India’s PM Modi says he will be attending the G7 summit in Alberta

India’s PM Modi says he will be attending the G7 summit in Alberta

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential palace in New Delhi, India, May 3, 2025.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the G7 summit in Alberta this month despite strained ties with the South Asian country.

Mr. Modi thanked the Canadian leader in a post on X and indicated he would be attending.

Canada-India relations suffered a major rupture in September, 2023, when then-prime minister Justin Trudeau accused India of a role in the June, 2023, murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a prominent advocate for a separate state for Sikhs in the Indian state of Punjab. India has denied the allegation.

Twenty months after this diplomatic b