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Diplomatic tensions between India and Maldives led to a 38 per cent drop in Indian tourists visiting the Maldives in the first quarter of 2024, compared to the previous year.
Study Visa permits in Canada for India students, Immigration news: In a major development, a report stated that the number of study permits, issued to Indian students by Canada, has fallen sharply, late last year, after New Delhi ejected Canadian diplomats who would process the permits. A top Canadian official told Reuters that fewer Indian students applied for the study visa permits in Canada due to a diplomatic dispute over the assasination of a Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
In America, the word “alliance” conjures feelings of friendship, loyalty and support. In India, by contrast, the A-word is more likely to be received with suspicion or derision, associated with submission and entanglement. This stark difference between the world’s oldest and largest democracies is a legacy of India’s influential post-independence philosophy of nonalignment, which cautioned against dependency on superpowers.