{"id":26692,"date":"2026-06-26T00:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/senior-ips-officer-mahesh-dixit-appointed-new-ib-chief-reports-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T00:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:45:41","slug":"senior-ips-officer-mahesh-dixit-appointed-new-ib-chief-reports-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/senior-ips-officer-mahesh-dixit-appointed-new-ib-chief-reports-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior IPS officer Mahesh Dixit appointed new IB chief: Reports | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131999571,imgsize-7574,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/ib-655c812be7cb1.jpg\" alt=\"Senior IPS officer Mahesh Dixit appointed new IB chief: Reports\" title=\"Intelligence Bureau\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: The government has appointed senior IPS officer Mahesh Dixit as the next Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/intelligence-bureau\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Intelligence Bureau<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ib\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">IB<\/a>), the country\u2019s domestic intelligence agency, PTI reported on Thursday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>The appointment was approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. <!-- -->Dixit, a 1993-batch IPS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, currently serves as Special Director in the agency.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>He brings extensive intelligence and security experience to the role, including a stint as chief of the State Intelligence Bureau in Jammu and Kashmir.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Dixit will succeed incumbent IB Director Tapan Deka, who was appointed in June 2022. Deka subsequently received two one-year extensions, in June 2024 and June 2025.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/senior-ips-officer-mahesh-dixit-appointed-new-ib-chief-reports\/articleshow\/131999493.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government has appointed senior IPS officer Mahesh Dixit as the next Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the country\u2019s domestic intelligence agency, PTI reported on Thursday.The appointment was approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Dixit, a 1993-batch IPS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}