New Delhi: Nagma Mohammed Mallick an IFS officer of the 1991 batch has been appointed as the next Indian Ambassador to the Republic of Poland.

A native of Kasargod Nagma completed her education at St Stephen's College & Delhi School of Economics. She holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a master's degree in Economics.

She has earlier served as High Commissioner of India to Brunei, India’s Ambassador to Tunisia before this posting.

She was born in New Delhi to Keralite parents from Kasaragod Mohammad Habibullah and Sulu Bhanu.

She joined the Foreign Service in 1991 as a career diplomat. She was the first Muslim woman in the Indian Foreign Service. Her first posting was in Paris where she served in the Indian Mission to UNESCO. Thereafter, in New Delhi, she served in various capacities in the Ministry of External Affairs, including on the Western Europe desk. She served as a staff officer to Prime Minister I.K. Gujral. She then served as the first woman Deputy Chief of Protocol (Ceremonial).

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Gandhinagar (PTI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday submitted his nomination papers for the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat from where he is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate.

Shah was accompanied by Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel when he submitted the nomination papers to Gandhinagar collector and district election officer in the state capital exactly at 12.39 pm, considered as ‘Vijay Muhurat’.

The former BJP president had won from the Gandhinagar constituency in the 2019 general elections by a margin of more than 5 lakh votes.

Voting for all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat will be held in the third phase on May 7.