Who will be Secretary Coal ?

Who will succeed Coal Secretary P K Mishra ?.Names of 1968 batch Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS officer Charan Das Arha and 1969 batch Himachal Pradesh cadre IAS officer Sarita Prasad are currently doing the round.P K Mishra is scheduled to superannuate on February 29.

Hakeem to join GoI

P M K Hakeem is all set to join the Government of India as Secretary in a month or two. He is 1969 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Sinha is Joint Secretary Fertilisers

Birendra Kumar Sinha has joined the Government of India as Joint Secretary Fertilisers. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Namita Datta gets fellowship

Namita Datta (IAS, 1991, UT) has been awarded a full fellowship by Merril Lynch for pursuing PhD at Cornell University, USA.

Uma Bharti to have nine advisers ?

Grapevine has it that on the advice of a religious saint Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti is going to have a total number of nine advisers.She has already appointed four advisers.

IAS officer to join UNDP

B Bhamathi is joining the UNDP.He is 1979 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

Promotions in Customs soon

DPC of the 1983 and 1984 batch officers is complete for the promotion to the rank of Commissioner in customs.

Rajiv is CVO FCI

Rajiv is joining the Food Corporation of India as CVO. He is 1975 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh

N N Upadhyay will now be Principal Secretary Transport.M P Agrawal has been appointed DM Lalitpur . Umeash Kumar Mittal has been made Special Secretary Revenue.

Is the allegation of Salman Khurshid true ?

In a meet with Whispers, Congress Think Tank, Salman Khurshid said yesterday in Chandigarh that BJP was guilty of saffronising the bureaucray at the centre and agreed that bureaucrats who are considered close to Congress leaders in Congress ruled states are deliberately being kept away from key deputations at Govt of India.Khurshid remarked, " This practice will limit both Governance and democracy. It's disgraceful and dangerous too."

Half a dozen 1982 batch IPS officers in Uttar Pradesh have been promoted to the rank of IG. They are Mssrs Om Prakash Tripathi,Vijay Kumar Gupta,Praveen Singh,Ram Dev,Surya Kumar and S K Garg.

1990 batch IPS is DIG in TamilNadu

Eight 1990 batch IPS officers Mssrs Shankar Jiwal,A K Vishvanathan,Seema Agrawal,T V Ravichandran,T P Sundaramurthy,Abash Kumar K Gopalkrishnan and N Chenharaman have been promoted to the rank of DIG in TamilNadu.

1987 batch IPS promoted in UP

1987 batch IPS officers including Mukul Goyal,R P Singh,Virendra Kumar and Bhavesh Kumar Singh have been promoted to the rank of DIG in Uttar Pradesh.

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Indian Airlines reduces loss

Would you believe,the Indian Airlines has reduced losses and the credit goes to young and dynamic Chairman cum Managing Director Sunil Arora. Even as IA passed through the most turbulent times in aviation history, following the events of September 11, the Iraq War, and SARS, IA has been able to reduce its losses from Rs. 246.75 crores in 2001-02 to Rs. 196.56 crores in 2002-03. Incidentlly there has not been one single day of industrial unrest on the entire IA network in the past many years.

Tata Tea MD to continue ?

Grapevine has it that Tata Tea MD H R Khusrokhan is going to continue as MD.His three year term is to expire on Wednesday.

Keni to be promoted next week

Deputy Managing Director of the State Bank of India Ashok Keni is being elevated as Managing Director next week.

Madhukar to retire

CMD of the United Bank Madhukar is retiring on March 1.