TS Tirumurti Appointed India’s Permanent Representative To United Nations

Senior diplomat T S Tirumurti has been appointed as the Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations at New York.
A 1985-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, Tirumurti was previously serving as Secretary in the the Ministry of External Affairs.
He succeeds Syed Akbaruddin, who had been serving as India’s Permanent Representative at the UN since January 2016.