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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
TopicSamant Goel

Topic: Samant Goel

IPS officer Ravi Sinha named new RAW chief, will succeed Samant Kumar Goel

Sinha, a 1988 batch IPS officer of the Chhattisgarh cadre, is currently special secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat.

When CBI tapped then RAW No.2’s phone ‘without due procedure’ during Alok Verma-Rakesh Asthana row in 2018

The fact came to light as a special CBI court heard a bribery case stemming from an FIR filed against Rakesh Asthana on 15 October 2018 by CBI under Alok Verma.

RAW chief Goel could be longest-serving in decades, but Modi govt undecided on another extension

Samant Goel's tenure will end on 30 June unless he gets extension. Only a handful of RAW chiefs, such as founder R.N. Kao, have held the post for more than 3 years.

Why NSA Doval and his men are asserting themselves in Nepal, rather than MEA

PM Modi wants relationship with Nepal fixed. So R&AW chief Samant Goel and his team boarded a special aircraft to the Himalayan republic.

Modi appoints Balakot strategist as new RAW chief, Kashmir-Maoist expert as IB head

Both are IPS officers of the 1984 batch — Samant Goel belongs to the Punjab cadre and Arvind Kumar to the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

RAW officer Samant Goel told middleman Somesh Prasad: Don’t come to India at any cost

AK Bassi, CBI investigating officer in the Rakesh Asthana bribery case who was transferred to Port Blair, spills the beans in his Supreme Court plea.

On Camera

Move over Ed Sheeran, Rihanna. The only pop star India wants more of is Diljit Dosanjh

Sheeran’s concert in Mumbai on Saturday was a roaring success. But the most viral moment was when Dosanjh joined him, and brought the house down.

Complaints to RBI ombudsman up 68% in FY23, banks biggest cause for customer grievances

Data shows large public sector banks received highest number of complaints in absolute terms, but fared better than several private banks when looked at on complaints-per-branch basis.

Tiger Triumph-24 — India-US tri-services exercise to boost coordination begins

The exercise will be simulated to undertake HADR operations in a ‘friendly island nation’, where troops will execute amphibious landing ops.

CAA comes not with a bang, but with a whimper. Without NRC, it will fade into academic debate

For BJP, CAA was strategic move that did not quite work out because those it would benefit could’ve been accommodated under existing laws, and new entrants would remain excluded.