New Delhi: As India gears up for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit later this week, Ottawa moved to revoke the citizenship of the 2008 Mumbai attack accused Tahawwur Rana Hussain, reports Stewart Bell for Global News.
Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistan-born businessman, is alleged to have been a key conspirator in the Mumbai terror attacks that killed 166 people.
He acquired Canadian citizenship in 2001. But, as Bell reports, the country is not planning to revoke Rana’s citizenship on the grounds of terrorism, but because he lied, as documents obtained by Global Times highlight, in his citizenship application form.
Last year, Rana was extradited to India from the US to face trial for his alleged role in the 26/11 Mumbai attack carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba.
While applying for citizenship in 2000, he had claimed that he lived in different cities of Canada for the previous four years with only a six-day absence from the country. However, as Bell reports, a probe revealed that he had spent all that time in Chicago, US, where he owned several properties.
While his citizenship case has been transferred to the federal court, he “faces a high-profile trial in India, where the Islamist attack he is accused of aiding has had a deep impact and fractured relations with Pakistan, where the terrorists were based”, Bell writes.
“Because of Hussain’s citizenship, the case has helped feed India’s portrayal of Canada as a national security threat, although according to the documents obtained by Global News, he never truly lived in the country.”
The potential revocation of Rana’s citizenship comes at a time when Carney is trying to “restore relations” with India.
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The Trump tariff
The US Supreme Court Friday ruled against Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, and the shocks are only being felt now. “An immediate impact of the ruling was to prompt the Indian and US governments to push back their ongoing trade talks,” Veena Venugopal writes in Financial Times.
According to officials in New Delhi, the countries have agreed to “regroup after studying the judgment”.
In the meantime, Trump has imposed a blanket 15 percent tariff. “The tariff structure puts all countries on an equal footing. On paper, India’s tariff burden is lower than before, and it is among the bigger beneficiaries.” But Venugopal warns against seeing parity as necessarily good.
“Smartphone exports to the US, which increased by 200 per cent between April — November 2025 are now India’s largest category. The strategic price advantage that India has over China will be lost if tariffs are the same for both countries.” And smartphones are not the only category facing this risk.
As Venugopal writes, “exporters of textiles, garments and footwear, among others, had been discounting their products since August last year, when Trump imposed reciprocal tariffs on India.”
The deal which is still under negotiation, could potentially help some Indian sectors. India’s diamonds and precious stones industry, for which the US is a large market, is hoping it will be able to hold on to the zero-tariff status laid out in the interim deal even when Trump imposes blanket tariffs, she writes.
Manipuri film Boong has bagged the BAFTA 2026 award for Best Children and Family Film. Abhishek Dey of BBC writes on Boong’s filmmakers.
“An Indian director who won a Bafta for her debut film has been winning hearts in her home country for using the global stage to speak about peace and forgiveness,” he writes on Lakshmipriya Devi.
Manipur has been grappling with an ethnic conflict since 2023. Despite change in leadership, the conflict persists. Devi described Boong as being “rooted in a place that’s very troubled, very much ignored and very under-represented in India – my homeland, Manipur”.
And while the film got glowing reviews and critical acclaim, it has not found much space in the mainstream media. “That is partly because smaller independent films often get limited distribution in Indian cinemas. Films from northeastern states such as Manipur face more hurdles because of a smaller domestic market and limited integration into the country’s mainstream Hindi-language film industry,” Dey writes.
The film “touches upon weighty issues including long-standing ethnic tensions, migration, political suspicion and militarisation of the state, which shares a border with Myanmar, over the years.”
“The film feels particularly poignant when viewed with the knowledge of the conflict which came after it was shot,” Dey writes.
Associated Press writes an obituary for its photographer Rajanish Kakade, who passed away at the age of 55. Kakade documented Mumbai for AP for “nearly two decades”. According to his family members, died at his home in Mumbai on Monday following an illness.
“He joined the AP in 2008 and was based in Mumbai, from where he helped shape the visual record of India’s financial capital.”
“From major political events, elections and sports to the deadly 2008 Mumbai militant attacks and the coronavirus pandemic,” Kakade was AP’s guy for the anything and everything Mumbai. “His images of ordinary life in Mumbai captured the rhythm of a rapidly evolving city, conveying both its vast scale and quiet intimacy.”
(Edited by Ajeet Tiwari)
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