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Hindustan Times
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Chandigarh: Priyanka Thakur's musical classical performance regales audience
Vocalist Priyanka Thakur presented a captivating classical musical performance during the 307th monthly baithak programme organised by Pracheen Kala Kendra at its ML Koser Indoor Auditorium in Sector 35-B on Saturday. The programme started with Raag Malkauns, in which Priyanka presented Vilambit Khayal composition with lyrics 'Peer na jane balam'. She mesmerised the audience with her soulful singing style. After this, she presented Drut Khayal 'Balam nahi aaye' in Teen Taal, which further accelerated the pace of the programme. Making her performance more energetic, Priyanka presented Tappa Khayal 'Har har mahadev pati' in Ati Drut, which was well appreciated by the audience. After the classical performance, she gave a melodious rendition of Himachali folk song 'Kunju chanchalo', which was acknowledged with applause. She was well accompanied by Divyansh Thakur on tabla and Piyush Mishra on harmonium. Kendra secretary Sajal Kosar thanked the audience and artists, who were felicitated at the end of the programme.
India Today
29-04-2025
- Business
- India Today
A Carneyval for India-Canada ties after K-flop?
As Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney laboured for the Liberal Party of Canada, Justin Trudeau -- his predecessor and former chief of the party -- was the albatross around his neck. For most of his campaign, Carney's job was to try and get rid of Trudeau's ghost. With Trudeau now history, and Carney the elected PM, will Indo-Canadian ties come out of the deep freeze seen in northern Canada?advertisement"Justin Trudeau and the carbon tax are both gone," Mark Carney countered Pierre Poilievre, his Conservative Party rival, at a campaign debate last the beginning to the fag end of the election fight, Carney kept disassociating himself from Trudeau and his policies. On Tuesday, as results came in, the Carney-led Liberals were projected to win about 168 seats, just short of the 172 needed to form a majority government, according to Radio Canada."This election Marks the continuation of the Carnival season in Canada," satirist and columnist Kamlesh Singh, popular as Tau of Teen Taal podcast, wrote on significant blessing is that Jagmeet Singh's New Democratic Party (NDP) has been reduced significantly and lost its bargaining power. Singh is a pro-Khalistan leader and the Trudeau government, to a large extent, depended on its Trudeau announced his resignation in January, Poliviere was tipped to be the next Prime Minister of Canada with his Conservatives having a double-digit lead over the Carney swept the Liberal Party election and was sworn in as Canada's Prime Minister on March helped Carney was his expertise as an economist. He was the former head of two central banks -- the Bank of England and the Bank of started off by withdrawing the Trudeau-era carbon tax, which was highly unpopular with President Donald Trump dived in as an unlikely ally. His rhetoric about making Canada the 51st state of the US and Carney's handling of his threats turned the a turn in voter sentiment, Carney called for snap polls on March 23. His bet paid CARNEY INHERITED DIPLOMATIC WOES FROM TRUDEAUMark Carney, in fact, bequeathed an inheritance of loss from Trudeau on the diplomatic blamed Trudeau for lax border patrols and allowing drugs and illegal immigrants to be smuggled into the US. He threatened Canada with just the US, Canada's ties with India hit rock bottom with Trudeau as the PM over his evidence-less allegations that the Indian government was involved in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Khalistani terrorist, on Canadian was shot dead in the parking lot of a gurdwara in Canada's Surrey, British Columbia, in June vehemently denied the allegations and repeatedly sought evidence from the Trudeau of providing evidence, Trudeau made statements against the Indian leadership, which sparked a diplomatic war between the two countries, with reciprocal withdrawal of was a given that Indo-Canadian ties were unlikely to improve with Trudeau as PM. But what after him?WILL MARK CARNEY GIVE BOOST TO INDIA TIES?Carney desperately tried to move away from Trudeau's policies during the campaign but swore allegiance to shared told a Radio-Canada show that he shared Liberal Party values, including solidarity, equality and reconciliation, with it might be unrealistic to expect a fast, sweeping in ties under Carney. Also given the fact that what Trudeau projected in his fight against India was "core Canadian values".However, Carney, being an economist, knows the importance of India, which is poised to be the fourth-largest economy, pipping Japan, this year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).Canada's growth curve has inflation, growing unemployment, a housing crisis, and large-scale immigration into Canada made Trudeau highly economist PM has to fix Canada's economy first, and he might not want to ignore India on that has signalled that already."What Canada will be looking to do is to diversify our trading relationships with like-minded countries, and there are opportunities to rebuild the relationship with India," Carney told reporters in Calgary, Alberta, in March."And there are opportunities to rebuild the relationship with India. There needs to be a shared sense of values around that commercial relationship. If I'm prime minister, I look forward to the opportunity to build that," he Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Mark Carney after reports of a Liberal lead poured in."India and Canada are bound by shared democratic values, a steadfast commitment to the rule of law, and vibrant people-to-people ties. I look forward to working with you to strengthen our partnership and unlock greater opportunities for our people," PM Modi posted on IS FAMILIAR WITH INDIA, ITS BUSINESSESWhen Carney took over as Canada's PM before the crucial election, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra posted about his 2017 trip to India and their is a cerebral man, with a great sense of humour. But he's also a no-nonsense, plain-speaking guy. It's going to be an incredibly challenging assignment in today's times—to put it mildly! But if anyone is up to the task, he is," posted Mahindra, whishing Carney good 2017, Carney was the Governor of the Bank of England and visited Mahindra Group headquarters in Mumbai as part of a delegation led by the then Chancellor of the has also been on the board of Brookfield Asset Management, which manages around $29 billion in assets in India, spanning infrastructure, real estate, renewable energy and transition, and private equity, according to the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation report from September Carney held stock options in Brookfield Asset Management Ltd that were valued at $6.8 million as of the end of December, according to a Bloomberg CUTS PRO-KHALISTANI JAGMEET SINGH TO SIZETrudeau, who was at the helm for around 10 years, came in as a darling of the Canadians but was booed of the reasons why Indo-Canadian ties plummeted under Trudeau was his pampering of the part of it had to do with NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, a known Trudeau was leading a minority government in the second term, Jagmeet's support became crucial for him. It was only close to the election that Jagmeet and Trudeau gave up their Trudeau's mollycoddling of the Khalistanis had to do with his electoral compulsions had been pointed out on several occasions by Minister S Jaishankar termed it Trudeau's "vote bank politics"."Canada did not give any proof [in Nijjar killing]. They do not share any evidence with us in certain cases, police agencies also do not cooperate with us. It is their political compulsion in Canada to blame India. As election is coming in Canada, they indulge in vote bank politics," Jaishankar said in May compulsion for the Liberal Party has gone as Canadians have cut the NDP to size, giving it just seven seats. It won 24 seats in the last the party's dismal performance, Jagmeet resigned as its head."There is a certain capture -- a disproportionate capture -- by a very smart and active anti-India Khalistani group. But this is a structural reality in Canadian politics for four decades," former Indian High Commissioner to Canada, Ajay Bisaria, said earlier in predicted that the Khalistanis wouldn't be able to swing the with Jagmeet Singh and his NDP out of the equation, Mark Carney might find a favourable domestic political setting to improve ties with India. The banker-economist knows Canada's economic imperatives, and with Trudeau off his back, finally and completely, he might be able to help bring the much-needed thaw to Indo-Canadian ties.c
