Names and names and names and names... 329 in all. Some Indian. Some Canadian. Some British. Berry. Gupta. Jain. James. Bhatt. Beauchesne. Chatlani. Enayati. Lougheed.... Vaihayasi Pande Daniel visits Ahakista, Ireland, home to the memorial for the worst terrorist atrocity in India's history.
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Himachal Pradesh experienced its second snowfall of the season, leading to the closure of 15 roads, including two national highways. A tourist from New Delhi died in an accident on an icy road in the Lahaul Spiti district, while three others sustained injuries.
Nearly 21 years since 331 people lost their lives in Air India's Kanishka bombing, Canada on Wednesday launched a judicial inquiry into the worst terror attack ever mounted from its soil.
The final report into the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing has recommended ex-gratia payment to the families of 329 victims, mostly of Indian origin as it blamed the Canadian government for its failure to prevent the country's worst terrorist attack.
The 90-minute ceremony, where emotions ran high, took place at the memorial site at Ahakista, the place closest to the 1985 disaster, in western Cork.
Main accused Ajaib Singh Bagri and co-accused Ripudaman Singh Malik will get one last chance to rebut evidence against them in what is considered the most expensive trial in Canadian history.
Key witness in the Air India trial Inderjit Singh Reyat's daughter was married to former leader of Babbar Khalsa who faced terrorism charges in the case.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the lone man convicted in the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing that killed 329 people, mostly Indians, on Friday appealed against his perjury conviction in Canada's worst case of terrorism.
The Canadian government wanted to treat one of its own key witnesses, Inderjit Singh Reyat, as hostile.
'In the end, officials in India will be thrown to the wolves, quietly released a couple of years down the road and we'll never hear about them again.'
'As the trial gets closer for Nikhil Gupta, they're going to want to make sure that he doesn't talk.' 'And they're going to put pressure on Mr Gupta to make some deal where the evidence doesn't come out.'
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.
Families of the 329 victims of the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing have rejected the Canadian government's one-time compensation offer of $24,000 for each person killed in the country's worst terror attack, saying it was "insulting".
It seems that the West is sending a signal to India that it can return to old hostilities unless India toes their line on Russia. It is no surprise that India is being compared with Putin's Russia in terms of targeting 'dissidents' as the West calls these Khalistani terrorists, asserts Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Jurisdictional disputes between Canadian and US police hampered the initial investigation, a former FBI agent has told the British Columbia supreme court.
Despite Reyat's guilty plea in the Air India case, he did not provide evidence to implicate Malik and Bagri both of whom were acquitted March, 2004.
"There needs to be further inquiry," said former Premier of Ontario Province Bob Rae, the independent investigator of the trial on the bombing of Air-India flight 182, after releasing his review report.
Navendu Mishra (Stockport) and Nadia Whittome (Nottingham East) were among the other Labour MPs re-elected with convincing majorities.
The Canadian government has objected to a report that suggests systemic racism may have played a role in public and government attitudes towards the Air India bombing that killed 329 people in 1985.
The RCMP timesheet for the Air India detail in June 1985 shows five officers on duty on June 22, up from three the previous week.
Canadaian police took no action despite a warning from Air-India that extremists planned to bomb the airline.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, convicted bomb-maker in the 1985 Air India bombing case, has been charged with perjury arising from his testimony during the Kanishka trial.
Indian carrier Air India has been vindicated by Justice John Major's report on the bombing of Air India flight-182, in which all 329 people aboard were killed after Boeing 747 Kanishka disintegrated off the coast of Ireland.
Justice John Major released a scathing report on the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing investigation at the Media Center in Ottawa on Thursday, in which he stressed, "This is an Air India, Canadian atrocity."
Rae said that the date of March 31, 2007, is an outside date, adding that he hoped to finish the assignment in 2006, a media report said.
Opposition members of Parliament in Canada's House of Commons united on Tuesday to pass a motion calling for public inquiry.
Some witnesses burst into tears as Justice Ian Bruce Josephson ruled that Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik had not downed the plane.
The two accused are charged with planting bombs aboard an Air India plane that exploded on June 23, 1985, on its way from Toronto to India via London. The mid-air explosion killed 329 people.
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 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.
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