Jaswant Singh - the only one !

Jaswant Singh is probably the only Union Minister to whom not one or two but as many as four secretaries are reporting. The secretaries are S Narayan Economic Affairs, Vinod Dhal Company Affairs,C S Rao Expenditure and, of course A V Singh Revenue.

Supreme Court to have seven vacancies

Seven vacancies of Judges are going to arise in the Supreme Court during the year 2002-2003.Total strength of the Judges is 26.

Anoop Poojari to go as Visiting Professor

Dr Anoop Poojari of Karnatak cadre who is Additional Director General for Foreign Trade in the Ministry of Commerce, New Delhi, is going to Harvard University as a visiting Professor in Economics. He has been teaching there for more than ten years now, every summer. He also has a Phd from USA.

Income Tax Commissioners changed

Transfer orders of 15 Income Tax Commissioners have been issued. New postings are as under : Mssrs B R Kaushik CIT 1 Agra, Poonam Saxena CIT (A) III Jaipur, R K Tiwari DIT Investigations Kanpur, D P Panta CI (ITAT) Allahbad, J S Arora CIT XV Mumbai, G K Maheshwari CIT (A) XV11 Mumbai, P R Sothi CIT (ITAT) VI Mumbai, M P Lohia DIT (FT) Mumbai, A K Bharadwaj CIT (OSD) Delhi, Harniyal Singh CIT (OSD) Delhi,S N Prasad CIT (OSD) Delhi, S Chalinpan CIT (A) Tirupati,A P Pawar CIT IV Nagpur,Aditya Vikram CIT (Audit) Mumbai and J K Patnaik CIT VI Mumbai.

Assam : No bank loans

Further apprehending poor recovery, the banks in Assam have stopped giving loans for any purpose. They are however catering to the requirements of those who are outside the state.

Four new High Court Judges in Andhra Pradesh

President has appointed Mssrs Pemmasani Sankara Narayana, Gorla Rohini, Tamda Gopal Krishna and Lingala Narasimha Reddy as judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.

DIG killed in road accident

Uttar Pradesh cadre 1984 batch IPS officer Rajiv Narain Shrivastava was killed in a road accident on Friday. He was DIG EOW.

Define a corrupt officer !

Define a corrupt officer ? The discussions at a high society cocktail party veered around the above question. Topics ranging from latest fashion to two bachelors going to head top slots i.e. the President and Prime Minister were discussed. Then discussion revolved around corruption. A businessman said that in the last millennium one could count corrupt officials on his fingertips. But, now it is just the reverse. Now one can count honest officials on his fingertips.

V.C.Shukla & Jogi

What is the former Union Minister Vidhya Charan Shukla upto? He is assessing the situation. As the grapevine has it, certain IAS and IPS officials - who are opposed to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister, Ajit Jogi - are clandestinely backing the senior Congress leader. Who these people are?

TamilNadu High Court Judges to have cellphones

The High Court Judges in Tamil Nadu will soon be seen carrying cellphones with roaming facility. The government has recently sanctioned the above facility for the sitting Judges with roaming facility.Altogether there are 31 High Court Judges in the state.

Spilling the beans

One of the Assam Minister Ardhendu K Dey is so unhappy with the Additional Chief secretary JP Rajkhowa that he even took a press conference against the officer and spilled the beans.
HP cadre IAS to join Uttranchal Government
1993 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS officer if soon going on deputation to the Uttranchal Government.