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Chinmoy Naik appointed acting High Commissioner to Canada
Naik assumed charge after the withdrawal of Sanjay Kumar Verma and five others amid India-Canada diplomatic tensions.
Chinmoy Naik / Instagram @highcommissionofindia
India has appointed Chinmoy Naik as the Acting High Commissioner in Ottawa. Naik took charge following the withdrawal of the previous High Commissioner, Sanjay Kumar Verma, along with five other officials, amid ongoing diplomatic tensions between India and Canada.
India-Canada tensions peaked on Oct. 14 as New Delhi withdrew High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and other diplomats following Ottawa's move to label them “persons of interest” in the probe into pro-Khalistani activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar's June 2023 killing. India rejected the allegations as “baseless” and linked them to Trudeau’s domestic political challenges.
Naik, a 2004-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, has served as the Deputy High Commissioner at the Indian High Commission in Ottawa since February 2023. Over his diplomatic career, Naik has held key positions in Indian missions abroad, including in Beijing and Paris.
In his assignments at the Ministry of External Affairs headquarters in New Delhi, Naik has worked on issues related to Eurasia, disarmament, new technologies, and cultural diplomacy.
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