Firefighters continue to battle a massive three-alarm blaze that broke out at an electronics store in the city’s Golden Mile neighbourhood Monday evening. The fire broke out at the business on Warden Avenue near Upton Road at around 7:35 p.m. and quickly escalated. Flames and heavy smoke were seen billowing …

The Toronto District Catholic School Board has reversed a decision to reduce funding for bus service next school year following a backlash from parents. The proposed $2.45 million in transportation reductions would have meant less bus service for some 7,200 elementary school kids who live within 1.5 kilometres of their …

LONDON (AP) – The impact of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union was swift and painful for Ed Bussey’s small tech firm in London. The founder and CEO of Quill, an online content company, had been looking to fill a software development job paying 70,000 pounds ($95,000) a year …

BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union ratcheted up pressure Tuesday on the U.K. to trigger negotiations to leave the bloc and end the uncertainty that has rattled stock markets. In Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she will use “all her strength” to prevent the EU from drifting apart in …

Beijing: Defending China’s opposition to India’s entry into the NSG as “morally legitimate”, a state- run daily on Tuesday hit out at India saying the West has “spoiled” the country making it a “bit smug” in international affairs. In a hard hitting editorial, Global Times said it was rules not …

New Delhi: Muslim Rashtriya Manch, an organisation affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), has withdrawn its invitation to the Pakistan High Commissioner for its annual Iftar party scheduled for July 2 in the wake of a terror strike in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pampore town that left eight CRPF personnel …

New Delhi: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi ticked him off by disapproving his attacks on top policy makers, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday alleged that media insults him. On Monday, the PM described RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan “no less patriotic than anyone” and said …

New Delhi: The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Tuesday cleared the appointment of NS Vishwanathan as Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India. He was executive director in RBI before his new appointment. N S Vishwanathan will succeed HR Khan as Deputy Governor of RBI whose tenure will …

Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday said he was on the verge of quitting the Congress and forming his own party last year, the time when he was locked in an intra-party tussle to get back the state unit chair from Partap Singh Bajwa. In an interview to …

Former leader of Congress legislature party (CLP) Sunil Jakhar on Monday suggested the campaign committee of his own party to be more active and take the government head-on. He was addressing the media in Chandigarh on Monday. Rajya Sabha member Ambika Soni is the in-charge of the Congress campaign committee …