- Lakshwadweep’s Administrator and former Intelligence Bureau chief Dineshwar Sharma passed away at a Chennai hospital. He was 66.
- Mr. Sharma was a 1979-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Kerala cadre. He served as IB Director from 2014 to 2016.
- After his retirement, the government appointed him as an interlocutor for talks with the Assam-based insurgent groups and also headed a committee to restructure the Home Ministry.
- Mr. Sharma was appointed the Centre’s “Special Representative” to initiate and carry forward a dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir on October 23, 2017, and given the rank of Cabinet Secretary.