Deepak Vohra | |
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Indian Ambassador to Armenia | |
In office 29 August 2001 –26 July 2005 | |
Preceded by | Bal Anand |
Succeeded by | Reena Pandey |
Indian Ambassador to Sudan | |
In office 26 July 2005 –18 March 2010 | |
Preceded by | Ashok Kumar |
Succeeded by | Sanjay Kumar Verma |
Indian Ambassador to Poland | |
In office 18 March 2010 –November 2011 | |
Preceded by | Rajesh Yaishnaw |
Succeeded by | Monika Kapil Mohta |
Personal details | |
Born | New Delhi |
Citizenship | Indian |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | St. Stephen's College,Delhi,National Defence College,India,Sorbonne University |
Profession | Diplomat |
Deepak Vohra is a 21st-century Indian diplomat.
Vohra graduated from St. Stephen's College,Delhi and St. Columba's School. He has also been educated at National Defence College (India) and University of Paris. [1] [2]
After joining the IFS,he was an Officer on Special Duty to the Technology Advisor to the then Prime Minister,Lt. Shri P.V. Narasimha Rao. [3] Vohra has also previously worked with Sulabh International and has been a part of United Nations assignments in Africa.
Vohra has served in France,Tunisia,United States,Chad,Cameroon,Papua New Guinea,Spain,Armenia,Sudan and Poland. In 1995 he was deputy high commissioner in Kuala Lumpur. He was Ambassador of India to Poland. [4]
In 2012 he was Advisor to the Government of South Sudan. He was a news reader at Doordarshan in start of his career as a TV news presenter. [5] He inaugurated the Apati War Memorial at Kargil. [6]
In 2013,Deepak Vohra was awarded the Order of the Two Niles (first class),Sudan's highest civilian honour by the President of Sudan. [7]
The Kargil War,also known as the Kargil conflict,was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LoC). In India,the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay,which was the codename of the Indian military operation in the region. The Indian Air Force acted jointly with the Indian Army to flush out the Pakistan Army and paramilitary troops from vacated Indian positions along the LoC,in what was designated as Operation Safed Sagar.
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