High commissioners represent India's diplomatic missions in member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and ambassadors represent diplomatic missions in other states. The head of a diplomatic mission to an international organization is called a permanent representative.
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Host country | List | Ambassador/High Commissioner | Took office | Websites | Refs |
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Afghanistan | Rudendra Tandon | 2022 June | EOI, Kabul | ||
Algeria | List | Gaurav Ahluwalia | 2020 August | EOI, Algiers | |
Angola | List | Vidhu P Nair | 2024 February | EOI, Angola | |
Argentina Accredited to: | Dinesh Bhatia | 2019 August | EOI, Buenos Aires | ||
Armenia | Nilakshi Saha Sinha | 2023 March | EOI, Yerevan | ||
Australia Accredited to: | Gopal Baglay | 2024 January | HCI, Canberra | ||
Austria | Shambu S Kumaran | 2024 February | EOI, Vienna | ||
Azerbaijan | Sridharan Madhusudan | 2023 May | EOI, Baku | ||
Bahrain | Vinod K Jacob | 2023 August | EOI, Bahrain | ||
Bangladesh | List | Pranay Verma | 2022 September | HCI, Dhaka | |
Belarus | Alok Ranjan Jha | 2021 May | EOI, Minsk | [1] | |
Belgium | Saurabh Kumar | 2023 November | EOI, Brussels | ||
Bhutan | List | Sudhakar Dalela | 2019 April | EOI, Thimpu | |
Botswana | Bharath Kumar Kuthati | 2023 July | HCI, Gaborone | ||
Brazil | Suresh Reddy | 2020 September | EOI, Brasilia | ||
Brunei Darussalam | Alok Amitabh Dimri | 2022 March | HCI, Brunei | ||
Bulgaria | Sanjay Rana | 2021 February | EOI, Sofia | ||
Burkina Faso | Bhaskar Bhatt | 2023 September | EOI, Ouagadougou | ||
Cambodia | Devyani Khobragade | 2020 September | EOI, Phonm Penh | ||
Cameroon | VACANT (C'dA - Manoj Kumar Sinha) | HCI, Yaounde | |||
Canada | Sanjay Kumar Verma | 2022 June | HCI, Ottawa | ||
Chile | Abhilasha Joshi | 2024 March | EOI, Santiago | ||
China | List | Pradeep Kumar Rawat | 2019 January | EOI, Beijing | |
Colombia | Vanlalhuma | 2022 November | EOI, Bogota | ||
DR Congo Accredited to: | VACANT | EOI, Kinshasa | |||
Congo, Republic of | Madan Lal Raigar | 2023 October | EOI, Brazzavile | ||
Cote D'Ivoire Accredited to: | Rajesh Ranjan | 2023 January | EOI, Abidjaan | ||
Croatia | Rajkumar Shrivastava | 2020 June | EOI, Zagreb | ||
Cuba | T. Armstrong Changsan | 2024 March | EOI, Havana | ||
Cyprus | Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat | 2019 November | HCI, Nicosia | ||
Czech Republic | Hemant H. Kotalwar | 2020 September | EOI, Prague | ||
Denmark | Manish Prabhat | 2024 April | EOI, Copenhegen | ||
Djibouti | Ramachandran Chandramouli | 2021 June | EOI, Djibouti | ||
Egypt | Ajit Vinayak Gupte | 2021February | EOI, Cairo | ||
Equatorial Guinea | VACANT | EOI, Malabo | |||
Eswatini | N Ram Prasad | 2023 August | HCI, Mbabane | ||
Eritrea | Prakash Chand | 2023 January | HCI, Asmara | ||
Ethiopia [lower-alpha 1] | Anil Kumar Rai | 2024 February | EOI, Addis Ababa | ||
Fiji Accredited to: | P. S. Karthigeyan | 2021 July | HCI, Suva | ||
Finland | Raveesh Kumar | 2020 July | EOI, Helsinki | ||
France Accredited to: | List | Jawed Ashraf | 2020 July | EOI, Paris | [2] |
Germany | List | Parvathaneni Harish | 2021 November | EOI, Berlin | [3] |
Ghana | Manish Gupta | 2023 July | HCI, Accra | ||
Greece | List | Rudrendra Tandon | 2019 October | EOI, Athens | |
Guatemala Accredited to: | Manoj Kumar Mohapatra | 2021 December | EOI, Guatemala | ||
Guinea | Avtar Singh | 2023 January | EOI, Conakry | ||
Guyana | Amit Telang | 2023 September | HCI, Georgetown | ||
Hungary Accredited to: | Partha Sathpathy | 2021 November | EOI, Budapest | ||
Iceland | B. Shyam | 2021 July | EOI, Reykjavik | [4] | |
Indonesia | Sandeep Chakravorty | 2023 August | EOI, Jakarta | ||
Iran | Rudra Gaurav Shreshth | 2023 May | EOI, Tehran | ||
Iraq | Prashant Pise | 2021 August | EOI, Baghdad | ||
Ireland | Akhilesh Mishra | 2021 August | EOI, Dublin | ||
Israel | List | Sanjeev Singla | 2019 October | EOI, Tel Aviv | |
Italy | Vani Rao | 2024 April | EOI, Rome | ||
Jamaica | R. Masakui | 2020 September | HCI, Kingston | ||
Japan | Sibi George | 2022 September | EOI, Tokyo | ||
Jordan | Anwar Haleem | 2019 August | EOI, Amman | ||
Kazakhstan | Nagendra Prasad | 2023 June | EOI, Astana | ||
Kenya | List | Namgya C. Khampa | 2023 July | HCI, Nairobi | |
North Korea | VACANT | ||||
Korea | Amit Kumar | 2022 September | EOI, Seoul | ||
Kuwait | Adarsh Swaika | 2022 October | EOI, Kuwait | ||
Kyrgyzstan | A. K. Chatterjee | 2022 August | EOI, Bishkek | ||
Lebanon | Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh | 2023 June | EOI, Beirut | ||
Liberia | VACANT | EOI, Monrovia | |||
Libya | VACANT | ||||
Madagascar | List | B Wilson Babu | 2022 November | EOI, Antanarivo | |
Malawi | S. Gopalakrishnan | 2021 January | HCI, Lilongwe | ||
Malaysia | B. Nagabhushana Reddy | 2021 August | HCI, Kuala Lumpur | ||
Maldives | Munu Mahawar | 2021 October | HCI, Male | ||
Mali | Anjani Kumar | 2019 November | EOI, Bamako | ||
Malta | Gloria Gangte | 2021 February | HCI, Malta | ||
Mauritius | K. Nandini Singla | 2020 October | HCI, Port Louis | ||
Mexico | Pankaj Sharma | 2022 February | EOI, Mexico City | ||
Mongolia | Atul Malhari Gotsurve | 2024 March | EOI, Ulaanbaatar | ||
Morocco | Rajesh Vaishnaw | 2021 March | EOI, Rabat | ||
Mozambique | Robert Shetkintong | 2023 November | HCI, Maputo | ||
Myanmar | Abhay Thakur | 2024 April | EOI, Yangon | ||
Namibia | M Subbarayudu | 2023 March | HCI, Windhoek | ||
Nepal | Naveen Srivastava | 2022 May | EOI, Kathmandu | ||
Netherlands | Mrs. Reenat Sandhu | 2022 February | EOI, Hague | ||
New Zealand Accredited to: | Neeta Bhushan | 2022 September | HCI, Wellington | ||
Niger | VACANT | EOI, Niamey | |||
Nigeria [lower-alpha 2] Accredited to:
| G Balasubramaniam | 2019 March | HCI, Abuja | ||
Norway | Acquino Vimal | 2023 May | EOI, Oslo | ||
Oman | Amit Narang | 2021 October | EOI, Muscat | ||
Pakistan | List | VACANT | HCI, Islamabad | ||
Papua New Guinea Accredited to: | Inbasekar Sundaramurthy | 2021 June | HCI, Port Moresby | ||
Paraguay | Yogeshwar Sangwan | 2022 February | EOI, Asuncion | ||
Peru | Vishwas Vidu Sapkal | 2023 June | EOI, Lima | ||
Philippines Accredited to: | VACANT | EOI, Manila | |||
Poland | Nagma Mohammad Mallick | 2021 July | EOI, Warsaw | ||
Portugal | Manish Chauhan | 2021 January | EOI, Lisbon | ||
Qatar | Vipul | 2023 August | EOI, Doha | ||
Romania | List | Rahul Shrivastava | 2020 July | EOI, Bucharest | [5] |
Russia | List | Vinay Kumar | 2024 March | EOI, Moscow | |
Saudi Arabia | Suhel Ajaz Khan [6] | 2023 January | EOI, Riyadh | ||
Senegal | Dinkar Asthana | 2022 August | EOI, Dakar | ||
Serbia | Shubhdarshini Tripathi | 2023 September | EOI, Belgrade | ||
Seychelles | Kartik Pande | 2022 November | HCI, Victoria-Mahe | ||
Singapore | Shilpak Ambule | 2023 June | HCI, Singapore | ||
Slovak Republic | Apoorva Srivastava | 2022 October | EOI, Bratislava | ||
Slovenia | Namrata S Kumar | 2020 August | EOI, Ljubljana | ||
South Africa Accredited to: | Prabhat Kumar | 2023 August | HCI, Pretoria | ||
Sri Lanka | Santosh Jha | 2023 December | HCI, Colombo | ||
Sudan | VACANT | EOI, Khartoum | |||
Suriname Accredited to: | Shankar Balachandran | 2021 August | EOI, Paramaribo | ||
Sweden Accredited To: | Tanmaya Lal | 2020 December | EOI, Stockholm | ||
Switzerland Accredited To: | List | Mridul Kumar | 2023 June | EOI, Berne | |
Tajikistan | Rajesh Uike | 2024 March | EOI, Dushanbe | ||
Tanzania | List | VACANT | HCI, Dar Es Salaam | ||
Thailand | Nagesh Singh | 2022 August | EOI, Bangkok | ||
Trinidad and Tobago | Pradeep Rajpurohit | 2023 October | HCI, Port of Spain | ||
Tunisia | N. J. Gangte | 2021 August | EOI, Tunis | ||
Turkey | Virander Paul | 2022 July | EOI, Ankara | ||
Turkmenistan | Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat | 2024 January | EOI, Ashgabat | ||
Ukraine | Harsh Kumar Jain | 2022 April | EOI, Kyiv | ||
United Arab Emirates | List | Sunjay Sudhir | 2021 November | EOI, Abu Dhabi | |
United Kingdom | List | Vikram Doraiswami | 2022 September | HCI, London | |
United States | List | VACANT (Cd'A - Sripriya Ranganathan) | EOI, Washington, D.C. | ||
Uzbekistan | Manish Prabhat [7] | 2020 August | EOI, Tashkent | ||
Venezuela | Ashok Babu | 2023 November | EOI, Caracas | ||
Vietnam | Sandeep Arya | 2022 October | EOI, Hanoi | ||
Yemen | VACANT | EOI, Sana'a | |||
Zambia | Ashok Kumar | 2021 June | HCI, Lusaka | ||
Zimbabwe | Vijay Khanduja | 2020 November | EOI, Harare | ||
Host country | High Commissioner / Ambassador | Refs |
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Albania Moldova | concurrently accredited Romania with the headquarters in Bucharest. | |
Antigua & Barbuda | Amit Telang | |
Aruba | ||
Barbados | ||
Belize | Shamim Aktar | |
Benin | ||
Bolivia | T. N. Mayyas | |
Central African Republic | Concurrently accredited by Ambassador to DR Congo | |
Chad | Abhay Thakur | [8] |
Comoros | Abhay Kumar | 28 May 2019 [lower-alpha 3] |
Costa Rica | Upendra Singh Rawat | 3 December 2019 [lower-alpha 4] |
Dominican Republic | ||
Estonia | Radha Venkataraman | 17 May 2019 |
Ecuador | Sanjiv Ranjan [lower-alpha 5] | 2 September 2019 |
El Salvador | ||
Gabon | Nina Tshering La | [lower-alpha 6] [9] |
Gambia | G. V. Srinivas | 24 October 2019 [lower-alpha 7] |
Georgia | Kishan Dan Dewal [lower-alpha 8] | 11 October 2019 |
Guinea (with Cape Verde) | G. V. Srinivas | 23 September 2019 [lower-alpha 9] |
Haiti | ||
Honduras | ||
Liberia | Y. K. Sailas Thangal | |
Lithuania | ||
Luxembourg | ||
Mauritania | ||
Montenegro | Jaideep Mazumdar [10] | |
Netherlands Antilles | ||
Nicaragua (with Panama) | Upendra Singh Rawat | 18 October 2019 [lower-alpha 10] |
North Macedonia | ||
Réunion | ||
Saint Kitts and Nevis | Amit Telang | |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Junior Bacchus | |
Saint Lucia | ||
Sierra Leone | ||
Togo | M. S. Padmaja | 13 November 2019 |
Host organization | Location | Permanent Representatives and Deputy Representatives | Took office | Ref. |
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Conference on Disarmament | Geneva | Shamim Aktar | 11 November 2018 | [11] |
Caribbean Community | Georgetown, Guyana | Amit Telang | December 2023 | |
European Union [EU] | Brussels | Santosh Jha | 17 July 2020 | [12] |
United Nations | New York City | Ruchira Kamboj (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations) | 1 July 2022 | [13] |
Geneva | Indramani Pandey | October 2020 | [14] [15] | |
UNESCO | Paris | Vishal V. Sharma | October 2020 | [16] |
World Trade Organisation | Geneva | Brajendra Navneet | 29 June, 2021 | [17] |
ASEAN | Jakarta | Jayant N. Khobragade | 20 January 2021 | [18] |
African Union [AU] | Addis Ababa | Robert Shetkintong | March 2020 | |
IAEA | Vienna | Malina Paul | Jan 2022 |
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