London sides with Ottawa in diplomatic row with India | India News – Times of India

LONDON: The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) issued on Wednesday a statement siding with Canada in the diplomatic firestorm that has erupted between Ottawa and New Delhi, saying India’s “cooperation with Canada’s legal process was the right next step”.The FCDO issued a strongly worded statement “on the ongoing Canadian investigation linked to the…

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UK foreign office is ‘elitist and rooted in past’, report says – Times of India

LONDON: A new report is calling for colonial-era paintings in the foreign office’s Whitehall headquarters to be removed and for the department’s name to be changed from what it describes as “somewhat elitist and rooted in the past”.A group of former diplomats, ministers, national security advisers, and senior officials have written the report, “The World…

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