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Canadian PM heckled over pipeline issue

Ottawa: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was today heckled by protesters during a townhall as he defended his Government’s decision to support the expansion of a trans-mountain pipeline through British Columbia (BC).

The Prime Minister was greeted by a chorus of boos amidst cheers by another section of people as he walked into the Vancouver Island University hall at Nanaimo town in British Columbia during the last lap of his cross country tour, according to CBC.

4 killed in chemical factory blast in China

Beijing: An explosion ripped through a chemical factory in east China's Shandong Province today, killing four people and injuring six others, officials said.

India-born physio jailed for arms dealing in UK

london: An Indian-origin physiotherapist, who supplied guns and ammunition to criminal gangs in the UK using a legal firearms license, has been jailed for 14 years.

Mohinder Surdhar, 58, who had worked with the English Karate team and the UK's State-funded National Health Service, was described by investigators as an “ammunition freak” who acted as a middleman.