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Thursday, December 4, 2025
TopicIntelligence Agency

Topic: Intelligence Agency

In annual update, MI5 chief identifies security threats to UK from Russia, Iran, China

Ken McCallum delivered the annual threat update Thursday, warning of 'new era' with 'overlapping threat' from both terrorists & state actors, & tech-driven threats. Read full speech.

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

My grandmother saved her children in Bhopal gas tragedy—and sacrificed her own life

‘Mother kept pouring water in our eyes whenever the burning became unbearable. She pushed our bodies deep into the blanket, making sure not a single part was exposed,’ my father said.

India’s Russian oil imports are showing up in cryptic new places. The crude map stands redrawn

December oil imports from Russia may drop nearly 50%, but Indian buyers already shifting to non-designated Russian entities and opaque trading channels to keep Russian oil flowing.

India to commission new squadron of submarine-hunting Romeo choppers in Goa later this month

The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.