Indian envoy pays farewell call to B'desh PM Rahman

Outgoing Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma paid a farewell call on Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman before his appointment as India's next Ambassador to Belgium and the EU.

Outgoing Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma on Sunday paid a farewell call on Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman.

Verma, a 1994-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, has been appointed as India's next Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union.

He met Rahman, who is also the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman, at the Prime Minister's Office in the Cabinet Division of the Bangladesh Secretariat, according to a social media post by the party.

''Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman was present at the meeting,'' it said.

Verma had assumed charge as the high commissioner to Dhaka on September 21, 2022.