Amritsar, May 6
NRI Raghbir Singh Bains has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award-2007 by the Parvasi media group for his contribution to society. Bains, who is the author of the Encyclopaedia of Sikhism and the brain behind the multimedia Sikh museum at Khadoor Sahib, near Amritsar, received the award from former IPS officer Kiran Bedi at a function held at Rexdale, Ontario, last month.

Every year thousands of Punjabis fly to foreign lands for employment and better future. But for some, this dream turns sour as they are cheated by travel agents and given false assurances.

It is now getting even uglier, as some girls have alleged that they were sexually exploited in foreign land.

CHANDIGARH: That Punjab has exported its cold-blooded, anti-girl child bias to the Punjabi communities settled abroad came home cruelly, when a Canadian NRI slit the throat of his two-year-old daughter just because she happened to be the third girl child in his house. But, after Canada, where the sex ratio in Punjabi communities is dipping heavily against the girl child, there are finally some glad tidings from foreign shores.

Ludhiana, December 28
Like thousands of NRIs, he too coolly abandoned his bride in 2004 after her family could not pay the dowry of Rs 30 lakh. But when she checkmated him by reaching Canada in August this year and sought her rights, he sent a friend to contract a gang of killers and supervise the murder of her father in Mundiya village, near here.

But for timely police intervention based on the information provided by a dhaba owner, who overheard the plan, Mundiya village resident Harphool Singh, father of the abandoned bride Pawanjot Kaur, would not have been alive today.