{"id":16098,"date":"2026-06-03T05:05:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/qatar-ambassador-made-envoy-to-saudi-arabia-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:35:29","slug":"qatar-ambassador-made-envoy-to-saudi-arabia-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/qatar-ambassador-made-envoy-to-saudi-arabia-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar ambassador made envoy to Saudi Arabia | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131473511,imgsize-42374,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/131473511.jpg\" alt=\"Qatar ambassador made envoy to Saudi Arabia\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s ambassador to Qatar, Vipul, has been appointed the next Indian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, govt said in an official announcement on Tuesday. An IFS officer of 1998 batch, Vipul is expected to take up the new assignment soon.<!-- --> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>The appointment is significant as this is the first time that a non-Muslim will head India\u2019s diplomatic mission in Riyadh. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>While India has mostly appointed career diplomats as ambassador to the Kingdom, political appointees have also served as envoys in Riyadh. MOH Farook served as Indian ambassador from 2004 to 2009 and former Mumbai police commissioner Ahmad Javed from 2016 to 2019. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Vipul has served in Indian missions in Cairo, Colombo, Geneva and Dubai. He has also headed MEA\u2019s Gulf division. TNN<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/qatar-ambassador-made-envoy-to-saudi-arabia\/articleshow\/131473507.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s ambassador to Qatar, Vipul, has been appointed the next Indian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, govt said in an official announcement on Tuesday. An IFS officer of 1998 batch, Vipul is expected to take up the new assignment soon. The appointment is significant as this is the first time that a non-Muslim will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}