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INDIA-BANGLADESH-ENVOY-APPOINTMENT
India appoints Doraiswami as new envoy to Bangladesh
Aminul Islam Mirja
NEW DELHI, Aug 14, 2020 (BSS) – India has appointed Vikram Kumar Doraiswami as its next High Commissioner to Bangladesh.
“He is expected to take up his new assignment shortly”, India’s ministry of external affairs said in a statement issued late yesterday.
Doraiswami will replace Riva Ganguly Das, who joined as Indian envoy to Bangladesh in December 2018.
A career diplomat Doraiswami currently serves as an additional secretary at the ministry in Delhi.
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