B K Chaturvedi to take charge today

Bal Krishna Chaturvedi is taking over as Cabinet Secretary on Monday. He is 1966 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.Chaturvedi is youngest in his batch.

Kamal Pande unlikely to join

Cabinet Secretary Kamal Pande is unlikely to join as Secretary of the Inter-State Council Secretariat .The Government has appointed Pande as Secretary for a period of Five months.

Three batches are superseded for Shyam Saran

The appointment of Shyam Saran as Foreign Secretary has taken complete bureaucracy by surprise.It has never happened in the past when three consecutive batches in Foreign Service have been bypassed for the top job.The topper of 1970 batch IFS Saran has superseded more than 10 officers senior to him. Moreover he is very close relative of the previous Foreign Minister.The grapevine in South Block is that some of the superseded officers, who are also very competent, are planning to go to the court. Only time will tell how things will unfold in South Block.

Ronen Sen to be Ambassador to US

Outgoing India's High Commissioner in London is being tipped to be new Ambassador to Washington.

Kanwal Sibbal to be Ambassador to Russia

Former Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibbal is all set to succeed K Raghunath as India's Ambassador to Russia next month.

Will Dhirendra Singh be Defence Secretary ?

Secretary Disinvestment Dhirendra Singh is likely to be appointed Secretary Defence. He is 1968 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

R Poornalingam to be Secretary Petroleum ?

Now scenerio has changed.1970 batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre is likely to be appointed Secretary Petroleum.Earlier name of Poornalingam was being mentioned for the post of Secretary Textiles.

Prem Kumar is out of the race

Now R M Prem Kumar 1968 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre is unlikely to be made Secretary Home in Government of India.Former CAG V K Shunglu must be knowing the reason ?.

Who will be Secretary Home ? Chawla or Joseph ?

Who will be Secretary Home in Government of India. Now the tie is said to be between Secretary Shipping D T Joseph and Secretary Information and Broadcasting Naveen Chawla.Joseph is 1968 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS officer while Chawla is 1969 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Ashok Vijayvargiya to be CS of Chhattisgarh

Ashok Vijayvargiya is being tipped to be new Chief Secretary of Chhattisgarh.He is 1969 batch IAS officer.Chhattisgarh Chief Secretary S K Mishra has been appointed Chairman of the State Electricity Regulatory Authority.

Suresh Kumar to be UP-Lokayukta of Maharashtra !

Suresh Kumar is expected to be made UP-Lokayukta of Maharashtra.He is 1968 batch IAS officer.

Will Jadhav be Secretary Home Maharashtra ?

A K D Jadhav is likely to be appointed Principal Secretary Home in Maharashtra.He is 1970 batch IAS officer.

Goyal to return Maharashtra

Central deputation tenure of Shyam Lal Goyal will expire next week. He is 1985 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

R K Yadav is PS to Prem Chand Gupta

Ramesh Kumar Yadav is the PS to Union Minister of State for Company Affairs Prem Chand Gupta.He is 1987 batch IRS officer.

Sailesh is PS to Santosh Mohan Deb

Sailesh is the PS to Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Santosh Mohan Deb. He is 1985 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre.

IPS reshuffle in Andhra Pradesh

There is major IPS reshuffle in Andhra Pradesh.New changes are as under :-

Additional DG, Human Rights H R Kataria OSD in AP Bhavan, Koteswara Rao Additional DGP, APSP Battalions. A Sivanarayana Special IG, Intelligence, Hyderabad P Koteswar Rao DIG, Nizamabad range. Ish Kumar will be IG, Office of the DG and IGP. J Purnachandra Rao DIG, Special Intelligence. Satyanarayana DIG, Intelligence, Hyderabad. B L Meena DIG Warangal range. N Jayarami Reddy DIG, Anantapur range. Govind Singh DIG, CID. V Naveen Chand, East Godavari SP Rajiv Ratan SP, Karimnagar Kripanand Tripathi Ujela SP, Adilabad. R S Praveen Kumar Group Commander, Greyhounds. Venugopala Krishna SP, Chittoor. M V Ramachandra Raju is posted as SP, CID. Abhilasha Bisht, waiting for posting, is Commandant, Special Armed Reserve. V V Srinivasa Rao SP Special Intelligence Nalini Prabhat has been kept for Central services. K Narasimha Reddy Eluru range DIG. Jitendar DCP, SB. Sandeep Shandilya SP, Intelligence. D Tirumala Rao DIG, Hyderabad range. C V Narasiah, DGP's Office.IG, National Police Academy, Tejdeep Kaur Menon, now Additional Commissioner of Police, Traffic. Counter-Intelligence SP Srinivasulu is now DCP, Central Zone. Kumar Viswajeeth, waiting for posting, has been posted as DCP, North Zone. Amit Garg, waiting for posting on return from Central deputation is DCP Crime-1 West Godavari superintendent of Police K Raja Ratnam Naidu is posted as DCP Crime-2 DCP, City Security, N Suryanarayana is transferred as DCP, Traffic-1. Anantapur Police Training Centre principal J G Murali comes in as DCP, Traffic-2. DCP, Central Zone, C V Anand SP, CID. DCP, Special Branch, N Jayarami Reddy goes out as DIG, Anantapur range . DCP, Cyberabad Traffic, Bhavna Saxena goes out as SP, Khammam. Kripanand Tripathi Ujala, Adilabad SP. S A Sattar DIG, Karimnagar range. DIG, Hyderabad range, C R Naidu goes to the CID. Shika Goel DCP Traffic, Cyberabad.
SP Adilabad Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagawat DCP, Law and Order, Cyberabad. Gautam Sawang, APSP, Kurnool. M V Ramachandra Raju, SP, CID. D T Naik, IG (Organisation). C R Naidu, DIG, CID. C V Narasaiah, DIG of Eluru Range, now DIG, Welfare.* Vijayawada Police Comm-issioner A B Venkateswarlu was shifted as DIG, Kurnool range. (Warangal range DIG T Krishna Prasad has been transferred and posted as Vijayawada Police Commissioner)V V Srinivasa Rao SP (SIB). SP Nellore K V Rajendranath Reddy is DCP City Security Wing. C V Anand SP, CID.
Chief Security Officers of former CM Chandrababu Naidu - P Umapathi and Abraham Lincoln - got postings as Assistant IG (Welfare) and SP Counter-Intelligence.Other changes are:-.
IG Special Protection Force C N Gopinath Reddy will head the Andhra region. IG Intelligence C Ratna Reddy, will head the newly created Hyderabad region. DCP Crime K Narasimha Murthy has been made West Godavari SP. B Shivadhar Reddy Nellore SP. K Srinivasa Reddy has been appointed Warangal SP.

IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh

Ajit Kumar Seth will be new Principal Secretary PWD,Pritam Singh has been made PS health and Medical Education.P K Sinha will be PS irrigation.Atul Gupta has been appointed PS Labour.Abdul Qasim Faruquee has been shifted to Allahbad as Divisional Commissioner.N N Upadhyay has been posted as PS Ambedkar Rural Development.Gangaram Barua will be Secretary Transport.R K Mittal has been appointed Principal Secretary Passport and Visa.Mritunjay Narain Singh will be Special Secretary Planning.

IAS officer suspended in Rajasthan

Rajasthan Government has suspended 1985 batch IAS officer Ravi Shankar Shrivastava.

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Aaj Ki Awaz

Munna Bhai MBBS was a fantastic movie…a super hit….and now Munna Bhai LLB is on the drawing board. Some say that Sharukh is planning a movie on Sonia that will end with Sonia declining the PM's post. Govinda should make a movie on Laloo…. Laloo Bhai PM………Laloo has prophesised that one day he will become the PM of India. This should give Indians nightmares …..ek Laloo is desh ko khalaas kar saktha hai…this should make Indians PM……Pessimistically Morose.

After Tendulkar's in Mumbia now Kapil Dev has his Retreat in Chandigarh…..Kapitan's Retreat……though it is obvious that the spelling mistake is intentional…. Kapitan….half Kapil and half Captain……but people who have doubted Kapil's English prowess are saying that this confirms that he cannot spell in English. This Retreat is supposed to be a Boutique Hotel!!!!! Well, with a host of his buddies in Chandigarh…and all said to be moochers…..Kapil has found a way to say no to the freeloaders …. No discounts are permissible in Boutique Hotels!!!! Kapil Bhaji da jawab nahi.

Milkha Singh is angry again……the last time he got angry was when he was refused a Rajya Sabha ticket by the NDA Government. Milkha is rightly angry this time at the shoddy treatment to Indian sportsmen for the Olympic Torch run in Delhi. But, Kalamadi argues that they needed crowds and crowds come with Bollywood Stars.

By the way the way Kalamadi ran the opening run made one wonder if the torch was that heavy that poor Kalamadi was finding it difficult to run……actually Kalamadi has so much on his mind that this was weighing him down. Kalamadi a one time Lieutenant of Pawar had parted ways with Pawar and now is worried that Pawar or Praful Patel may take to sport and become unsporting and make the going tough for him….remember Sport Events are big business…..and even bidding for Olympics is big business…..and Olympics is the ultimate business opportunity.

By the way during his Delhi visit this time Milkha is reported to have argued his case with some Congress Politicians!!!!! He carried with him a dossier of Newspaper reports about his travails during NDA's time. Someone later commented that thank God Milkha did not win a Bronze medal or he would have demanded Presidentship of India and in case he had won a Gold he would have stopped at nothing less than President for Life of India. Milkha runs fast but his ambitions run faster than him.

Amitabh swears that his Political days are over…..he says he does not have a political bone in his body. However, his better half….Jaya….wants to test the Political waters and is on the Rajya Sabha nomination list of SP.. Laloo could play dirty and nominate Rekha to Parliament ……..next WWF ( World Wrestling Federation Event) Star bout would be between Amar Singh , The Flip Flop Man versus Laloo, Lohpathgamini (Railway Engine) Man.

By the way now Amar Singh has positioned Akhilesh Singh to answer Rahul's statements. He says the kid in their Party will respond to the kid in Congress…...hope their spats are reported in an animated form so that kids understand the spats…….by kids, of kids and for kids. Amar Sigh has also vowed never to enter 10 Janpath again……..in other words he means that now mountain will come to Mohammed!!!! May I ask how will this dream come true??????

B Kumar

Tail -Piece

Following conversation between Banatwala and Laloo Yadav was overheard by a political hanger-on in a railway coupe on an overnight rail journey from central capital to state capital.
(B) - Banatwala
(L) - Laloo Yadav

B: Lalooji, are you a Hindu ?
L: No.
B: Are you a Muslim ?
L: No.
B: Are you a Sikh ?
L: No.
B: Then are you a Christian ?
L: No Sir.
B: Then how do you claim to be a secular ?
L: Very simple. I am a Yadav.
B: How does that relate to secularism ?
L: Very simple. Blood divides we Indians : Milk unites us .
B: Then what about Mulayam Singh Yadav ?
L: With Amar Singh in his cauldron Mulayam is split milk. Of no use to any abody.
Understand.
B: Thank you .

NB: Thereafter both retired to sleep.

KAYPEE.
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Minister got interview cancelled

Scheduled interview for the post of CMD BSNL on June 9 did not take place.Infact,the new Union Telecommunications Minister got interview cancelled.

Kaul is GM Hotel Meridian,Kathmandu

Raman Kaul General Manager of Hotel Taj ,Calicut has joined the Hotel Meridian at Kathmandu.