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Dua and Sisodia in race !

Names of 1971 batch IAS officer A K Dua and 1968 batch retired IAS officer N S Sisodia have started doing the round for the post of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission Chairman.

Leena Nandan is new JS Tourism

Ms Leena Nandan will be the new Joint Secretary Toursim in the Government of India. She is 1987 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.

Now three names in circulation

After the appointment of Madhukar Gupta in the MHA now three names have started doing the round for the post of Secretary Sports and Youth Welfare. They are Ajay Shankar, M N Prasad and Dr H S Anand.

It was his wife's birthday gift for Home secr

His appointment as the new Home Secretary in the GoI was his wife's birthday gift for Madhukar Gupta. The message about his appointment as the new Home secretary reached him around 9 PM on Saturday while he was busy celebrating with his family members the birthday of his wife. Meanwhile,Gupta has joined the MHA as OSD on Monday.He will take over from V K Duggal on March 31.

Madan to be Additional DG Archaeology ?

Vijay Shankar Madan is likely to be appointed Additional Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India. He is 1981 batch IAS officer of UT cadre.

No recommendation of the Pay Commission

Sixth Pay Commission has not made any kind of recommendation about raising the retirement age of the central government employees from 60 to 62 years.

Dey is new DGP of Meghalaya

B.K. Dey Sawian has taken over as new DGP of Meghapaya. He is 1973 batch IPS officer. W.R. Marbaniang, DGP, Meghalaya, has been suddenly shifted to Home Guards

Empanelment of 1986 batch IPS soon

Empanelment of 1986 batch IPS officers to the rank of IG is expected to take place in a couple of months.

Inflation to continue

The survey by several marketing organizations including Citigroup has revealed that inflation will not come down during next Eight weeks. This is significant because by that time Uttar Pradesh assembly polls would be over.

Narendra Tripathi joins NDTV

Narendra Tripathi has joined NDTV as Vice President. So far he was CEO of the Dainik Jagran group's FM channel. He will look after NDTV Metro & NDTV Lifestyle.

Gulati is back to Gujarat

Sujit Gulati is back to the parent Gujarat cadre after completion of central deputation tenure. On return 1985 batch IAS officer, Gulati, has been appointed Secretary Mining and Geology.

1991 to be DIG in Bihar

1991 batch IPS officers are being promoted to the rank of DIG in Bihar next month.

1993 batch IPS gets DIG rank in J & K

Two 1993 batch IPS officers Gulzar Singh and Deepak Kumar have been promoted to the rank of DIG in J & K.1988 batch IPS officer Mohammad Amin Shah has also been given DIG rank.

PM cautioned

The Defence Ministry is understood to have cautioned the Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh about grim law and order situation in Asam. It is learnt that higher ups in the Army have conveyed this to Singh through the Defence Ministry while urging the PM to take appropriate measures or the state will be driven towards anarchy with ULFA activists controlling more and more districts.

IAS changes in Uttar Pradesh

Prabhash Jha will be Divisional Commissioner Jhansi.Ashish Goyal has been appointed DM of Allahabad.

A jolt to Star India

The Hindustan Uniliver Ltd(HLL)-one of the biggest advertisement spender with a mark of Rs.1200 crore annually,has completely banned its advertisement campaign on Star India. Perhaps this is the first fall out in the wake of exit by Peter Mukherjea and Sameer Nair from the Star India. As the grapevine has it the Star has also lost out on TRPs after implementation of CAS in India.

Ye dosti Amar Rahai

Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf may have enjoyed a personal friendship, but away from the limelight present PM Dr.Manmohan Singh and Gen Mushartraf share closer ties.This was explicit when Justice Bhagwan Das -1st Hindu to be anointed as the Chief Justice of Pakistan(CJP),has been India for quite sometime. It is learnt that for a couple of days he was cocooned at the residence of Pakistani High Commissioner to India in Delhi.The CJP is likely to depart from India only after heat and dust settles down in Pakistan. Concerning agencies in India have ensured that media had no access to him.

Congress wooing Muslims

With UP assembly polls just round the corner ,leaders in Congress party have begun to approach Muslim clergy leaders like :Maulana Madani, Maulana A.K.Parikh, Maulana Kabe Sadiq ,Maulana Rabey and Maulana Ahmed Bukhari.This time around these clergymen are asking regarding report card of the Congress party vis a vis three year old regime of UPA.As the grapevine has it they are quite annoyed with top muslim leadership in the Congress who have not only ignored common muslims during this period but have virtually done nothing for their welfare.

IPS reshuffle in UP

D S Singh and K L Meena will be new IG,s of Lucknow and Gorakhpur respectively.R R Verma and Chandra Prakash will be new DIG,s of Allahabad and Moradabad respectively.Jyoti Narayan has been made SSP of Lucknow.Rajeev Krishna will be SSP of Barelley.Shachi Ghildiyal has been moved to Maharajganj as SP.

HIV test for new comers in Defence?

Are recruits to the Armed Forces going to face Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) tests before being inducted? 'Yes', if a proposal moved by the Directorate of General Armed Forces Medical Services is taken into account. It may be stated here that as per the existing policy, Armed Forces carry out a thorough medical test of candidates to rule out a number of known infectious diseases before recruitment. The HIV also falls under the category of infectious diseases.

Cruise shipping policy on the anvil

A cruise shipping policy to promote river tourism is on the anvil. A number of steps to boost cruise passenger tourism in the country have been taken by Delhi it is learnt.

Insurance of girls on anvil

A proposal is under consideration of the Indian Government for providing an insurance cover to girl child as a safety net and also to enable the girl to receive a lump sum at the age of 18 years with suitable medical and educational components, to ensure her survival and overall development. Another proposal for a Conditional Cash and non-cash Transfer Scheme to ensure overall welfare of the Girl child too is under consideration, it is learnt. However, the transfers are based on fulfillment of four important conditions like birth registration of the girl child, immunization, her retention in school and delaying her age of marriage beyond 18 years.

IPS changes in Haryana

M.S. Mann has been appointed IGP, Home Guards. K.P. Singh will go as IGP, Haryana Police Academy, Madhuban. K.K. Sindhu will be IG, Crime, K.K. Mishra has been made IG Security. Sudhir Mohan has been moved as Director, Sports. M.S. Ahlawat has been shifted to State Vigilance Bureau. Ajay Singhal has been posted as SP, State Vigilance Bureau, Paramjit Singh Ahlawat will be SP, CID and Satender Kumar Gupta will be ASP Guhla.

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Good move to increase the retirement age

It would be a good move to increase the retirement age upto 65 years for all bureaucrats. In earlier days a person used to join government service generally at the age of 24 years. Now the trend is first to aquire professional qualifications and then join government service. Officers now join at the age of abot 27 to 30 years with professional qualifications like LL.B, MBA, Engineering, Medicine etc. Consequently their life gets settled around 62 years instead of 60 years. Further, even the average age of an Indian has now enhanced because of good medical aids and an officer continues to remain active and mentally alert upto the age of 70 years. This already stands proved as the teachers and bureaucrats in CIC, Tribunals, judges etc are already working upto the age of 65 years. Therefore is would be a correct move to increase the retirement age of bureaucrats upto the age of 65 years.
Deepak Singh

In praise of the President

Yes. It should be done before he relinquishes the Post. He has been our best performing President. If the government and the political parties all over India, just take up only 10% of his suggestions for phased and planned development of India in the next 10 years, India would be free of many ills like water shortage, unemployment, poverty etc. He has truly acted as a Statesman and not a politician or a bureaucrat.
Vinod Passy

Aaj Ki Aawaz

UPA is becoming more and more fragile,
Congress needs to take a reality heck….. pause and think for a while!!

With majority reducing UPA allies are going to get more and more demanding,
Alliance will become more and more difficult commanding!!

UPA is now looking more and more like Under Pressure Alliance,
And now there's bound to be more and more defiance!!!

Its evident that now within the Treasury Benches there are trenches,
As we all know in the thirst for power only power quenches!!!

Of course on other hand power is also a big bond,
Reason enough that for the UPA the Allies may remain fond!!!

And another factor is that Allies are not doing too well,
In their strongholds people in all probability will tell Allies to go to hell!!

Karuna, Pawar and Laloo are on sticky wickets in their strongholds,
All three have lost holds!!!

And remember Commies are now loosing ground,
Mamtha is bound to do well the in the next electoral round!!

Captain Amrinder Singh has gone AWOL….. deserted his moondas (boys)!!!
Ran away after threatening that all troubling his moondas would be made toondas (cripples)!

It was known that if he lost elections he would run away,
Because he knew that for his acts of omission and commission he would have to pay!!!

He knew what he had sowed he would be made to reap,
And it's alleged that in scandals he's neck deep!!!

Now he and Chahal will send Medical Certificates to be excused from Court appearances,
But fact is guilt is obvious by their sudden disappearances!!

And see the gall of Amrinder…. he says he's not responsible for Chahal's actions,
He's not only responsible for Chahal's actions but also on Chahal's ways his inactions!!

Was he blind to Chahal's rocketing affluence??
And the way Chahal misused his influence!!!

Rahul must put more emotion in his speeches…. can he take tuitions from Vajpayee!!!
Maybe he can make this request to Vajpayee via his Mai ( mother)!!!

Emotion in speeches is the namak, mirch and masala….. emotionless one's are feeka,
Speeches should be abs theeka ( spicy)!!!

Sukhbir Badal's line that was a hit…… in this age of buy one and get the other free,
He had said , "If you vote for Akali candidate then for free you'll get me (him)."

These are the kind of things that make people sit up and take note,
And these are the things that remain in their heads when they vote!!!

Spicing up speeches like Amar Singh way is not right,
Elections should not be personal slanging….. it's not a personal fight!!

Kamalnath ji please think before you speak,
Like they say look before you take a leak!!

His one statement is at odds with the other,
First he says Land Acquisitions (LA) and SEZs cannot be linked and then LA's are a bother!!

Even on Retail he indulges in talk that is double,
For UPA this man orally is causing trouble!!!

Could the good Doctor Manmohan give him a check up and give him a prescription,
Best prescription in Kamalnath's case is let him know his disease ka description!!

If India does not make it in the Last Eight it'll be ....all dressed up and nowhere to go!!
All the hoopla created will in the face of hoopla creators blow!!!

Public feels that our cricketers concentrate more on ads than on their game,
Taking the game for granted sure is a shame!!!

When they are supposed to be practicing they are busy shooting for ads,
Or indulging in their personal fads!!!

If India does not make it to last eight our Team should be disbanded,
Marching orders all should be handed!!

India should stop playing International cricket for a year,
For one in International cricket India should be put in neutral gear!!

Let the players go through the domestic circuit grind,
And based on performance Selectors team karre find!!!

All fun and no game has made our Team dull,
These suggetions BCCI should mull!!!

Bharat Kumar

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22 internal candidates to appear for GAIL interview

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Kerala floats International Airlines

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IRTC's new venture

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Dr Vasudeva joins RPG

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Mehta is Vice President Emami

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Dr Ananthakrishnan is MD of Fulford

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Joshipura is GlaxoSmithKline MD

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