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Nothing puzzles me more about Narendra Modi’s policies than why he has revived the myth of Khalistan. Why has his government been so determined to revive this phantom secessionist movement that senior ministers called the farmers long agitation against the farm laws a Khalistani plot? When Canadian Sikhs raise ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegation that India assassinated a Sikh activist in British Columbia was based on surveillance of Indian diplomats in Canada, according to multiple reports. Trudeau's accusations over the June 18 killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a 45-year-old Sikh separatist, have sparked a widening rift between Canada ...

The allegation of India’s involvement in the killing of a Sikh Canadian is based on surveillance of Indian diplomats in Canada, including intelligence provided by a major ally, a Canadian official familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on September 21.The official said the communications involved Indian officials ...

India and Canada are dealing with an unprecedented diplomatic crisis, which can have political as well as geopolitical consequences.It started after Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dropped a bombshell allegation earlier this week, telling Parliament that it is possible the Indian government had a hand in the murder of ...

Like his boyish good looks the politics of Justin Trudeau, Canada’s Prime Minister, seem a bit raw, a bit immature. Otherwise, he would not have driven a coach and four so brazenly into the already faltering Indo-Canadian relationship. Soon after his return home from India after attending the G-20 ...

The sudden death of a Sikh activist in Birmingham just four days after he was diagnosed with cancer has sparked mystery.Avtar Singh Khanda, who rose to prominence over his support for an independent Sikh state - called Khalistan - in the Punjab region of India, died suddenly earlier this ...

India on Tuesday expelled a senior Canadian diplomat after Ottawa alleged New Delhi’s involvement in a Sikh leader’s death on its soil. The diplomat has been asked to leave within five days, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.“The decision reflects Government of India’s growing concern at ...

TORONTO — A prominent Sikh leader was brazenly murdered this summer outside a temple in British Columbia (BC), Canada. The death has outraged his supporters and intensified global tensions between Sikh separatists and the Indian government.On a mid-June evening in the busy parking lot of the Guru Nanak ...

The Indian government on Tuesday rejected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations that Delhi may be linked to the assassination of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil, adding to a series of incidents that illustrate how bilateral ties have worsened in recent years.The relationship, driven by the presence of ...

NEW DELHI/OTTAWA — Canada’s accusation that India may have been involved in the assassination of a Sikh activist on its soil has triggered a growing row with Ottawa and New Delhi both expelling senior diplomats, sending relations between the two countries plunging.The tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions came after Prime Minister ...