New Delhi, June 18 -- Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday hailed the recent engagement between India and Canada as a "positive development", after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney "agreed to take calibrated steps to restore stability to the relationship" and decided to restore High Commissioners to each other's capitals.

The Union Minister stated that after the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian PM Mark Carney, the bilateral relationship will now be handled in a more focused manner.

"With Canada, I think there is a special significance... The relationship had almost completely derailed... But the decision that the two sides, after a very fruitful discussion that the ...