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Veteran diplomat Doraiswami to be new China envoy

Veteran diplomat Doraiswami to be new China envoy

Published 136 days ago

Diplomat for difficult times, friend for all seasons

Nuance, subtle differentiation, the adjudication of the competing claims of importance, urgency and immediacy were Raghavan’s forte

Published 248 days ago

Who is Nagma Mallick? IFS officer appointed India’s next ambassador to Japan

Nagma Mohamed Mallick was the deputy chief of mission in Thailand between 2010 and 2012.

Published 289 days ago

Ex-diplomat's ‘disastrous consequences’ warning to Pak over Afghanistan attack

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif looks on during a business and investment conference in Kuala Lumpur.

Updated 290 days ago

Senior diplomat Deepak Mittal named new envoy to UAE

Deepak Mittal. (File Photo)

Published 335 days ago

Delhiwale: Our poet in the Foreign Service

(HT Photo)

Updated 343 days ago

Jayant Khobragade named new Indian envoy to Spain

Indian Foreign Service officer Jayant Khobragade. (ASEAN)

Published 398 days ago

Nidhi Tewari appointed private secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the appointment of Tewari in an order dated March 29. (PTI photo)

Updated 490 days ago

Delhi: Sr IFS officer dies by suicide in Chanakyapuri

Investigators said the police control room received a call at around 6am regarding a man found unresponsive at a government residential society. (Representational image/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Published 513 days ago

ED books IFS officer, husband, in investment fraud-linked money laundering case

A case in this regard has been registered under several relevant sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Published 614 days ago

P Harish named India’s representative to UN in New York

Senior diplomat Parvathaneni Harish is currently India’s ambassador to Germany (File Photo)

Published 719 days ago

Who is Vinay Mohan Kwatra, India's next ambassador to US? 10 things about him

Ambassador Kwatra is an IFS officer from the 1988 batch and has taken over the position which has been left vacant after Taranjit Sandu, retired in January 2024.

Published 745 days ago

Vikram Misri: Meet India's new foreign secretary who is known as 'China expert'

Vikram Misri was deputy NSA, reporting to national security adviser Ajit Doval.

Published 766 days ago

The forgotten Urdu poet who once challenged Indira Gandhi with his verses

Urdu poet Kalim Ajiz

Published 813 days ago

Devyani Khobragade: Who is Indian envoy dressed as Apsara on Cambodian New Year?

Cambodian ambassador Devyani Khobragade elegantly dressed as a Khmer Apsara, to mark the Khmer New Year celebration.

Updated 841 days ago

View: Like Ministers in the Modi cabinet, the babus are also accountable

The Modi government has shown that it is not afraid to either supersede officers or repatriate the non-performing to parent cadres.

Updated 909 days ago

EXCLUSIVE: Aamir Khan to star in Champions, not Rajkumar Santoshi’s film

Actor Aamir Khan will headline a film called Champions

Published 1068 days ago

Just Like That | Colourful vignettes from a diplomat’s life

Jyotindra Nath ‘Mani’ Dixit wrote several significant books on international relations.

Updated 1073 days ago

Behind PM Modi’s stinging critique of the IAS, a Jan meeting holds the clue

At a January meeting to review projects, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed displeasure at the process-driven bureaucracy

Updated 1993 days ago

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