London, April 28 (IANS) A recent court ruling in the United Kingdom’s West Midlands sentencing the accused to life imprisonment for “religiously aggravated assault” on a young Sikh woman has sent shockwaves through Sikh communities both in the UK and overseas, a report said on Tuesday. According to a report in Khalsa Vox, the Birmingham Crown Court handed John Ashby life imprisonment with a minimum term of 21 years for attacking the woman in her 20s at her residence in Walsall, West Midlands, …
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Ottawa, Jan 28 (IANS) Police in Canada’s Burnaby have said that the recent fatal shooting of an Indian-origin man could be linked to the ongoing gang conflict in the British Columbia (BC) province. The victim, identified as 28-year-old Dilraj Singh Gill, a Vancouver resident of Indian origin, was reportedly known to law enforcement.According to the statement by the Canadian Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT), on January 22, just before 5:30 p.m., frontline officers from the Burnaby …
Ottawa, Jan 23 (IANS) Authorities in Canada have escalated their crackdown on a series of extortion cases that have been reported across British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, with investigators now analysing the involvement of over hundred foreign nationals, a report has stated. The British Columbia Extortion Task Force, established by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in 2025, has identified 111 foreign nationals whose involvement in these incidents is being investigated.Among those, seve…