G Mohan Kumar

Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar contradicts defence minister, says surgical strikes carried out in past

The army had carried out "target specific, limited-calibre, counter-terrorist operations" across the LoC in the past too but this is for the first time the government has gone public about it, a Parliamentary panel was told on Tuesday, in remarks that appear to contradict the Defence Minister's claim.

G Mohan Kumar takes over as defence secretary after RK Mathur ends two years stint

Kumar, a 1979 batch IAS officer of Odisha cadre, is presently Secretary in Department of Defence Production.