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Ujjal Dosanjh, who was first elected in the Vancouver-Kensington riding in Canada in 1991 and served as premier of the state of British Columbia from 2000 to 2001, was the first person of Indian origin to hold the highest state office and one of the most visible faces in provincial and federal politics in Canada. A Liberal Party MP in the Canadian Parliament between 2004 and 2011 and minister of health...

WASHINGTON: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continued to back down from the scorching crisis he has precipitated with India over the murder of a Khalistani extremist after being cornered over lack of evidence and international support for his allegations that New Delhi was behind the killing. At a press conference on Thursday, Trudeau was asked repeatedly if he had evidence, and its quality, to...

WASHINGTON: Having dropped a bombshell by alleging the Indian government was behind the assassination of a Khalistani extremist in Canada, the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said Ottawa was not looking to escalate matters with India even as Washington cautiously backed his demand for an investigation into the killing. "We are not looking to provoke or escalate. We are simply laying...

NEW DELHI: Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between Indian government agents and the murder of a Sikh leader in British Columbia in June, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday.The startling accusation was followed by the Canadian foreign minister stating that a high-ranking Indian diplomat has been expelled over the killing.The Indian...

NEW DELHI: The Consulate General of India in Vancouver has requested Canadian authorities to investigate the recent incident of assault on an Indian national in Kelowna. Prompt action against the perpetrators has also been sought in the case, which saw a 17-year-old Sikh high school student getting assaulted at a bus stop after an altercation with another teenager in Canada's British Columbia province,...

MONTREAL: Six people from two families -- one of Romanian descent with Canadian passports, the other from India -- were found dead in a marsh near the Canada-US border after trying to cross illegally into the United States, police said Friday. Their bodies were found Thursday near a capsized boat belonging to a missing man from the Akwesasne Mohawk community, local deputy police chief Lee-Ann O'Brien...