Surrey high school graduate wins the Schulich scholarship valued at $100,000
Darpan News Desk Darpan, 29 Jun, 2020 11:12 PM
Tejash Poddar, Enver Creek Secondary graduate from Surrey is this year's recipient of the Schulich Leaders Scholarship. It is awarded to the most promising students heading to top Canadian universities to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). He has received a $100,000 engineering scholarship and stood out from 1500 nominees and emerged as two of only 100 winners from across Canada.
The gruesome killing of a Vancouver couple three years ago has resulted in a man being found guilty of first degree murder. Rocky Rambo Wei Nam Kam first went to trial a year go in the Fall of 2019, and faced two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Dianna Mah-Jones, 64, and her husband Richard Jones, 68.
Three individuals have been charged with fraud and mail theft related offences stemming from a lengthy investigation by the Surrey RCMP Property Crime Target Team (PCTT). On January 27, 2020, the Surrey RCMP PCTT began a pro-active investigation targeting mail theft.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights will conduct an external review following social media posts alleging a racist and discriminatory work environment.
Lululemon Athletica Inc. saw its profit fall in the most recent quarter as many of its stores were closed for a significant portion of the period. The Vancouver-based company, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, says its net income for the first quarter totalled $28.6 million or 22 cents per diluted share.
Officers on patrol one afternoon last week noticed a truck ahead of them with licence plates for a car – not a truck. They believed it might be stolen, and tried to pull over the vehicle at W. 6th Avenue and Ash. The driver took off and they followed, but when he began driving dangerously, the officers backed off.
Surrey RCMP is asking for the public’s assistance with a suspicious fire investigation. The Surrey RCMP was called to a report of a suspicious vehicle fire in the 7500-block of 140 Street, during the night of June 7, 2020.
