The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is a diplomatic service and a central civil service of the Government of India under the Ministry of External Affairs. The Foreign Secretary is the head of the service. Vikram Misri is the 35th and the current Foreign Secretary.
Babu Raj Bahadur was a leader of the Indian National Congress from Rajasthan. He served as cabinet minister for Ministry of Tourism,Ministry of Civil Aviation and Ministry of Communications in Government of India. He was India ambassador to Nepal from 1968 to 1971. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament for three terms from Bharatpur,Rajasthan.
Meera Shankar served as India's Ambassador to the United States of America from 26 April 2009 to 2011. She was India's second female ambassador to the United States of America,Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit being the first. She was succeeded by Nirupama Rao on 1 August 2011.
The Foreign Secretary of India is the top diplomat of India and administrative head of the Ministry of External Affairs. This post is held by an Indian foreign service officer of the rank of secretary to the government of India. Vikram Misri is currently serving as the Foreign Secretary of India from July 2024,succeeding Vinay Mohan Kwatra.
Kanwal Sibal is a career diplomat who retired as Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. In 2017,The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri award for his distinguished services in the field of Public Affairs.
Mohan Kapur is an Indian actor and television host who works predominantly in Hindi films and television.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar,better known as S. Jaishankar,is an Indian diplomat,politician and author,who is serving the thirtieth Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India since 31 May 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and has been a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 5 July 2019. He previously served as the Foreign Secretary from January 2015 to January 2018.
Syed Akbaruddin is a retired Indian diplomat from 1985 batch of the Indian Foreign Service and served as India's permanent representative at the United Nations at New York from January 2016 to April 2020. He had previously served as official spokesperson of India's Ministry of External Affairs from January 2012 to April 2015 and was Indian representative at IAEA from 2006 to 2011. He is currently serving as the dean of Kautilya School of Public Policy.
Vijay Keshav Gokhale IFS,born 24 January 1959,is a retired Indian diplomat and the 32nd Foreign Secretary of India. Gokhale previously served as the Ambassador of India to China.
Pankaj Saran is a former Indian civil servant of the Indian Foreign Service cadre. He was the Deputy National Security Adviser of India.
Harsh Vardhan Shringla is Chief Coordinator for India’s G20 Presidency in 2023. He has previously served as Foreign Secretary of India and India's Ambassador to the United States,High Commissioner to Bangladesh,and Ambassador to Thailand.
Manjeev Singh Puri is a retired Indian civil servant of the Indian Foreign Service cadre and the former Ambassador of India to Nepal.
Vikram Misri is an Indian diplomat. He currently serves as the 35th Foreign Secretary of India from July 2024 onwards. Previously,he served as the Deputy National Security Advisor of India from 1 January 2022,succeeding Pankaj Saran till 14 July 2024. Whereas,he has served as the ambassador of India to China from January 2019 to December 2021.
The Geeta Mandir is a Hindu temple located at Model Town,Jalandhar,city of Punjab,India. It is dedicated to Lord Krishna. Located in Model town. it is one of the most active temples in the Jalandhar city after Devi Talab Mandir.
Govind Mohan is a 1989-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from Sikkim who has been serving as the Home Secretary of India since from 23 August 2024.
Amrit Mohan Prasad is a 1989- batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from Odisha who has been the Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal since 15 September 2024.
