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An Indian court has overturned a 36-year-old order banning the import of copies of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses because nobody could find the original order. CBC | World News
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Fire kills 10 newborns in intensive care unit in northern India
A fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies and injuring 16 others, authorities said. CBC | World News
Read More »India criticizes Canada for linking minister to plots targeting Sikhs, calling allegation ‘absurd’
India has officially protested the Canadian government’s allegation that the country’s powerful Home Minister Amit Shah had ordered the targeting of Sikh activists inside Canada, calling it “absurd and baseless.” CBC | World News
Read More »India makes it clear it’s not interested in a western alliance
India’s PM Narendra Modi has made a number of gestures this week that appear to signal India will not be taking sides with the West and its Asian allies against a Russia-China axis. US and Canadian accusations of murder plots aimed at India’s enemies have not helped the West to make its case. CBC | World News
Read More »India braces for impact of Dana, as officials aim to get hundreds of thousands away from storm
Indian authorities shut schools, evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and cancelled trains in parts of the country as rescue teams braced on Thursday for a tropical storm brewing in the Bay of Bengal. CBC | World News
Read More »Inside the world of Lawrence Bishnoi, the Indian gangster Canada says India is using as a proxy
The murder of a Punjabi rapper, repeated death threats against a Bollywood star and the killing of a Mumbai-based politician — all are alleged to be the work of Indian gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. Now, the RCMP is claiming the Bishnoi gang is targeting members of Canada’s Sikh community, allegedly at the behest of the Indian government. CBC | World News
Read More »India denies working with mobsters to target Sikh separatists on Canadian soil
India’s government on Thursday denied it was working with mobsters to target Sikh separatists in Canada as alleged publicly this week by Canadian officials in an escalating diplomatic dispute. CBC | World News
Read More »‘Hidden gem’ is the ‘ideal’ spot for winter sun – beating India and South Africa
The opportunity to travel and get some vitamin D is enough for any Brits to book a flight elsewhere and research has found the best places to go. Daily Express :: Travel Feed
Read More »Public safety committee calls for emergency meeting on RCMP allegations against India
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Read More »Women share anguish of fleeing abusive husbands in India where marital rape isn’t a crime
Her wedding night at age 18 brings back painful memories of being forced to have sex with her husband. But under India’s law, it’s not marital rape if the wife is at least that age. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government wants to keep it that way and has filed its affidavit to the Supreme Court, which will be hearing arguments ...
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