Air Canada is up with plans to operate direct flights from Vancouver to New Delhi soon. It will be Air Canada’s second direct service to India from Canada after the launch of direct Toronto-Delhi flights in November 2015.

The airline has proposed to initiate the direct Vancouver-Delhi service with three weekly flights from October 20, 2016. This new route in Air Canada’s global service network will be operated by Boeing 787 Dreamliner with 30 seats in business class, 21 premium economy seats and 247 seats in economy travel cabin.

Air Canada flights will leave Vancouver for New Delhi on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Return flights to Vancouver will depart Delhi every Monday, Thursday and Saturday.

Since the inauguration of Toronto-New Delhi nonstop flights, Air Canada has made a good number of bookings at cheap airfares through international travel agencies like Indian Eagle. Such an extremely positive response from passengers drove the airline to hit another route to the capital of India.

The proposed date of launching flights from Vancouver to New Delhi is a strategic move in sync with Diwali, a major Indian festival, when many Indian expats fly to India for celebrations. Air Canada’s nonstop B787 Dreamliner flights from its Vancouver hub will connect Edmonton, Calgary, Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles with Delhi, according to Benjamin Smith, President of the airline.

“The local community of Indian expats in Vancouver has requested a direct service to New Delhi for many years. The inception of Vancouver-Delhi nonstop route during Diwali will be a celebration for them,” says Craig Richmond, President and CEO at Vancouver International Airport. He also thanks Air Canada for this initiative towards their mutual vision of expansion in the South Asian market.

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“Life is the best teacher.” This maxim is true about Parkash Chhibber, the owner and chef of Indian Fusion restaurant in Edmonton which treats penniless, hungry people to free meals every day. Among the restaurants in Edmonton, Canada, Indian Fusion displays an invitation note on the backdoor drawing attention of those in need of free food. The same door has another note offering three options – vegetarian meal, non-vegetarian meal and milk / coffee / pop – on the free menu for the needy.

It seems that Indian Fusion’s owner Parkash Chhibber is motivated by such inspirational words as “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” But, it is a bitter slice of his own life in India that inspired him to serve the starved and the needy passionately. “I have seen enough hunger in the past. I know the pain of not having food.”

The story of Parkash Chhibber’s journey from a chef to an entrepreneur to a philanthropist dates back to the year 1992 in India. He met with a road accident in New Delhi just after three months of his marriage and suffered severe injuries including multiple bone fractures. Nice steel rods were inserted in his body to support the fractured bones, which tied him to bed for two and a half years. Consequently, he lost his job at a restaurant in New Delhi.

One particular evening my wife and I had no money and nothing to eat. I was always shy to ask for help in terms of money. So, my wife and I on crutches would visit some of our friends by dinner time, he said to Huffington Post.

Parkash Chhibber and his wife were received with honor by some of their friends and relatives for supper or dinner. It was their overwhelming response and warm hospitality that India Fusion’s owner still remembers as well as feels inspired by. Dark clouds had no silver lining in his life until he decided to relocate to Canada in 2005. His family joined him in Canada four years later.

Parkash Chhibber opened Indian Fusion restaurant in Edmonton in 2009. After two years, he started serving free meals to the needy in the neighborhood though he put up the invitation note on the backdoor just 6 months back. He found it a feasible way to reach out to those having no penny to douse their hunger.

He says that the number of people who knock at the door on seeing the message varies from day to day. Some days it is 3 to 10 people who stop by for free meals, while some other days no one rings the bell. He adds that serving free meals to a handful of hungry and penniless people is not hurting his business financially. He has lots of free food to offer at Indian Fusion restaurant in Edmonton.

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Indo-Canadians might have been missing Chef Sanjeev Kapoor’s signature Indian dishes in Ontario though there are many Indian restaurants in Canada. The wait will finally be over with the launch of Sanjeev Kapoor’s Khazana restaurant in Brampton, Canada. The new restaurant will be serving traditional Indian food from the first week of November 2015.

Located at Queen Street in Brampton, Southern Ontario, the new Khazana restaurant will be inaugurated on November 2. It will have a grand opening ceremony that will continue for 2 consecutive days. Unlike other Indian restaurants in Canada, Khazana will treat guests to an authentic Indian dining experience in a contemporary environment.

Chef Sanjeev Kapoor aims to redefine traditional dining by serving special menus with his signature dishes from Indian cuisines at Khazana in Brampton. Enhanced hospitality, operational excellence, luxurious ambiance and unique dining experience are the mainstay of Khazana in Brampton, according to the chef.

He has curated dishes from the streets of India to Indian households in order to mesmerize Indo-Canadians at Khazana in Brampton. Each of the dishes including the most traditional ones like basmati rice, dum biryani, stuffed paranthas, yellow dal tadka, paneer tikka, chhole bature, flavored lassi, etc. will be a magic of Indian spices and flavors.

Chef Sanjeev Kapoor is a popular name in the Indian food and hospitality industry. He runs the TV show “Khana Khazana”, which is broadcasted in 120 countries, and owns a channel “Food Food”.  He recently opened a restaurant in Muscat, the capital of Oman in the Middle East. It was Chef Sanjeev Kapoor who cooked for Prime Minister Narendra Modi when PM Modi visited the UAE in August this year.

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In the Ramayana age of ancient India, Ravana, the chief of demons, was believed to have built a staircase to Heaven. According to those who have been to Sri Lanka, there are still ruins of the celestial staircase. However, its authenticity is questionable. In the middle ages, religious fundamentalists in Europe used to book tickets to Heaven for the god-fearing people from the upper reaches of society. These age-old stories are often discarded as mere myths. In the present decade of engineering and technology, the staircase to Heaven seems to come alive as Space Elevator.

Yes, Space Elevator is a would-be concrete version of the mythical staircase to Heaven but in a different hemisphere. Thoth Technology, a Canadian firm, has been given the patent to proceed with the plan of executing a most ambitious project – construction of the world’s first Space Elevator – which will be 20 times taller than the world’s tallest Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Thoth Technology proposes that the freestanding tower Space Elevator will lift people to an incredible height of 12 miles above earth for a joyride.

The top of Space Elevator will act as a Launchpad for spacecraft. The Ontario based firm claims that it will save on the cost of launching spacecraft into the orbit of the moon, Mars and other planets. Even rockets can be launched from and landed at the top of Space Elevator, where there will be a system of refueling spacecraft too. Reportedly, the tech firm has come up with construction plans. The revolutionary tower will have an electric elevator for 20 km.

Space Elevator will have several other utilities including support for satellite communication and renewable wind-energy generation. The construction will be equipped with self-landing rocket technologies to usher in a new era of space transportation, according to Caroline Roberts, CEO and President of Thoth Technology, Ontario.

Inflatable sections and flywheels will be used to ensure dynamic stability of the avant-garde structure, which will be architected to avoid ‘complication of the geostationary orbit’ at the meeting point of atmosphere and space. As per the patent document, the tower of Space Elevator will help in scientific research by facilitating delivery of equipment, tools and other objects to a certain height above the surface of earth.

The CEO of Thoth Technology says that Space Elevator will be accessible to tourists as well. Those who cannot afford space tourism will get a taste of space environment above and a glimpse of earth’s blue atmosphere below from a certain level of Space Elevator.

Is Space Elevator an altogether new idea? It may be a new idea but the concept of a freestanding tower to reach the geostationary orbit from earth’s surface dates back to 1895 when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, an eminent Russian scientist, was impressed by the height of the Eiffel Tower. According to him, an object would gain horizontal velocity while going up through the tower under compression and remain suspending in the geostationary orbit once released from the top of the tower. Such a colossal construction under compression remained a dream due to no availability of materials with adequate compressive strength.

Scientists of the next generations reimagined and reinvented the concept until Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction, The Fountains of Paradise, introduced space elevator to a global audience. The novel depicts construction of a space elevator on a mountaintop in some fictional island. Then, the building of a space elevator found a mention in Charles Sheffield’s debut novel, The Web Between the Worlds. In 1993, author Kim Stanley Robinson took on the building of an imaginary space elevator on Mars by colonists to exploit celestial resources for enhanced prosperity on earth, in his novel Red Mars. In 2000, Jumping Off The Planet by David Gerrold talks about a mature elevator technology. The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski depicts construction of a space elevator with self-healing cables of anthrax bacilli, special bacteria that can remake cables out of decay.

Finally, the concept of a space elevator has become a plan outside of books. However, building a beyond-the-sky structure 20 times taller than Dubai’s Burj Khalifa is easier said than done. If the scriptural myth of the staircase to Heaven becomes a concrete reality, it would be a cosmic step towards reaching the infinite. – Indian Eagle

Indian Eagle may not get you tickets to space but promise to book cheap air tickets to India from US cities. The best flight at the lowest fare is no less exciting than a joyride in space!

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