{"id":488998,"date":"2023-09-20T16:43:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T11:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=488998"},"modified":"2023-09-20T18:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T12:37:13","slug":"india-canada-students-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/india-canada-students-advisory\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre issues advisory for its nationals, students in Canada, directs to exercise utmost caution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In response to growing anti-India activities and politically-condoned hate crimes and violence in Canada, the Indian government on Wednesday issued an advisory for Indian citizens and students in that country, advising them to exercise utmost caution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The response continues to impasse between the two countries over the alleged murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the Canadian government issued a similar advisory&nbsp;the day before the Indian government did the same for its people living in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau&#8217;s claims of a potential&nbsp;role for Indian operatives in the murder of Nijjar are what have sparked the debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of External Affairs&#8217; spokeswoman, Arindam Bagchi, shared the advice on X, formerly known as Twitter. This advisory comes in response of Canada&#8217;s advisory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Advisory for Indian Nationals and Indian Students in Canada:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zboZDH83iw\">https:\/\/t.co\/zboZDH83iw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7YjzKbZBIK\">pic.twitter.com\/7YjzKbZBIK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Randhir Jaiswal (@MEAIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MEAIndia\/status\/1704423322275230004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The advisory added that all Indian nationals in Canada and those considering travel are strongly advised to exercise extreme caution in light of the growing anti-Indian activities, politically condoned hate crimes, and criminal violence in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the alert, threats are expected to be made against Indian diplomats and members of the Indian community who resist the anti-India campaign in Canada. Indian nationals are consequently urged to stay away from areas and possible locations in Canada that have seen such events, the statement continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The High Commission\/Consulates General would keep in touch with the Canadian authorities to safeguard the safety and well-being of the Indian community in Canada, the government assured through the advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It advised Indian students studying in Canada to&nbsp;exercise extreme caution and remain vigilant&nbsp;due to the deteriorating security environment in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian nationals and students from India in Canada must also register with the High Commission of India in Ottawa or Consulates General of India in Toronto and Vancouver through their respective websites, or the MADAD portal madad.gov.in, the advisory stated, adding that registration would allow authorities to provide assistance in the event of any emergency or unfavourable incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In retaliation for Ottawa&#8217;s decision to expel an Indian official over the matter, India had earlier expelled a top Canadian diplomat, straining relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the midst of the dispute, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was updated on the situation by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar when they met in the new Parliament building on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of External Affairs&#8217; spokeswoman, Arindam Bagchi, shared the advice on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":489002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[91208,3255,42,160681],"yst_prominent_words":[33337,32865,41377,47028,6812,5975,3885,16220,3704,41652,16084,69070,3688,4396,8514,3820],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20164110\/moditrudeau1695202677869-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488998"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=488998"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=488998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->