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The Associated Press. In Parliament, the Canadian PM said the country's intelligence agencies have been investigating the allegations after Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down on June 18 outside a Sikh cultural center in Surrey, British Columbia. Trudeau further said that he brought up the slaying with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi at the G20 Summit last week.

critically injured with multiple bullet wounds inside a vehicle near the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia, on the night of June 18. Despite emergency medical efforts, Nijjar succumbed to his injuries at the scene, as confirmed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Initially, investigators from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) took over the case.

Canada expelled a top Indian diplomat Monday as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called credible allegations that India's government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist.Trudeau said in Parliament that Canadian intelligence agencies have been looking into the allegations after Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a strong supporter of an independent Sikh homeland known as Khalistan, was gunned down on June 18 outside a Sikh cultural center in Surrey, British Columbia. Trudeau told Parliament that he brought up the slaying with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G-20 last week. He said he told Modi that any Indian government involvement would be unacceptable and that he asked for cooperation in the investigation. Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said the head of Indian intelligence in Canada has been expelled as a consequence. «If proven true this would be a great violation of our sovereignty and of the most basic rule of how countries deal with each other,» Joly said.

Canada said on Monday it had credible information linking Indian government agents to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia in June and said it had expelled a senior Indian intelligence official. The announcement marks a significant worsening of bilateral ties at a time when India is already unhappy that Canadian authorities are not cracking down on Sikh protesters who want their own independent homeland. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen was «an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty». Hardeep Singh Nijjar, was shot dead outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, British Columbia, on June 18. Nijjar supported a Sikh homeland in the form of an independent Khalistani state and was designated by India as a «terrorist» in July 2020, India's The Tribune newspaper said. «Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the government of India» and Nijjar's death, Trudeau said in an emergency statement to the House of Commons. «Canada has declared its deep concerns to the top intelligence and security officials of the Indian government. Last week at the G20 I brought them personally and directly to Prime Minister Modi in no uncertain terms.» The Indian high commission (embassy) in Ottawa did not respond to requests for comment. New Delhi said last week that Modi had conveyed strong concerns about protests in Canada against India to Trudeau. Canada has the highest population of Sikhs outside their home state of Punjab in India, and the country has been the site of many demonstrations that have irked India. Canada is home to one of the largest overseas communities of Indian

sexual assault complaint related to recent accusations against Russell Brand. During the weekend, Russell Brand, the comedian, actor, and TV host, faced allegations of rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse between 2006 and 2013. These allegations emerged from a joint investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times, and Channel 4 Dispatches. Brand vehemently denied all accusations. A Scotland Yard spokesperson conveyed awareness of the allegations reported by The Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches. The Met received a report on Sunday, September 17, about a sexual assault claim dating back to 2003 in Soho, central London. The police are providing support to the woman involved and maintaining contact with her. Scotland Yard emphasized its engagement with The Sunday Times on September 16 and subsequent efforts to ensure that potential victims of sexual offenses know how to report incidents to the police. They urged anyone who believes they may have been a victim of a sexual offense, regardless of when it occurred, to come forward. In the wake of the exposé published on September 16, the BBC, Channel 4, and Banijay UK, where Russell Brand worked during the alleged period, initiated their independent internal investigations. Channel 4, where Brand gained fame as the host of Big Brother's Big Mouth, disclosed via an email to its staff that it is probing whether anyone within the network had knowledge of the alleged behaviors.

interest rates to ward off the risk of causing "stagflation," the prominent economist Nouriel Roubini warned. The famously pessimistic Roubini said the recent rise in oil prices will keep headline inflation high and that any talk of easier monetary policy would be premature. The ECB and BOE face a bigger dilemma than the US Federal Reserve because prices are still rising fast and growth is slowing, he said. The BOE «should be hiking rates all the way to 5.75%,» Roubini said Monday in an interview on Bloomberg Television.

London | Britain’s auto industry has urged the government to dish out tax breaks or other incentives to encourage people buying electric vehicles (EVs), amid fears that consumer enthusiasm is on the wane.

The GBP/USD is in focus ahead of this week’s key events: FOMC and BoE rate decisions. We also have UK CPI and retail sales, as well as global PMI figures to look forward to this week. The BoE could deliver a final 25 bps hike, while the FOMC is seen holding policy unchanged. I think the cable could be heading towards the low 1.20s.

UEFA Champions League group stage after a gap of 22 years. They will take on AC Milan at San Siro on Tuesday. They have made tremendous improvements after the Saudi takeover. A win against AC Milan will be a statement of how they have improved their lot. But it will not be an easy task for the team that landed in a difficult group alongside AC Milan, Paris Saint-Germain and Borussia Dortmund.

'Almost 44% of UK wealth managers and private banks expect demand for index funds and ETFs to increase over the next 12 to 24 months.'

Over five years, Northern VCT produced NAV total returns of 26.1%, while Northern 2 and 3 achieved NAV total return of 28.6% and 27.7%, respectively.

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New Delhi, Sep 18 (PTI) Biotechnology major Biocon Ltd on Monday announced the appointment of Peter Bains as the group Chief Executive Officer. Bains has stepped down from his role as a non-executive independent director from the Board of Biocon Ltd with immediate effect to assume this executive role as Biocon Group CEO, the company said in a regulatory filing.

When video conferencing specialist Zoom Video Communications Inc. called staff back to the office last month, it was widely interpreted as the disintegration of the remote work experiment. The pro-office message, four years after the pandemic triggered a white-collar retreat, was seized on by Elon Musk, who described it as morally wrong for “laptop classes living in la-la-land” to work from home. Amazon.com Inc. is tracking attendance and emails staff who fail to attend three days a week, while Alphabet Inc.’s Google says absence will affect staff performance reviews. In the United Kingdom, banks including Lloyds Banking Group, Citigroup Inc. and HSBC Holdings PLC, have taken the September cue to tighten their in-office mandates.

Canadian Bitcoin mining firm Hut 8 is set to wrap up its planned merger with US Bitcoin (USBTC) following final approval from the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

Stocks fell as traders took risk off the table ahead of a raft of policy decisions this week from the US, the UK and Japan. 

Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures point higher to begin the new trading week, with markets preparing for a parade of key central bank policy meetings around the world. Traders will be keeping a particularly close eye on the U.S. Federal Reserve's two-day gathering, where policymakers are expected to lay out how they see inflation evolving over the remaining months of 2023. Elsewhere, the potential pricing of initial public offerings from tech groups Klaviyo and Instacart are in focus after chip designer Arm 's blockbuster debut.

JPMAM was one of the banks involved in the floating of CAB Payments.

Around two-thirds of City professionals would back Keir Starmer as the UK’s next prime minister | Credit: Keir Starmer, Twitter

major tech companies to the detriment of consumers and businesses, by emphasising the need for accountability and transparency. Britain's anti-trust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), is, like other authorities around the world, trying to control some of the potential negative consequences of AI without stifling innovation.

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