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Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on April 17 announced to render all possible assistance to US’ Indianapolis local authorities and the Sikh community in the April 15 killings of eight people including four Sikh. Reportedly, the gunman identified as Brandon Hole (19) killed himself after opening fire at a FedEx delivery facility in Indianapolis which has 90% of the Sikhs or Indo-Americans working there. Meanwhile, the motive behind gunfire is… read-more

Worrying over Indian Farmer's Protest, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau said that Canada will always defend the rights of peaceful protests. "Canada believes in a dialogue process and has always sorted to Indian authorities over Punjab and Sikh issues," he added. Having significant Sikh population, several other Sikh Canadian parliamentarians including the Defence Minister Harjit Singh showed their concern over the ongoing farmers agitation.

Exodus of Afghanistan-born Sikhs and Hindus is consistently increasing due to a threat from Taliban and ISIS. Faced with acute discrimination, hardly 700 individuals are left in the country while the earlier count was 2,50,000. With their residences being snatched and temples destroyed by extremists, they blame government for not heeding their issue. While most left for India; for others, the communities' Canadian and European fraternity has… read-more