India-Canada row: Students eye greener pastures as Canada dream turns sour

The recent diplomatic standoff between India and Canada is likely to further impact the students’ interest to pursue higher education in the North American country, which was already on wane for some time now.

Career counsellors say that students’ interest in Canada as an education destination has reduced drastically recently.

“We used to get 400-500 applications for Canada on a yearly basis until last year, but this has gone down to just 70 this year, that too only for the premium universities. The bulk of students who used to go to Canada -- in the mid-ranked colleges