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Tuesday, March 10, 2026
TopicDiplomat

Topic: Diplomat

Indians zoom past China on private jets, tale of the fake embassy & world’s 2nd biggest IPO market

Antara Baruah -
BBC reports on ‘positive move’ of India resuming tourist visas for Chinese nationals after nearly five years and Scotch market in India.

What is diplomatic immunity & how it shields Kenyan diplomat’s son in alleged sexual assault case

Varnika Dhawan -
The accused, a Class 12 student who is the son of a Kenyan diplomat, has allegedly left the country. He has been accused of assaulting a 5-year-old on a school bus last August.

Kenyan diplomat’s son accused of sexually assaulting minor has left the country, girl’s parents say

Bismee Taskin -
Assault took place in a Delhi school bus last August, a month after which FIR was lodged. Since then, two more FIRs under similar sections lodged against him, it is learnt.

How Chonira Belliappa Muthamma, India’s 1st woman career diplomat, took on a male-dominated system

Divyanshi Chandra -
Muthamma is credited to be the first woman to join the Indian Foreign Services in 1949. She served as India’s ambassador to several countries & fought for her rights in SC.

Kiran Doshi, the career diplomat who could be utterly undiplomatic

TCA Srinivasa Raghavan -
Kiran Doshi will also be remembered for his novel Jinnah Often Came to Our House, which won many awards.

‘Sharp intellect, soul of discretion’ — Veteran diplomat Satinder Lambah passes away at 80

Pia Krishnankutty -
Lambah, known to friends & colleagues as 'Sati', steered the backchannel talks that took place between India & Pakistan in 2005-2014, when there was a thaw in bilateral relations.

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

Simrin Sirur -
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.

Let Indian soldiers remain soldiers. Diplomacy is for those in embassies

Col. Vinayak Bhat (retd) -
At the border where every decision determines life and death, soldiers applying diplomacy instead of war-fighting instincts will be disastrous.

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

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

India thinks it can produce IFS officers by testing them on wildlife more than geopolitics

Mohamed Zeeshan -
The foreign services is the biggest casualty of the generalist nature of the UPSC exam.
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Russian crude never left India’s import mix. It made up 1/3rd of oil imports from 2024 to 2026

Udit Bubna -
After dominating India’s crude imports since 2023, Russian supplies slowed amid US sanctions, but a 30-day ‘waiver’ amid West Asia tensions could now push flows back towards 2 mbpd.

Defence

India and Indonesia finalise BrahMos deal, contract to be signed early next fiscal

Snehesh Alex Philip -
One battery of the BrahMos missile is to be procured in the initial phase. The plan is to scale up the procurement in phases.

National Interest

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Shekhar Gupta -
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.

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