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LIST OF INDIAN AMBASSADORS AND HIGH COMMISSIONERS 2020-21
Afghanistan– Vinay Kumar
Algeria– Satbir Singh
Angola– Srikumar Menon
Argentina, Paraguay & Uruguay– Dinesh Bhatia; Appointment: 6 February 2019
Armenia– Kishan Dan Dewal; Appointment: 8 March 2019
Australia– Anumula Gitesh Sarma; Appointment: 7 October 2019
Austria– Renu Pall
Azerbaijan- B Vanlalvawhna
Bahrain– Alok Kumar Sinha
Bangladesh- Iva Ganguly Das; Appointment: 1 March 2019
Belarus- Sangeeta Bahadur
Belgium- Gaitri Issar Kumar
Bhutan- Ruchira Kamboj; Appointment: 11 February 2019
Bosnia and Herzegovina- Kumar Tuhin; Appointment: 14 May 2019
Botswana- Rajesh Ranjan
Brazil- Ashok Das
Brunei- Darussalam Ajaneesh Kumar
Bulgaria- Pooja Kapoor
Cambodia- Manika Jain
Canada- Ajay Bisaria; Appointment: November 2019
Chile- Anita Nayar
China- Vikram Misri; Appointment: 7 January 2019
Colombia – Sanjiv Ranjan; Appointment: 2 February 2019
Congo- Nina Tshering La; Appointment: 1 March 2019
Croatia- Arindam Bagchi
Cuba- Tsewang Namgyal
Cyprus- Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat; Appointment: 2 August 2019
Czech Republic- Narinder Chauhan
Denmark- Ajit Gupte
DR Congo- Ghoturam Meena; Appointment: 8 August 2019
Egypt- Rahul Kulshreshth
Eritrea- Subhash Chand; Appointment: May 2019
Fiji (with Nauru, Tuvalu, Cook Islands)– M. S. Padmaja; Appointment: 15 March 2019 [c]
Finland- Ashok Kumar Sharma
France- Dr. Mohan Kumar
Germany- Mukta Tomar
Ghana- C Sugandha Rajaram; Appointment: 6 December 2019
Greece- Amrit Lugun; Appointment: 3 October 2019
Guatemala- Sajeev Babu Kurup
Guyana- K J Srinivasa
Honduras- B. S. Mubarak; Appointment: 1 February 2019
Hungary- Rahul Chhabra
Iceland- T. Armstrong Changsan
Indonesia– Nengcha Lhouvum
Iran- Gaddam Dharmendra
Iraq– Birendra Singh Yadav; Appointment: 25 October 2019
Ireland- Sandeep Kumar
Israel- Pavan Kapoor
Italy- Reenat Sandhu; Appointment: July 2017
Ivory Coast, Liberia & Guinea- R. Ravindra; Appointment: May 2016
Jamaica- Sevala Naik Mude
Japan- Sanjay Kumar Verma
Jordan- Anil Trigunayat
Kazakhstan- Harsh K Jain
Kenya- Suchitra Durai
Korea- Atul M. Gotsurve
Kuwait- Sunil Jain
Kyrgyzstan- L. Savithri
Lebanon- Suhel Ajaz Khan
Lesotho- Jaideep Sarkar; Appointment: 5 September 2019
Libya- Azar A. H. Khan
Madagascar- Abhay Kumar; Appointment: January 2019
Malawi- Vanlalhuma
Malaysia- Shri Mridul Kumar; Appointment: 15 February 2018
Maldives- Rajeev Shahare
Mali- Anjani Kumar; Appointment: 7 November 2019
Malta- Rajesh Vaishnaw; Appointment: 01 November 2017
Mauritius- Abhay Thakur
Mexico, Niue, Samoa- Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi; Appointment: October 2019
Mongolia- Dr. T. Suresh Babu
Morocco- Dr. Shambu Singh Kumaran; Appointment: 26 March 2019
Mozambique– VACANT
Myanmar– Vikram Misri
Namibia- Prashant Aggarwal
Nepal- Vinay Mohan Kwarta; Appointment: 30 January 2020[5]
Netherlands- Venu Rajamony
New Zealand- Muktesh Kumar Pardesi; Appointment: May 2019
Niger- Rajesh Agrawal
Nigeria- Abhay Thakur; Appointment: 1 March 2019
Norway- B. Bala Bhaskar; Appointment: September 2019
Oman- I.M. Pandey
Pakistan- Ajay Bisaria; Appointment: December 2017
Papua New Guinea- Dr. A.M. Gondane
Peru- Krishna R Urs
Philippines– Jaideep Mazumdar
Poland- Tswang Namgymal
Portugal- K. Nandini Singla
Qatar- Sanjiv Arora
Romania- ThangLura Darlong
Russia- D.B. Venkatesh Varma
Saudi Arabia- Ausaf Sayeed; Appointment: 8 March 2019
Senegal- Partha Satpathy
Serbia- Subrata Bhattacharji; Appointment: April 2018
Seychelles- Dalbir Singh Suhag; Appointment: 25 April 2019
Singapore- Jawed Ashraf
Slovak Republic- Param Jit Mann
Slovenia– Sarvajit Chakravarti
South Africa- Jaideep Sarkar; Appointment: April 2019
Sudan- Ravindra Jaiswal
Sri Lanka- Gopal Baglay; Appointment: 1 February 2020
Sudan- Amrit Lugun
Suriname- Satendar Kumar
Sweden & Latvia– Monika Kapil Mohta; Appointment: 2016
Switzerland- Sibi George
Tajikistan- Somnath Ghosh
Tanzania- Sanjiv Kohli
Thailand- Bhagwant Singh Bishnoi
Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada- Arun Kumar Sahu additional charge**
Tunisia- Prashant Pise
Turkey- Sanjay Bhattacharyya
Turkmenistan- Dr. T.V. Nagendra Prasad
Ukraine- Manoj Kumar Bharti
United Arab Emirates- Pavan Kapoor; Appointment: 28 August 2019
United Kingdom– Ruchi Ghanashyam; Appointment: November 2018
United States- Taranjit Singh Sandhu; Appointment: 28 January 2020
Uzbekistan– Santosh Jha; Appointment: 13 March 2019
Venezuela- Rahul Shrivastava; Appointment: 2016
Vietnam– Pranay Kumar Verma; Appointment: 1 March 2019
Yemen- Amrit Lugun
Zambia- Gaddam Dharmendra
Zimbabwe- R. Masakui
List of High Commissioner
Costa- Rica Upendra Singh Rawat; Appointment: 3 December 2019
Nicaragua, Panama– Upendra Singh Rawat; Appointment: 18 October 2019
Ecuador – Sanjiv Ranjan; Appointment: 2 September 2019
Estonia– Radha Venkataraman; Appointment: 17 May 2019
Gabon– Nina Tshering La
Belize- Manpreet Vohra; Appointment: 7 June 2019
Togo- M. S. Padmaja; Appointment: 13 November 2019
Georgia– Kishan Dan Dewal; Appointment: 11 October 2019
Gambia- G. V Srinivas; Appointment: 24 October 2019 [j]
Guinea, Cape Verde- G. V Srinivas; Appointment: 23 September 2019 [l]
Chad- Abhay Thakur
Comoros- Abhay Kumar; Appointment: 28 May 2019
Indian Permanent representatives to international organizations
Conference on Disarmament – Dr.Pankaj Sharma
United Nations, New York – Syed Akbaruddin
World Trade Organization – J.S. Deepak
LIST OF WORLD BEAUTY PAGEANTS WINNERS 2020-21
The updated Winners list of World Beauty Pageants 2020
Miss Universe Beauty Pageant
Miss World Beauty Pageant
Miss International Beauty Pageant
Miss Supranational Beauty Pageant
Beauty Pageant in India
Miss India
Info Link: Wold Beauty Pageant awards list 2020 download
WORLD INDEX REPORTS
List of India Ranking in world
Updated: 2020; List of the Global indexes reports of World and Indian
Human Development Index
Global Hunger Index
Press Freedom Index
Global Peace Index GPI
Global Corruption Index
World Happiness Index Report
Global Innovation Index
Social Progress Index
Global Competitiveness Index
World Economic Freedom Index
Global Youth Development Index
Global Gender Gap Index
Ease of Doing Business Index
Good Country Index
Global Cyber Security Index (GCI)
Global Connectivity Index (GCI)
Global Democracy Index (GDI)
Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
World Economic Forum
World Childhood Index
Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI)
Global Liveability Index
E-Government Development Index (EGDI)
End of Childhood Index
Commitment to Reducing Index (CRI)
Global Energy Transition Index
Info Link: List of 26 different World Index Reports and India Ranking 2020
SOCIAL MEDIA
Google
Google is an American worldwide multinational technology giant company offers services and product in internet-related like online advertising, technologies, search, cloud computing, software and hardware
Founded: 4 September 1998
Founder: Larry Page (USA), Sergey Brin (Russia)
Head Office: California, Menlo Park, USA
CEO: Sunder Pichai (India) As On Feb 2020
Facebook
Facebook is a famous social networking service which came after ORKUT, Google’s Product
Founded: 4 February 2004
Founders: Mark Zuckerberg (USA), Eduardo Saverin (Brazil – USA), Andrew McCollum (USA), Dustin Moskovitz (USA), Chris Hughes (USA)
Head Office: California, Menlo Park
Subsidiaries: Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus VR, Private Core, Messenger
CEO: Mark Zuckerberg (USA) As On Feb 2020
Twitter
Twitter is one of the famous in social networking services where users can post and interact with messages with tweets, which restricted to 140 characters word length
Founded: 21 March 2006
Founder: Jack Dorsey (USA), Evan Willians (USA), Noah Glass (USA), Biz Stone (USA)
Head Office: San Francisco, California (USA)
Subsidiaries: Vine
WhatsApp
WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware and cross-platform instant messaging service uses the internet to make chat, voice calls, video calls
Founded: 2009
Founder: Jan Koun (USA), Brian Action (USA)
Head Office: California
Owner: Facebook
CEO: Jan Koum (USA) As On Feb 2020
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and its a largest and most popular general reference work on the internet
Founded: 15 January 2001
Founder: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger
Head Office: San Francisco, California (USA)
Owner: Wikimedia Foundation
Slogan: The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
Yahoo
Yahoo is an internet service provider owned by Verizon communications through oaty Inc
Founded: 1994
Founder: Jerry Yang (Taiwan), David Filo (USA)
Head Office: Sunnyvale, California
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a social networking service used for professional networking, including employees posting jobs and job seekers posting their CV’s
Founded: 28 December 2002
Founders: Jean Lue Vaillant, Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Konstantin Guericke,
Head Office: Sunnyvale, California
CEO: Jeff Weiner
Subsidiaries: SlideShare
Slogan: Relationships Matter
Flipkart:
Flipkart Bangalore based e-commerce company in India. Under brand name DigiFlip, Flipkart has launched its own product like tablets, USBs, and Laptops, etc …
Founded: 2007
Founder: Sachin Bansal & BinnyBansal
Head Office: Bengaluru
Subsidiaries: Myntra, Jabong.com, PhonePe, eKart,
Slogan: Every wish will be fulfilled
CEO: Kalyan Krishnamurthy
Myntra
Myntra is a Bangalore based fashion e-commerce company founded in 2007 by IIT graduates.
Founded: 2007
Founders: Mukesh Bansal, Ashutosh Lawania, Vineet Saxena
Head Office: Bangalore
Owner: FlipKart (since 2014)
Snapdeal
Snapdeal is the New Delhi based e-commerce company
Established: 2007
Founder: Kunal Bansal & Rohit Bansal
Head Office: New Delhi
Subsidiaries: FreeCharge
Paytm
Paytm is one of the famous Indian electronic payment service provider and e-commerce companies. The name Paytm is for “Pay Through Mobile”
Founded: August 2010
Founder: Vijay Shekar Sharma
Head Office: Noida (Uttar Pradesh)
CEO: Vijay Shekar Sharma
Amazon
Amazon is a USA based e-commerce and cloud computing company
Established: 5 July 1994
Founder: Jeff Bezos
Head Office: Seattle, Washington DC
Subsidiaries: A9.com, Amazon Web Services, Alexa Internet, Audible.com, Zappos, comiXology, Goodreads, Jungle.com, Twitch.tv, Souq.com
Slogan: Work hard, have fun, make history
Chairman: Jeff Bezos
Alibaba
Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides C2C consumer to consumer,
B2C Business to consumer and B2B business to business sales services
Founded: 1999
Founder: Jack Ma (China)
Head Office: Hangzhou, Zhejiang (China)
Slogan: “To make it easy to do business anywhere”
Chairman: Jack Ma
eBay
eBay is a multinational e-commerce company
Founded: 3 September 1995
Founder: Pierre Omidyar (Iranian – American)
Head Office: San Jose, California (USA)
Subsidiaries: Kijiji, iBazar, Gumtree, Stubhub, Half.com
Slogans: World’s online marketplace Connecting buyers and Sellers Globally But it New, Buy it Now
Apple
Apple Inc is an American MNC headquartered in Cupertino, California
Founded: 1 April 1976
Founder: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne
CEO: Tim Cook (USA)
Subsidiaries: Filemaker Inc, Anobit, Braeburn, Capital, Beats Electronics
Uber
Uber Technologies Inc is an American tech giant company headquartered in San Francisco, California
(USA) presently operating in 570+ cities worldwide
Founded: 2009
Founder: Travis Kalanick (USA), Garret Camp (Canada)
Head Office: San Francisco, California (USA)
CEO: Travis Kalanick (USA)
Unified Payments Interface (UPI)
The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is an instant payment system to transfer money between two parties
bank accounts. It is similar to NEFT/RTGS transfers
BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money)
BHIM is a mobile app in the memory of B R Ambedkar to push online payments Developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on December 30th, 2016
Features of BHIM App:
a) Transfers money to any bank account
b) Don’t need to register the Payee beforehand.
c) BHIM transfer money immediately and instant
d) Transfers money anytime, even on holidays
SBI Pay
The State Bank of India launched its Unified Payments Interface App which is known as ‘SBI Pay’. The SBI Pay is specially designed for the UPI Payment system
Truecaller Pay
ICICI Bank has joined hands with Truecaller to launch a UPI based mobile app which is known as Truecaller app