Native village/Country, parent’s background Ludhiana, Punjab, India. Father owned Steel Mill, Cinema and was also into film making. Mother was stay home mom Your early education I did Masters with Honours in Sitar When & why you came to Canada? 1982. I immigrated to join my significant half after marriage …

MEXICO CITY (AP) – A U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that it is troubled by a group of international experts’ complaints of obstacles to their investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico. Rupert Colville, spokesman for the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, …

WARRINGTON, England (AP) – The families of 96 Liverpool soccer fans who were crushed to death at a crowded stadium in 1989 declared they had finally won justice Tuesday after a jury found that police and emergency services were to blame for Britain’s worst sports disaster. The jury exonerated the …

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Tehran resident Sousan Heidari has stopped letting her headscarf slip casually down over her neck and shoulders while driving in the Iranian capital. These days, the 22-year-old with a taste for bold makeup makes sure to pull it tightly over her dark hair, fearful of running …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea’s president said Tuesday that North Korea has almost completed preparations for a fifth nuclear test, and the country has reportedly placed a new midrange missile on standby for an impending launch. North Korea said two days ago it had successfully test-fired a ballistic …

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – As Ukraine and Belarus on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident with solemn words and an angry protest, some of the men who were sent to the site in the first chaotic and frightening days were gripped by painful memories. Ukrainian President …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Apple sold more than 51 million iPhones in the first three months of this year – and that’s the problem. That’s 10 million fewer iPhones than the tech giant sold during the same quarter a year ago. As a result, Apple on Tuesday reported its first …

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – With flowers, candles and tears, Ukraine on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Some survivors said the chaos of that time is etched in their minds forever. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko led a ceremony …

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) – Telling the story of Chernobyl in numbers 30 years later involves dauntingly large figures and others that are even more vexing because they’re still unknown. A look at numbers that hint at the scope of the world’s worst nuclear accident, the explosion and fire at the …

KAFR HAMOUDA, Egypt (AP) – “For a thousand years,” Abdullah Sheikh’s family has been working the land the same way – flooding fields in Egypt’s Nile Delta and planting seeds by hand. But now a small, relatively cheap plow has changed all that, allowing him to nearly double the yields …