WASHINGTON: The FBI is investigating an Aug. 11 drive-by shooting that targeted a California activist with close ties to Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was fatally shot last year in a killing that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said could be linked to India. In an interview with Reuters, Satinder Pal Singh … Read more
Five years before Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down in the parking lot of his Surrey, B.C., temple, India sent the RCMP an urgent request. A bombing was about to occur in India, the notice said. To stop the attack, the RCMP needed to arrest Nijjar immediately, the Indian authorities explained. Acting … Read more
New Delhi: A Hindu temple in California was defaced with pro-Khalistan and anti-India slogans. The photos of the defacement at Newark’s Swaminarayan Mandir Vasana Sanstha were shared on X (formerly) by the Hindu-American Foundation. The images showed slogans against India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on several walls of the temple. The organisation said that … Read more
