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New Delhi: The Modi government’s latest choice for Riyadh ends one convention – the posting of a senior Muslim diplomat to Saudi Arabia.

The Ministry of External Affairs announced on Tuesday (June 2) that Vipul, a 1998 batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, has been appointed as the next Indian ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Since independence, India had traditionally appointed only Muslim diplomats as ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, as well as consuls general in Jeddah. The........

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