Indian Airlines Flight 814,commonly known as IC 814,was an Indian Airlines Airbus A300 en route from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu,Nepal,to Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi,India,on Friday,24 December 1999,when it was hijacked and was flown to several locations before landing in Kandahar,Afghanistan.
Events in the year 1998 in the Republic of India.
Ajit Kumar Doval is a former spymaster and the current National Security Advisor (NSA) of India. Ajit Doval has been longest serving NSA of India. The present tenure is notably the Doval's third consecutive extension since 2014. He was Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief and a former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from Kerala cadre.
Lokesh Chandra is a prominent scholar of the Vedic period,Buddhism and the Indian arts. Between 1942 and 2004,he published 576 books and 286 articles.
Salima Hashmi is a Pakistani painter,artist,former college professor,anti-nuclear weapons activist and former caretaker minister in Sethi caretaker ministry. She has served for four years as a professor and the dean of National College of Arts. She is the eldest daughter of the renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz and his British-born wife Alys Faiz.
Major Jaswant Singh was an officer of the Indian Army and an Indian Cabinet Minister. He was one of the founding members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),and was one of India's longest serving parliamentarians,having been a member of the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha almost continuously between 1980 and 2014. He was NDA's Vice-presidential candidate in the 2012 Indian vice-presidential election. Singh was the only leader from Rajasthan who had the distinction of becoming the Minister Of External Affairs,Finance and Defence.
The National Security Advisor is the senior official on the National Security Council of India,and the chief advisor to the Prime Minister of India on national security policy and international affairs. In 2019,the term of Ajit Doval the current NSA was extended for another 5-year term,and has been assigned the rank of a Union Cabinet Minister and ranks at the seventh position in the Indian Order of Precedence.
The Aviation Research Centre (ARC) is India's imagery intelligence organisation,a part of the Directorate General of Security,run by the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). It started functioning in November 1962,in the wake of the Sino-Indian War,as an extension of the Intelligence Bureau,but placed under the Ministry of External Affairs.
Amitabh Mattoo is one of India's leading thinkers and writers on Modern and Contemporary History,Political science,International relations. He was awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2009. He is Dean of the School of International Studies,Chair &professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University and honorary professor of international relations at the University of Melbourne. Until 19 June 2018,he served as Advisor to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir,with the status of a Cabinet Minister. Mattoo is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies and was recently elected unanimously as its Deputy Chair. He was the founding CEO of the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne and served as chairman of the governing board of Miranda House,University of Delhi,the highest-ranked women's college in India,and served as Chair of Kirori Mal College earlier He has also been a member of the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing. In 2002,he was the youngest person to be appointed as vice chancellor of a public university in independent India. Mattoo's advice on policy matters has been sought across political parties and across governments,including by Prime Ministers Atal Behari Vajpayee and Dr Manmohan Singh. Following the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of India,he has offered a political roadmap for securing the future of Jammu and Kashmir. He has been a persistent advocate of multiculturalism and of reconciliation between Kashmiri Pandits and Kashmiri Muslims.
Brajesh Chandra Mishra was an Indian diplomat from the Indian Foreign Service and politician,best known for serving as Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's principal secretary and National Security Advisor from 1998 to 2004. He received Padma Vibhushan for his contribution
Satish Chandra was an Indian historian whose main area of specialisation was medieval Indian history.
Pramathanath Mitra,known widely as P. Mitra, was a Bengali Indian barrister and Indian nationalist who was among the earliest founding members of the Indian revolutionary organisation,Anushilan Samiti.
Sartaj Aziz was a Pakistani economist and strategist,who had previously served as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan,member of the federal cabinet as the de facto Minister for Foreign Affairs,a Federal Senator as well as the National Security Advisor.
The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) is an Indian public policy think-tank. It is considered to be aligned to right-of-centre in its policies.
Arvind Gupta is a career civil servant of the Indian Foreign Service cadre and former Indian Deputy National Security Advisor serving from 2014 to 2017. He was the ex officio Secretary,National Security Council Secretariat. He served as the Director General of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses from January 2012 till his appointment to the post of Deputy NSA.
Nasir Khan JanjuaHI(M) is a former three-star general of the Pakistan Army,who prior to retiring served as Corps Commander Quetta. He served as the 7th National Security Advisor of Pakistan from 23 October 2015 until his resignation on 27 June 2018.
The Defence Planning Committee is a senior decision-making organisation created on 19 April 2018 by the Government of India.
The Kargil Review Committee (KRC) was set up by the Government of India on 29 July 1999,three days after the end of the Kargil War. The committee was set up "to examine the sequence of events and make recommendations for the future".
Vice Admiral G. Ashok Kumar PVSM,AVSM,VSM is a retired Flag Officer in the Indian Navy,who is currently appointed as the first National Maritime Security Coordinator. He works within the National Security Council Secretariat under the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. He served as the 35th Vice Chief of the Naval Staff. He assumed the position on 30 January 2019 from Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar who took over the Western Naval Command. He retired on 31 July 2021 after 39 years of service. He is succeeded by Vice Admiral Satish Namdeo Ghormade.
Shaurya Doval is an Indian politician affiliated to the Bharatiya Janata Party and is the Executive Member of BJP Uttarakhand. He is the founder and leader of India Foundation,a right-wing think tank that is closely associated with the Narendra Modi Government. He has worked as investment banker for GE Capital and Morgan Stanley and heads Torch Investment.
