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NEW DELHI : The diplomatic row over the killing of a Sikh leader in British Columbia will not affect the flow of Canadian investments into India, a senior finance ministry official said on Tuesday. “Firstly, Western nations have invested in markets they have found promising irrespective of political or diplomatic differences. One example is China.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. While Canada said it had raised the matter with France, it is unlikely that Paris will raise the matter with India or issue a statement. The US expressed concern at the allegations and said it is critical for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. «We are deeply concerned about the allegations referenced by Prime Minister Trudeau,» White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a brief statement. A spokesperson for Australia's foreign minister Penny Wong said Canberra's concerns had been conveyed to New Delhi at «senior levels». «Australia is deeply concerned by these allegations and notes ongoing investigations into this matter,» the spokesperson said in a statement.

On Tuesday, Google announced the latest addition to its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Bard—adding the ability for users to link their entire suite of Google apps to the chatbot. By doing so, users will get the ability to pull information from their stored documents and spreadsheets, as well as tap public Google services such as Maps and YouTube, within Bard’s responses.

Narendra Modi“the boss" recently. The reporter asked the question amid the allegations by Canada that the Indian government may be linked to the murder of Khalistani extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Both Australia and Canada have huge numbers of Punjabi Sikh population.

UK inflation is making the Bank of England's already difficult decision on when to pause rate hikes even harder. UK inflation data due out Wednesday will likely show that price gains notched higher to 7% last month from 6.8% in July, according to the median of more than 30 estimates in a Bloomberg survey. It would mark the first acceleration since February, with economists attributing the move to fuel price fluctuations. While some downturn in inflation had been anticipated by the BOE, it would make for a complicated backdrop when policymakers meet the next day to decide whether to raise rates for what could be the last time of the cycle.

China's Foreign Ministry has asked all foreign consulates in Hong Kong to provide the personal details of their locally employed staff, as Beijing tightens its control over the semi-autonomous city. The Commissioner's Office of the Foreign Ministry, in a letter seen by The Associated Press, asked the consulates to provide staffers' names, job titles, residential addresses, identity card numbers and travel document numbers «in line with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and general international practice.» The letter, dated Monday and addressed to all consulate posts and the Office of the European Union, stated that they should comply with the request by Oct. 18, and that the details of staffers who are employed in the future should be furnished within 15 days. It wasn't clear whether China furnishes details of its staff in foreign missions to other countries. The request comes as Beijing has tightened control over Hong Kong in recent years following its imposition of a sweeping national security law aimed at stamping out dissent. Governments in the West have criticized the law as a dismantling of Hong Kong's political freedoms and civil society.

India-Canada ties has put the focus back on Pro-Khalistan Elements (PKE) using foreign soil to carry out attacks against India. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is probing nearly 20 cases involving PKE and have been urging foreign governments, including Canada, to designate them as 'terrorists' for allegedly carrying out anti-India activities. Hardeep Singh Nijjar, chief of Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), had four first information reports (FIRs) registered against him by NIA and carried a reward of ₹10 lakh. He was designated as 'terrorist' by the Union home ministry in July 2020 under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, along with several other top-rung pro-Khalistan supporters.

public health and geopolitical instability that are impeding efforts to address pressing global issues. The theme of the 78th session of the UNGA is “Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all." Beside President Joe Biden of the United States, none of the leaders of the five permanent members of the Security Council—namely the US, Russia, China, France and Britain—are attending the UNGA session.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday charged Concord Management and its owner with failing to register with regulators while operating as an investment adviser to an unidentified billionaire former Russian official.

Canada worked 'very closely' with the United States on intelligence that Indian agents had been potentially involved in the murder of a Sikh man in British Columbia earlier this year, a senior Canadian government source said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that domestic intelligence agencies were actively pursuing credible allegations tying New Delhi's agents to the shooting of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, in British Columbia in June.

inflation rate among the world's richest nations this year. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said in its report that the inflation rate in the UK may touch 7.2 per cent.

X users (formely known as Twitter) Tuesday complained of outage at about 7PM IST. The microblogging platform had stopped working around 7pm IST, Downdetector- a website that reports online outage said.

Britain has invited China to its global artificial intelligence (AI) summit in November, with foreign minister James Cleverly saying the risks of the technology could not be contained if one of its leading players was absent. «We cannot keep the UK public safe from the risks of AI if we exclude one of the leading nations in AI tech,» Cleverly said in a statement on Tuesday.

August 2023 marked the 51st consecutive month of net inflows into ETFs and ETPs, bringing total assets to $10.7trn.

BJP on Tuesday termed as «baseless and ironical» Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations against India in connection with the killing of a Khalistani terrorist in Canada and demanded that the Canadian government take effective action against «all anti-India elements active on its soil».

India and Canada, officials said security was increased outside the High Commission of Canada on Tuesday in central Delhi as a «precautionary measure».

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G20 summit. A report by PTI quoted Sharif as saying: “Today Pakistan's prime minister goes country to country to beg for funds while India has reached the moon and is holding G20 meetings. Why Pakistan couldn't achieve the feats India did.

India-Canada row: The strained relations between India and Canada took a sharp downward turn on Tuesday as Canada's PM Justin Trudeau accused "agents of the Indian government" in the killing of prominent Khalistani leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar. The Sikh separatist leader was shot dead by unidentified shooters in June outside a Gurudwara in Canada's Surrey. The Indian government rejected the allegations and called them "absurd" and "motivated".

Fed policy meeting, stocks are drifting again in the US stock market. The S&P 500 was off 0.2% early Tuesday. The Dow slipped 37 points and the Nasdaq composite was down 0.4%.

Free Trade Agreement and held their 12th round of negotiations in August. Sunak and Modi held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit to discuss the India-UK free trade agreement, innovation, and science along with ways to strengthen the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two countries.