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​Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Mike Duheme takes part in a press conference about India-linked criminal activity occurring in Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario, October 14, 2024.
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India and Canada expel diplomats in deepening criminal scandal

Canadian authorities declared India’s High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma a persona non grata note on Monday, expelling him and five other diplomats from their posts over allegations they were part of a criminal network harassing Canadian Sikhs.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi
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Memo shows Modi government planned ‘crackdown’

The Indian government allegedly directed its officials to launch a “sophisticated crackdown scheme” on overseas Sikh activists just two months before the assassination of a Sikh Canadian activist whose death Canada has blamed on India.

Biden wants to take away Modi’s license to kill
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Biden wants to take away Modi’s license to kill

Before Narendra Modi became prime minister, he said India should be quicker to kill terrorists outside its borders – carrying out extrajudicial assassinations on foreign soil, giving his spies the license to kill, James Bond-style. An indictment unsealed in New York on Wednesday suggests that Modi did do that, and then angrily denied responsibility for an assassination in Canada.

India-Canada: Trudeau's "perverse politics" threatens relations, says Samir Saran
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India-Canada: Trudeau's "perverse politics" threatens relations, says Samir Saran

Even before Canada's murder allegation, its relations with India were already tense. India has long been pushing Ottawa to be more assertive in curtailing the Khalistan movement within Canada–a separatist movement with the goal of establishing an independent Sikh state in India’s Punjab region.

Can the India-Canada relationship be fixed after a suspicious murder?
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

Can the India-Canada relationship be fixed after a suspicious murder?

In September, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leveled a bombshell accusation in Canada’s House of Commons: He announced there were “credible allegations” India was involved in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader and Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in British Columbia in June. Since then, relations between New Delhi and Ottawa have not been the same. On GZERO World, Ian Bremmer sits down with Samir Saran, President of the Observer Research Foundation, a top Indian think tank, to discuss the fallout.

A photo of protesters burning an Indian flag after the assassination of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar with the logo of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer - the podcast
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast

Podcast: Death and diplomacy: A look at India-Canada tensions with Samir Saran

Listen: The GZERO World Podcast takes a look at an international murder mystery that dominated headlines in September: Canada's allegation that India was involved in the assassination of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia in June. New Delhi has dismissed the accusation as “absurd” and demanded any evidence be released publicly, which Canada has yet to do. But the diplomatic fallout has been swift.

Ian Explains: Why India-Canada relations are tense over a mysterious murder
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Ian Explains: Why India-Canada relations are tense over a mysterious murder

On June 18th in a Vancouver suburb, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh leader and Canadian citizen, was killed by two men in hooded sweatshirts. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau then accused the Indian government of being responsible for the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil. Ian Bremmer explains why it's been a challenging time for Canada–India relations.

India-Canada standoff heats up while US seeks a compromise
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India-Canada standoff heats up while US seeks a compromise

India and Canada. Not the two countries that you expected to be getting into a big public fight. But that is exactly where we are. And the Americans are uncomfortable.