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Making IB, RAW reports public a matter of grave concern: Kiren Rijiju

Intelligence agency officials work in a secret manner for the nation, said Kiren Rijiju

Tapan Kumar Deka made IB chief, Samant Goel gets another year as R&AW chief

Senior IPS officer Tapan Kumar Deka was on Friday appointed Intelligence Bureau chief, replacing Arvind Kumar whose extended tenure ends on June 30. Deka, who has been handling the operations wing of the IB, takes over as the new chief for two years, according to an official order issued by the Personnel Ministry. He is a 1988 batch officer from the Himachal Pradesh cadre. The tenure of Samant Goel, who has been heading the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), has been extended by one more year, the ministry said in another order.

How nations shape their image

Book review of The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

R&AW chief Samant Kumar Goel meets Nepal Prime Minister K P Oli

His visit comes ahead of the upcoming official trip of Indian Army chief Gen. M M Naravane to Nepal in the first week of November

Many reasons as to why it's risky to permit Huawei in India: Ex-R&AW boss

Former R&AW chief Vikram Sood says there are several powerful reasons - strategic, technological, geopolitical and legal - to suggest that it that could be risky to permit Chinese telecom major Huawei, with its state-structured backing, to launch operations in India's critical infrastructure. His assessment comes at a time when the government is yet to take a final decision on allocating radiowaves despite telecom operators applying for spectrum to start 5G trials. In his just released book "The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives", Sood writes that Huawei may "want to masquerade as an independent entity, but anyone in the trade would know that this is simply not the case. The Chinese government financed Huawei and had few moral compunctions in helping intellectual property theft in the US". He also says that post-COVID, the narrative about China being a responsible state is getting terribly skewed and this change in perception is ..

Suspect all, fix all: A mindset that begins at the top, trickles across

It's not just Modi government or BJP, but even state governments, judiciary are getting caught in a 'we suspect all' mindset. Is India becoming a National Suspicion State?

Pakistan claims R&AW running 'special cell' to sabotage CPEC

Pakistan recently claimed to have arrested an Indian spy, Kulbhushan Yadav, in Balochistan near the border with Iran

All you need to know about the case of the 'R&AW officer' Pakistan claims it arrested

India admitted that the arrested man was an Indian national and a former Indian Navy officer

Can't disclose legal assistance offered to RAW agents: Govt

Agency exempt from any disclosures under RTI Act except allegations of human rights violations and corruption