New Delhi: India and Canada have revived diplomatic relations, with both countries agreeing to appoint high commissioners, writes Ian Bailey in Canadian daily The Globe and Mail.
As relations between India and Canada appear to thaw, the Canadian intelligence service has published a report that the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar “signaled a significant escalation in India’s repression efforts”, reports Leyland Cecco in The Guardian.
“Indian officials, including their Canada-based proxy agents, engage in a range of activities that seek to influence Canadian communities and politicians. When these activities are deceptive, clandestine or threatening, they are deemed to be foreign interference,” The Guardian quotes the Canadian Security Intelligence Service report as saying.
“These activities attempt to steer Canada’s positions into alignment with India’s interests on key issues, particularly with respect to how the Indian government perceives Canada-based supporters of an independent homeland that they call Khalistan,” states the annual report presented to members of the Canadian parliament.
Pakistani field marshal Asim Munir’s 5-day visit to Washington is taking place despite India’s bid to “isolate” him following last month’s conflict, reports Hamza Jilani in The Financial Times.
“The US military still has an important counterterrorism partnership with Pakistan, even as India accuses Pakistan of being a terror sponsor,” Christopher Clary of the University at Albany in New York told the FT.
“Munir’s US visit, which began on Sunday and is his second since the former spymaster took over as military chief in 2022, showed ‘the relationship exists and is important to Washington’, despite the fear of some in the US capital that Pakistan was already ‘firmly aligned with Beijing’, Clary said,” according to the report.
Investigators believe that the Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London had an “emergency power generator” working, adding a layer of legitimacy to the questions and speculation around the possibility of an engine failure, reports Andrew Tangel in The Wall Street Journal.
“The preliminary finding, according to people familiar with the probe, gives investigators a new line of inquiry as they study a crash that killed all but one of the plane’s passengers,” says the report.
The BBC covers the funeral of Ajay, the brother of the sole survivor Vishwaskumar Ramesh, who was sitting just a “few seats away” from his brother.
“A visibly upset Ramesh was one of the pall bearers who carried his brother’s coffin to the crematorium in the town of Diu, his arm and face still covered in white bandages. He’s spent most of the past 5 days in the hospital,” the report notes.
Luxury homes are all the rage in India, and the “demand shows no sign of abating,” reports Harshita Swaminathan in Bloomberg. DLF just earned its “highest ever revenue”, following a 1.3-billion-dollar sale of apartments in Gurugram.
“Luxury housing in India is booming even as demand remains muted in the broader real estate sector. Sales of expensive top-end houses grew by 28% in the first quarter of 2025 across the top seven cities in the country, according to real estate consulting firm CBRE. Still, the number of homes sold in India’s top 15 emerging urban markets fell 8% during the period,” says the report.
(Edited by Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri)
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