Overview

• A delegation led by Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and seven Indian MPs and MLAs paid homage at the Ahakista memorial in Ireland in the largest official Indian presence since the 1985 attack.
• External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar posted on X that honoring the 329 victims is a stark reminder of why the world must enforce zero tolerance for terrorism and violent extremism.
• An Angus Reid Institute survey finds only nine percent of Canadians say they know a lot about the bombing, a third had never heard of it, and 66 percent support adding it to school curricula while 71 percent back a museum exhibit.
• The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have identified a suspect known as Mr X but say there is little realistic chance of another trial after earlier convictions in the case.
• The 1985 bombing killed 329 people, remains Canada’s deadliest terrorist incident and was attributed to Babbar Khalsa extremists led by Talwinder Singh Parmar with Inderjit Singh Reyat convicted for assembling the bomb.