Tag: India

What to Know: The United States Department of Justice has filed murder-for-hire charges against an Indian national for a foiled assassination plot against an Indian-American leader of a Sikh independence movement. There charges come as Canada made allegations against the Indian government for the assassination of another Sikh leader, which...

Update (1016 EST): All forty-one workers have been rescued. https://twitter.com/ani/status/1729516897799229456?s=46&t=fwloThPnqgTH71QlDeR_hA Update (1003 EST): Twenty workers have been rescued. Leaving twenty-one still in the tunnel. Update (0945 EST): An additional five workers have been rescued, bringing the total to ten men rescued from the tunnel. Update (0944 EST): The first images of the workers...

According to sources reporting to Financial Times, the U.S. government sent a strong rebuke to the Modi government after his visit in June, accusing involvement in an attempted assassination of Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. According to their sources, the Federal Bureau of Investigation  thwarted the assassination attempt. This...

As this publication reported on November 12th, 2023, 40 Indian workers were trapped when the tunnel they were working on the Yamunotri National Highway near Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand, India collapsed. It has now been five days since the miners were trapped and they have still not been rescued despite...

Update (0143 EST): Government officials have announced that at least 40 workers are still trapped. https://twitter.com/uttarakhandcops/status/1723589672356696403?s=46&t=fwloThPnqgTH71QlDeR_hA At approximately 0026 EST, initial reports indicated that a tunnel collapse had occurred along the Yamunotri National Highway in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, India. Initially, at least 25 workers were reported trapped. https://twitter.com/1stindianews/status/1723572882142613725?s=46&t=fwloThPnqgTH71QlDeR_hAhttps://twitter.com/1stindianews/status/1723572882142613725?s=46&t=fwloThPnqgTH71QlDeR_hA By 0034 EST, search and rescue...

What You Need To Know: India decisively expelled a senior Canadian diplomat on Tuesday, heightening a bilateral dispute over Canadian claims of India's involvement in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader near Vancouver. The Details: India swiftly dismissed these allegations as baseless. The expulsion, according to the Ministry of External Affairs,...