♦ Senior IPS officer Parag Jain was appointed as Chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), for a term of two years on 28 June 2025.

♦ He is a 1989-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Punjab cadre. 

♦ Jain will take over from the current chief Ravi Sinha, whose tenure concludes on June 30, 2025. 

♦ Parag Jain is currently the second senior-most official in R&AW, after outgoing chief Ravi Sinha.

♦ He presently heads the Aviation Research Centre (ARC), the aerial intelligence arm of R&AW responsible for surveillance and reconnaissance operations.