"Navtej Singh Sarna (IFS: 1980) has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the United State of America," an External Affairs Ministry statement said.
The 19-member Indian contingent had returned home from the Paralympics with two gold, one silver and one bronze.
The critically injured Gagneja was shifted to the Hero DMC Heart Institute (DMCH) in Ludhiana from a private hospital in Jalandhar last month.
A 50-year-old woman and her male servant were killed after being allegedly hit with hockey sticks by a group of robbers in Model Town area in Jalandhar on Tuesday, police said.
The auction of human hair made as offering by devotees in the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara has fetched Rs. 17.82 crore in July and August this year.
A 25-year-old man allegedly committed suicide after he was humiliated by the kin of a girl, with whom he was in a relationship, in west Delhi's Nihal Vihar area, police said on Wednesday.