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Separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani is in the list of former legislators and parliamentarians who will be remembered by the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Tuesday.

India on Monday said it "condemns acts of violence perpetrated by extremists and separatists", referring to an incident at a Hindu temple in Brampton, in the Canadian province of Ontario, last week.

Rubbishing a Canadian minister's claims that Home Minister Amit Shah had ordered the targeting of Sikh separatists in the country, India has termed them absurd and baseless and said a representative of the Canadian High Commission had been summoned.

India has asked Canadian diplomats in New Delhi to leave the country by Saturday after Ottawa said it was investigating its Indian ambassador and other diplomats as "persons of interest", after the killing last year of a Sikh separatist leader.

China ended a day of military drills around Taiwan on Monday in which it deployed fighter jets and warships in what Beijing said was a "stern warning" to "separatist" forces on the self-ruled island.

China's drills come days after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Beijing against taking action in response to a speech by Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te during the island's National Day celebrations.

A massive blast on a road near the airport of Pakistan's largest city killed two Chinese nationals, Beijing's embassy said Monday, after a separatist militant group claimed an attack in the area.

Despite all out efforts made by Centre to increase polling percentage in second phase of Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, the voters did not appear enthused -- especially in Srinagar district, traditionally a hotbed of separatism.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh criticised National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah's comment on the execution of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, and asked whether the separatist leader should have been garlanded publicly.

Sarjan Ahmad Wagay is set to take on former chief minister Omar Abdullah from the Ganderbal constituency in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections.

National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Monday said the decision of separatist leaders to join mainstream parties and contest elections in Jammu and Kashmir indicates an ideological change in the secessionist camp.

Spain's ruling Socialists regained control of Catalonia's regional government as a new cabinet was sworn in on Monday, ending over a decade of separatist rule in the region.

Fugitive Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said Friday he had left Spain for Belgium after briefly addressing supporters in Barcelona, sparking a row over how he evaded arrest again.

Justice Amit Sharma of the Delhi High Court recused himself from hearing the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) appeal seeking the capital /death penalty for Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik in a terror funding case on Thursday.

Jailed separatist Amritpal Singh, who is being brought to Delhi on parole to take oath as a Lok Sabha member, will be allowed to meet his family but won't be permitted to leave the "territorial jurisdiction" of Delhi.

Separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani is in the list of former legislators and parliamentarians who will be remembered by the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Tuesday.

India on Monday said it "condemns acts of violence perpetrated by extremists and separatists", referring to an incident at a Hindu temple in Brampton, in the Canadian province of Ontario, last week.

Rubbishing a Canadian minister's claims that Home Minister Amit Shah had ordered the targeting of Sikh separatists in the country, India has termed them absurd and baseless and said a representative of the Canadian High Commission had been summoned.

India has asked Canadian diplomats in New Delhi to leave the country by Saturday after Ottawa said it was investigating its Indian ambassador and other diplomats as "persons of interest", after the killing last year of a Sikh separatist leader.

China ended a day of military drills around Taiwan on Monday in which it deployed fighter jets and warships in what Beijing said was a "stern warning" to "separatist" forces on the self-ruled island.

China's drills come days after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Beijing against taking action in response to a speech by Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te during the island's National Day celebrations.

A massive blast on a road near the airport of Pakistan's largest city killed two Chinese nationals, Beijing's embassy said Monday, after a separatist militant group claimed an attack in the area.

Despite all out efforts made by Centre to increase polling percentage in second phase of Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, the voters did not appear enthused -- especially in Srinagar district, traditionally a hotbed of separatism.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh criticised National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah's comment on the execution of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, and asked whether the separatist leader should have been garlanded publicly.

Sarjan Ahmad Wagay is set to take on former chief minister Omar Abdullah from the Ganderbal constituency in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections.

National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Monday said the decision of separatist leaders to join mainstream parties and contest elections in Jammu and Kashmir indicates an ideological change in the secessionist camp.

Spain's ruling Socialists regained control of Catalonia's regional government as a new cabinet was sworn in on Monday, ending over a decade of separatist rule in the region.

Fugitive Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said Friday he had left Spain for Belgium after briefly addressing supporters in Barcelona, sparking a row over how he evaded arrest again.

Justice Amit Sharma of the Delhi High Court recused himself from hearing the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) appeal seeking the capital /death penalty for Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik in a terror funding case on Thursday.

Jailed separatist Amritpal Singh, who is being brought to Delhi on parole to take oath as a Lok Sabha member, will be allowed to meet his family but won't be permitted to leave the "territorial jurisdiction" of Delhi.