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Watch: Racist attack on Canadian politician Jagmeet Singh, asked to ‘cut off’ his turban in Montreal’s Atwater Market

OpIndia Staff - 3 October, 2019

Canadian MP Jagmeet Singh later took to Twitter to talk about the incident and said, "do not change who you are".

Opinions

Multiculturalism is a farce and Londonistan is proof

K Bhattacharjee - 24 September, 2019

The greatest evidence that Multiculturalism has failed spectacularly came after the abrogation of Article 370.

News Reports

Justin Trudeau says sorry for racist ‘brownface’ makeup and turban, says he is sometimes too “enthusiastic” about costumes

OpIndia Staff - 19 September, 2019

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who started his reelection campaign for upcoming polls in Canada on September 11, wore a racist 'brownface' make up at a party in the private school he worked at as a teacher back in 2001.

Government and Policy

India to grant visa to Sikhs who had left the country during the 80s’ militancy, ‘adverse list’ cut down to just 2 names

OpIndia Staff - 13 September, 2019

The government of India has directed all its missions abroad to provide appropriate visas to all categories of asylees of Indian origin in respective countries whose name does not appear in the central adverse list.

News Reports

Sikh groups run campaign in Canada urging the government to declare Sikh Genocide Remembrance Day for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots

OpIndia Staff - 2 June, 2019

Sikh groups in Canada are campaigning to mount pressure on the Trudeau government to declare nationwide Sikh Genocide Remembrance Day

News Reports

Bowing down to political pressure, Canada updates 2018 report on terror to remove reference to Sikh extremism

OpIndia Staff - 14 April, 2019

Giving in to the pressure from the Sikh community in Canada, the Canadian government removed the reference to the Sikh religion from terror threat

News Reports

Canadian Islamic Centre spokesperson refers to Hindu Gods Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu as ‘rapists’

Tarek Fatah - 10 April, 2019

In Canada, Muslim speaker Sanobar Umar accused the ‘Hindu Right’ of being in cahoots with American White Supremacists and then demanded Prime Minister Modi be sent to prison for abandoning his wife.

Culture and History

Inspired by Indian Railways, Japan set to engrave ‘Madhubani’ art on its trains

OpIndia Staff - 8 February, 2019

Japan authorities have requested the Piyush Goyal-led Railway Ministry to send a team of Mithila artists so that Japan can emulate the art form on its trains.

News Reports