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Pro-Khalistan NDP leader to step down after massive loss

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April 30, 2025

Indo-Canadian leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) Jagmeet Singh announced his intent to resign from the post in a night that saw him losing his own riding (constituency) of Burnaby Central in British Columbia.

- Anirudh Bhattacharyya

TORONTO:

It was a terrible outcome for Singh personally as he ended up third in the constituency, with 18.1% of the vote share, and trailing both the Liberal Party's Wade Chang and the Conservative James Yan, both of whom were thousands of ballots ahead of him.

He also led his party to a devastating defeat, with the NDP on track to garner just seven seats, losing 18 from the result in the 2021 elections. It wasn't just a bruising night for the NDP; it also meant that it was likely to lose official party status in the House of Commons that will be formed soon. It dropped 12% in support, with just six per cent backing in these elections.

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HK media tycoon convicted

Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai was found guilty on all three charges in his national security trial on Monday, convictions that rights groups denounced as the death knell for press freedoms in the Chinese financial hub.

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SC suggests syllabi changes to raise dowry awareness

Eliminating dowry is a constitutional imperative to ensure every woman entering a marriage is an equal citizen, the Supreme Court observed on Monday, and asked the Centre and states to consider reinforcing this fact by making amends to the education curriculum to generate awareness about this “evil practice”.

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45% posts vacant in pollution boards: Govt in LS

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What a customs reform exercise must focus on

To start with, tariff rationalisation and the simplification of tariff structure must get high priority

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NIA names LeT, offshoot TRF in Pahalgam case charge sheet

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed a charge sheet against terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), its proxy The Resistance Front (TRF), and others in connection with the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives, detailing conspiracy by Pakistan and roles of the accused nearly eight months after the incident that had brought India and Pakistan to the brink of a full-scale war.

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Higher education bill in LS gets Oppn’s ‘centralisation’ flak

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India a ‘preferred destination’ for GCCs, says Goyal

In the last ll years, the government has established massive power-sector infrastructure, including a synchronous 500-gigawatt grid suitable to make India a hub for Global Capability Centers (GCCs) and data centres, Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday.

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December 16, 2025

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