Prime Minister Paul Martin will joini a memorial service in Ireland and flags across the country being lowered to half mast.
On December 10, Kissinger began to encourage the Chinese to take action against India: 'If the People's Republic were to consider the situation on the Indian subcontinent a threat to security, and if it took measures to protect its security, the US would oppose efforts of others to interfere with the People's Republic.' On the 50th anniversary of India's greatest military victory, Claude Arpi recalls how the US suggested that China intervene militarily on Pakistan's side.
The attack on Jagdish Grewal, editor of the Punjabi daily Punjabi Post, in suburban Brampton on October 23 is reminiscent of the assault on Tara Singh Hayer, a journalist who was murdered in 1998 in Vancouver. Both events are attributed to differences between the moderate and hardcore pro-'Khalistan' Sikhs.Both invited the ire of militant Sikhs who want to keep the demand for a separate state of Khalistan alive.
The government is expected to defer the mega initial public offering (IPO) of LIC to the next financial year as the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has dampened fund managers' interest in the public issue, market experts said on Sunday. The government was looking to sell 5 per cent stake in Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) this month, which could have fetched over Rs 60,000 crore to the exchequer. The IPO would have helped meet the curtailed divestment target of Rs 78,000 crore this fiscal.
Rediff.com's Ajit Jain brings forth the anguished stories of some of the inconsolable victims of the Kanishka bombing, as they try to come into terms with the new developments.
A quarter-century after Canada's worst terrorist attack, an inquiry commission will present its much-awaited report into the Air India Kanishka bombing on Thursday and is likely to recommend new sweeping powers for the national security adviser to prevent such tragedies in future.
'We couldn't believe that in the 21st century world, a European country can be bombed, can be invaded.'
'As long as we have such partners, Russia cannot be isolated.'
The 1984 anti-Sikh riots should never have happened, a concerned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday but at the same time appealed to the Sikh community to "move on" to let the wounds of the tragedy heal.
Prosecuters have said that she will testify that Malik told her about his role in the disaster and also told the woman the names of several others involved in the scheme, Canadian daily The Globe and Mail reported.
'There will be much for President Trump and Prime Minister Modi to discuss including growing Chinese military cooperation with Pakistan, which heralds a new attempt by China and Pakistan to neutralise India's influence in its Indian Ocean neighbourhood,' notes Ambassador G Parthasarathy.
Novelist Manil Suri tells Rediff.com's Savera R Someshwar why India needs to avoid a full-blown hostile reaction to Pakistan.
The Excalibur ammunition was developed in the US for improving the accuracy of the artillery shells in the war in Afghanistan which the Americans have been fighting for almost two decades now.
The fire reportedly started simultaneously in the three buildings of the Punjabi school and spread rapidly. Deputy Fire Chief Tim Armstrong called the fire 'unusual'.
'We hope that both India and Pakistan can exercise restraint and do more to improve their bilateral relations'
All of India welcomes the Light Combat Helicopter into the Armed Forces arsenal and wishes it a safe tenure and happy shooting. May it rule the skies and ensure that the enemies are given a fitting reply when the need arises.
The head of intelligence at the Indian high commission in Ottawa, when the Air India 747 was blown up on June 23, 1985, speaks to Senior Editor Ajit Jain.
Bharati Dutt witnessed life-changing events that shaped India on the threshold of freedom. Her memories are an account of how ordinary Indians saw India change.
The Indian Air Force is monitoring the developments along the western front, he said.
A Canadian court has dismissed a jury in the perjury trial of Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 passengers.
He pointed out that after air strike there were no major terrorist attacks during the Lok Sabha polls because it acted as a deterrent.
Major acknowledged there may be legal problems but maintained they're not insurmountable. For example, the law could provide that evidence can only be shared with the approval of a Federal Court judge.
Prime suspect in the 1985 Air India bombing Talwinder Singh Parmar had reportedly told Punjab Police that leaders of a Sikh youth organisation might be behind the attack that claimed 329 lives.
The families who have lost loved ones in the 1985 Kanishka bombing on Friday sought a public apology from the Canadian government for the way it dealt with the tragedy.
The Air India public inquiry commission, which probed the systemic failures that led to the tragic Kanishka plane bombing in 1985, will hold special hearings in mid-February before drafting its final report to be submitted to the Canadian government. The Commission, which concluded its 16-months hearings and presented an interim report to the Canadian government before the Christmas holidays, reconvenes on February 14 for a two-day public hearing, the panel said.
Reports say Malik has filed a writ against Oppal arguing that as he was wrongly charged he lost his reputation and his savings.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the 'person through which' prior information on India's air strikes in Balakot in Pakistan in 2019 was made available to Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami.
The former Supreme Court judge's interim report will consist largely of a narrative recounting harrowing stories told by the families of the victims about the emotional impact of the tragedy that claimed 329 lives. It will also document their difficulties in getting help from the Canadian government when they traveled to Ireland to identify the bodies of their near and dear ones pulled from the North Atlantic sea, reports said.
The Air India Commission, inquiring the 1985 Kanishka bombing that claimed 329 lives, has pulled up the federal government for its inability to provide basic information about how terrorist financing legislation is working in the country. Justice John Major, who heads the inquiry, said on Wednesday his staff has had to do its own research to find out the extent of the terrorist financing in Canada and what is being done to combat the problem.
Tapes of pre-bombing conversations involving key suspects, Talwinder Singh Parmar and Inderjit Singh Reyat, had been erased.
'It is time India thought big not only about its global clout politically and diplomatically, but also act its size against pin-pricking by anti national elements,' says Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
IAF officers say they are keen to serve justice quickly and make an example of those found guilty of operational lapses.
Testifying before an inquiry into the bombing, baggage screener Daniel Lalonde said he overheard officials, whom he did not identify, saying that keeping the plane on the tarmac was too costly.
Politicians of all levels of government attended the April seven event, which drew a crowd estimated at 100,000.
A June 27 briefing document about the call says: 'Overall impression was that Gandhi was highly excited, perturbed and concerned, but highly appreciative of the call.'
Didar and Prit Reyat submitted inflated bills on which Martin signed off before sending them on for payment.
Shah Rukh Khan's weathered intensity, grizzly charisma and trademark wit lends Pathaan's all-out, devil-may-care antics a sense of purpose that evades mindless acts of mayhem, cheers Sukanya Verma.
"This is a very significant visit," Modi said.
During the Baisakhi Day parade in April in Surrey, there was a float 'honoring' Talwinder Singh Parmar, the alleged mastermind of the Kanishka terrorist attack that killed 329 people. Dosanjh had strongly criticized federal and provincial politicians who attended that parade and did not speak out.
The ongoing inquiry into the crash was told that the government was not keen on the inquiry on the grounds that a criminal case was going on in parallel, and also due to worries over lawsuits filed by the families of victims of the Kanishka bombing.
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