Ajit Doval made Indian National Security Adviser

Ajit Kumar Doval, the former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief, has been appointed as National Security Adviser , to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, says NDTV.com.
Effective from Friday, the 69-year old has taken over from Shiv Shankar Menon, who was India's former foreign secretary and a career diplomat.
The IPS official was India’s main negotiator with the 5 Pakistan-based terrorists who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane headed for New Delhi from Kathmandu to Kandahar in 1999. He also spent six years in the Indian High Commission in Pakistan.
Doval was the first policeman to be decorated with the Kirti Chakra, the second-highest peacetime gallantry award behind Ashok Chakra.
He retired as the IB Director in 2005 and launched the Vivekananda International Foundation, a think-tank known to take up nationalist causes, the NDTV report says.
He had worked as an intelligence officer for over 33 years serving in India’s Northeast, Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.
Doval’s appointment is the second key one Modi has made after assuming charge. Earlier, the prime minister made former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman Nripendra Misra his Principal Secretary.