No Foreign Govt Supports Farmers Protest, Only Few Motivated PIOs Backed It: Minister Tells Parliament
FOLLOW US ON:
The Centre on Wednesday told the Parliament that no foreign government supported the farmers protest against the Centre s agricultural laws. However, it said that protests related to the laws by a few motivated persons of Indian origins (PIOs) had been reported in Canada, the UK, the US, and some European countries.
AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel Syed had put forth a list of questions to the Ministry of External Affairs over the PIOs and countries, if any, that had given their support to the agitation.
NEW DELHI: No foreign government has given support to the farmers agitation against the three farm laws, but protests related to these laws by a few motivated persons of Indian origins (PIOs) were reported in Canada, the UK, the US and in some European countries, Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
Minister of state for external affairs V Muraleedharan said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had made a comment on issues related to the farmers, and it was conveyed to Canada that such remarks pertaining to the internal affairs of India are unwarranted and unacceptable .
The minister was replying to questions on the farmers protests.
D’Aguilar: Govt close to deciding Grand Lucayan resort should reopen The Grand Lucayan resort in Freeport, Grand Bahama.
The government is still deciding when it should reopen the Grand Lucayan resort, Minister of Tourism and Aviation Dionisio D’Aguilar said yesterday, explaining that he thinks the government is “very close to deciding that it should reopen”.
D’Aguilar said, however, that the tourism conditions are not ideal, especially since US President Joe Biden’s recent suggestion that anyone coming into the United States could be forced to quarantine.
D’Aguilar said that pronouncement, which will now not be enforced, caused major cancellations at hotels.
Kamala Harris last week, the news anchor for WSAZ in Huntington, W.Va., pointed out how unusual it was that “the White House actually reached out to us for that interview.”
Indeed, it’s not every day that the vice president calls a small-market television news station looking to chat.
The station was pleased with the high-level access, but the brief video interview backfired on Harris and has become the first public stumble in her short tenure as vice president.
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential Politics newsletter, Kamala Harris edition. As I promised in my first installment on Inauguration Day, I will spend much of my time dissecting Harris’ role and level of clout in the Biden White House.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada s National Research Council-owned Royalmount facility will produce millions of Covid-19 vaccine shots developed by Maryland-based Novavax. The Canadian company in Montreal submitted its vaccine to Health Canada for regulatory approval last Friday. Its production is expected to start in the fall this year as the global market is contending with delivery delays and protectionist measures, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. This is a major step forward to get vaccines made in Canada, for Canadians. We need as much domestic capacity for vaccine production as possible, Trudeau said at a press conference in Ottawa. We won t rest until every Canadian who wants a vaccine has received one.