Category: PIO’s

** Mysuru Lad Emerges Canadian National Champion – 2021

Vancouver:

Mysuru-boy Mustafa M. Raja, who won the Provincial Championships in British Columbia last month and was selected for the Nationals to be held in Montreal, Quebec, did well and emerged National Doubles Champion. Mustafa also came third in Singles.

The 14-year-old played consistent tennis all week at the 14-and-under Nationals held at the Carrefour Tennis Centre from Sept. 20 to 26.  Tournament was held outdoors on clay courts.

Mustafa was awarded a trophy for the National Doubles Champion, trophy for the third place in Singles and a silver medal for the provincial standings. With this performance, Mustafa will break into top 5 Singles rankings in Canada. Mustafa trains at the Tennis Centre in Vancouver and goes to Sullivan Heights Secondary School.

Mustafa, son of Murtuza Raja and Farida Raja, earlier train at the Nagaraj Tennis Centre in Mysuru for seven years and attended Excel Public School in Mysuru.

** Techie couple leave IT business in US to help stray animals in India

Peepal Farm, multidimensional enterprise, houses stray animals and also runs a clinic to treat them. It also helps people of different countries to adopt animals from India and rescue strays.

 A women-driven small scale social enterprise in Dhanotu village of Kangra district.

Peepal Farm, multidimensional enterprise, houses stray animals and also runs a clinic to treat them. It also helps people of different countries to adopt animals from India and works to rescue stray animals. Besides, the organisation also makes indigenous products by employing locals.

“We established this NGO in 2014 with a view to look after stray animals and give them shelter,” says CEO Robin Singh.

** Kerala sisters from Australia recite national anthems of 193 countries, win hearts, world record

Standing at the St John’s Cathedral in Australia’s Brisbane on World Peace Day (September 21), Teresa, 21, and Augnes, 18, set a world record.

The sisters, hailing from Thycattussery village of Cherthala taluk in Kerala, entered the Australian Book of Records and won a certificate from the Universal Records Forum by performing an incredible feat — they recited the national anthems of 193 countries, one after another, all from memory.  

** 17 Indians triumph in Canada’s snap elections as Trudeau fails to win majority

Seventeen Indo-Canadians, including NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, won Canada’s parliamentary elections on Tuesday with Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returning to power in the snap polls.

** 49 Canadians of Indian origin in election fray : September 2021

In the last elections in 2019, 20 Indo-Canadians, including 19 Punjabis, were elected as MPs.

Among the 49 Indo-Canadian candidates this time, 16 are from the Conservative Party, 15 from Trudeau’s Liberal Party, 12 from Jagmeet Singh’s New Democratic Party (NDP) and six from the far right-wing People’s Party of Canada.

Three Cabinet ministers Harjit Sajjan, Bardish Chagger and Anita Anand are among the Indo-Canadian candidates.

** Doha: Voice of World – Season 1 winners declared

he most awaited trending and entertaining Doha Music Lovers ‘Voice of World’ Online singing competition ended on September 10, 2021 by finding its three winners of both Hindi and Telugu languages simultaneously.

The three winners announced in Hindi were Tejaswi from California, USA, Jyotisha Santosh from Doha, Qatar and Shruthi Prabhala from Bilaspur, India. For Telugu the three winners were Medha Anantuni from Texas, USA, Geeta Lakshmi from Pennsylvania, USA and Mavuru Sravani from Vishakhapatnam, India. Many contestants are left in the show to entertain the viewers.

** ‘New York was his playground’: Manipur family recalls member who died in 9/11 attack

It was a busy morning for Jupiter Yambem at New York’s Windows Of The World restaurant. The Manipur-born banquet manager was in charge of a breakfast meeting of a tech conference. A self-made man, he had worked his way up to his position at the famed restaurant, frequented by the rich and powerful.

** Jaiganesh Balakrishna files patents every 3 months on average

Balakrishnan is a principal architect and fellow at Texas Instruments, a company he joined soon after completing his PhD in 2002.

He today holds 75 patents. That’s an average of a patent every 3 months