Local team holds open tryout in grounded variation of Harry Potter sport. A brand new batch of muggles will have a chance to fulfill their wizarding dreams this weekend as Toronto’s only community quidditch team hosts an open tryout. No potions, spells or previous experience are required. All you need …

The announcement follows a story from the Star last week detailing the push from city councilors and poverty activists to have the restrictions on cooling centre wait times relaxed Cooling centres will open on the first day of a heat alert, a policy improvement advocates had been calling for over …

Mandeep Punia was found guilty last spring in the stabbing death of her sister-in-law, who was pregnant. A 39-year-old Brampton woman who stabbed her pregnant sister-in-law in the neck as the victim held her 2-year-old daughter, and then watched the woman bleed to death, has been sentenced to 12 years …

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Malaysia acknowledged for the first time that one of the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had plotted a course on his home flight simulator to the southern Indian Ocean, where the missing jet is believed to have crashed. Australian officials overseeing the search for …

Guwahati: The calm prevailing in Assam ever since the new BJP government assumed power was broken on Friday when a group of militants opened fire at a busy market near Kokrajhar, killing at least 13 civilians and injuring 18 others. The militant lobbed grenades and shot civilians at Balazan Market, …

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday announced three lakh compensation and a flat each to Bulandshahr gang-rape victims. Drawing criticism from all quarters in the wake of Bulandshahr gang-rape incident, Akhilesh Yadav yesterday slammed the Opposition and accused them of tutoring the survivors in an …

Punjab Police have registered a rape case against former Gurdaspur superintendent of police (headquarters) Salwinder Singh. Salwinder was subjected to a lie-detector test by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the January 1 Pathankot airbase terror attack. Gurdaspur senior superintendent of police (SSP) Jagdeep Singh Hundal confirmed that Salwinder was …

Keeping its promise of being the first to announce candidates for the Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections due early next year, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday released the first list of 19 for the 117-member assembly. AAP state affairs in-charge Sanjay Singh, who released the list, said the party …