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research and analysis wing news

US religious freedom panel recommends targeted sanctions on RSS, R&AW

The external affairs ministry has not responded to USCIRF’s latest report, but it has repudiated its findings in previous years.
Updated on Mar 16, 2026 11:59 pm IST

Supreme Court salvo to CBI on classified files in Official Secrets Act case

A general view of the Supreme Court of India in New Delhi.
Updated on Mar 04, 2026 10:14 am IST

R&AW chief Parag Jain gets additional charge of Secretary (Security)

Security personnel stand guard amid high alert at Vijay Chowk (Hindustan Times)
Published on Nov 12, 2025 08:24 pm IST

Who is Parag Jain, Pakistan expert set to take over as R&AW chief?

Parag Jain is currently heading the Aviation Research Centre, which played a vital role during Operation Sindoor
Updated on Jun 28, 2025 01:36 pm IST

US religious freedom panel recommends sanctions against India’s RAW: Report

The US State Department reports on human rights and religious freedom have noted minority abuses in recent years. India calls them “deeply biased”.
Updated on Mar 26, 2025 11:06 am IST

Why the Modi government should declassify records on IC-814 hijacking

A file photo of Indian Airlines IC-814 passenger aircraft at Kandahar with armed Taliban surrounding the plane
Updated on Sept 09, 2024 03:51 pm IST

Ravi Sinha named new Research and Analysis Wing chief

RAW has over the last four years extensively worked on threats including the rise of pro-Khalistan elements. (Wikipedia)
Updated on Jun 19, 2023 02:01 pm IST

IPS officer Ravi Sinha appointed new RAW chief, to succeed Samant Goel

Ravi Sinha will succeed incumbent Samant Kurnar Goel
Updated on Jun 19, 2023 02:13 pm IST

Amit Shah reviews functioning of security grid in J&K ahead of G20 meet next month

The union home minister asked the security agencies to make adequate security arrangements during the G20 event. (ANI image)
Updated on Apr 13, 2023 08:51 pm IST

Modi places merit on premium, appoints Deka as DIB, extends Goel as RAW chief

Intelligence Bureau chief Tapan Deka and RAW secretary Samant Goel
Published on Jun 24, 2022 06:02 pm IST

RA&W chief offered to resign for failure to prevent 26/11 attack

LeT terrorist and 26/11 scout David Coleman Headley told his interrogators that first attempt to target Mumbai failed in September 2008. The Mumbai police had been alerted to this attack but lowered its guard as the strike got delayed to November 2008.
Updated on Nov 26, 2021 09:41 am IST

Govt tweaks Fundamental Rules, clears path to extend tenure of ED, CBI chiefs

Until now the home and defence secretaries and the directors of RAW, IB and the CBI have a tenure of minimum two years. 
Published on Nov 15, 2021 07:12 pm IST

Book on Kashmir by R&AW officer’s daughter fans furore

While Das describes the book as “brilliantly written” and “powerful”, she now feels that it is problematic.
Updated on Sept 17, 2021 01:53 am IST

Centre extends term of IB head, RAW chief by a year

The two were appointed to head the agencies in June 2019 for a fixed tenure of two years.
Updated on May 28, 2021 03:48 am IST

PM Modi extends tenures of both RAW and IB chiefs by one year

File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Published on May 27, 2021 05:03 pm IST

HT Picks: New Reads

Stephen Hawking, a troubled chapter in the nation’s recent history, and miniature painting feature on this week’s reading list.
Updated on Oct 16, 2020 04:57 pm IST

Remembering RN Kao, India’s legendary spymaster

RN Kao was the founder-chief of the Research and Analysis Wing or R&AW.
Updated on May 10, 2020 02:08 pm IST

‘People will get their political rights ’: BJP’s Ram Madhav on abrogation of Article 370

(From left) Ram Madhav and Manish Tiwari during the concluding day of Military Literature Festival-2019 at Lake Club in Chandigarh on Sunday
Updated on Dec 16, 2019 07:25 am IST

Multiple agencies warn central govt of possible ‘terror attack’ by JeM

Analysing the communications and matching it with other intelligence, security agencies have zeroed in on possible targets and initiated measures to counter the possible threat.
Updated on Jul 20, 2020 09:42 pm IST

Stripping J-K of special status sound in law, says Amit Shah at R&AW lecture

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said normalcy would return to Kashmir sooner than later.
Updated on Aug 20, 2019 10:59 pm IST

Senior-level bureaucratic overhaul on the anvil

The current special secretary of RA&W Samant Goel is likely to take over as the next chief of the agency. Goel has won praise for his handling of the Balakot airstrikes.
Published on May 30, 2019 07:54 am IST

Intelligence chiefs get 6-month extension

Rajiv Jain, director of Intelligence Bureau, and Anil Kumar Dhasmana, head of Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), have been given six-month extension.
Updated on Dec 14, 2018 05:51 pm IST

CBI says Christian Michel key to AgustaWestland probe

Indian investigators have alleged that three middlemen — Christian Michel and two Italians, Guido Ralph Haschke and Carlo Gerosa — played a key role in the swinging the deal in favour of AgustaWestland.
Published on Sept 19, 2018 11:32 pm IST