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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

S Jaishankar Appointed New Foreign Secretary Wednesday Jan 28,2015

 
Indian Ambassador to the US, S Jaishankar, has been appointed on Wednesday Jan 28,2015 as the new Foreign Secretary replacing Sujatha Singh who has resigned with immediate effect.


 About S Jaishankar


born in New Delhi in 1955

son of prominent Indian strategic affairs analyst, commentator, and civil servant K Subrahmanyam and brother of historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam

S Jaishankar  was the Ambassador to the US, having been appointed in December, 2013.S Jaishankar had taken over as the Indian Ambassador to the US succeeding Nirupama Rao as the Ambassador to the US amid a raging diplomatic row over the arrest and strip-search of senior diplomat Devyani Khobragade on visa fraud charges

Prior to that assignment, S Jaishankar was India's Ambassador to China

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