JAKARTA: Potential candidates for minister and deputy minister positions in the upcoming administration of Prabowo Subianto arrived at the private home of the president-elect in Hambalang, West Java, on Wednesday (Oct 16) morning to join a two-day orientation programme.
House of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, is pictured at village Bharsingpura, in Jalandhar district of the northern state of Punjab, India, September 21, 2023. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
"Many clients have reached out, worried about how this might affect their plans to migrate to Canada," said an immigration lawyer, Karan S. Thukral, who is based in the Indian capital, though adding he had seen no big drop yet in legal inquiries.Indians have made up Canada's largest group of international students in recent years, mainly from Punjab, holding more than 41% of student permits in 2022. International students bring in about C$22 billion for its universities each year.
"It is something that both countries cannot afford because we are heavily dependent on each other," said Kanwalpreet Kaur, a political science professor at Chandigarh's DAV College.Ties soured last September when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there were"credible allegations" linking Indian government agents to the killing of the Sikh separatist leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, on Canadian soil.
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