GUWAHATI: The Union government on June 26 appointed Arvind Kumar, a senior IPS officer from Assam-Meghalaya cadre, as the director of Intelligence Bureau (IB).
It should be mentioned that Kumar, a 1984-batch IPS officer, will be replacing Rajiv Jain whose tenure comes to an end on June 29.
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The government has also appointed Samant Goel as the next chief of India’s external spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).
Goel, a 1984-batch of IPS officer from Punjab cadre, was heading operations for the external intelligence agency and was reportedly instrumental in planning the February 2019 Balakot air strikes as well as the 2016 surgical strikes carried out after the terror attack at Uri.
