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Nearly a month after two Sikh men were acquitted of charges in the bombing of an Air India jet, Canada's federal government was pressured for a public inquiry into the 331 murders...

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Canada's government intends to name an independent expert who would decide whether to launch a public inquiry into why no one has been found guilty two decades after 329 people were killed when a bomb ripped through an Air India jumbo jet in June 1985...

AFP - Cutting-edge mobile telecommunications technology ensures that the furry inhabitants of China's largest panda reserve are never more than a phone call away, state media said...

AFP - Pope John Paul II was known as a gifted communicator in an electronic age and his followers are making creative use of e-mail, mobile phones and text messages to share their grief...

AFP - A young Norwegian who drew the ire of the Hollywood movie industry by breaking the encryption code for DVDs has now devised a computer program to circumvent Apple's antipiracy system for its iTunes music download service, Norwegian media reported...

AFP - A consortium of investment funds has agreed to pay 11.3 billion dollars at 36 dollars a share to buy US software company SunGard Data Systems, the two sides said...

Many Canadian Sikhs know who planted bombs on two Air India planes 20 years ago, killing 331 people, but refuse to come forward in fear of terrorist reprisals, a Sikh community spokesman said...

An English playhouse said it would stage a new play about a brothel run by Muslims, just months after violent protests forced it to cancel a black comedy about rape and murder in a fictional Sikh temple...