Dr Adarsh Kishore is back to North-Block

Secretary Heavy Industries Dr Adarsh Kishore is back to North-Block as designated Secretary Expenditure.1969 batch Rajasthan cadre IAS officer Dr Kishore will take over after the current incumbent D Swaroop demits office on March 31.Swaroop has been granted three months extension in service on January 1.

Will Baleshwar Rai be Secretary Heavy Industries ?

Name of Baleshwar Rai is doing the round for the post of Secretary Heavy Industries in the Government of India.He is 1970 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

Mitra to head NSG ?

Ashish Kumar Mitra is likely to be appointed DG NSG.1970 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officer Mitra is presently posted in the BSF.

Will Mehra be DG Bureau of Civil Aviation?

Shyam Ratan Mehta is being tipped to be new DG of the Bureau of Civil Aviation.1970 batch Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS officer Mehra is presently posted in the CRPF.

A K Upadhyay is Joint Secretary Defence

Joint Secretary Civil Aviation, Anil Kumar Upadhyay, has been moved to the Ministry of Defence in the same capacity. He is 1975 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.

IAS officer to quit ?

Grapevine has it that MD of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd. Santosh Kumar Mohapatra is leaving IAS to join the Private Sector in Orissa. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre.

Who will be National Security Adviser ?

Who will be new National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister? Names of Former Foreign Secretary and present Arunachal Pradesh Governor S K Singh and Vinod Grover have started doing the round.

Orders of Mooshahary in a day or two !

Formal orders of R S Mooshahary as DG BSF are expected to be issued in a couple of days.1967 batch Kerala cadre IPS officer Mooshahary is presently DG NSG.

Tenure of Dr Prakashvati Sharma to expire

Tenure of the Union Public Service Commission Member, Dr Mrs Prakashvati Sharma, will expire on February 7.

1989 batch IAS gets super-time scale in Chhattisgarh

1989 batch IAS officers in Chhattisgarh - Mssrs Amitabh Jain, M S Dhurve and B L Thakur have been given super-time scale in Chhattisgarh.

1979 batch IAS to be PS in Uttaranchal

Two 1979 batch IAS officers Alok Kumar Jain and Ms Vinita Kumar are being promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in Uttaranchal in a couple of weeks.

1978 batch IAS gets promotion in Punjab

Four 1978 batch IAS officers Mssrs Rakesh Singh,Gurinderjit Singh Sandhu,Sudhir Mittal and Ms Sujata Dass have been promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in Punjab.

Justice Kabir to be CJ of Jharkhand High Court

Justice Altamas Kabir of the Kolkata High Court will be the new Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court.

Shrivastava to join Settlement Commission

Member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) H O K Shrivastava is joining the Settlement Commission.

FORUM
Aaj Ki Aawaz

Bush called up Manmohan (Man) and offered to help…. sending US Ships and aid,
Man could have accepted monetary aid but knows why this offer to send ships was being made?

Fact is USA is itching to get a foothold in the A&N …..strategic for USA,
Both Indian and China look at this with dismay.

Had Man agreed, after the job US would have tried to keep its presence there by hook or crook,
Dominance and achievement by any means….going by the US World Domination book!!!

1500 Marines are already knocking at our door from Lanka…Lanka has accepted them with US Aid,
Beneficiaries of US Aid have to accept US Military assistance to make the Aid grade!!!

Initially Bush made an Aid offer that could be termed as peanuts,
His Security Advisor must have told him not to take advantage of this situation would be nuts!!!

Some say that had Vajpayee been the PM he would have accepted Bush's offer,
Like Man even Vajpayee would have been to the US offer a scoffer.

By the way why in the first place was there such negligence in sending info on the earthquake???
Had USA warned the region this would have reduced the human life intake.

But then this refusal of foreign Aid adds to Man's responsibility that he gets his Sarkaar's act together,
If he fails here he sure is in for some very rough weather.

He needs to depute the right people to guide and oversee this Herculean job,
At present with every passing day we are getting to hear a louder sob!!!

If it were to me I would say station the Disaster Management Team in Chenai…on hand,
On the spot decisions and monitoring is the situation's demand.

Insiders say Laloo and his cohorts had a gala time during the New Years within CM House confines,
Outside CMs house ticket seekers stood in lines!!!

Laloo is emotionally a dead man….all this people talk is just a sham,
For people and humaneness he cares a damn.

And yes during the New Years he did see his favourite Launda Naach….and danced with them too,
When it comes to crowning someone as the most Wicked Politician then crown would go to Laloo.

Paswan sings 'mein idhar jaaoo ya udhar jaaoo'……will ultimately go akelaa,
Has more to gain standing alone then enjoining with Congress or JD(U) his tehlaa.

Congress wants more than 100 seats in Bihar….Laloo looks at this with scorn,
Insiders say that on acceding Congress's demand Laloo says that question is not born!!

The contradictions of UPA will come to the fore in the Bihar elections ,
Maybe this will cause within the Alliance in the Centre certain corrections!!!

Chautala is in denial or he has predomination of a miracle coming his way,
But this is a fact that Bhajan and Chautala no longer look at each other with dismay.

Amrinder will be twiddling his thumbs in the Haryana elections….Haryana is out of bounds for Raja,
Whichever candidate he canvasses for …..uskaa baj jaye gaa band bajaa!!!!

Baby face Patil is in a quandary how to protect the political clout involved in the hooch matter,
With every day the political connection file is getting fatter!!!

Hulka Fulka

Vivek Oberoi has adopted a Tsunami affected village……what about others in Bollywood??
This is something they can and they should!!!

Time to become real heroes from reel heroes….unique opportunity,
Not to respond to such a calamity with the heart would indeed be a pity???

Ash says that she will have no qualms about kissing goras in Hollywood,
Wonder why she did not do so with desis in Bollywood???

Possible that she was protecting actors from Salmaan's wrath…Salmaan would have gone berserk,
As Ash's boyfriend and ex he was and is indeed a troublesome jerk.

Maybe Ash feels Bollywood actors are not hygienic enough,
Or maybe they are just not kissable stuff!!!

But she feels her first screen kiss in Hollywood will be the talk of the town back home,
Don't know about this but surely there will be a lot of noise from her pet gnome (Salmaan - height without heel shoes just 5 plus)!!!

Confucius says…..Actresses always lie about their age and kisses.
He continues …And sometimes lie about martial status….say they are Miss while they are actually Mrs.

Bharat Kumar

Message Board

Secretaries aspiring for Government assignment after their superannuation may be eager to know there exists a ministry in GOI from where not less than six secretaries have got the job. Who knows that ministry is auspicious or the person who have served all of them in that ministry.

Luxmi Narain

WHISPERS ---- CORPORATE WORLD :---

Is it a part of big politics ?

Grapevine has it that the inquiries - on petty issues against Power Grid Chairman RP Singh and NHPC Chairman Yogendra Prasad - are borne of some big politics in the Power sector. Is it true ?

Bureaucracy divided

Bureaucracy is these days said to have been divided into two - pro Anil Ambani and pro Mukesh Ambani. While those in Anil Ambani's group are said to be Samajwadi Party sympathizers, the others are said to be the supporters of the Congress.

Jha retires

CMPDI CMD M N Jha has retired.S K Chaudhry has been given charge.