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Saturday, November 2, 2024
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Topic: ambassador

Not a record to showcase: No US ambassador to India for 18 months & counting, longest ever

Data compiled by think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies shows US ambassadors to India have usually taken office within 6 to 7 months of the departure of their predecessors.

How Congress is like the Ambassador & why Indian politics needs a brand new set of wheels

Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.

MEA Joint Secretary Devyani Uttam Khobragade appointed Ambassador to Cambodia

Khobragade is a 1999-batch Indian Foreign Service officer and is presently a Joint Secretary in the ministry.

K Shankar Bajpai, India’s former envoy to US, China and Pakistan, dies at 92

Former IFS officer K Shankar Bajpai was born into a family of diplomats, and after serving the country, went on to become a noted academic.

Ambassador painted with artwork could pose ‘serious law enforcement problem’ — appeal in HC

An HC bench had earlier asked Chandigarh administration to register the Ambassador car painted with Senkoe artwork. But an appeal has now been filed against the order.

Before foreign cars came to India, there was foreign-looking Contessa that defined class

The first big, long car in the Indian market also seemingly created a class divide between those with Ambassadors and those who drove Contessa.

This car was the original Ambassador of Make in India

Ambassador was the enduring symbol of post-Independence India.

The Polish ambassador to India is fluent in Hindi & Urdu, loves biryani and Bollywood

Adam Burakowski’s residence on Tilak Marg once belonged to B.R. Ambedkar, independent India’s first law minister.

6 WWII Polish survivors to pay homage to a Maharaja who saved their lives

Event scheduled at Jamnagar in Gujarat for Friday; will celebrate the life of Maharaja Jamsaheb Digvijay Singh Jadeja.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.