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Canadian Sikhs stage protests against Indian government over murder

TORONTO/OTTAWA, Sept 25 (Reuters) – Canadian Sikhs staged small protests outside India’s diplomatic missions on Monday, a week after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there may be a link between New Delhi and the murder of a Sikh separatist advocate in British Columbia. Trudeau a week ago stood in parliament to say that domestic intelligence agencies were actively pursuing credible allegations tying New Delhi’s agents to the shooting of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, in June. About 100 protesters in Toronto burned an Indian flag and struck a cardboard cut-out of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a shoe.

India’s BJP, the world’s biggest party, plots election drive of epic scale

KOLKATA, India Sept 26 (Reuters) – Indian activist Partha Chaudhury is on a war footing as he strides out of the ruling BJP’s regional headquarters in Kolkata armed with passion and pages of voter lists. “We need to meet each and every BJP supporter, and all of this has to be done in less than 300 days,” the 39-year-old tells a group of fellow activists advancing into the north of Kolkata, the teeming riverfront capital of West Bengal that’s home to about 15 million people. “We want people to remember that the BJP knocked on their doors much before any

No ‘ministers versus officers’ in CM Grievance Cell: Naveen Patnaik

Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], September 25 (ANI): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday rubbished the Opposition’s claim of elected leaders being sidelined in the CM Grievance Cell programme, insisting that the Cell is handled by the CMO and there was no question of “ministers vs officials” in the conduct of the programme. “CM Grievance Cell is always handled by CMO and no minister attends it in Bhubaneswar as well. Where is the issue of ministers versus officers in this?” the chief minister said during the ongoing Monsoon Session of the Assembly on Monday. The CM informed that the “mammoth exercise”

Modi govt considering Rs 600 billion home loan interest subsidy scheme- govt sources

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, Sept 25 (Reuters) – The Narendra Modi government is considering spending 600 billion rupees to provide subsidised loans for small urban housing over the next five years, two government sources told Reuters. Banks are likely to roll out the scheme in a couple of months, ahead of key state elections later this year and general elections due in mid-2024. Last month, the South Asian country cut cooking gas prices for households by about 18% to rein in inflation ahead of elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the plan in a speech in August to mark the country’s Independence

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