Poonia is JS Labour

D S Poonia is the new Joint Secretary Labour in Government of India. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Gulam Nabi and Shinde to be General Secretaries !

Gulam Nabi Azad and Sushil Kumar Shinde are being appointed General Secretaries of the AICC after the Gujarat elections.

Rajiv Sinha to be DRM Agra

Rajiv Sinha will be new DRM of the newly created Agra Division.

1972 batch IPS reunion in Hyderabad

1972 batch IPS officers are meeting in Hyderabad this month end to mark the completion of 30 years in service.

Media Whipers

Sweeping changes in the Media world are taking place.Arup Ghosh,Afsha Anjum,Sikta Dev,Aparna Kala,Arun Lotia and Sushil Bahuguna are set to join the Star News.Bhopal based regional chief of "Aaj Tak"Rajesh Badal has got offers from Star News as well as New Delhi Telivision(NDTV) Punya Prasoon,Naghma and Narendra Pal Singh are also likely to join the NDTV.Of them Narendra Pal Singh has joined as the Editor "Inputs."Dibang had recently joined the NDTV while Ishwar Singh Dost would be joining the Bhopal bureau of NDTV .There are also reports of Pankaj Pachauri going elsewhere.New Delhi based Special Correspondent of "Nava Bharat Times" Prakash Dube is joining as Editor of Hindi daily "Dainik Bhaskar" at Nagpur.

Level of politics

. How low has the level of politics reached now?Any guesses? Well, in a high profile party of select people it was being debated whether Mr.Atal Bihari Vajpayee would lay down his life while serving as the PM or not.Quoting some of the astrologers, a business leader said "Atalji would have the distinction of dying while being in the PMO."

IPS changes in Assam

Rajendra Kumar will be IG Border.Gunottam Bhuyan has been appointed IG Vigilance AC & BIEO.Bhaskar Jyoti Mohanta on promotion has been posted as DIG PHQ.Umesh Kumar will now be DIG (T & AP).K K Nath has been made CVO ASEB.

Seven IPS officers to retire this month

Seven IPS officers are superannuating this month end. They are Mssrs G Alfred (Andhra Pradesh), Anil Kumar Singh (Bihar),L D Narwal (Haryana),S S Puri (Maharastra),S A Jamir (Nagaland),S Rathinasabapathy (TamilNadu)and Satya Ranjan Das (West Bengal).

Sunaina Tomar is new Ahemdabad Collector

Sunaina Tomar has been appointed new Collector of Gujarat. She is 1989 batch IAS officer. Election Commission had directed the state government to post Ms Tomar as Collector Ahemdabad.

Additional charge to Kiran Avtar Singh

Finance Secretary Chandigarh administration Karan Avtar Singh has been given additional charge of Chairman State Transport Authority.

Satish Ganesh is new SP Pratapgarh

After the posting of Mohammad Mustafa as DM Satish Ganesh has been appointed SP of Pratapgarh. Both the officers are considered to be hard task masters. Pratapgarh is the home district of dissident MLA Raja Bhaiyya.