India is expected to receive investments worth $87 billion in the next decade to meet the nation's rising demand for petrochemicals, the country's oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Friday.

India is set to receive $87 billion in investments over the next decade to meet rising petrochemical demand. As per Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, India's petrochemical sector, valued at $220 billion,

He said India's per capita petrochemical consumption is far below developed nations, which offers opportunities of higher investment in the sector

India made a "horrific mistake" by attempting to violate Canada's sovereignty, Prime Minister Justine Trudeau said.

The Canadian prime minister criticized India Wednesday over its alleged interference in the "safety and sovereignty of Canada."

India's government on Thursday denied it was working with mobsters to target Sikh separatists in Canada as alleged publicly this week by Canadian officials in an escalating diplomatic dispute. India’s External Affairs Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal denied that India was in cahoots with India-based mobsters in Canada and even suggested that Canadian authorities had been resisting India's attempts to extradite those people to India.