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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
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Topic: MI6

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.

Spy chiefs & deputies from dozens of countries meet in India in first such conclave

Representatives of organisations from countries including UK, US, Germany, ASEAN attended 'informal' gathering Sunday. Aim is to develop closer working mechanism.

UK acquits MQM supremo Altaf Hussain. Pakistan questions motive, jokes he is asset to MI6

Hussain's lawyer told the jury that the yardstick of UK law isn't the same as that of Pakistan. It has heated up dialogue in the country.

UK’s MI6 to be ‘more open to stay secret’, says chief in 1st public speech, calls China priority

MI6 chief Richard Moore expressed his desire to 'judiciously change' the idea that it is unusual for the chief of a secret intelligence service to give public speeches.

John le Carre, ex-MI6 spy who became bestselling author of Cold War thrillers, dies at 89

Le Carre died Saturday evening in Cornwall, said his agent, Jonny Geller. According to his publisher Penguin, the cause of death was pneumonia.

Cigarette packs & handbags: Cold War-era spy cams are up for sale and most still work

There’s even a camera built into a man’s jacket, with the lens hidden behind a button and fired from a ‘trigger’ in the pocket.

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New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

General secrets from frozen peaks: A Kargil veteran reveals what politically correct writers left out

At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war. 

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.