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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bhartiya Janata Party

India: Bloomberg Multimedia India and China: After blistering stock market gains, which is the better bet Forty-two years after Ms, according to Globe and Mail. Gandhi tour, Mr. Indian equities are expected to post 16-per-cent returns in 2015. Mall and many other Indo-Canadians are wondering if the promise offered then will be realized now by the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a controversial Hindu nationalist whose right-wing Bhartiya Janata Party swept to power in India last year. Indian immigration to Canada began early in the 20th century, and expanded starting in the 1980s, with settlement mostly in Toronto and Metro Vancouver, although several other cities also attracted large South Asian communities. His visit is stirring emotions within the Indian diaspora in Canada, raising hopes of increased trade and a blossoming strategic partnership, but also aggravating old political tensions within the Indo-Canadian population, which numbers more than one million. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.