Hyderabad, July 21 -- Senior diplomat Dr K Srikar Reddy, currently India's Consul General in San Francisco and the man who negotiated New Delhi's trade pacts with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Mauritius, is likely to be appointed India's next Ambassador to Qatar, according to a report in Telangana Today.

Reddy, a 2001-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, would take over a mission that has been without a full-time envoy since Vipul, a 1998-batch officer who had headed the Doha embassy since August 2023, was named India's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in June this year.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has not issued a formal announcement. Appointments of this nature are notified by the ministry after the receipt of agreeme...