Modi govt extends tenure of IB, RA&W chiefs by one year

The Narendra Modi government has approved a one-year extension of tenure of Intelligence Bureau chief Arvind Kumar and Research & Analysis Wing Secretary Samant Goel.

The Narendra Modi government on Thursday approved a one-year extension of tenure of Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Arvind Kumar and Research & Analysis Wing (RA&W) Secretary Samant Goel. Both IPS officers are of the 1984 batch and hold the rank of Director General. Goel is from the Punjab cadre while Kumar is from the Assam-Meghalaya cadre. Before his appointment as R&AW chief, Goel was heading operations for the agency and was instrumental in planning the February 2019 Balakot airstrike and also the 2016 surgical strikes.