The government of a north Indian state will assist Canadian officials investigating the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight that killed 329 people, most of them Canadian citizens, AP quoted a top official as saying. Parkash Singh Badal, the chief minister of Punjab state, made the pledge at a news conference Thursday in the state capital, Chandigarh. «Whatever assistance the Canadian police need from the Punjab police in their probe into the crash would be provided,» Badal said in response to a question. He gave no further details.