New Delhi [India], October 27 (ANI): Vani Sarraju Rao has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Italy, the Ministry of External Affairs informed.

Rao, who is a 1994-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, is currently serving as an additional secretary in the MEA.

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She succeeds Neena Malhotra.

She is expected to take up the assignment shortly, the MEA said. (ANI)

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