India, Canada Name New High Commissioners as ties improve
New Delhi/Toronto, Aug. 29 -- India and Canada on Thursday named senior diplomats Dinesh K Patnaik and Christopher Cooter as their respective high commissioners in each other's capitals, filling positions that were vacant for the past 10 months or more and marking another step in normalising bilateral ties after a prolonged row over the killing of a pro-Khalistan separatist.
Patnaik, who is from the 1990 batch of the IFS and one of the country's most senior diplomats, is expected to take up the assignment in Ottawa shortly.
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