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Pics / Yanky Baba di daily routine...
« on: August 05, 2010, 09:03:31 AM »
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Funny Videos / Jhanda Amli Presenting in a Meeting
« on: April 28, 2010, 11:31:20 AM »
A dekh lao, jadon Jhande da boss question puchda meeting wich...ohde responses vi kuch edha de hunde. Pata ni kime haje tak job rakhi betha.
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Maan-Sanmaan/Respect+ / Annoucement - PJ Promotions : Mann Sahib & Khand Mishri
« on: April 24, 2010, 08:55:39 AM »
Hello,
Just a quick announcement to let you know the following users have been kind enough to take up some new responsibilities on top of all the great work they are all doing.
Mann Sabh: Music Section Admistrator. Maan Sabh has extensive knowledge of music and this job is right up his alley.
Khand Misrhi: Music Section Editor (Floating Power) - Floating Power Means when ever someone (Global Mod) is free he/she can help her by changing the rights. Khand Mishri, PJ di mithaas as I am going to call her, already does her part for PJ with the extensive topics she posts. She will now be helping Mann Saab maintaining order in our Music section.
Thanks for all your hard work and support!
Just a quick announcement to let you know the following users have been kind enough to take up some new responsibilities on top of all the great work they are all doing.
Mann Sabh: Music Section Admistrator. Maan Sabh has extensive knowledge of music and this job is right up his alley.
Khand Misrhi: Music Section Editor (Floating Power) - Floating Power Means when ever someone (Global Mod) is free he/she can help her by changing the rights. Khand Mishri, PJ di mithaas as I am going to call her, already does her part for PJ with the extensive topics she posts. She will now be helping Mann Saab maintaining order in our Music section.
Thanks for all your hard work and support!
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News Khabran / Air India Update
« on: April 23, 2010, 06:51:08 AM »
Paul Waldie
From Friday's Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010 8:48PM EDT Last updated on Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010 8:52PM EDT
It has taken nearly 25 years, but the families of the victims of the Air India bombing are about to finally get some answers as to what happened, and why.
A federal commission of inquiry into the Air India massacre will release its final report in June, just in time for the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed 329 people.
A federal tender for printing the report was issued Thursday, indicating that it will be printed by June 4. Commission spokesman Michael Tansey confirmed the report will come out in June and that a specific date will be announced soon.
For many families, the wait has been agonizing and the report is long overdue. The bombing occurred on June 23, 1985, as Air India flight 182 was over the Atlantic Ocean en route from Montreal to London and New Delhi. Two others died in a related bombing at Tokyo’s Narita Airport.
Those responsible for the bombing have never been found. Inderjit Singh Reyat was the only person convicted in the case, after he admitted to supplying bomb parts. Two others, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, were acquitted in 2005 on murder charges related to the bombing.
Families of the victims spent 21 years trying to convince the federal government to hold an inquiry into the attack. That finally happened in 2006 and the commission, headed by former Supreme Court justice John Major, spent nearly two years hearing from more than 200 witnesses and reviewing 17,000 classified documents.
The public hearings wrapped up in February, 2008. But other issues surfaced last year when more documents turned up raising questions about Transport Canada’s security measures at the time and suggesting the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was hindered in its efforts by a bureaucratic “quagmire.”
“It has been quite frustrating,” said Bal Gupta, a Toronto-area resident whose wife died in the disaster. Mr. Gupta said the report should have been made public long before the 25th anniversary. “We are hoping for the best, but let’s wait and see.”
The final report will be extensive, consisting of five volumes spanning more than 3,100 pages in total, according to the tender document. The commission also plans to publish four volumes of “research papers,” totalling 1,300 pages. Up to 3,100 copies of the report will be printed, the tender said.
Jacques Shore, an Ottawa lawyer who represents the victims’ families, said family members had always hoped the report would come out before the 25th anniversary.
Many families are looking for “closure that they’ve never had,” Mr. Shore said. For others, he added, the report will be “a reflection on issues that had never been properly addressed in the past and finally had been dealt with in the context of the inquiry.”
From Friday's Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010 8:48PM EDT Last updated on Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010 8:52PM EDT
It has taken nearly 25 years, but the families of the victims of the Air India bombing are about to finally get some answers as to what happened, and why.
A federal commission of inquiry into the Air India massacre will release its final report in June, just in time for the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed 329 people.
A federal tender for printing the report was issued Thursday, indicating that it will be printed by June 4. Commission spokesman Michael Tansey confirmed the report will come out in June and that a specific date will be announced soon.
For many families, the wait has been agonizing and the report is long overdue. The bombing occurred on June 23, 1985, as Air India flight 182 was over the Atlantic Ocean en route from Montreal to London and New Delhi. Two others died in a related bombing at Tokyo’s Narita Airport.
Those responsible for the bombing have never been found. Inderjit Singh Reyat was the only person convicted in the case, after he admitted to supplying bomb parts. Two others, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, were acquitted in 2005 on murder charges related to the bombing.
Families of the victims spent 21 years trying to convince the federal government to hold an inquiry into the attack. That finally happened in 2006 and the commission, headed by former Supreme Court justice John Major, spent nearly two years hearing from more than 200 witnesses and reviewing 17,000 classified documents.
The public hearings wrapped up in February, 2008. But other issues surfaced last year when more documents turned up raising questions about Transport Canada’s security measures at the time and suggesting the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was hindered in its efforts by a bureaucratic “quagmire.”
“It has been quite frustrating,” said Bal Gupta, a Toronto-area resident whose wife died in the disaster. Mr. Gupta said the report should have been made public long before the 25th anniversary. “We are hoping for the best, but let’s wait and see.”
The final report will be extensive, consisting of five volumes spanning more than 3,100 pages in total, according to the tender document. The commission also plans to publish four volumes of “research papers,” totalling 1,300 pages. Up to 3,100 copies of the report will be printed, the tender said.
Jacques Shore, an Ottawa lawyer who represents the victims’ families, said family members had always hoped the report would come out before the 25th anniversary.
Many families are looking for “closure that they’ve never had,” Mr. Shore said. For others, he added, the report will be “a reflection on issues that had never been properly addressed in the past and finally had been dealt with in the context of the inquiry.”
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Knowledge / Air India Flight 182 - 1985 Bombing
« on: April 23, 2010, 06:48:53 AM »
This event is always in Canadian News....
Here's a brief history.
Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Montréal-London-Delhi-Bombay route. On 23 June 1985, the airplane operating on the route was blown up in midair by a bomb in Irish airspace. The incident represents the largest mass murder in modern Canadian history. The explosion and downing of the carrier occurred within an hour of the related Narita Airport Bombing.
The plane, a Boeing 747-237B (c/n 21473/330, reg VT-EFO) named Emperor Kanishka, exploded at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m) and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. While some passengers survived the initial explosion and subsequent decompression, none survived the impact. In all, 329 people perished, among them 280 Canadian nationals, mostly of Indian birth or descent, and 22 Indians.
Investigation and prosecution took almost 20 years and was the most expensive trial in Canadian history, costing nearly CAD $130 million. A special Commission found the accused perpetrators not guilty and they were released. The only person convicted of involvement in the bombing was Inderjit Singh Reyat, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to manslaughter in constructing the bomb used on Flight 182 and received a five-year sentence. He was refused parole in July 2007.
The bomb killed all 22 crew and 307 passengers. Post-accident medical reports graphically illustrated the outcomes of the passengers and crew. Of the 329 persons on board, 131 bodies were recovered; 198 were lost at sea.
Air India Trial
The trial of those accused of the bombing, Sikh separatists Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, became known as the "Air India Trial".
[edit] Reyat's Narita conviction
On 10 May 1991, after lengthy proceedings to extradite Reyat from England, he was convicted of two counts of manslaughter and four explosives charges relating to the Narita Airport bombing. He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
[edit] Malik and Bagri charged
Fifteen years after the bombing, on 27 October 2000, RCMP arrested Malik and Bagri. They were charged with 329 counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the people on board Air India Flight 182, conspiracy to commit murder, the attempted murder of passengers and crew on the Canadian Pacific flight at Japan's New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport), and two counts of murder of the baggage handlers at New Tokyo International Airport.
Reyat turns witness
On 6 June 2001, RCMP arrested Reyat on charges of murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy in the Air India bombing. On 10 February 2003, Reyat pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter and a charge of aiding in the construction of a bomb. He was sentenced to five years in prison. He was expected to provide testimony in the trial of Malik and Bagri, but prosecutors were vague.
The trial proceeds between April 2003 to December 2004 in Courtroom 20, more commonly-known as "the Air India courtroom". At a cost of $7.2 million, the high-security courtroom was specially-built for the trial in the Vancouver Law Courts.
Verdict
On 16 March 2005, Justice Ian Josephson found Malik and Bagri not guilty on all counts, since the evidence was inadequate:
"I began by describing the horrific nature of these cruel acts of terrorism, acts which cry out for justice. Justice is not achieved, however, if persons are convicted on anything less than the requisite standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Despite what appear to have been the best and most earnest of efforts by the police and the Crown, the evidence has fallen markedly short of that standard."
Murdered witness
Tara Singh Hayer, the publisher of the Indo-Canadian Times and a member of the Order of British Columbia, had provided an affidavit to the RCMP in 1995 claiming that he was present during a conversation in which Bagri admitted his involvement in the bombings.[33]
While at the London offices of fellow Sikh newspaper publisher Tarsem Singh Purewal, Hayer claims he overheard a meeting between Purewal and Bagri. In that meeting Hayer claims that Bagri stated that "if everything had gone as planned the plane would have blown up at Heathrow airport with no passengers on it. But because the plane was a half hour to three quarters of an hour late, it blew up over the ocean."
On 24 January of the same year, Purewal was killed near the offices of the Des Pardes newspaper in Southall, England, leaving Hayer as the only other witness.
On 18 November 1998, Hayer was shot dead while getting out of his car in the garage of his home in Surrey. His statement is now inadmissible as evidence in court. Hayer had previously survived an earlier attempt made on his life in 1988 but was paralyzed and thereafter used a wheelchair. As a consequence of his murder, the affidavit was inadmissible in court.
25 saal ho chalay...the victims' families are still awaiting justice.
Here's a brief history.
Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Montréal-London-Delhi-Bombay route. On 23 June 1985, the airplane operating on the route was blown up in midair by a bomb in Irish airspace. The incident represents the largest mass murder in modern Canadian history. The explosion and downing of the carrier occurred within an hour of the related Narita Airport Bombing.
The plane, a Boeing 747-237B (c/n 21473/330, reg VT-EFO) named Emperor Kanishka, exploded at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m) and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. While some passengers survived the initial explosion and subsequent decompression, none survived the impact. In all, 329 people perished, among them 280 Canadian nationals, mostly of Indian birth or descent, and 22 Indians.
Investigation and prosecution took almost 20 years and was the most expensive trial in Canadian history, costing nearly CAD $130 million. A special Commission found the accused perpetrators not guilty and they were released. The only person convicted of involvement in the bombing was Inderjit Singh Reyat, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to manslaughter in constructing the bomb used on Flight 182 and received a five-year sentence. He was refused parole in July 2007.
The bomb killed all 22 crew and 307 passengers. Post-accident medical reports graphically illustrated the outcomes of the passengers and crew. Of the 329 persons on board, 131 bodies were recovered; 198 were lost at sea.
Air India Trial
The trial of those accused of the bombing, Sikh separatists Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, became known as the "Air India Trial".
[edit] Reyat's Narita conviction
On 10 May 1991, after lengthy proceedings to extradite Reyat from England, he was convicted of two counts of manslaughter and four explosives charges relating to the Narita Airport bombing. He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
[edit] Malik and Bagri charged
Fifteen years after the bombing, on 27 October 2000, RCMP arrested Malik and Bagri. They were charged with 329 counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the people on board Air India Flight 182, conspiracy to commit murder, the attempted murder of passengers and crew on the Canadian Pacific flight at Japan's New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport), and two counts of murder of the baggage handlers at New Tokyo International Airport.
Reyat turns witness
On 6 June 2001, RCMP arrested Reyat on charges of murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy in the Air India bombing. On 10 February 2003, Reyat pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter and a charge of aiding in the construction of a bomb. He was sentenced to five years in prison. He was expected to provide testimony in the trial of Malik and Bagri, but prosecutors were vague.
The trial proceeds between April 2003 to December 2004 in Courtroom 20, more commonly-known as "the Air India courtroom". At a cost of $7.2 million, the high-security courtroom was specially-built for the trial in the Vancouver Law Courts.
Verdict
On 16 March 2005, Justice Ian Josephson found Malik and Bagri not guilty on all counts, since the evidence was inadequate:
"I began by describing the horrific nature of these cruel acts of terrorism, acts which cry out for justice. Justice is not achieved, however, if persons are convicted on anything less than the requisite standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Despite what appear to have been the best and most earnest of efforts by the police and the Crown, the evidence has fallen markedly short of that standard."
Murdered witness
Tara Singh Hayer, the publisher of the Indo-Canadian Times and a member of the Order of British Columbia, had provided an affidavit to the RCMP in 1995 claiming that he was present during a conversation in which Bagri admitted his involvement in the bombings.[33]
While at the London offices of fellow Sikh newspaper publisher Tarsem Singh Purewal, Hayer claims he overheard a meeting between Purewal and Bagri. In that meeting Hayer claims that Bagri stated that "if everything had gone as planned the plane would have blown up at Heathrow airport with no passengers on it. But because the plane was a half hour to three quarters of an hour late, it blew up over the ocean."
On 24 January of the same year, Purewal was killed near the offices of the Des Pardes newspaper in Southall, England, leaving Hayer as the only other witness.
On 18 November 1998, Hayer was shot dead while getting out of his car in the garage of his home in Surrey. His statement is now inadmissible as evidence in court. Hayer had previously survived an earlier attempt made on his life in 1988 but was paralyzed and thereafter used a wheelchair. As a consequence of his murder, the affidavit was inadmissible in court.
25 saal ho chalay...the victims' families are still awaiting justice.
