New Delhi [India], September 15 (ANI): Amit Narang, presently Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Oman.

Narang is a 2001-batch Indian Foreign Services officer.

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"Amit Narang (IFS: 2001), presently Joint Secretary in the Ministry, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Sultanate of Oman," MEA said in a release.

"He is expected to take up the assignment shortly," MEA added. (ANI)

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