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Govt extends tenure of RAW chief Samant Goel

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The Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet has extended the tenure of Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) chief Samant Kumar Goel and Intelligence Bureau (IB) head Arvind Kumar by one year.
The tenure of both the officers was due to end on June 30.
Goel, a 1984-batch IPS officer of Punjab cadre, was serving as the Secretary, RAW for nearly the past two years. He was appointed at the helm of the Indian foreign intelligence agency on June 27, 2019.
Kumar, the current IB Director, has also been heading the post for almost the past 24 months. The 1984-batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IPS officer was appointed as the head of the domestic intelligence agency on June 26, 2019.