♦ President Droupadi Murmu administered the Oath of Office to Raj Kumar Goyal as the Chief Information Commissioner at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 15 December 2025. He succeeded Heeralal Samariya as the CIC.

♦ A 1990-batch retired Indian Administrative Service officer of the Arunachal Pradesh–Goa–Mizoram–Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre, Goyal superannuated on 31 August 2025 as Secretary in the Department of Justice under the Ministry of Law and Justice. 

♦ He has previously served as Secretary (Border Management) in the Ministry of Home Affairs and held several key positions at the Centre as well as in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.