir th of their first child together. "Rob& Chyna", which is produced by Ryan Seacrest Produc-tions and Bunim/Murray Productions, premieres on E! laterthis year. Rob and Chyna will also serve as co-executiveproducers on the show. "Very few love stories have created asmuch pop culture buzz as Rob and Chyna's, and we are thrilled to seeRob in such a happy place," Jeff Olde, executive vice president oforiginal programming and development at E!, said in a statement."We are excited to share the next chapter in their relationship," headded. Rob, 29, and Chyna, 28, announced they were engaged to bemarried at the beginning of April. Exactly one month later, the duoannounced Chyna's pregnancy.

TAYLOR SWIFT, CALVINHARRIS HAVE SPLITLOS ANGELES, (IANS)Singer Taylor Swift andDJ/music producerCalvin Harris have re-por tedly split. Multiplesources confirmed thenews to etonline.com.However, Swif t hasshown no sign of the split on her social media pages,neither has she deleted any photographs with him, includ-ing an image of the "Blank Space" singer wearing a CalvinHarris jacket when she stepped out to suppor t him at therecently held Coachella Valley Music and Ar ts Festival.They celebrated their one-year anniversary in March witha cake, a custom locket and plenty of fawning over eachother on social media. Shor tly after their anniversary, Swiftand Harris marked the occasion with a romantic tropicalvacation together, where they posed for each other'sInstagram photographs and wrote their names in the sand.The news of their break-up comes less than two weeksafter the Scottish DJ was involved in a car crash on May21 that briefly landed him in the hospital.

Nawazuddin's journey in showbiz is inspiring: Vicky KaushalNEW DELHI, (IANS) Actor Vicky Kaushal says he is inspired by the showbiz journey of his "Raman Raghav 2.0" co-star NawazuddinSiddiqui. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's "Raman Raghav 2.0" narrates story of the serial killer who went on murder spree in Mumbai inthe 1960s. It features Nawazuddin as the notorious serial-killer alongside Vicky, who plays a police officer."I look up to Nawaz and admire his work. He is a beautiful human being, very down to ear th and humble. It was a beautiful experienceto work with him apar t from learning craft from him," Vicky told IANS over phone from Mumbai. "Just watching him perform, seeing himtalk about his journey from Delhi and his struggle, was just so inspiring... Knowing that he is stuck to his ground so well, believed in hiscraft and was not bothered about the race which has payed out so well, is inspiring."Nawazuddin's powerful avant-garde roles in offbeat Indian films have set him apart from the true-blue heroes of Bollywood. He earned appreciationfor his roles in films like "Gangs Of Wasseypur", "Kahaani", "Kick", "The Lunchbox", "Talaash" and "Badlapur"."Raman Raghav 2.0" is yet to release in India, but is already making the right noise on foreign shores. It was applauded at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, andthe film is slated for June 24 release. Vicky says in order to prepare for his character, he went into isolation mode for some days. He said: "My character is verydifferent from who I am from the way he thinks, the way he behaves, his family background, and his circumstances.

No similarities between Dishoom, DhoomMUMBAI, (IANS) The lead actors of "Dishoom", John Abraham and Varun Dhawan, have denied any similarities that the film has with oneof John's most popular films "Dhoom", which has become a successful franchise now. At the trailer launch of the film, when asked aboutthe similarities with "Dhoom" and if "Dishoom" can also be made into a successful franchise like "Dhoom", Varun said: "This is nothinglike 'Dhoom', but because John was in the first 'Dhoom', I think he should answer why it is different.""When I heard the script of 'Dishoom', the first thing that I told Sajid (Nadiadwala) and Rohit (Dhawan) was that 'Dishoom' will go up to'Dishoom' 8 because this is a very young, action adventure franchise. Kabir and Junaid (their characters) will find new problems, newissues and move to different places. It's going to be fun. It's a great franchiable film," John said. John's "Dhoom" was one of his biggesthits, and the franchise grew bigger with superstars like Hrithik Roshan and Aamir Khan taking it on a higher level with "Dhoom 2" and"Dhoom 3". John's character in the film is also named Kabir like it was in "Dhoom". "Except the name, it's a different template. It's adifferent format, it's very different and I really love this space. The experience was absolutely fantastic. We had a lot of fun, great action,the actions sequences in the film are very large, it's really huge scale film. It's very special, it comes from the heart. We're not forcingthe line," he added. About his special moments from the film, John said, "All of us coming together is fantastic, with Sajid it's my secondfilm. I can confidently say that I'm really close to him. Rohit is like my younger brother. With Varun, what you can see on the screen, weare the same off the screen. Our chemistry is absolutely fantastic. Jacky (Jacqueline Fernandez) is a sweethear t. I've been a huge fanof Akshaye (Khanna). So the fact that he is in this film means so much to me personally."

Amrita Rao's gifts to 'Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai' crewMUMBAI, (IANS) Actress Amrita Rao, who plays Kalyani Gaiekwad in "Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai", has gifted motorised fans to crewof the popular TV show, to offer them relief in the scorching heat. "We shoot outdoors and most of our shoots are on real locations. If thecrew can take care of the actors and make sure that we are comfor table while shooting, then why shouldn't I make sure the same aboutthem," Amrita said in a statement. "I have gifted them motorised fans which they can use wherever and whenever they want. It is smalland handy and hence it's really useful," added the actress, who recently got married to RJ Anmol. "Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai", whichis aired on &TV, also features Deepti Naval, Zarina Wahab and Pallavi Joshi among others.

A classy film for people with crass taste, "Housefull 3" seriouslyblows your sensibilities away. The film is without a doubt cre-atively designed with quirky character traits, good locales, glamor-ous images and incredible gags that hit the zero denominator muchtoo often. The narrative star ts off as an after thought, with a confus-ing and inexplicable heist that takes place in central London, whichoccurred six years earlier.We are then transpor ted to the present-day London where we areintroduced to Bhatook Patel (Boman Irani) and his three daughtersGanga aka Gracy (Jacqueline Fernandes), Jamuna aka Jenny (LisaHaydon) and Saraswati aka Sarah (Nargis Fakhri). At a par ty,Bhatook vehemently declares: "I'll never get my daughters mar-ried." And he has his reasons.Bhatook finds excuses to prevent his daughters from gettingmarried and how three guys -- Sandy aka Sundy (Akshay Kumar) afootballer, Teddy (Riteish Deshmukh) a car racer and Bunty(Abhishek Bachchan) a rapper -- corner him into accepting them,forms the crux of the tale.There are other minor digressions too, which complicate ourprospective trio's chances. The directors -- who have also writtenthe story, script and dialogues of the film -- have whipped up all thetropes of the comedy genre to give us a mish-mash of unpalatableenter tainment. With dialogues like, "Will you be my tawaif... Errwife", or "Suck the ants from my pants" with metre and rhyme,

there is poetry in the dialogues as well as the lyrics, too. Also,transliterated dialogues like; "Humlog bachche nahin bana rahenhain...", which meant, "We are not kidding", prompts a chuckle. Buttoo many of such transliterated jokes over-eggs the humour. Theactors, except for Jackie Shroff, indulge in buffoonery to the hilt.They all are loud, over-the-top characters who go overboard withtheir exhibition and that's because their characters demands themto do so.Akshay Kumar exhibits his physical prowess with his over-energetic performance of a dual personality and a crippled bound toa wheelchair, he is dynamic and is aptly suppor ted by equallytalented co-stars; Riteish Deshmukh whose tongue often slips andAbhishek Bachchan who often breaks into a crass rap. The triohave excellent onscreen "buddy" chemistry, with perfect comictiming.Though the actresses have nothing much to offer in terms ofhistrionics, they are equally charming. Chunky Pandey as therestaurateur Akhri Pasta with his recycled line, "I am joooking" isstaid and stereotyped. Jackie Shroff as the Don of Mumbai, UrjaNagri urf Urja Bhai, lacks energy. And, Boman Irani, though atalented actor, fails to leave an impact as Bhatook Patel.With songs like "Nachenge sari sari raat, tang uthaake", "Pyar kima ki... puja" and a rap number like, "Teri maa behen... teri maabehen", the music and background score is loud and elementary which doesnot help the narrative. Overall, "Housefull 3", with few seriously funny mo-ments which are few and far between, is a huge let-down.

CAN'T MAKE FILMS LIKE 'SULTAN', 'DISHOOM': ANURAG KASHYAPMUMBAI, (IANS) Director Anurag Kashyap says that he considers all his films commercial but cannot make films such as "Sultan" and"Dishoom", though he liked their trailers. At the launch of the song "Qatl-E-Aam" from his upcoming film "Raman Raghav 2.0", Anuragwas asked if he liked the trailer of superstar Salman Khan's "Sultan"."I saw the trailer and in every trailer you enjoy it. I even enjoyed 'Dishoom' a lot, but the problem with me is that I can't make them," hesaid. The trailers of "Sultan" and Varun Dhawan, John Abraham starrer "Dishoom" were launched recently and have already registeredviews in millions. The films can be called masala enter tainers, while Anurag is known for his realistic films such as "Black Friday" andhis other films, too, like "Gangs of Wasseypur" have a different style and can't perhaps be termed masalaa films. His last film "BombayVelvet" had a massive budget but it failed at the box office. Considering the failure, is there a bigger pressure on him to deliver with"Raman Raghav 2.0". "That happens with every film. We want every film to work well. But with 'Raman Raghav 2.0' there is not that much pressureas was in the previous film. Our last film ('Bombay Velvet') was Titanic. This film is our boat," Anurag said. Would he like to make a commercial filmlike "Bombay Velvet" again? "All films are commercial for me. Whenever I make films, I think in commercial terms."

CRICKETERS AJINKYA RAHANE, VIRAT KOHLI, ACTORS ABHISHEK BACHCHAN AND ARJUN KAPOOR DURING THE OFFICIAL JERSEYLAUNCH OF CELEBRITY CLASICO 2016 BY VIRAT KOHLI FOUNDATION AND PLAYING FOR HUMANITY IN MUMBAI (IANS).

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CONTD. FROM PAGE 17In the second set Paes and Hingis went up an early break butsoon relinquished it. However they were able to clinch anotherbreak to lead 4-3. Both teams tried to resort to lobs to counterthe heavy conditions. Mirza then missed a volley to face setpoint but the second seeds fought back well to save both. Paesthen served out the set without much trouble.The match t iebreak that would decide the t i t le took arollercoaster route. First Mirza and Dodig took a 3-1 lead butPaes and Hingis slowly fought back with some authoritativetennis to level it back at 5-5 and then led 7-5 at the change ofends. At one point Paes hit a trademark forehand volley winnerad star ted egging on the crowd as they led 8-6. Two points fromthe title. And there were cries of "Come on Old Man" from thecrowd. Mirza and Dodig fought back to 8-8. Hingis then hit abackhand pass to reach championship point and then Paes andHingis closed out the win on a forehand error from Dodig.

PAES AND HINGIS WINMIXED DOUBLES TITLE

Djokovic beats Murray to winhis first French Open titlePARIS, (IANS) Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic on Sun-day won his first French Opne title, after defeating Britain'sAndy Murray 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 in 3 hours and three minutes,thus becoming the eighth man in history to complete thecareer Grand Slam. The 29-year-old Serb notched his 12thGrand Slam championship in total, drawing level with Aus-tralian Roy Emerson for four th place on the all-time title listand is three off Spanish Rafael Nadal and American PeteSampras and five off Swiss Roger Federer, repor ts Efe.Djokovic is most impressively just the third to hold all fourMajor crowns at the same time, joining Don Budge (1938)and Rod Laver (1962 and 1969).

Muhammad Ali's body arrivesin his hometown LouisvilleWASHINGTON, (IANS) The body of legendary boxer MuhammadAli on Sunday arrived in his hometown Louisville in Kentuckywhere a public procession and memorial service will be heldon Friday. The memorial service of Ali, born Cassius MarcellusClay, will be followed by a private funeral where former USpresident Bill Clinton will participate, Efe news reported."Ali is now home," said Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer. Ali diedon Friday night at the age of 74 at a hospital in Arizona where hespent the last years of his life because the weather was moresuitable for him as he was suffering from Parkinson's disease.Family and close friends will bid farewell to the legend in aprivate ceremony on Thursday in Louisville, said family spokes-man Bob Gunnel on Saturday.On Friday, a procession bearing the body of the triple worldboxing champion will be marched through the streets of Louis-ville, first around the museum and cultural centre of Ali and laterthrough the boulevard that bears his name and then to the CaveHill cemetery. The burial ceremony will be private with the soleparticipation of his family, former US President Bill Clinton, co-median Billy Crystal and journalist Bryant Gumbel, the spokes-man detailed.On Saturday, Louisville Mayor ordered that American flags beflown at half-mast at all government buildings in the city until Aliis buried. The importance of Muhammad Ali goes beyond box-ing and embeds itself in the turbulent times in the 1960s, duringthe African-American Civil Rights Movement, when the boxerrefused military service in Vietnam and called for the equality ofall people regardless of religion, social status and skin colour.

France wins maidenwomen's doubles major titlein 45 years at French OpenPARIS, (IANS) Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic cameout the first French pair to win a Grand Slam women'sdoubles tennis title in 45 years after beating EkaterinaMakarova/Elena Vesnina of Russia at the French Openhere on Sunday. The local duo, major final debutants, ral-lied to a 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 victory over the 2013 French Openchampions, who were playing their 15th final and fifthMajor final, looking for their third Grand Slam title, re-por ts Xinhua.Last time when a French pair took a Grand Slam title wasin 1971 when Gail Sheriff Chanfreau Lovera and FrancoiseDurr won at Roland Garros. It has been the maiden cham-pionship of Garcia and Mladenovic in a major event. TheFrench pair got off to a flying star t with a 4-0 lead. TheirRussian rivals did break back but had not enough spaceto launch a comeback before Garcia and Mladenovicwrapped it up 6-3. After the seventh seeds Russians foughtback to level the match with a 6-2 second set, the fifthseeds broke their opponents' ninth game for a 5-4 leadand held their own serve to clinch the title.

MUMBAI, (IANS) A charity football match between the film industryand Indian cricketers ended in a 2-2 draw, but actor Abhishek Bachchansaid irrespective of the draw the noble cause for which the matchwas held emerged the winner.The match, entitled 'Celebrity Classico 2016', between cricketers' team'All Hear t' and the filmstars' team 'All Stars' took place at the MumbaiFootball Arena in Andheri Spor ts Complex on Saturday. Abhishek'scharity Playing for Humanity and cricketer Virat Kohli's charity TheVirat Kohli Foundation were behind this initiative to raise funds forthose affected by the severe drought in Maharashtra.The All Stars was captained by Ranbir Kapoor and had players likeAditya Roy Kapur, Shoojit Sircar, Raj Kundra among others. All Hear twas captained by Virat and had players like Mahendra Singh Dhoni, RAshwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh, among oth-ers. It was Sircar who scored the first goal for All Stars, while thesecond goal came from Ranbir's trainer Antonio Pecora. For All Hear t,

it was Yuvraj Singh and KL Rahul who scored the goals."Well it was a draw and we're very happy because the last time weplayed we lost by one goal. I'm very proud of Ranbir and the entireteam. They played with all their hear ts. We are very proud and honouredthat we got the oppor tunity to play against the Indian cricket team,"Abhishek said after the match."A draw is as good as a win. At the end of the day, we did this for agreat cause -- to raise awareness and funds for drought victims. Itdoesn't matter who wins or loses. The people we did it for win at theend of the day," he added. The actor said that it was the idea of AdityaThackeray, president of Shiv Sena'a youth wing Yuva Sena, to do thecharity match for drought victims."It's been my favourite spor t since childhood and we all took it seri-ously. We play every Sunday. We're really happy that we can play forsuch a good cause," Ranbir said. Ranbir and Abhishek are co-ownersof football teams in the Indian Super League.

INDIAN HOCKEY EVES LOSE 1-2 TO JAPANDARWIN, (IANS) India lost 1-2 to Japan in the bronze medal play-off match in the four-nation invitational women's hockey tournamenthere on Saturday. Vandana Katariya gave India a 1-0 lead in the 37th minute but Japan equalised in the very next minute via MotomiKawamura's goal. Four minutes later, Minami Shimizu's strike gave the Japanese a 2-1 lead which they held on till the end.Speaking after the match, India chief coach Neil Hawgood said: "The entire tournament has been a great test for us, to learn about ourstrengths and weaknesses as well as the opponents we will face in Rio. "As a team, our defensive work has been solid and now we canbuild from there."India star ted the game brightly, pushing Japan onto the back foot immediately, and penetrated the Japanese circle several times in thefirst five minutes. Japan rallied back though and slowly got control of the possession, as India dropped back to a more defensivelycompact gameplan.In the first real chance of the game though, Japan, attacking through a long cross field drive, were denied by a brilliant diving save fromSavita Punia in goal. Early in the second quar ter, Japan were awarded their third penalty corner but India defended it. But the real dramaunfolded in the second half of the game as India star ted pressing the Japanese back, holding possession and creating chances.The increased pressure paid dividends as Vandana got the opener for India in the 37th minute. A long cross field drive from Deepikaseemed to be headed towards safety, before Vandana crept in behind Japan's Nagisa Hayashi and flicked in the ball to give India the lead.Almost from the restar t though, Japan equalised through Kawamura and took the lead in the 42nd minute via Shimizu. India had a penaltycorner in the dying minutes of the game, but could not conver t as Japan defended strongly and took the victory.

BOXERS VIJENDER SINGH AND KERRY HOPE WITH CRICKETER VIRENDER SEHWAG DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE REGARDINGWBO ASIA PACIFIC SUPPER MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP IN NEW DELHI (IANS).

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Schedule of UEFA Euro 2016 football

SAINA'S LOSS ENDS INDIA'S CAMPAIGN AT INDONESIA OPENJAKARTA, (IANS) India's campaign at the Indonesian Open Superseries badminton ended after star shuttler Saina Nehwal went down toWorld No.1 Carolina Marin of Spain in the quar ter-finals of the women's singles on Friday. It was the World No.8 Saina's third loss in theirlast four face-offs as the Spaniard took just 47 minutes to win in straight games 24-22, 21-11 at the Istora Gelora Bung Karno Stadiumhere. In the opening game, Saina came back from being 7-13 down to grab the lead 16-14 and then 19-16 only to let the advantage slipas the Spaniard earned the bragging rights. In the second game, the 22-year-old star ted dominating from the star t, taking a 4-1 leadbefore extending it to 11-5 and then went on her rampaging form to take the game away from the three-time champion from Hyderabad.Saina, seeded eighth, had earlier defeated local favourite Fitriani Fitriani to reach the last eight.

ICC COMMITTEE CONCERNED OVER QUALITY OF TEST MATCH PITCHESLONDON, (IANS) The cricket committee of the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday expressed concern over the quality of pitchesprepared for Test matches, which normally favour the home team. The Anil Kumble-led committee also discussed the controversialDecision Review System (DRS) which still remains a headache for the ICC, considering the stiff opposition from the Board of Control forCricket in India (BCCI)."The committee also expressed concern about the quality of Test pitches, and, in par ticular, the common practice of home countriesover tly preparing surfaces to suit their own teams," an ICC release said. "The committee received a presentation from MIT engineers ontheir testing of the current technologies used in the DRS. It said it will release a detailed repor t on the subject, including recommendedchanges to the system, over the coming weeks," it added.Meanwhile, in what comes as a boost to women's cricket, the ICC said the 2016 Women's World T20, which was being parallelly heldwith the men's edition, attracted 24.5 million viewers in India alone with an average audience of 100,000 in the United States region."The committee received a repor t from Clare Connor, the Chair of the ICC Women's Committee, on the impact of the recent ICC Women'sWorld Twenty20 in India, which showed the women's event received greater exposure than ever before and attracted 24.5 million TVviewers in India alone, as well as generating an average audience of 100,000 in the US on Willow TV," the release said. Kumble said awide range of issues were discussed in the meeting, including the structure of Test cricket which will be taken forward in the nextexecutive in Edinburgh next month.

EURO 2016 PREVIEW: GERMANY,POLAND FAVOURITES IN GROUP CBERLIN, (IANS) Reigning world champions Germany andPoland are the favourites to advance to the next round fromgroup C in Euro 2016. Ukraine and Nor thern Ireland are thegroup's underdogs. While Ukraine may challenge Polandand Germany to some degree, Nor thern Ireland are re-garded as rank outsiders, repor ts Xinhua.The teams' aims could not be more different. While the 1996European Champion Germany is targeting the tournamentwin, Poland would be happy to get to the quar ter finalswhile Ukraine would be happy with a place in the last 16.There will Nor thern Ireland par ty with every goal and pointthey manage to score or win in the three group matches.Ahead of the tournament, head coach Adam Nawalka'sPolish team seems to be the only team in a position toseriously challenge Germany -- they play each other in thesecond group match on June 16. Beating Germany at homein the qualifying tournament gave the Poles a massivemotivational boost. The 3-1 loss in the re-match was theironly defeat in the last two years. Poland scored the mostgoals in qualifying (33) and the attack is the team's biggeststrength as Rober t Lewandowski (Bayern Munich/13 goals)and Arkadiusz Milik (Ajax Amsterdam/6 goals) are classinternational acts.The defence in the well balanced and experienced team isthe weakest par t. At the back however they are the secondworst team of all par ticipating nations af ter conceding 10goals in qualifying. Using a 4-4-2 or a 4-2-3-1 system,Poland can count on a strong midfield and excellentattacking play down the flanks. Lewandowski, defenderKamil Glik (AC Turin) and Grzegorz Krychowiak (Sevilla)are the team's kingpins. The games against Germany andUkraine will be crucial to Poland if they are to have an easyt ime.Soon af ter the brilliant per formance in Brazil and the happyend in the 2014 World Cup final against Argentina, Germanycoach Joachim Loew's team suffered a downturn -- one thathas been going on for two years without the Germans everbeing able to fully counteract it.Loew had to begin a rebuilding process after MiroslavKlose, Philipp Lahm, Per Mer tesacker retired. He also isfacing an injury crisis as captain Bastian Schweinsteiger(Manchester United) and central defender Mats Hummels

(Borussia Dor tmund) are struggling to recover in time.However the loss of several World Champion players couldturn out to be an advantage as Loew has had to call uponnew faces and fresh minds. Mario Gomez (BesiktasIstanbul) is back in top form and could replace Klose as aspearhead. But Loew has many other possibilities as histeam is able to use several different systems like 4-2-3-1 or3-5-1-1. Mario Goetze seems back in a better frame of mindafter a disappointing season at Bayern Munich. AndreSchuerrle (VfL Wolfsburg) is much-improved while keeperManuel Neuer, defender Jerome Boateng and striker ThomasMueller (all Bayern Munich) have been playing at a consis-tently high level and are vital to the team.Like in Brazil, Loew is trying to create a special team spiritby choosing the appropriate squad members.Many are not sure whether Mykhaylo Fomenko will get histeam on the right track. After all Ukraine's head coach has todeal with a totally different situation as the country is stuckin a political crisis which has also influenced its nationalteam. To say it clearly: Under these circumstances it was asurprise that Ukraine managed to qualify at all having losingfive previous play-offs for major tournaments. Things camegood in 2016 when they won the two-legged play-off againstSlovenia. The curse seems to over.Ukraine prefer a defensive game within a 4-5-1 system. Theteam relies on a strong physical game and their two topstars are striker Andriy Yarmolenko (Dynamo Kiev) andmidfielder Yeven Konoplyanka (Sevilla).For Nor thern Ireland, the European Championship finals areseen as being an adventure. The team and coach MichaelO'Neill are loving the underdog role. For the team made upmainly of second and third division players, the three groupgames are like a final and expectations are non-existentdespite the wish not to lose all of their three games withoutscoring any goals.Playing three games on a high level will be a challenge foran inexperienced but determined team that has an unbeat-able will, is very strong physically and has the ability toplay many tactical systems such as 4-3-3, 4-4-2, 4-1-4-1, 5-3-2 and 4-5-1. If there is any star in the team at all it mightbe striker Kyle Laffer ty (Birmingham City) who scoredseven goals in the qualifying games.

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