02 May 2026
The India tour of Punjabi-Canadian signer Shubhneet Singh, popularly known as Shubh, has been cancelled amid a major backlash over his alleged support for Khalistan and separatists.
Shubh, who was going to perform in several cities across India, had also shared a distorted map of India without Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, along with the caption “Pray for Punjab”.
In an indication of the deepening ties between the two countries, US Ambassador Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that President Joe Biden has been invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi on January 26 next year.
During an interaction organised by the Ananta Centre, Garcetti, responding to a question on the Quad leaders being invited to the Republic Day celebrations, said the invitation to Biden was extended by Modi during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in New Delhi recently.
Countering Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s claim that out of 90 secretaries in the government of India, there are only three persons who belong to the OBC community, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that it is the government who runs the country, not the secretaries.
“One of my colleagues (Rahul Gandhi) was saying that the number of those who run the country is three who belong to the OBC category. Now who will make him (Rahul Gandhi) understand that it is the government who runs the country, not the secretaries,” Shah said during the discussion over the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha in the Special Session of the Parliament.
Reliance Jio launched Jio AirFibre, its Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) solution powered by True 5G service. Eight significant Indian cities have received the new state-of-the-art wireless internet service: Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Pune. Although the service was first announced at AGM 2022 last year, Jio formally announced its debut at the 46th Annual General Meeting (AGM) last month.
The JioAirFiber Wi-Fi box will be free, and consumers will only need to pay the installation price and recharge with one of the recently introduced Jio AirFiber plans, according to the company's official statement.
Former RAW chief A S Dulat on Tuesday said Canada expelling an Indian diplomat after claiming that New Delhi was potentially linked to the killing of a Khalistani extremist will have a bearing on bilateral relations.
"It is strange that the Canadian Prime Minister announced this in the Parliament," Dulat told PTI.
"We don't do these things. We do not go around assassinating people, let me make this very clear," said Dulat, a seasoned intelligence officer who spent his career in the Intelligence Bureau and later became the head of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
