Pranay Kumar Verma, the current Indian envoy to Vietnam, will be the next Indian high commissioner to Dhaka, WION reported on Tuesday.
Earlier, Verma has served as the director-general of the East Asia Division at the Ministry of External Affairs.
He was also the director-general for external relations at the Department of Atomic Energy looking after India’s nuclear diplomacy.
Vikram Kumar Doraiswami, currently the Indian envoy to Bangladesh, will be appointed the Indian high commissioner in the UK.
The ties between Bangladesh and India have seen an upswing from connectivity to culture under Doraiswami.
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Bangladesh last year as part of celebration of ties, birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and golden jubilee of independence.
