Narendra Modi Government has appointed senior IPS officer Samant Goel as the\nnew Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief on June 26, 2019. In another move,\ngovernment has appointed senior IPS officer Arvind Kumar as the director of the\nIntelligence Bureau (IB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their names were finalized by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet\n(ACC), headed by PM Narendra Modi and comprising Home Minister Amit Shah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Samant Goel was heading operations\nfor the agency and was instrumental in planning the February 2019 Balakot air\nstrikes and also the 2016 surgical strikes before his appointment as raw chief.
\n\u2022 Samant Goel, a 1984 batch IPS officer of Punjab cadre will\nsucceed Anil Dhasmana.
\n\u2022 Arvind Kumar, a 1984 batch IPS officer, will head the\nIntelligence Bureau (IB), the main internal intelligence unit of the\ngovernment.
\n\u2022 Arvind Kumar will replace Rajiv Jain, who completed an\nextended tenure as the IB chief.
\n\u2022 Both Goel and Kumar have a strong intelligence background,\nwith Goel first having served in R&AW in 2001 and Kumar having been with IB\nsince 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Research and Analysis Wing\n(R&AW):<\/strong> Narendra Modi Government has appointed senior IPS officer Samant Goel as the new Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief on June 26, 2019. In another move, government has appointed senior IPS officer Arvind Kumar as the director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB). Their names were finalized by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), headed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[69],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-defence-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2666<\/strong> Formed on:<\/strong> 21 September 1968
\n\u2666<\/strong> Headquarters:<\/strong> New Delhi, India
\n\u2666<\/strong> Minister responsible:<\/strong> Narendra\nModi, PM of India
\n\u2666<\/strong> <\/strong>It is the foreign intelligence\nagency of India.
\n\u2666<\/strong> <\/strong>The agency’s primary function\nis gathering foreign intelligence, engaging in counter-terrorism, promoting\ncounter-proliferation, advising Indian policymakers, and advancing India’s\nforeign strategic interests.
\n\u2666<\/strong> <\/strong>It is also involved in the\nsecurity of India’s nuclear programme.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"