Friends and relatives of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States and the Air India bombing came together to remember their loved ones at a ceremony.
Reyat, a former Duncan electrician, could be imprisoned for an additional 14 years if convicted of perjury.
In a disappointment to relatives of the victims of the 1985 Air-India bombing that killed 329 people, Canadian prosecutors have decided not to appeal against the acquittal of two main accused in the case.
The families of victims of the AI bombing in 1985 have been demanding an inquiry after main accused Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri were acquitted in the case.
Lawyers for one of the chief accused, Ripudaman Singh Malik, asked for more time for negotiations over how his legal fees were to be paid.
"I lost my daughter Indira in that bombing along with 328 other innocent people. So, Akhand Paath should be for these victims and not for the terrorists," Kalsi said.
Willy Laurie, a former agent of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, testified before Justice John Major on Monday that a close friend of accused Ajaib Singh Bagri, told him not to pass on her information to police as Bagri, a leader of the Babbar Khalsa terrorist group, would kill her and children.
Reports say Malik has filed a writ against Oppal arguing that as he was wrongly charged he lost his reputation and his savings.
Owing to security concerns, only the judge, lawyers and witnesses will travel to the location, where they will see the plane's reconstruction, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Vancouver.
A defence lawyer said the Canadian police encouraged the key witness to obtain information from convicted Inderjit Singh Reyat and his wife.
The British Columbia Court of Appeal said the amount of material and the complexity of the case justified the month-long extension.
Justice John Major, head of the Public Commission of Inquiry into the 1985 Air India bombing, on Tuesday released the first volume of his report. The 211-page report is a narrative based on the testimonies of the families of Air India victims and of the Irish naval rescuers.
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The final report of the Public Inquiry Commission, probing into the Air India bombing and Canada's failure to prosecute those responsible for the terror attack, will be released on June 17, officials said on Friday.
A public inquiry into the 1985 Kanishka bombing will scrutinise the Canadian security agency's decision to erase wiretap recordings of the prime suspect.
A lawyer of the British Columbia government in Canada said Reyat will continue to be held in jail on a 2006 arrest warrant for perjury charges after his current manslaughter sentence expires this week. It will be up to him to ask the court for bail.
The main problem on the Canadian side was the overtime bill for laying on extra police protection, said MacDonald. The issue was finally resolved when Transport Canada agreed to cover the cost.
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Colonel (Dr) Anil Athale (retd) on how the global war on terror has changed the geo-politics of the world and India's role in it.
Canada said on Saturday that terrorist groups would not be given any quarter in the nation even as it stepped up security at airports and other vital installation as recommended by the Kanishka inquiry commission.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised the issue of Sikh fundamentalist outfits with his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit at the Convention Centre in Washington on Monday evening.During the meeting, Dr Singh also noted that this year marked the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Air-India flight Kanishka. He urged Canada to monitor the activities of Sikh separatists in that country.
Twenty five years after Air India Flight 182 was blown apart by terrorists while flying over the Atlantic to India, Canada may finally offer a formal apology for ignoring warnings about a likely terror strike on the aircraft and lapses in the subsequent investigations.Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to offer a formal apology to families of victims of the Kanishka air crash tragedy at the memorial at Humber Park in Toronto on June 23.
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.
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.
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.
Malik had signed an "interim funding agreement" with the provincial government in 2002 to fund his 11-lawyer defence team. In 2004, Malik and his co-accused Ajaib Singh Bagri were acquitted of the mass murder of 331 people, including 22 Indians, in two separate 1985 bombings targeting Air India planes.
Sociologist Sherene Razack, professor at the University of Toronto, was grilled about a report she prepared for the victims' families alleging that systemic racism led to Canadian officials minimising the warnings to Air India and being slow to respond after the devastating bombing.
Former Canadian diplomat James Bartleman, who is currently the lieutenant-governor of Ontario, testified before the inquiry commission that he gave the warning to a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer only to be rebuffed.
Bob Rae will review the role of the Canadian police after the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182 off Ireland's Atlantic Coast in which 329 people were killed.
The BJP released its first list of 57 candidates for the West Bengal assembly polls and fielded Suvendu Adhikari from his home turf of Nandigram, from where Trinamool Congress president and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has already announced her candidature.
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Modelled loosely around the National Highway System of the US, he in 2001 launched the Golden Quadrilateral and the North-South & East-West Corridor projects to build 4/6 lane highways between four top metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata as well as from Srinagar to Kanyakumari and Porbandar to Silchar.
