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India asks FBI to share intelligence on Sikh separatists India has asked the United States to share intelligence on Sikh separatists living there amid investigations into an accusation that an Indian official was linked to a plot to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil, an Indian official said on Tuesday. The request was made by the National Investigations Agency (NIA), India’s federal
Canada’s grocers see record-high profits As many Canadians struggle to put food on the table and some consider scaling back their holiday dinner, a new report finds Canada’s grocery sector is set to rake in a record amount of money this year. The Centre for Future Work says grocers are expected to make more than $6 billion in
2023 — a new record and an increase of eight per cent from last year. The new data from the institute found food retailers are now earning more than twice as much profit as they did before the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from Statistics Canada, the report says the net income margin on food
Supreme Court upholds scrapping of article 370 regarding Kashmir’s autonomy Supreme Court of India backed the Centre’s move to scrap special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution and ordered elections next year. Article 370 was a temporary provision to ease Jammu and Kashmir’s merger with India, said Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, reading out a majority Supreme Court judgment. The Supreme Court said Jammu and Kashmir should be put on par with other states “at the earliest and as soon as possible”, and called for state elections by September 30, 2024.
anti-terrorism agency, in meetings with visiting FBI Director Christopher Wray, said the official, who works at the NIA and spoke on condition of anonymity. The issue of what New Delhi says are Sikh separatists operating against India from U.S. soil was discussed in “greater detail by a team of internal security officials from both countries”, the official said.
Surrey drug smuggler fled to India to avoid 15-year prison sentence: RCMP Canadian authorities are asking Interpol to issue a “red notice” for the arrest of a Surrey, B.C., man who was convicted of smuggling cocaine into Canada but allegedly fled to India to avoid prison. If granted, the “red notice” would ask foreign police agencies to arrest Raj Kumar Mehmi, a 60-year-old truck driver who was sentenced in absentia to 15 years
in prison for possessing and importing 80 kilograms of cocaine through the Peace Arch border crossing. A Canada-wide warrant has also been issued for Mehmi’s arrest. The Surrey man was initially caught at the border in November 2017 while driving a semi-trailer he owned with the sealed bricks of cocaine Continued on page 7
Syrian Ibrahim Ali 32, guilty of sexual assault & murder of 13-year-old girl A first-degree murder conviction comes with a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole for 25 years. The marathon murder trial of Ibrahim Ali has concluded with a jury finding that he sexually assaulted and
strangled a 13-year-old girl, then left her body on the forest floor of a park in Burnaby more than six years ago. After jurors stood to confirm they were in agreement with the verdict, Justice Lance Bernard thanked them for their months of dedication.