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TopicPro-Khalistan movement

Topic: pro-Khalistan movement

‘Will always defend you,’ Trudeau tells Sikhs amid pro-Khalistan chants. MEA summons Canadian diplomat.

Several political leaders addressed the Khalsa Day celebrations in Toronto on Sunday, including Trudeau ally Jagmeet Singh and leader of opposition Pierre Poilievre.

Canada’s state broadcaster airs ‘footage’ of Nijjar killing showing silver car, 2 masked men

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation aired footage in documentary produced as part of investigative series The Fifth Estate. Pro-Khalistan leader was shot dead at Surrey in June 2023

Hindu temple defaced with ‘pro-Khalistan’ graffiti in California, 2nd such incident in a month

In December, suspected pro-separatist activists had allegedly defaced Swaminarayan temple in Newark, California. The exterior wall of the Hindu was defaced with anti-India graffiti.

Long list of ‘threat videos’ released by Pannun — World Cup, G20 meetings, and now Parliament

In new 49-second video Gurpatwant Singh Pannun talks about 'plot to assassinate him in US', allegedly involving an Indian govt official, and adds Parliament attack would be his response to it.

NIA raids 14 locations in Punjab, Haryana in US consulate attacks case, seizes ‘digital data, documents’

Raids conducted in bid to unravel complete conspiracy behind 'criminal trespass, vandalism, damage to public property & attempts to cause hurt to the Consulate officials, set building on fire'.

UK’s flourishing Khalistan lobby needs urgent pushback. Canada isn’t the only problem

As some individuals within the Sikh community in Britain actively supported and propagated the Khalistani cause, the broader Indian community did not actively oppose them.

On Camera

If the Congress were truly a democratic party, Sam Pitroda would be a nobody

It is obscene that a man so detached from India should occupy such a powerful position in a party that governed India for most of its republican history.

Day after mass sick leave by employees, Air India Express fires crew members, cancels 85 more flights

About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.

Three Indian Navy ships deployed to South China Sea

Deployment comes at a time when Yuan Wang 03, a Chinese missile and satellite tracking vessel, has entered Indian Ocean Region.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.