Toronto, Oct. 24 -- India will gradually allow Canada to post a "similar number" of diplomats and officials in the country as it had before October 2024, when the two countries carried out tit-for-tat expulsions of senior diplomats amid the diplomatic row over the killing of a Khalistani separatist in 2023, a senior Indian government official said. The official said the process to enhance Canadian diplomatic staffing will begin as soon as New Delhi receives the proposed names of those to be posted. This has been agreed to during Canadian minister of foreign affairs Anita Anand's visit to India earlier this month, the official added. In October last year, 41 Canadian diplomats left India after New Delhi said their diplomatic immunity would be stripped. India had 21 diplomats in Canada and prior to the downsising, while Canada had 62. However, officials said, the Canadian numbers could rise substantially in the months ahead, if Ottawa simplifies the process for accreditation of Indian diplomats....