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Shortfall of 265 Judges in the 21 High Courts of the country
There is a shortfall of 265 Judges in the 21 High Courts of the country. While the sanctioned strength in these High Courts was 895, they at present have 630 Judges.
Justice Mishra is new CJ of Delhi High Court
Justice Dipak Misra, Chief Justice of the Patna High Court has been moved as the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.
Justice Kapadia moves to Gujarat High Court
Justice Arvind Mohanlal Kapadia, Judge of the Rajasthan High Court has been transferred as a Judge of the Gujarat High Court.
IRS officer seeks VRS
Voluntary retirement request of Vinod Khurana, DGIT (Inv), East Kolkata, has been accepted to enable him to join as Member, Settlement Commission (Income Tax/Welath Tax) with headquarters at Chennai. He has been retired since May 12, 2010.
Two CBDT Members to retire
Two CBDT Members Shaikh Naimuddin and Narinder Singh are superannuating by this month end.
External Affairs Ministry advised to become its own ambassador
A high-powered panel, led by former External Affairs Minister and BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, has advised the External Affairs Ministry to become its own ambassador and project itself before the youth and students in a better way while interacting with universities, academics and intellectuals so as to attract them to the Indian Foreign Service (IFS).
DG ICFRE selection delayed
Mystery shrouds delay in forwarding minutes of interviews for the post
of Dehradun based Director General (DG) ICFRE that were held on April
7, 2010. Its more than a month,but minutes have not reached Indian
Minister of State for Forests & Environment Jaiiram Ramesh.
20 IAS officer in race for Information Commission
Over 20 IAS officers in Karnataka are in race for two posts of Member Information Commission .
Gangwar is CVO of STC
Dr Dharmendra Singh Gangwar has joined as new CVO of STC. He is 1988 batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre.
IA & AS officer TN Gupta transferred
TN Gupta, Deputy Accountant General in the office of Principal Accountant General (C&CA), Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior, is transferred and posted as Deputy Accountant General (Admn) in the office of Accountant General (A&E)-II, Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad, against an existing vacancy.
Dharama Pal gets Jt Secr level post
Dharama Pal Singh, officer of Indian Revenue (C&CE) Service of 1983 batch, has been recommended for the post of Joint Secretary or equivalent under Central Staffing Scheme.
Rajasekhar to move to London
Minister in Seoul, C Rajasekhar, has been moved to the Indian High Commission, London as Minister.
Raveesh Kumar goes to Jakarta
Raveesh Kumar - Counsellor in Indian High Commission, London, has been moved to Jakarta.
Joint Consultative Meeting in Railbhawan today
A meeting of Joint Consultative Meeting (JCM) will be held in Rail
Bhawan on May 15, 2010 under the chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary.
High level officers like Secretaries and Jt. Secretaries from
Ministries of Defence, Urban Development, Commerce, Telecom, Personnel
etc. and representatives of various Unions and Association will be
attending the meeting. It is being held to discuss employees
grievances and service related matters.
SSP system to be introduced in other cities of MP,says CM
The system of posting Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs) which is currently in vogue in cities of Indore and Bhopal will be introduced in other cities of Madhya Pradesh. A hint about it was given by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after conclusion of MP Assembly's four days special session in Bhopal on May 14, 2010. The special session was held to discuss how to take MP on fast track of development. The session christened "Swarnim Madhya Pradesh" was one sided as main opposition Congress party had boycotted it.Shivraj Singh Chouhan also announced to form a separate Infrastructure Board.
IAS postings in Sikkim
Ms Isha will be Assistant Collector, District Collectorate, East, Gangtok, Land Revenue & Disaster Management Department. Raj Kumar Yadav will be Assistant Collector, District Collectorate, South, Namchi, Land Revenue & Disaster Management Department.
Arun Kumar proceeds on leave
Dr Arun Kumar is proceeding on study leave. He is 1979 batch IAS officer of J & K cadre.
CBI approves building up of 14 of 71 spl courts
The Central Bureau of nvestigation (CBI) has given the approval for 14
of 71 special courts that were sanctioned by the  Government of India
(GOI) .The CBI will help to build up the infrastructure for these
courts.
A. K. Antony to go to Oman
Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony will leave New Delhi on May 17,
2010 on a two-day official tour to Oman. During his stay in
Muscat,Antony will hold wide-ranging talks with his Oman counterpart,
Sayyid Badr bin Saud  bin Harib al Busaidi to promote military
cooperation.Antony will be accompanied by a high-level delegation
including the Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar.
Jagan Mathews gets new posting in UP
Jagan Mathews has been appointed new Principal Secretary Food Processing in Uttar Pradesh.
IPS postings in UP
Prashant Kumar will now be SP Banda.Upendra Kumar Agrawal has been appointed SP EOW,Lucknow.
60th batch IRS probationers get posting
The Probationers of 60th batch of Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Central Excise) Group ‘A’ are posted as Assistant Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise as follows : Priyesh Kishore Bheda - Ahmedabad CX, Vivek Gupta - Chandigarh, Neeraj Choubey - Ahmedabad Cus, Kumar Aseem Vaibhav Ahmedabad - CX, Pranjal Singh Delhi - CX, Abhishek Chauhan - Delhi Cus, Rai Hemlata Mumbai - CX-I, Rayees Mohammad Bhat - Jaipur, Niranjan C. C. - Delhi Cus-P, Rajeswari R. Nair - Chennai Cus, Shailendra Kumar Deshmukh - Bhopal, Deepak Kumar - Delhi CX, Rashmi Mishra Bangalore - CX, Ravneet Singh Khurana -Ahmedabad Cus, Raghavendra Pal Singh - Meerut, Dipin Singla - Delhi Cus, Satish Kumar - Ranchi, Raghu Kiran B.- Bangalore Cus, Rohit Dwivedi - Delhi Cus-P, Vijaya K - Chennai Cus, Anish Muraleedharan - Coimbatore, Siba Prasad Panda - Bhubaneswar, Naresh Neelapala - Visakhapatnam, Bejoy John - Bangalore CX, Varinder Kaur - Delhi CX, Atul Singh - Ahmedabad CX, Deepak Sharma - Vadodara, Sameer Kumar Jha - Kolkata Cus, S. S. Nakul - Bangalore Cus, Kunal Kashyap - Kolkata CX, Ujwala Arun Bhagwat - Nagpur, B. G. Krishnan - Cochin, Devesh Gupta - Ahmedabad Cus, Raghvendra Singh - Vadodara, Ashutosh - Lucknow, Saroj - Bhopal, Rohit Singla - Ahmedabad CX, Vipul Gupta - Lucknow, Kartikeya Goel - Hyderabad, Shaifali G. Singh - Delhi CX, Suven Das Gupta - Kolkata CX, Navneet Kumar - Kolkata Cus, Vishal Pratap Singh - Kolkata CX, Parul Garg - Lucknow, Vidyut Vikash - Patna Cus-P, Manvesh Kumar - Patna Cus-P, Manish Kumar Jha - Patna Cus-P, Aman Garg - Lucknow, Vishwajeet Singh - Patna Cus-P, Sachin Balasaheb Sawant - Mumbai CX-II, Mayank Sharma - Kolkata CX, Abu Imran - Ranchi, Anoop Kumar Sharma - Kolkata Cus, Anirudha Suresh Kulkarni - Nagpur, C. Thiyagarajan - Visakhapatnam, Prabhakar Kumar - Patna Cus-P, Paras Mal Sankhla - Ahmedabad Cus, Rajiv Shankar - Delhi Cus, Md. Sadique Alam - Kolkata CX, Mahesh Chand Bhardwaj - Lucknow, Pawan Kumar Khetan - Delhi Cus-P, Lakshmikantha D. - Chennai Cus, Manish Kulhary CBN - Gwalior, Manoj Kumar - Delhi CX, Kshitendra Verma - Delhi Cus, Amit Fakkad Ghawate - Pune, Ravindra Kumar - Lucknow, Nimba Ram - Ahmedabad CX, Mahesh Kumar Yadav - Kolkata CX, Jakir Husain – CBN Gwalior, R. Gopalsamy - Coimbatore, Mahendra Kumar Sharma - Kolkata Cus, Nem Singh - Kolkata CX, Michael Achom - Kolkata CX, S. Venkatesh - Kolkata Cus, Abilash K. Sreenivasan - Cochin, Amol Madhukar Ket - Mumbai Cus-I, Dinesh Kumar Bisen - Meerut, V. Pandiraja - Kolkata CX, Aneish P. Rajan - Cochin, K Komathi - Chennai Cus, Prerna Himmatrao Deshbhratar - Pune, Neelesh Rautkar - Kolkata Cus, Samaya Murali T. - Ahmedabad CX, K. Kalpana - Kolkata CX, Vinod Kumar - Delhi CX, Harjinder Singh - Lucknow, P. Kathirvel - Kolkata CX, Rashmi G. - Chennai Cus, Tapan Kumar - Lucknow, Tejaskumar Giradharlal Rathod - Ahmedabad Cus, Sameer Dnyandev Wankhede - Mumbai Cus-I, Kalicharan Sudamrao Khartade - Nagpur, Prashant Priya Gautam - Mumbai CX-I, Sridevi Taritla - Chennai Cus, S Balakrishna - Kolkata Cus, Dasari Balaiah - Kolkata CX, Braj Lal Meena - Ranchi, Alok Sharma - Lucknow, Gopal Krishna Pati - Bhubaneswar, Sachin Gusia - Pune, Pradhuman B. Meena - Ahmedabad Cus, Nitin Wapa – CBN Gwalior, Dev Prakash Bamanavat - Patna Cus-P, Chongneithem Changsan - Kolkata CX, Lienmuong S Gangte - Kolkata CX, K C Nagaraja Naik - Hyderabad, Sunder Lal – Chandigarh and Ravindra U. Garkal - Nagpur
Malhotra gets posting in HP
IAS officer Dinesh Malhotra has been appointed Director Ayurved in Himachal Pradesh.
Ms.Saumya Gupta posted as DM, North Tripura
The Tripura Government has shifted Ms.Saumya Gupta from state Planning Board to North Tripura district as District Magistrate (DM). She is an IAS officer of the 2004 batch who belongs to the Tripura cadre.

Railway  postings
Archana Srivastava IRTS has been appointed Director Traffic (Punctuality)  in the Railway Board.Ms Rita Raj has been posted as Director Freight Marketing in the Railway Board.
S D Sharma is new State Election Commissioner Jharkhand
Former 1972 batch IAS officer S.D. Sharma has been appointed new Chief State Election Commissioner Jharkhand. He will  replace Manoj Kumar Mandal.
IAS postings in Jharkhand
Mridula Sinha has been  appointed Secretary Co-operative department. Kanhaiya Pandey has been made Inspector General of Registration.

CORPORATE
Nigam joins Axis Asset Management
Chandresh Nigam has taken over as the head (investments) of Axis Asset Management Company.
New COO Bharti Retail
Andrew Levermore has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of the Bharti Retail.
Saxena is new GM Syndicate Bank Chennai
Pradeep K. Saxena has been appointed as the new General Manager Syndicate Bank, Chennai region.

Aaj Ki Aawaz
Laloo’s told Ghadkari ‘ I’m going to the people’s Court’!!!
People are sick of all this crap and will say ‘apne aap karro matter sort’!!
 
Though what actually Laloo means is he’ll get his goons into the act!!
And as if they are the Public they will act!!
 
‘BJP means Bharatiya Jokers Party’ says Laloo!!
But then Laloo is a proven Joker or maskara and one who is very chaloo!!
 
Laloo and Mulayam exemplify what is wrong in the Indian political domain!!
Are Indian Politics bane!!
 
At a Delhi wedding Karuna saw how Advani and Sonia greeted one another!
And he rued how he and Jaya cannot even see the sight of each other!
 
Fact is he and Jaya have let things go so bad,
That just the sight of each other makes them go mad!!
 
In the South basically both adulation and hatred is done to the hilt!!!
Just to one side they cannot just tilt!!!
 
In Delhi personally Netas come to each others aid!!!
And especially at marriage functions animosity is stayed!!
 
Diggy in recent times has been a controversy a day kind of man!
Seems he gets an order from above 'which fire to blow out and which one to fan'!!!
 
Today's fire is so called Hindu terrorism and BJP and RSS's link to this terror!
In Ghadkari's language Diggy is High Command's tenacious terrier!!
Cabinet reshuffle is expected by May end!!!
Ramesh ko back to Party work Sonia and Mohna could send!!
 
I feel there is a chance that in the reshuffle Raja will be shifted!!!!
But DMK's hold will continue this Ministry as to DMK this Ministry has been gifted!
 
Mulayam made his ' 21 MP offer' to Congress with an eye on this reshuffle!!!
And then he's also looking to settle in his family a scuffle!!!!
 
Chavan has announced 'Mumabi has just one month's water supply'!
To water saving measures Mumbaikars refuse to comply!!
 
If the monsoon is delayed then Mumabi will go Shimla's way!!!
And through the nose for tanker water Mumbaikars will pay!!
 
Talking of Mumbai brings Shiv Sena to mind!!!
A new ground for his annual darshan cum spech Balasahib will have to find!!
 
Shivaji Park has been declared as a 'silence zone'!!!
Or he could deliver his speech in a whispering tone!!
 
Though by the way Shiv Sena is going he may not want to undertake his annual do!!!
'Give his Party workers Darshan with what mooh'???
Isn't it funny that when Sensex falls Dollar rises and when it rises Rupee rises!
The artificiality in the value of of the Rupee hope the Government realizes!
Its the billions that have come into Stocks which have made the Rupee rise!
Letting your currency appreciate because of FII inflows is unwise!
The fair value of the Rupee is 47 versus the Dollar!!
But because of FII inflows the Rupee looks taller!
Confucius says..... hot money comes in fast and out faster it goes!
Comes in trickling and like a gusher out it flows!!
Bharat Kumar
aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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Yes, it is a fact that very few and lower in merit list join Indian Foreign Service due to the fact that it is less powerful vis-a-vis IAS, IPS, Indian Revenue Service and there is lesser scope of corruption.
Kishore Dudani
Deputy Secretary (Rt)
Why should IFS be the top most service choice?
The shift in preference of civil service candidates is a welcome change .It is indicative of the fact that the lure of foreign postings is going away. It is also good to see the topmost civil servants wanting to serve within the country in the IAS or IPS. Instead of enquiring into this, the move should be encouraged and further welcomed
S Singh
Castiest India
It is unfortunate that educated upper caste are opposing caste census when they practice strict caste rules for marriage and for favouritism where an euphemism of merit is used. Why Amitabh didn't get his son married to a Dalit or Adivasi but preferred global beauty? Urban media is being used to promote interests of 300 million strong consumer elite who are not from BC SC ST at the cost of 900 million . At least the civil servants should stop being hypocrites and psuedo-nationalists. Constitution of India recognised caste as powerful weapon of mass annihilation, then why are you campaigning against the spirit of constitution? You are shamelessly opposing reservation in private sector. You are shamelessly opposing the admittance of caste discrimination in international fora, yet you go scot free by subverting the constitution of India, Will God forgive your sins? just because you know english and claim that your caste is Indian? Do you mean that BC SC ST are not Indians? It is high time that you accept existence of caste discrimination both at village level and even in urban areas. An IAS officer who held top posts in UN for over decade when he comes back to his cadre, he is denied promotion along with his batch mates just because he is a Dalit. An IPS officer is prevented for taking charge as DIG of a range from a Brahmin DIG just because he is a Dalit. A Dalit customs commissioner is kicked out of custom house in 8 months period just to accommodate a Brahmin commissioner who was convicted for 7 year rigorous imprisonment by High court and suspended for 5 years in the past. This is castiest India. You will subvert every rule of law to uphold the ancient Shastras. You may not admit but those of BC, SC and ST who suffer will demand caste census. Even High court has permitted.
P Naresh
Kudos to DOPT
These comments are from a CSSS official. Can anyone confirm how many PPS/Sr.PPS/PSO really sit late when required and if at all they sit why do they pressurise Steno D/PA to accompany them when they are getting hefty salary. Apart from this are they prepared to take dictation. You also must know that a steno D at present is a adhoc-steno C after 20-25 years and he has no chance of becoming a PPS/Sr.PPS/PSO. Moreover, because of increase in the posts of PPS/Sr.PPS/PSOs; we steno D/adhoc Steno C are stranded where we are but when it comes to work or posting our experience is being misused. In fact, they are many Sr.PPS who when asked to take dictation or asked to come on holidays and sit late frequently, they immediately send a note to the Admn section asking them to prepare a roaster for this purpose. First, you persons should learn to know what is responsibility and then try to teach your subordinates.
Saran
It is fallacy
It is fallacy to assume that caste has ceased to be relavant. It exists everywhere and is throbbing. Just because someone says he or she doesn't believe in caste does it mean its vanished forever. One must be living in a fools paradise to believe this.
Anita
No. Never!
The government should, instead, bring All India Judicial Service and should give a very serious thought to improve the quality of the judicial system in the country. There is a crying need to do it.
Vox Pop
A welcome move
It's a welcome move. Let's hope this university will enhance the standards of education in Defence colleges. Incidentally, I have my experience of working at one of the Defence Colleges of the country. With my experience, I feel such a university should be manned by eminent civilian professors.
Dr V K Mohapatra
Justified
Enhancement of age of High Court and Supreme Court Judges is quite justified keeping in view that up to this age, the judges will be very prompt in taking decision, as my opinion, gathered thru judiciary decisions.
H. S. Bhalla