India’s envoy to Canada scheduled to speak on bilateral ties after RCMP arrests

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OTTAWA — India's envoy to Canada is scheduled to speak publicly today for the first time since the RCMP made arrests related to a homicide that has roiled tensions between the two countries. High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma is to address the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on the theme of current and future relations between India and Canada. His speech was first announced in April, months into a diplomatic spat over the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar had long advocated for a Sikh country called Khalistan to be carved out of India, and he was shot dead last...