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Friday, July 18, 2025
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Topic: Intelligence Agency

Arabic speaker with ‘wealth of experience’, Blaise Metreweli is 1st woman chief of UK’s MI6

Metreweli will assume office as the spy agency's 18th chief, taking over from Richard Moore, who held the job for five years. She has been an intelligence officer since 1999.

British foreign intelligence agency MI6 appoints first-ever female head in 115 yrs

Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer, also known as 'Q' has been appointed chief of the secret service agency.

Low promotions, borrowed officers: India’s hurdles in creating a professional intelligence service

In 'Institutional Roots of India’s Security Policy', edited by Milan Vaishnav, Shreyas Shende and Rudra Chaudhuri outline the history and organisational structure of India's R&AW.

SubscriberWrites: Why India must restructure RAW, recruit agents from different backgrounds

Like the US, India should have a wall of honour for agents who sacrifice their lives to ensure there is no war with Pakistan, writes Jay Desai.

Barack Obama memoir says a lot. But it’s ex-ISI chief Asad Durrani’s book that needs attention

While India is obsessed about what former US President Barack Obama said about Rahul Gandhi, it is a fiction book from Pakistan that we must turn to.

RAW thinks espionage can be taught in 6-month crash course—it clearly needs training reforms

Intelligence failure and attacks cannot be eliminated, but efforts can be made to minimise them.

On Camera

Punjab govt must take Centre into confidence on new anti-sacrilege bill

What should be of concern is other states following suit and enacting separate laws to suit the political environment of respective states citing the Punjab bill as a precedent.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

In setback to Pakistan, US designates LeT front as terror group for Pahalgam attack. What is TRF

India has welcomed the move, calling it a 'timely & important step reflecting the deep cooperation between India and US on counter-terrorism'.

RSS chief Bhagwat draws the line at 75. India’s politics stares at the Modi Exception

BJP has no dynastic succession, at least not at the top. You can trace this back to Vajpayee-Advani era. This act of spotting, empowering younger talent is even more striking with the choice of BJP presidents.