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Punjabi youths among 17 held in Canada extortion case

Canadian police arrested 17 men linked to an alleged Punjabi-origin extortion network targeting South Asian business owners in Ontario and British Columbia, with authorities filing 106 charges and warning of cross-border organised crime operations.

India lodges protest with Canada over its charge against Amit Shah, says such actions will have serious consequences

India has lodged a strong protest with Canada over the 'absurd and baseless' allegation made by Ottawa that Union Home Minister Amit Shah ordered a campaign of violence, intimidation and intelligence-gathering targeting Sikh separatists in Canada, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on Saturday.