Goel appointed RAW chief, Kumar is new IB boss
The government has appointed senior IPS officer Samant Kumar Goel as chief of external intelligence agency RAW. Intelligence Bureau too got a new director in Arvind Kumar, who has handled desks like Kashmir and Left-wing extremism over the years. Goel and Kumar have a strong intelligence background, with the former having first served in RAW in 2001 and Kumar with IB since 1991.