Iraq job lifetime chance for Gurbux Singh

Iraq may turn out to be the salvation of the India-born former chairman of Britain's Commission of Racial Equality Gurbax Singh.Singh is only one of four British officials to be appointed to a......

Harper seeks stronger ties between India, Canada

Canada and India must forge stronger trade, investment and educational ties to build a more productive friendship, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said. "Canada stands besides India as a......

Canada Polls: 32 Indian-origin candidates win

Several Indian-origin candidates made it to the Canadian Parliament Tuesday as the opposition Conservative party defeated the Liberal of Prime Minister Paul Martin, ending its 12-year rule marred......

A Sikh who fought for his turban

Gurbax Singh Malhi, parliamentary secretary to the Canadian labour minister, believes the French government must withdraw a controversial Bill that prevents Sikhs from wearing turbans.Malhi in the......

How the Singh brothers bagged Rs 383-cr profit

Immediately after Fortis Healthcare acquired a little over 25 per cent in Singapore-based Parkway Hospitals for $650 million in March and gained management control, Malvinder Singh announced he......

A look at Ranbaxy's interesting and eventful history

Currently, all the US FDA-approved manufacturing facilities of Ranbaxy in India are banned from supplying to the US.  Sun Pharma’s acquisition of Ranbaxy has once again revived......

For Bhai Mohan, Ranbaxy was an estranged son

"Ranbaxy is my fourth child," Bhai Mohan Singh would often tell friends. So fond was he of the company he had nurtured since 1947, that he spoke of it on a par with his three sons. It would be......

Former Asian Games champion Dingko Singh dies

IMAGE: Dingko Singh won the gold medal in bantemweight boxing at the 1998 Asian Games. Photograph: Boxing Federation of India/Twitter Asian Games gold medal-winning former boxer Dingko Singh, who......

A Supernova called Dingko

Indian boxing got the first glimpse of Dingko's talent at the 1989 sub-junior nationals in Ambala where he became a champion as a 10-year-old. From there began the journey of his development......

Dronacharya awardee boxing coach O P Bhardwaj dies

India's first Dronacharya awardee coach in boxing, O P Bhardwaj, died on Friday after battling prolonged illness and age-related issues here. He was 82 and had tragically lost his wife Santosh to......

Frenchman Cottalorda to coach Indian women boxers

In a historic first for Indian boxing, Frenchman Stephane Cottalorda, an AIBA three-star coach, has been roped in to train the country's women pugilists for a nearly two-year term. The 41-year-old,......

Bedi and Azad backed by Olympians to oversee BCCI reforms

IMAGE: Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi. Photograph: PTI. Hailing the decision of the Supreme Court to appoint a two-member committee to oversee reforms in the Cricket Board after the......