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VOL 25 - ISSUE 30
www.theasianstar.com SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2025
Woman 'kidnapped,' family member shot during yet another Ontario home invasion Four people, two of them teenagers, have been charged after a violent home invasion and kidnapping that began as a staged car crash in the GTA on Monday morning.
One of the accused is a 16-year-old Caledon boy on a previous release order, while another, 21-year-old Shakir Bhatti from Ajax, has already been released on bail. York Regional Police officers were called to a home near McCowan Road and 14th Avenue on reports of multiple men forcing their way inside and informing the occupants that a family member had been kidnapped. One of the residents, a 54-year-old man, was shot during the home invasion. Continued on Page 10...
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Air quality warnings spread across BC as wildfire smoke lingers & heat records topple
Air quality advisories are in effect across British Columbia as wildfire smoke continues to blanket the province. Metro Vancouver issued a new air quality warning Wednesday for the region, as well as the Fraser Valley, due to elevated fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke. In a statement, the regional district said the haze is expected to persist for several days, with smoke drifting in from fires east of Hope, near Whistler, in the Cariboo region and from south of the border. Continued on Page 10...
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Death penalty for Indian man who burnt alive wife over skin colour
A court in India has given the death penalty to a man for burning alive his wife over her skin colour. In her statements before her death, Lakshmi had said that her husband Kishandas "routinely taunted her for being dark skinned". District Judge Rahul Choudhary in the northern city of Udaipur explained the death penalty saying the murder fell in the category of "rarest of the rare" and it was "a crime against humanity". Kishandas's lawyer told that his client was innocent and that they would appeal against the order. Lakshmi's murder eight years back and the judgement, delivered at the weekend, have made headlines in a country where public obsession with colourism is well documented. Continued on Page 15...
As Surrey Mayor Linda Annis will focus on stopping extortionists and gangs Surrey First City Councillor Linda Annis has announced that she will run for Mayor of Surrey and she wants to improve bother the governance at the City of Surrey as well as Metro Vancouver. While announcing her intention late Tuesday at Civic Hotel, next to Surrey City Hall, Councillor Annis said current
Mayor Brenda Locke and her city council majority wasted time and taxpayers’ money fighting over the police force that could have been better spent elsewhere. “The mayor and her councillors have wasted this four-year term focusing on just one single issue: the police transition. Continued on Page 7...
Trump chills US-India ties while Indian PM Modi warms to China and Russia Images this week of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding hands with Russian
President Vladimir Putin at a summit hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping seemed to confirm what many experts have already concluded - the U.S. has stumbled in its effort to draw India into its diplomatic orbit. Successive U.S. presidential administrations have sought to cultivate the historically nonaligned India as a strategic counterweight to China and Russia. But as the images of Modi in Tianjin underlined, U.S. President Donald Trump appears for now to have undercut that goal with a series of actions. Continued on Page 5...
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