Bandopadhyaya to retire

Secretary - Consumer Affairs in the Government of India, S Bandopadhyaya, is superannuating this month end. He is 1965 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.

Sonia starts asserting

Gone are the days when the Congress High Command used to look to others while taking decisions. With the power of the party growing in the states, she has now started asserting instead of succumbing to the pressures of the party stalwarts.

IAS changes in Jharkhand

Manoj Kumar will be the new Joint Secretary - Tourism and Vinay Kumar Chaubey has been appointed Additional Secretary - Science and Technology while Sunil Kumar has been made Additional Secretary - Urban Development Department.

Maheshwari and Agrawal to be promoted

I980 batch IPS officer K K Maheshwari and 1981 batch IPS officer P N Agrawal are likely to be promoted as Joint Commissioner - Police in Delhi soon.

Banshri Bose to move as Deputy High Commissioner

Banshri Bose Harrison is all set to move as Deputy High Commissioner to Pretoria. Bose is posted in the NDC.

Tenure of Pujari expires

Tenure of A K Pujari Additional DG, DGFT expired on Friday. He is 1980 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Balakrishnan is new ED - Andhra Bank

R Balakrishnan has taken over as the new Executive Director of Andhra Bank .He was earlier General Manager of the Corporation Bank.

Manipur to have separate High Court

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has assured that separate bench of the Manipur High Court would be set up.

IAS officer manhandled

Andhra Pradesh Director Public Relations S Balasubramanyam who is 1977 batch IAS officer was manhandled by a BJP MLA on Friday when he tried to prevent him from entering the media enclosure at the opening ceremony of National Games.

Haryana to have new department

Haryana Government has decided to set up new department of Parliamentary Affairs under the administrative control of the Chief Secretary.

IAS officer removed in Bihar

Saran Divisional Commissioner Pancham Lal has been removed from the post for making derogatory and objectionable speech against the politicians at Sonpur in the presence of two Bihar Ministers.

BJP to repeat Gujarat in MP!

Is the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) going to repeat Gujarat experiment in Madhya Pradesh? Answer to this question is in affirmative if one goes by the grapevine in corridors of power at New Delhi.Union Minister for Coal and Mines Miss Uma Bharati is all set to become state BJP chief in MP by the end of next month. She is set to hold reins of the party for MP assembly polls due to be held in November, next.

Overhaul in AICC on the anvil.

After the Gujarat poll verdict an overhaul in All India Congress Committee (AICC) is on the anvil. Many heads are going to roll. Mainly it would include change in Chief Ministers of two Congress ruled states and a couple of AICC office bearers.

Atal Bihari to step down!

Rumour mill in Delhi says that in the light of Gujarat verdict Atal Bihariji is going to step down from the Prime Ministership on health grounds and L K Advani will succeed him.Another rumour is doing the round that if he is forced to step down then he is expected to push the name of Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat as his heir to the gaddi of "Prime Minister."

Narendra Modi to be BJP's star campaigner.

After BJP's landslide victory in Gujarat, Narendra Modi has emerged as the star campaigner of the party. Narendra Modi would continue, as the Gujarat Chief Minister for six months only to be replaced by Keshubhai Patel .And Modi, would be made to undertake a countrywide tour for boosting morale of party cadres.