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RAW ex-chief AS Dulat, then DGP Sarabjeet Singh recalls incident: ‘Then CM Badal wanted no bloodshed after hijacked IC-814 landed in Amritsar’

August 03, 2024 11:26 am

IC-814 was hijacked by five terrorists on December 24, 1999, 40 minutes after it took off from Kathmandu. The aircraft carrying about 180 passengers remained hostage for seven days and flew from Kathmandu to Amritsar and then to Lahore.

Former RAW chief dismisses Shah Rukh Khan's Pathaan, Salman's Tiger as 'waste of time': 'They are not accurate depictions'

June 26, 2023 4:00 pm

"You have this story of the ISI girl and a RAW man living happily ever after… take a break yaar," former RAW head Vikram Sood said referring to Shah Rukh Khan-Deepika Padukone starrer Pathaan.

35-year-old man posing as RAW officer arrested in Ahmednagar, probe on

June 23, 2023 3:03 pm

Officials are now probing if the impersonator was trying to gain access to any sensitive establishments or was involved in cheating people using the fake identity on the pretext of providing them jobs .

RAW’s Ravi Sinha who headed operations is now agency’s new chief

June 20, 2023 2:23 am

Currently in charge of the agency’s operations wing, Sinha will take charge from Samant Kumar Goel, who completes his four-year stint at the helm on June 30.

RAW exempted from RTI Act unless information sought pertains to human rights violation, corruption: HC

May 03, 2023 8:46 pm

The finding of the CIC was that RAW is covered by Section 24 as an exempt organisation and no case of human rights or corruption is made out in the applicant's case to attract the exception.

Arvind Kumar appointed new IB chief, Samant Goel to head R&AW

June 26, 2019 2:34 pm

Kumar, a 1984-batch IPS officer from the Assam-Meghalaya cadre will be replacing Rajiv Jain whose tenure comes to an end on June 29. Samant Goel will succeed Anil Dhasmana.

IB, R&AW chiefs get six-month extension

December 15, 2018 5:41 am

The decision to extend the tenure of the two officers by six months was taken due to the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, with the Centre wanting the new government to take a decision on these key posts, officials said.

IB director Rajiv Jain, RAW chief Anil Dhasmana get six months extension

December 15, 2018 5:36 am

The decision to extend the tenure of the two intelligence chiefs was taken due to the forthcoming general election by the prime minister-led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.

To bridge language gap, R&AW ropes in native linguists as ‘gurus’

February 04, 2014 5:11 am

Started about a year ago, the intelligence agency has revived the gurukul concept for specialised language training.

Arms and the Men

August 21, 2013 4:39 am

At the Screen Preview,director Shoojit Sircar and actor John Abraham assert that their spy thriller Madras Cafe recreates the Sri Lankan civil war but doesn’t take sides

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