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Canada Post unveiled a new stamp on May 6 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Komagata Maru incident. The stamp was unveiled on Parliament Hill to start Asian Heritage Month. Canada Post issued the stamp to mark the centennial of this event and also recognizing the steps that the country has taken towards a more tolerant and diverse society.

Flight MH370 has become a mystery. And it may stay unsolved for a long time. Asserting the point, some police officials stated that the probe may never determine the reason why the Malaysia Airlines jetliner disappeared. They also mentioned about the futility of the search planes because of the dearth of knowledge that the authorities have in this regard.

All those Chinese citizens, who were eagerly waiting to come to Canada and were eyeing for visas, may now consider suing the Canadian government. After an abrupt termination of Immigrant Investor Program (IIP) in February, Chinese citizens were returned their fees or we would call it that their roads were blocked to Canada! So, after scrapping IIP in February with more than 65,000 people waiting for visas, we may witness a good chunk of affected citizens suing the government.

The Obama administration has relaxed the rules for would-be asylum-seekers, refugees and those who desire to come to the United States of America, and most importantly also all those who gave undefined "limited" aid to terrorists or terrorist groups. The new guidelines by the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department state that all those who have offered "limited material support" to terrorist organizations are not automatically forbidden from the United States.

Monday, January 27, 2007: In order to give a boost to the NASA's new Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown CATALYST program, the space agency conducted a teleconference in Washington DC, USA. The purpose of a conference of this format was to create more opportunities to trigger commercial cargo transportation capabilities to the moon.

Indian engineering education is draped in a cloth that needs a proper wash! While scanning the list of alumni of IIT recently, I came across a few names that have peppered the leaves of successful men’s list but their contributions are far away in foreign lands. While combing through the facts I found that most of these elite men do not reside in their own land, and a major chunk is holding high profiles in the Unites States of America.

How expensive is the healthcare in India? This question paddled in my head when I saw someone close doing some out-of-pocket spending of his income to protect his 12 weeks premature baby boy. After I received a call of this unprecedented happening in their life, I went to the hospital and was completely wacked by the state of affairs of health in my country. I am not exactly aware of the amount of money spent by the Indian Government for such unexpected happenings but I could sense the mounting cost of diagnosis, medicines and hospitalisation. I came to know when...

Budget for the manned mission to Mars may not be meeting the required standards right now but, according to the experts; with a slight alteration in the budget policy - unaltered by change in administration - the dream of having a manned mission by 2030 can be realized.