POLITICS
Attorney General Dosanjh makes history, becomes first Asian premier in Canada
Dosanjh fought off a serious challenge by his charismatic opponent and charges that his supporters signed up hundreds of bogus members.

NEWS
Refugee 'head tax' may be dropped
While Immigration Minister Elinor Caplan favours removal of the tax for all immigrants, she wants the federal government to set up a special fund to screen immigrants and speed up the process of deportation.

CRIME
Immigrant murders in Houston: 3 charged
Robert Lee Woodard, 19, Exzavier Lamont Stevenson, 31, and Steven Ray Tatum, 19, who were arrested over the weekend have been charged with capital murder and are being held without bail.

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Who is killing immigrants in Houston?
A series of murders, a majority of them involving convenience stores clerks, has rattled the minority community.

Two Indian students on USA Today's top-20 USA Team
Cited among Neelaksh Varshney's achievements by USA Today selection committee was his article about using tele-medicine in rural areas which was published by a Princeton University bio-ethics journal.

US will mediate in J&K only if asked: Clinton
'Unless we were asked by both parties to help, we can't get involved. In every other case we are involved, it is because both parties have asked us to be involved,' the President said.

Reddy's attorneys want separate trials for father and son
Defense lawyers believe that separate trials mean a speedy resolution of the cases. Besides, it will not be the same judge and the jury who will decide the fate of their clients.

Hollywood bigwigs back Deepa Mehta
George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars series, is so upset that he is taking advertisements in Hollywood trade publications, condemning the events that led to the cancellation of the Water shoot.

Why is Kissinger scared of the Mahajan brothers?
The former secretary of state calls off his speech following protests by students at the University of Texas in Austin.

Dark clouds over desi box-office
Badal earned a paltry $ 64,000 last weekend. Given the usual pattern of 45 to 50 per cent decline for desi movies in the second week, it could exit with just about $ 150,000 in three weeks.

Confidentiality: Census to issue television ads to reassure minorities
Census officials are worried that a lot of people, either out of cynicism or negligence, will not fill in the forms.

Shyamalan, Nayar get Oscar nominations, Nepal's Caravan tramples Mehta's Earth
Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense has got the nod in the best picture, director, screenplay, supporting actor and editing categories.

Narinder Virk: Cold blooded murder plotter or 'ultimate victim' of justice system'?
Many Sikhs are coming forward, offering to put up their property as collateral to have her released.

Junglee guy goes after Purple Yogi
PurpleYogi.com, which is getting ready for an early launch, aims for extreme personalisation of the Internet.

The BRAIN Act
Zoe Lofgren, Congresswoman from Silicon Valley, has a formula she thinks can help the hi-tech industry.

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