Bimal Jalan to be Finance Minister ?

Grapevine has it that former Governor of Reserve Bank of India Bimal Jalan is being appointed new Finance Minister.He is believed to have been sounded by the top BJP leaders.

Negi to be IG BSF !

J B Negi is being tipped to be IG ,Border Security Force. He is 1981 batch IPS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Vasudevan to retire

Secretary Food Processing in Government of India J Vasudevan is superannuating by this month end. He is 1968 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre.

Couple of 1972 batch IAS officers to be empanelled !

A couple of 1972 batch IAS officers are being empanelled to the rank of Additional Secretary in Government of India during review meeting this month end

Empanelment of 1984 batch IAS officers

Altogether 55 ,1984 batch IAS officers have been empanelled to the rank of Joint Secretary in Government of India.Those who have been empanelled reportedly,include Mssrs Jalaj Shrivastava,Ms Reena Ray,Rajni Kant Verma,Ramesh Negi,V Nagi Reddy,J Raymond Peter,Shailendra Kumar Joshi,Alok Kumar,K V Eapen,Ravi Kant,Ajay Kumar,P C Dalei,Arvind Agrawal, Chhotilal Meena,shyam Sunder Prasad,Navraj Sandhu, Tarun Shridhar,Ajay Tyagi,Arvind Mehta ,Rashima Gupta,B R Sharma,Uday Pratap Singh, Rajiv Kumar, Anand Kumar, V S Senthil,Basant Pratap Singh, Alok Shrivastava, Rashmi Shukla Sharma, Seva Ram,Ms Vijya Shrivastava.Jaideep Govind,Ms Malini Shankar,Ajoy Mehta,Ms Mitali Sen Gavai,Shailesh Kumar Sharma, A B P Pandey,Yash Pal Singh, Sunil Kumar Bhargava,A K Panda,Govind Sharma,Shreemat Pande,Lalit Mehra,T Jacob,G Ramakrishnan,Ram Chandra Pratap Singh, Dr Anoop Chandra Pandey,Kishan Singh Atoria,Rajesh Kumar Singh,Ram Das Meena,Rajpal Singh Kahlon,Ajay Kumar Bhalla..

Karunanidhi and BJP

It is widely believed in the political circles that DMK Chief K Karunanidhi and a few leaders close to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee are in touch with each other.What is the significance ? Meanwhile,on Wednesday Jayalalitha kept herself away from the reception accorded to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee at the Chennai airport.

Kalyan Chakravorty is DG of National Museum

Member-Secretary of Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts Kalyan Chakravorty has been given additional charge of DG National Museum.He is 1970 batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.

Senthil is PS Finance ,Kerala

V S Senthil has been given charge of Principal Secretary Finance in Kerala. He is 1984 batch IAS officer.

D R S Chaudhry to be JS Heavy Industries

D R S Chaudhry will be Joint Secretary Heavy Industries in Government of India. 1977 batch Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer is currently Principal Secretary Finance.

American school faces probe

The Bombay located American school faces probe for violation of the Indian law. The Enforcement Directorate and Foreign division in the Ministry of Home Affairs have reportedly issued show cause notices to the American school for major violation of FCRA (Foreign currency regulation Act) and FEMA.

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Prithviraj may not be appointed ED PNB !

Cabinet Secretary Kamal Pande is believed to have turned down the proposal to appoint K N Prithviraj as ED of the Punjab National Bank.

Official suspended in GAIL

A senior official in the Gas Authority of India is reported to have been suspended by CMD Prashanto Banerjee for meeting the press.A warning to GAIL officials.

Will P L Singh be advisor ?

Rumours are doing the round in North-Block that outgoing Chairman of the CBDT P L Singh will be appointed Advisor to Finance Minister Jaswant Singh and the orders to this effect will be issued on May 11.Will Cabinet Secretary Kamal Pande allow any such order before the formation of a new Government ?.