The video in question, released by Pannun, the founder of the banned Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), includes threats against Air India flights and warns Sikhs not to fly on Air India aircraft after November 19. The video has prompted heightened security measures and increased scrutiny at airpor
Amid a rift in ties between New Delhi and Ottawa, the Foreign Minister of Canada, Melanie Joly, has said that she is in close contact with her Indian counterpart S Jaishankar, adding that it is a difficult moment in relationship between the two nations that spanned decades.
India's High Commissioner to Canada, Sanjay Kumar Verma reiterated New Delhi's stand on the diplomatic standoff with Canada, and urged Ottawa to release evidence backing up its allegation regarding the killing of Khalistani leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Canada Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced on Thursday (local time) that Canada has removed 41 diplomats, together with their 42 family members, from India following an ongoing row between the two nations.
In an urgent email addressed to Dominic LeBlanc, Canada's Minister of Public Safety, the Hindu Forum of Canada has called for immediate action in response to Pannun's controversial statements.
National Investigation Agency (NIA) Special Court in Punjab has ordered the confiscation of land belonging to 'Designated Individual Terrorist (DIT)' and Pakistan-based Khalistani terrorist Lakhbir Singh, alias Rode, the NIA said on Wednesday.
"Some people do not like the fact that India has been growing. Foreign countries are manipulating Sikhs to turn against India so that India diverts its attention towards these issues and doesn't prosper. It is foreign countries' conspiracy...," he said.
Indian student Satyam Surana, the boy who tried to protect the Indian flag during the Khalistani protest in front of the Indian High Commission in London on Monday, said he had never seen the Indian flag being demeaned this way, his conscious persuaded him to protect the tricolour.
A US-based politics focused newspaper company, Politico, a few days ago reported that "US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti has told his in-country team that, because of the diplomatic spat with Canada, relations between India and the US could get worse for a time".
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly on Tuesday said that the country wants "private talks with India to resolve a diplomatic dispute" over the killing of Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Reuters reported.