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Washington| Nikki Haley, the former US Ambassador to the UN, suspended her campaign for the Republican nomination for President after a severe drubbing in the primaries held in more than 10 states on Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump will now become the presumptive Republican nominee to take on President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November election. He has a lock on the nomination with 955 delegates, which is just a bit shy of the winning threshold of 1, 215 delegates. (Every state gives the candidates a certain number of delegates who will vote to elect a nominee in the…

Canada | A 64-year-old woman was stabbed to death inside a home in Woodbridge, her husband is now accused of murder. Shauna Hunt reports the victim was a mother, a grandmother and beloved teacher. A woman who worked as a teacher at a North York alternative elementary school was the victim of an overnight stabbing at home in Vaughan, Private News has learned. York Regional Police officers were called to a semi-detached home on Isa Court, near Martin Grove Road and Highway 27, around 12:25 a.m. Wednesday. Investigators say they located a woman suffering from serious injuries and despite life-saving…

Canada | 25-year-old man from British Columbia has been identified as the victim fatally shot outside of an Etobicoke apartment complex last weekend.Emergency crews were called to the low-rise apartment building on Bergamot Avenue, near Rexdale Boulevard and Islington Avenue, around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 4. Paramedics assessed a patient in the parking lot near the front entrance to the apartment building but did not transport anyone to the hospital. Police confirm a man in his 20s was pronounced dead at the scene. On Wednesday, the victim was identified as 25-year-old Jasmit Badesha of Mission, B.C. His photo was…

Canada | TC Energy Corp. has cut an unspecified number of jobs, primarily in Calgary and Houston, the pipeline company confirmed Wednesday.A company spokesperson said in an emailed statement the layoffs relate to TC Energy’s previously announced plans to integrate its Canada, U.S. and Mexico natural gas pipelines business units. The new job cuts are in addition to a prior round of layoffs confirmed by TC Energy last June.TC Energy is just the latest company to announce layoffs amid a wave of job reductions at Canadian energy firms. In a statement to Private News, the company says it will not…

Alberta | A new report finds three Alberta cities are leading the country with the highest level of non-mortgage debt in Q4 of 2023.The latest findings from Equifax show Calgarians had an average consumer debt load of $23,885 between last September and December, while Edmonton residents had $23, 719. Fort McMurray residents, however, were in a considerable amount more, with an average of $37,762.Equifax vice president Rebecca Oaks says their high rates came as no surprise. For Alberta, we just tend to see a bit of a difference in terms of some of the products consumers use and some of…

Chandigarh | Terming that budget is not merely a booklet but it is a sacred document, the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Wednesday envisioned that the Budget 2024-25 will act as a catalyst for carving out a progressive, prosperous and vibrant Punjab.   Taking part in discussions on Budget 2024-25 at the floor of Punjab Vidhan Sabha, the Chief Minister said that the budget presented on Tuesday was the best ever budget of the state. He said that in healthy democracy the suggestions and ideas of the elected representatives are always welcomed but undue criticism just to attract the…

Ambala | Fakir Chand Aggarwal (94), former deputy speaker of Haryana Legislative Assembly and MLA from Ambala, passed away today. Fakir Chand was undergoing treatment in Shahabad's Adesh Hospital for the last several days. He died here on Wednesday due to heart failure. Fakir Chand was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from Haryana. His last rites will be performed tomorrow Thursday at the crematorium on SA Jain College Road. Fakir Chand Aggarwal served as the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 1999. Aggarwal was a teacher by profession and received the State Award for Best Teacher in 1974 and the National…

New Delhi | The 38th Aahar International Food and Hospitality Fair 2024 will be organized from Thursday at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. This fair will be organized from 7th to11th March. Haryana will participate with 14 food product Stalls in this fair, where famous cuisines of the state will be showcased. The main attraction of this fair will be new start-ups and products of different categories in food Sector. More than 1800 exhibitors from India and abroad are going to participate in this fair. Haryana will showcase various food products like food items made up of rice, milk, soya, mushroom.…

Chandigarh | Accused R.K. Singla, Deputy Director Food and Civil Supplies Punjab has also been declared proclaimed offender (PO) by the CJM Court SBS Nagar in case related to allotting labour and transportation contracts of food grains in the grain markets of SBS Nagar district.Earlier, said accused Rakesh Kumar Singla, was declared a PO by a Ludhiana court in the food grain transportation scam unearthed by the VB in the grain markets of Ludhiana district. Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the state VB said in this regard a FIR No 18 dated 22-09-2022, under sections 7, 8, 12,…

Chandigarh | The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) during its ongoing campaign against corruption in the state on Wednesday arrested Zora Singh, posted as Field Officer, Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (GLADA) for accepting a bribe of Rs 4,000. Disclosing this here today an official spokesperson of the state VB said the above mentioned accused has been arrested on a complaint lodged by Amit Rai, a resident of Ishar Nagar , Ludhiana and practising as a lawyer in district courts Ludhiana. He further added that the complaint approached the VB and informed that the said accused has been demanding a bribe…