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Mohapatra to be Additional Secretary Mining
J K Mohapatra is being tipped to be new Additional Secretary Mining in the Government of India. He is 1979 batch IAS officer of Orissa cadre.
Vivek Joshi tipped to be Joint Secretary Women & Child Welfare
As the grapevine has it, Vivek Joshi is going to be appointed as Joint Secretary in Women & Child Welfare department (WCD). He is an IAS officer of the 1989 batch who belongs to the Haryana cadre. At present he is Managing Director, HARTRON and Special Secretary to Government, Haryana, Electronics & Information Technology Department and Director, Electronics & Information Technology, Haryana.
MEA to keep vacant the counselor’s post in The Hague
As the grapevine has it, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is going to keep the post of Counselor in The Hague vacant. So far Sailas Thangal held it. However this Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1996 batch on his return from The Hague has assumed the charge as Director External Publicity in the MEA.
Review of IAS officers after budget session ?
Review of IAS officers belonging from 1982 to 1989 batch for the rank of Joint Secretary in the Government of India is reportedly going to take place after the budget session of the Parliament.
Pramod Kumar Rastogi appointed Member, TDSAT
Pramod Kumar Rastogi, a 1974 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre has been appointed as new Member in the Telecom Disputes Settlement And Appellate Tribunal(TDSAT). The slo fell vacant ever since incumbent Member Sarma went to TRAI. Rastogi had retired as Secretary Steel in GOI on September 30, 2009 .
(We said this on August 27, 2009)
Arun Sahu to be Deputy DG, Economic Intelligence
Arun Sahu a Commissioner level officer of Central Board of Excise & Customs has been appointed as Deputy Director General(DG) of the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau .
Now appointments after consultation with Lt Gen Singh
If insiders are to be believed, all senior level appointments in the Indian Army are being made after consultation with the Army Chief designate Lt Gen V K Singh.
Rajeshwar Rao promoted in RBI
Rajeshwar Rao has been promoted to the rank of Chief General Manager in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Will Anil Mehta replace Bharat Chaturvedi ?
GM Sales in the Air India Anil Mehta is likely to replace Bharat Chaturvedi as GM Ground Handling Northern Region.
DD Lapang wants Meghalaya to be no.1 in the NE
Meghalaya Chief Minister DD Lapang is striving hard to turn the state Meghalaya as number state in the North East. He is Chief Minister of the state for 5th time.
Winning global awards has a different meaning for Bihar CM
Winning global awards has a different connotation for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who is who is sticking to grassroots & trying to ensure uplift of havenots while attracting investments. He knows to win global awards is a good thing but they cannot ensure return of any party to power.
T Radhakrishnan soon be elevated as ADG
As the grapevine has it, T Radhakrishnan is soon going to be elevated as ADG in Tamil Nadu. He is an IPS officer of the 1984 batch who belongs to the Tamil Nadu cadre.
PESB for appraisal of IOC chief's post
As the grapevine has it, amidst air of uncertainty over the fate of Sarthak Behuria CMD Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) whose term expires in February 2010, the PESB is going for an appraisal for the same within this week. Otherwise Behuria is to retire in 2012.
R Balakrishnan poised to be CVO, CPCL
As the grapevine has it, R Balakrishnan, Deputy Chief Election Commissioner, is poised to be CVO Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL). He is an IAS officer of the 1984 batch who belongs to the Orissa cadre.
Empanelment of 1976 batch IPS takes place
Empanelment of 1976 batch IPS officers to the rank of DG in the Government of India has taken place on Friday. It is believed that altogether 32 officers of this have been empanelled. They are reportedly :-Mssrs Jyoti Swarup Pandey, Satyavrat Bansal, Renuka Muttoo and Subhash Joshi ( Uttarakhand ) Ashok Kumar Bhan (J&K),Praveen Mahendru (Chattisgarh) , Bharat Vir Wanchoo , Naparajit Mukherjee and K S Shankarnarayan (West Bengal ) KN Sharma (Gujrat) Mahavir Singh Bali, S P Srivastava, Atul , Udyan Parmar, Alaxander Daniel, and P C Sabarwal (Uttar Pradesh ) M. M. Praharaj (Orissa ). D. Shivanandan and Alaxander Daniel (Maharashtra ), V. Rajagopal (UT), SK Upadhyay (Tamil Nadu), DV Guruprasad (Karnataka), Neeraj Kumar( UT), Balwinder Singh (Andhra Pradesh), ManjariJaruhar and Rakesh Jaruhar (Jharkhand), Yashovardhan Azad and Nandan Dube (Madhya Pradesh), Anirudh Uppal (Himachal Pradesh), Ravindra Narayanan Ravi (Kerala ) and Harish Chandra Meena (Rajasthan), Alok Joshi (Haryana).
Four posts of Jt. Director vacant in CBI
Four posts of Joint Director (equivalent to IG) are vacant in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Government of India where 2 posts belongs to deputation and 2 posts belongs to cadre promotion.
IAS changes in Tamil Nadu
Certain IAS officers have been shifted in Tamil Nadu. They are: Hans Raj Verma formerly Secretary to Governor to Commissioner of Labour , A. Sukumaran Commissioner of Labour to Commissioner of Fisheries Development Corporation Limited , Shambhu Kallolikar Commissioner of Fisheries Development Corporation Limited to Project Director / Member Secretary of the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society & Dr. S. Vijaykumar will function as Project Director, Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project and Ex-officio Special Secretary to Government, Health and Family Welfare Department.
Satyendra Gupta is SP, Sirsa
Satyendra Gupta has been posted as SP Sirsa by the Haryana Government. He is an IPS officer of the 2004 batch who belongs to the Haryana cadre.
Bhilai Steel Plant bags two PM’s Trophy for Best Integrated Steel Plant
Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), the flagship unit of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) has received the Prime Minister’s Trophy for the best performing steel plant in the country for the year 2006-07 and 2007-08 in New Delhi on Feb 15. With this, BSP has achieved the unparallel distinction of being the only steel plant in the country, public or private, to have been honoured with the prestigious PM’s trophy 9 out of the 16 times it has been awarded since it was instituted. BSP was chosen as the winner for both years for its excellence in spheres of production, techno-economics, R&D efforts and product development, human resource management, employee motivation, environment management, quality as well as execution of its corporate social responsibilities. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh handed over the Trophy to SAIL Chairman SK Roongta and BSP Managing Director R Ramaraju in the presence of the Union Minister for Steel Virbhadra Singh, Minister of State for Steel A Sai Pratap, Secretary (Steel) Atul Chaturvedi and Special Secretary BS Meena.
Karnataka High Court Judges appointed
Justice Ravi Vijaykumar Malimath and Justice Venkataramiah Nagarathna, Additional Judges of the Karnataka High Court have been appointed Judges of the Karnataka High Court, in that order of seniority, with effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices.
Additional Judges of Patna High Court appointed
Birendra Prasad Verma and Dinesh Kumar Singh have been appointed Additional Judges of the Patna High Court, in that order of seniority, for a period of two years with effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices.
Additional Judges of Madras High Court appointed
T Mathivanan, Ardhanariswamy Arumughaswamy and Ms KBK Vasuki, have been appointed Additional Judges of the Madras High Court in that order of seniority, for a period of two years with effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices.
Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge transferred
Justice Nirmal Yadav, Judge of the Punjab & Haryana High Court, has been appointed Judge of the Uttarakhand High Court and directed to assume charge of her new office on or before February 24, 2010.

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Sengupta may become Chairman, Tata Sponge
Partha Sengupta is likely to be appointed the Chairman of Tata Sponge in place of A.D. Baijal, Tata Steel group director who is due to retire on April 1. He is also likely to take over as Chairman of TM International from Nerurkar.

Aaj Ki Aawaz

The German Bakery was targeted to create a scare overseas ‘India is not safe’!
For starters foreign players in IPL feel unsafe!!

And India Mujahideen takes its orders from its 'Aakas' in Pakistan!!!
They are the Paki reps in Hindustan!!!!

Pakistan funds them, trains them and gives them arms!!!
In India they are Pakistani terror outfit's arms!!

By Pakistan I mean the terror groups lest Sharukh blows a fuse!!
And shouts ‘Pakistan ka naam kyon kiya use’!!!

I wonder ‘ Sharukh says he’s shudh Hindustani’,
But seems his dill is Pakistani!!!

Heart goes out to the Parents of the siblings killed in the Pune blast,
I’m sure many like me at this tragedy are aghast!!

Million $ question is had the cops not been pressed into duty for Sharukh Khan,
Would there have been loss of jaan????

Because the feeling is the terrorists took this diversion in security,
As a ‘blasting’ opportunity!!!

Mohna wants the investigation done at lightening speed!!!
In this diktat too ‘ there is vote bank ka greed’!!!

And they’ll try to palm off the blame to some minority!!!
Give a clean chit to 'Islamic terror' to please the minority that is a majority!!

Don’t forget we have an HM who yearns to ‘leave his mark’!!!
Even when he was FM this was stark!!!

Congress is steadfastly progressing on its Project Woo!!
And to please the majority minority everything possible it’s going to do!!

What’s wrong with BJP…. it makes noise and then keeps mum????
It should pursue issues with all its dumm!!

Like on prices …. it was a one day show!!!
And now on prices it’s lying low!!!

Maybe the middlemen, retailers and hoarders who were once on BJP's side!
Must have warned ' raise the prices issue' and with Congress we'll permanently side!

Speaking of prices…. supply side has to be tackled!!!
Like commodity trading needs to be shackled!!

A re-look at exports and imports needs to be done!!!
That is if battle against rocketing prices has to be won!!

Hoarding needs to be tackled on a war footing!!!
On retailers phenomenal margins there’s been a lot of hooting!!

Release stocks ‘hoarded by Sarkaar’ into the open market to make prices fall!!
Its now that the Sarkaar needs to take ‘many a call’!!!

If all this is to be done then from Pawar his present portfolios have to be divested!!
In fact some will say from the Cabinet he needs to be rested!!

Or create a Cricket portfolio and gave him the charge!!
Or just give him Cabinet rank and make him Cabinet Minister ‘at large’!!

Laloo is often nowadays in a depressed state of mind!!
And when he in such a mood he says ‘dharti to him should be kind’!!

He says dharti should be kind to part and take him in!!
Anyone hearing this would exclaim what is dharti’s sin’????

And why should dharti take him in when he’s already a bhoj on it????
For this to take place he’ll have to dig his own pit!!

Confucius says…. seems Laloo has realized ‘abh Bihar mein merri nahi galle gi daal’!!
‘Aur nahi challe gi merri koyi chaal’!!

Adds….. Biharis loathe Laloo Raaj!!!
Seeing him trying to woo the Public some would say ‘Abh toh aani chahiye iss ko laaj’!!!

Flash... Sharukh tweets that his son is kicking him in the crotch... maybe the kid's giving him a sandesh!!!

From the entire Desh!!!!

I hear between both the Thackrey cousins there has been some thawing of the ice!!!
They feel for the break up both have paid a price!!!

Happily noted this year the V Day celebrations were subdued!!!
In past years in some Cities the celebrations bordered on lewd!!

Bharat Kumar

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WHO WILL BE THE QUEEN'S CHOICE FOR PRIME MINISTER AFTER DR. MANMOHAN SINGH?
AK Antony could be a choice for Mrs. Gandhi as he can be a good choice to replace Dr. Singh, as there is no doubt about his integrity and he is not overambitious like other politicians. He could be a real choice, until Rahul by himself express his interest to mantle the Country.

LUKOSE JOSEPH lkjose_1962@rediffmail

Justice Shah wins hearts of the people
Justice Shah might have lost out on elevation to the Supreme Court but has won the hearts of the people. Wishing him all the best in life! For small gains, civil sevants are willing to do what could termed patently illegal. How long can this go on?
Gaurav Mohanty

Doing wonders
Dr. Manmohan Singh is fantastically doing wonders in governance especially in corruption. He has good team of senior Ministers supplementing the Prime Minister and the UPA. I think he is the best choice and best bet till Rahul positioned himself for the task. Rahul Gandhi is keeping himself abreast of each and every nook and corner of the country and is doing miracles while interacting with the Old, Young and the deprived. He should be the best choice next !!!
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