Nagma Mallick from Kasaragod appointed Indian Ambassador to Japan
New Delhi: Senior IFS officer from the 1991 batch and current Indian Ambassador to Poland Nagma Mohamed Mallick has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Japan, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has stated in a press release on Thursday.
Nagma Mallick, who will soon take up her assignment, will be the second lady officer to be the Indian Ambassador to Japan after Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa.
Kasaragod-based Nagma Mallick, who has served in the Foreign Services for more than three decades, has held various important posts in France, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, Brunei and currently Poland during her diplomatic career. She also handled the relations with Russia and Africa as an officer in the Prime Minister’s Officer (PMO). She was the first woman to be appointed as the Deputy Chief of Protocol.
Nagma Mallick is the daughter of late Mohamed Habibullah and Zulu Banu, residents of Fort Road in Kasaragod. She is also the niece of the famous writer, the late Sara Aboobacker.
Her father Habibullah had shifted with his family to New Delhi after he was posted to the Central Government's Department of Overseas Communications.
Nagma Mallick was born and raised in New Delhi. An alumna of St Stephen’s College and School of Economics, she holds a degree in English literature and MA in Economics.
She began her career as a diplomat in the MEA and was first sent to Paris to represent the Indian Mission at the UNESCO. She has also held various other posts in the Ministry.
Nagma Mallick has served in the offices of former Prime Ministers IK Gujral and Atal Bihari Vajpayee and was the first Indian woman officer to be appointed as the Deputy Chief of the Protocol Division in the MEA.
She is interested in English literature and performs classical dance. She is fluent in five languages, English, French, Hindi, Urdu and Malayalam.
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Attacks on Christians contradict PM's message of harmony, visit to church: Gehlot
Jaipur (PTI): Former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday expressed concern over the reported attacks and disruptions in prayer gatherings of the Christian community in different parts of the country, saying such incidents were "worrying and condemnable".
In a post on X, Gehlot said that while the Prime Minister Narendra Modi was visiting a church and giving a message of peace and harmony, news of attacks on members of the Christian community from various regions reflected a serious contradiction.
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"Symbolic gestures would not be enough, and strict legal action was required against those spreading hatred," the senior Congress leader said.
He added that Indian culture has always upheld the spirit of "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam", where every citizen has full freedom to practise their faith.
Gehlot urged the Centre and state governments to uphold the rule of law and ensure that no citizen is forced to celebrate their festival under fear.
