Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticised the "cowardly attempts to intimidate our diplomats" in his first comments over the deepening diplomatic row with Canada. Both countries expelled each other's top envoys last month after Canadian officials accused India of being involved in violent acts targeting Indian dissidents on Canadian soil,

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his foreign minister condemned the attack on a Hindu temple in Canada this week amid a worsening in diplomatic tensions between the two countries.