Toronto, A second consecutive poll has affirmed John Tory’s position in Toronto’s mayoral race as he opens up an 11-point lead ahead of incumbent mayor Rob Ford, while Olivia Chow’s support continues to drop. The telephone survey by Forum Research shows that Tory came in at 41 per cent, Ford atRead More

Ottawa, One of the Conservative government’s key programs on missing and murdered aboriginal women includes a focus on “addressing the root causes,” despite the prime minister’s suggestion that sociology isn’t the right lens to use. The $5.7-million Aboriginal Community Safety Development Contribution Program was created in 2010 as part ofRead More

Ontario, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says she’ll fight against the privatization of electricity agencies and the “fire sale” of public assets in Ontario. Earlier this year the Liberal government set up an advisory council, chaired by TD Bank Group CEO Ed Clark, to find ways to “optimize” the value of OntarioRead More

Washington, US President Obama is prepared to authorize air strikes in Syria, a senior administration official said on Tuesday, taking the military campaign against the Sunni militant group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, into new and unpredictable terrain. But Obama is still wrestling with a series of challenges, includingRead More

New Delhi, Messing up the process of government formation in Delhi, a delegation of Aam Aadmi Party leaders on Wednesday met Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and urged him to “revise” his September 4 letter to President Pranab Mukherjee seeking permission to invite the Bharatiya Janata Party to form a “stableRead More

New Delhi, The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party met under the Presidentship of Shri Amit Shah . Meeting was attended by Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh, Minister of Home Affairs, Smt. Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs and all the members of the Central ElectionRead More

Srinagar,  Anger mounted on Wednesday over the slow pace of rescue operations in Jammu and Kashmir even as chief minister Omar Abdullah said his government was “overwhelmed” by the scale of deadly flooding. “We have really been overwhelmed. We have been overwhelmed by the scale of the problem,” Omar toldRead More

New Delhi, In what may spell trouble for the ruling BJP, its national president Amit Shah was on Wednesday chargesheeted for a hate speech made by him in the run-up to the General Elections by the local police in Muzaffarnagar, which was hit by communal violence last year. According toRead More

New Delhi,  A special court today fixed November 10 for commencing final arguments in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case in which former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and 15 others, including three firms, are facing trial. Special CBI Judge O P Saini, who is exclusively dealing withRead More

New Delhi, It looks like you won’t have to wait longer to get your hands on the new Apple iPhone 6. Apple’s newly announced iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones will be available in India starting October 17 according to Apple’s India website. This means the new iPhones willRead More