Shiv Shankar Menon is new National Security Advisor

Shiv Shankar Menon has been appointed as India’s new National Security Advisor, sources in the Prime Minister’s Office informed on Thursday.

An official order in this regard will be issued later in the day.

Menon retired as Foreign Secretary in August, ending a career marked him out as one of India’s best bureaucrats to hold the post. The fact that he superseded 12 seniors to be appointed to the post in 2006 when his equally capable predecessor Shyam Saran retired has more than paid off.