ROGERS presents the 5th annual Miss India Worldwide Canada pageant coming this Summer of 2010.

Recognized as one of Canada's glamourous, cultural productions, Miss India Worldwide Canada will feature South Asian talents ranging from the East coast to the West, all of whom that will grace the stage with their beauty, confidence and talents competing for the presti-gious title. We are officially now accepting applications, which is available online. The selection process of the finalists will begin in May where we will hold interviews and auditions. Contestant Coordinator, Ekta Malhotra will be overseeing applications and will be assisting appli-cants throughout the exciting process.

Unlike other cultural pageants especially in Canada, the winner of Miss India Worldwide Canada will represent the South Asian community on an international platform, the Miss India Worldwide pageant organized by the India Festival Committee based in New York. The worldwide pageant is well-known for its Bollywood inspired glamour, its outstanding and unique talents and performances and featuring elite South Asian, young women from around the world proudly representing their Indian heritage. It has been the platform that has been hosted in popular city destinations around the world such as South Africa, Los Angeles, Mumbai and many others. It has exposed new talents which has inspired and motivated many successful young women who advanced in various indus-tries from the medical field to the big screens of Indian cinema.

In the past, the winners who have represented Canada wonderfully have placed among the top three finalists and have walked away with other prestigious titles such as Miss Best Talent, which is the youngest of the winners, Sapna Sehravat of 2006, followed by Uppekha Jain of 2007 crowned as 1st Runners-Up for Canada.

Simultaneously, we will be holding auditions for co-emcees to accompany Mr. Jake Dheer of Rogers Television for the live event. More information will soon be available for the co-emcee audition process online in April.D&T International Inc. would like to recognize the Presenting Sponsor, ROGERS and Hotel Partner, Courtyard by Marriott.

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On the heels of a dozen artists showcased at this year's Canadian Music Week, all of whom were produced by Vikas Kohli, this homegrown composer is having another great month. Known for his expertise fusing musical genres, Kohli will now have his talents showcased at the ReelWorld Film Festival, CBC and Showtime.

Bollywood music fans will get to hear his title track "Dil Yeh" for the film Shanti Baba Ram and the Dancers of Hope, set to screen at this year's ReelWorld Film Festival running April 7th-11th 2010. Rock music fans at ReelWorld will get to hear "Inside", the music video and first single from jsin's debut album Born, which was produced by Kohli at his studio Fatlabs.

The Reelworld Film Festival, which prides itself on showcasing diversity, is certainly highlighting the diversity of composer Vikas Kohli, drawing attention to his work as a film composer and his work with artists of every musical genre. "Having my work in genres as far apart as hard rock and Bollywood pop both showcased at ReelWorld is a testimony to how the festival is a platform for all cultures," says Vikas Kohli, music producer of FatLabs.

Kohli produced "Dil Yeh", which is an upbeat Hindi pop tune for the Canadian Film Centre's Shanti Baba Ram and the Dancers of Hope. The film is about a jaded food photographer who fights to save his relationship after his idealistic girlfriend invites a charismatic charity leader and nine dancing slum children into their apartment. Directed by Steven Rosenberg and produced by Heidi Tao Yang the film has screened at the Montreal Film Festival, Atlantic Film Festival and has recently been picked up by CBC as well as Showtime. The film will air on CBC beginning April 11th.

Kohli also produced and co-wrote rock artist jsin's debut album Born, of which the first single and music video is the song "Inside". jsin was featured at this year's Canadian Music Week, playing to a sold-out house at Revival. "Born sounds like Trent Reznor from NIN and Thom Yorke from Radiohead after drinking a bottle of Night Train," comments Kohli in front of a backdrop of guitars and Indian tablas at his FatLabs studio.

About ReelWorld

This year will mark the 10th anniversary of the ReelWorld Film Festival, a five day festival that screens features, shorts, documentaries, animation, music videos from Aboriginal, Asian, Black, Latino, Middle Eastern, South Asian and other communities. This unique Canadian based film festival aims to truly reflect the racially diverse cultures of the World around us.

About Vikas Kohli

Now a sought-after music producer, Kohli is well versed in music across a variety of genres from punk, jazz, and hip-hop, to country, metal, and Bollywood pop. Kohli has been profiled on CBC, The Globe & Mail, The Toronto Star, The Hindustan Times, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, Zee News and is known internationally for his extensive repertoire, and his expertise at fusing musical genres. His accolades include: Composing for the major motion Bollywood film Mission Istaanbul and upcoming Bollywood film Tom, Dick and Harry Rock Again; Producing multi-million album selling Bhangra artist Mika Singh; Producing The Responsibles' punk album The FatLabs Sessions, which charted in the top 20 across Canada (!earshot charts); and collaborations with Cappadonna (Wu-Tang Clan), Moka Only, Deva Bratt and Justin Nozuka.

Born in Nepean (Ottawa), Kohli started playing guitar and studying painting at fine arts school. Kohli received his Honors Degree in Mathematics & Philosophy from the University of Toronto, his MBA from the Schulich School of Business and his CFA. Kohli now lives in Mississauga, Canada where he runs FatLabs.

For more information and Kohli's music portfolio, please visit www.fatlabs.com.

Presently, many countries of the world are the victims of terrorism. This terrorism is mostly involves the terrorism being spread in the name of ‘Islamic Jihad’. In order to understand the definition of a true Muslim, we can see that besides murder, rape, theft, lies etc., the use of Drug & liquor or involvement in its business is also prohibited in Islam. Are the persons involved in this jihadi terrorism, who belong to the Muslim families, aware of this fact? If yes, then to what extent they follow it. How much these terrorists apply the Islamic education on their lives?

Recently, a journalist from a well reputed international media group took an interview of one such determined terrorist at a secret place in Punjab province of Pakistan. This 30 years old Punjabi youth, named Amjad Butt had an AK 47 on his shoulder and a revolver on his side. While introducing himself, Butt told that earlier he himself was drug addicted and later got involved in its smuggling. He said that after his involvement in drug business, people started calling him goon. Butt accepted that neither he can perform Namaaz nor he can read the holy Qur’an. Other than that, he doesn’t have any Islamic knowledge. Despite this, Amjad is so confident that it’s easy for him to kill anybody and give away his own life in the name of Islam. Punjab province, Pak Occupied Kashmir and FATA region on Afpak border have large numbers of such fighters who, whether know Islamic education or not, follow it or not, but are experts in killing and getting killed in the name of Islam.

The roots of jihadi terrorism are much talked about thing and this incident has been recorded as a black chapter in the history. While readying themselves against the occupant Soviet forces, the Afghan fighters, later known as the Taliban, declared ‘jihad’ against the forces of Soviet Union. While on the name of ‘jihad’ illiterate Afghan Muslims came together against the Soviet Union, at the same time the US also provided armed assistance and training to the Taliban and encouraged them to fight against the Soviet forces. Many such trained terrorists are still a headache for the humanity. Amjad Butt also got trained from one such training camp. According to him, when he went back to his village with weapon with him, the same villagers who used to call him a criminal and goon, started calling him a ‘devoted jihadi Muslim,’ ready to give his life for Allah. By getting ‘inspired’ from him, over 50 youths of his clan have also joined the jihadi mission, Butt added.

In future, the same fighters would become a part of any terrorist organisation like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Harkat-ul-Ansar, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi etc. Though all these organisations might have been formed for different purposes, but together all these are involved in anti-human and anti-Islamic actions. For instance, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was initially constituted to conduct anti-Shiite activities. It carried on many attacks targeting the Shiite community. Dozens of these attacks involved targeting of devotees at the Mosques, Imambaras and Moharram procession etc. Now this terrorist organisation has expanded its scope of work across the entire Pakistan. Its members have also been caught in charge of anti-Army activities.

Similarly, the Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was created with the sole objective of getting independence for Kashmir, has also started working away from its objective. This organisation is involved in killings of many innocent people in India besides the killing of a retired General of the Pakistan Army. These inhuman groups succeed in getting poor and depressed uneducated youths by saying that besides all materialistic things, they would also get heaven. In this allurement, an illiterate and unemployed youth joins such terrorist organisations. Currently, all Pak-based terrorist organisations are targeting the US, India and their interests.

Like Pakistan, the Afghanistan-based Islamic jihadis too have nothing to do with true Islamic education. The main source of income of the terrorists of the Taliban ideology is poppy cultivation. This is the most dangerous drug business of the world. According to an estimate, 93 percent of total world opium production is in Afghanistan. Around 1500 square mile is under poppy cultivation. In the year 2007, the income from opium trade was $64 billion. This amount was distributed among 2 lakh families besides the district chiefs of the Taliban, jihadi fighters and drug mafias. At that time, the total opium production was 8200 metric tonnes. This production was double of the estimated consumption in the world.

Drug industry is not only limited to opium rather after the processing of poppy, 12 percent Morphine is obtained. Moreover, the source of Heroine is also poppy. The main source of livelihood for the Taliban fighters, their families and purchase of the weapons is poppy cultivation. While in Iran, there is death penalty for the people involved in such business, at the same time these Taliban, calling themselves true Muslims, jihadis etc., completely live on this anti-Islamic business. The same Taliban carry on anti-Islamic activities like publicly torturing and insulting women. They oppose school education. Brutal killings of innocents are a part of their daily life. In such circumstances, the question arises that who gave them the right to link the words religion, Islam and jihad with their inhuman activities? Today, the Islam is not being insulted by any outsider rather by these terrorists who themselves don’t deserve to be called Muslims.

About the Author

Author Tanveer Jafri is a columnist based in India.He is related with hundreds of most popular daily news papers/portals in India and abroad. Jafri, Almost writes in the field of communal harmony, world peace, anti communalism, anti terrorism, national integration, national & international politics etc.He is a devoted social activist for world peace, unity, integrity & global brotherhood. Tanveer Jafri is also a member of Haryana Sahitya Academy & Haryana Urdu Academy (state govt. bodies in India). Thousands articles of the author have been published in different newspapers, websites & newsportals throughout the world. He is also a receipent of so many awards in the field of Communal Harmony & other social activities.
 

Amin Dhillon, the current Miss India Worldwide Canada, is set to represent Canada at the Nineteenth Annual Miss India Worldwide Pageant taking place on March 27, 2010 at the International Convention Center in Durban, South Africa.

Amin, 25 years old, made history as the first woman from Manitoba to win the prestigious title of Miss India Worldwide in the pageant’s history. Since winning Miss India Worldwide Canada in April 2009, Amin has spent her reign working with various organizations and charities to encourage youth involvement and cultural diversity. This year, Amin selected Folklorama as her official pageant charity and will continue to work with the organization.

Aside from her charity and community work, Amin has been featured in numerous publications from around the world including being named as one of sixteen most promising Indian youth by the prestigious magazine “India Today”.

The Miss India Worldwide pageant is the only international Indian pageant with over 30 countries participating. Previous winners have achieved success in Bollywood, business and politics.

Previously, there have been two former Miss India Worldwide Canada winners to win the Miss India Worldwide crown: Poonam Chibber in 1997 and Melissa Bhagat in 1998.

Amin would like to thank the following sponsors for providing the support needed to prepare for Miss India Worldwide: Kamp Photography, Stephanie Ash Photography, Angie Zachary, 17th Market Jewelry, Hilary Druxman, Lakewood Dental Centre, Murray Chevrolet Hummer, Entegra Credit Union, Sharma Auto Service, Guyanese Association of Manitoba, Tim Hortons, and India Palace Restaurant. As well, thank you to the countless individuals who provided individual private sponsorships of Amin.

CKLY Fashion is the official dress sponsor and Amin will be wearing one of their gowns during the Evening Wear segment. Fans and supporters can visit Amin’s official website (www.amindhillon.com) to keep in touch with Amin and to follow her journey. Official photos of Miss India Worldwide Canada 2010 are available for media print, upon request.

To arrange interviews, press contact:

Susan Smith, Publicist
2010 Miss India Worldwide Canada Committee
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