The Hindu Morning Digest – May 4, 2024

The Hindu Morning Digest – May 4, 2024

The Supreme Court forewarned the ED that it may “consider” granting interim bail to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy case due to the ongoing Lok Sabha election. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI Hardeep Singh Nijjar killing | Canadian Police arrest members of ‘hit squad’ The Canadian police on May 3 arrested three … Read more

India taking this seriously: US official over report on assassination plot of Sikh separatist leader

India taking this seriously: US official over report on assassination plot of Sikh separatist leader

India is taking the allegations regarding the assassination plot of Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the US seriously, the White House has said. File photo | Photo Credit: AP India is taking the allegations regarding the assassination plot of Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the US seriously, the White House has … Read more

Watch | Transnational killings | The legal rights and wrongs

Watch | Transnational killings | The legal rights and wrongs

This week, we are looking at the legal wrongs and rights of transnational killings- and the sometimes confusing stand of the government. To recap the developments this week: British Newspaper Guardian reported this week that Indian intelligence agents are believed to have orchaestrated up to 20 killings of alleged Khalistani separatist and Jihadist terrorists in … Read more

Justin Trudeau is ‘incompetent and unprofessional’: Canada’s opposition leader Pierre Poilievre

Justin Trudeau is ‘incompetent and unprofessional’: Canada’s opposition leader Pierre Poilievre

NEW DELHI: Canada‘s opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, has criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the strained relations between India and Canada, stating that he will work towards re-establishing a “professional relationship” with New Delhi. Poilievre, who also leads the Conservative Party, expressed concern over the aggression shown towards Indian diplomats in Canada and the increasing … Read more

Demand for inquest into Khalistan activist’s death in Birmingham likely on October 2

Demand for inquest into Khalistan activist’s death in Birmingham likely on October 2

File photo of the Pro-Khalistani Sikhs demonstration outside the Indian High Commission in London. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Sikh Federation UK (SFUK) plans to make a formal demand, likely on Monday, for a coroner’s inquest into the death of Khalistani activist Avtar Singh Khanda in Birmingham last June, according to sources aware of … Read more

India-Canada row: Hardeep Singh Nijjar met Canadian intelligence officers every week before death, says son

India-Canada row: Hardeep Singh Nijjar met Canadian intelligence officers every week before death, says son

Balraj Singh Nijjar, son of slain Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, on Thursday said his father met Canadian intelligence officers regularly months before he was shot dead outside a gurdwara in Surrey in British Columbia on June 18. Nijjar’s son, 21, said his father met officers of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) “once or … Read more

India-Canada relations sour: Spotlight on immigrants, foreign students, workers and trade | Data

India-Canada relations sour: Spotlight on immigrants, foreign students, workers and trade | Data

India- Canada conflict: A flock of birds flies past the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, where temple president Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down in his vehicle while leaving the temple parking lot in June. Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat Monday as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau … Read more

Visa suspension for Canadians enforced at Indian missions globally

Visa suspension for Canadians enforced at Indian missions globally

The Indian flag is seen flying at the High Commission of India in Ottawa, Canada | Photo Credit: AP  Even physical applications for Indian visas from Canadian citizens to Indian missions in third countries will not be processed under the suspension of Indian visas for Canadians that the Government of India is enforcing this week. A … Read more

Khalistan supporters protest at Times Square in New York

Khalistan supporters protest at Times Square in New York

Khalistan supporters protest outside Indian Embassy in Washington, USA. | Photo Credit: PTI A large number of Khalistan supporters staged a protest at the iconic Times Square here to express support for the fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh. The protesters took out a car rally that originated from the Baba Makhan Shah Lubana Sikh Centre … Read more

Khalistani protestors take down tricolour, attempt to storm High Commission in London

Khalistani protestors take down tricolour, attempt to storm High Commission in London

India on Sunday night summoned the senior-most British diplomat in Delhi over reports of some Khalistani elements pulling down the Indian flag at the Indian high commission in London during a protest, official sources said. Photo: Special Arrangement Lodging a strong protest against the vandalisation of the Indian flag outside the Indian High Commission in … Read more