Can you imagine whispersinthecorridors.com is the now purported source! gosh, makes me mad!.
Barkha Dutt in Twitters

Contact-suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com> & <mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com>

Will Khan be CVC ?
Name of S S Khan has started doing the round for the post of Central Vigilance Commissioner. Khan is retired 1972 batch IRS (IT) officer.
Anil Kumar to be Special Secretary Urban Development
Outgoing Special Secretary Power Anil Kumar will be now be Special Secretary Urban Development. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Nagaland cadre.
( We said this on May 3 )
Mishra to be Additional Secretary Power
R C Mishra is being appointed Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Power in the Government of India. He is 1978 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.
Name of  Ms. Shakuntala Jakhu in circulation for REC’s post
As the grapevine has it the name of  Ms. Shakuntala Jakhu, IAS of Haryana cadre who belongs to the 1978 batch has started doing rounds for the post of CMD in Rural Electrification Corporation (REC).
A K Mishra is now Principal Advisor Planning Commission
A K Mishra has been promoted and made Principal Advisor in the Planning Commission. He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Justice Rekha Doshit to be Chief Justice of Patna HC ?
Justice Rekha Manharlal Doshit, seniormost judge of the Gujarat High Court is likely to be appointed Chief Justice of the Patna High Court.
Justice Eqbal to be CJ of Madras High Court ?
Justice M.Y. Eqbal, seniormost judge of the Jharkhand High court is likely to be appointed Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.
Will the Government select new CMD SAIL ?
Grapevine has it that Government is going to set up a new committee to select new CMD of the SAIL. Steel Ministry is believed to have asked for scrapping the panel selected by the PESB.
D.D. Sharma is Joint Secretary AYUSH
D.D. Sharma, Director Ayush, in Government of India (GOI) has become Joint Secretary in AYUSH. Recently he had got additional charge of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Delhi based National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB). Sharma is an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of the 1984 batch who belongs to the Jharkhand cadre.
(We said this on March 25, 2010)
Bhupendra Singh selected for foreign assignment
Bhupendra Singh (IAS, UP,85) has been selected for Secretary General, International Jute Study Group, an UN body at Dhaka. Will the UP Government exempt his cooling off? Singh joined UP on 1st April, 2010 after his central deputation.
Anil Kumar promoted as Director
Anil Kumar a CSS cadre officer who so far was Deputy Secretary & in charge of subordinate statistical service cadre has been promoted as
Director.
Pronab Sen’s extension to on May 20, 2010
Extended tenure of Pronab Sen, Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and
Programme will end on May 20, 2010.
Ms Garima Bhatnagar to return
Ms.Garima Bhatnagar presently posted at United National Headquarter Newyork will be completing her deputation in the month of June and will come back to India. She is an IPS officer of the 1994 batch who belongs to the AGMU cadre.
Rajan Sehgal to be Director Food & PDS
Rajan Sehgal, IFS (KR:1992) on central deputation has been appointed as Director in Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
R. C. Chitkara is ED,HQ in AAI
R.C. Chitkara, who so far was Regional Executive Director (RED), Mumbai, with Airports Authority of India (AAI), has been shifted as ED to Central headquarters, Delhi.
Tenure of inter-cadre deputation extended of IPS officer
Deputation tenure of Vineet Vinayak, IPS(SK-1995) from Sikkim to Bihar, has been extended till December 1,2011.
Vijay Singh moves to Lusaka
Second Secretary in Kuwait Vijay Singh has been moved to Lusaka.
Who will be CVO of NMDC ?
Who will be new CVO of the NMDC ?.A panel of three names consisting of three IPS officers of UT cadre Mssrs Sunil Garg 1992 batch, Dinesh Bhat 1993 batch and A K Singh 1993 batch has been forwarded.
Rau to return Karnataka
Chairman of the Coffee Board G V Krishna Rau is pre-maturely returning to the parent Karnataka cadre.He is 1982 batch IAS officer.
ESI’ largesse extended
From now on, employees with salary up to Rs 15,000 per month can enjoy medical benefits under the Employees State Insurance (ESI). The new rule comes into effect from Saturday, the May Day. Earlier, only employees whose salary was less than Rs 10,000 per month were entitled for the benefits.
CMD’s post in HPF to be managed through additional charge
The post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) in Hindustan Photo Films Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (HPF) will not be filled up on a regular basis at least for the time being. It will continue to be managed through additional charge. Currently, Director (F), HPF is holding the additional charge of CMD.
IA & AS officer NS Pillai transferred
NS Pillai, Senior Deputy Accountant General, in the office of Principal Accountant General (Civil Audit), Orissa, Bhubaneswar, is transferred and posted as Senior Deputy Accountant General (GE) in the office of Accountant General (A&E), Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, against an existing vacancy.
ACC is not happy with Railway Ministry
The ACC is not happy with the functioning of the Railway Ministry. It has asked the Railway Ministry to send proposals with proper homework and methodically.
Suryavanshi to be Director (Marketing) HOCL
In all probability J N Suryavanshi will be Director (Marketing) OF THE Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd..
Madhya Pradesh gets four IPS officers
Looking into the shortage of IPS officers in the state, the Union Ministry of Hoe Affairs has provided four of them of 2009 batch to Madhya Pradesh. Presently undergoing training in Hyderabad, these officers namely – Amit Singh, Navneet Wasin, Rudalf Alvarez and Tarun Nayak would reach Bhopal on May 10 for further training of two weeks.
Relaxation in LTC rules for traveling to Northeast
Encouraged by an increase in tourist arrivals since 2008 - when the relaxation in Leave Travel Concession (LTC) rules allowing central government employees to travel to the Northeast by Air - was first given, the relaxation has been extended by another two years from May 1 this year. The move is further expected to give the region’s economy a fillip by boosting tourism.
CIC imposes fine on IPS officer in UP
For not furnishing information the State Information Commission (SIC) in UP has imposed a penalty of Rs 25,000 on an IPS officer which would be deducted from his salary.
IPS changes in Jharkhand
Giridih SP Ravikant Dhan will now be JPA 1 Ranchi Lohardaga SP Subodh Prasad has been replaced by Khunti SP Asim Vikrant Minz. Prasad will now be new SP of Deogarh. Deoghar SP Praveen Kumar Srivastabh has been transferred as SP Rail Dhanbad.
CSS officer Virendra Kapoor promoted as Director
Consequent upon his inclusion in the Senior Selection Grade (Director) Select List of CSS for the year 2009, Virender Kapoor, Selection Grade (Deputy Secretary) officer of CSS, presently working in the Department of Biotechnology is hereby promoted as Director of CSS on regular basis.
Two CSS officers posted as Dy Secretaries
Consequent upon their inclusion in the Selection Grade (Deputy Secretary) Select List of CSS for the year 2009, Grade I (Under Secretary) officers of CSS, JN Basumat and L Thangen, have been posted to the Mines and Health & Family Welfare deartments respectively.
Judges of Kerala High Court appointed
Mrs .Justice Mavulli Cholakkode Hari Rani and Justice Thomas Puthenpura Joseph, Additional Judges of the Kerala High Court have been appointed Judges of Kerala High Court, in that order of seniority, with effect from the dates they assume charge of their respective offices.
Additional Judges of Madhya Pradesh High Court appointed
Brij Kishore Dube, Gulab Singh Solanki, Naresh Kumar Gupta and Anil Kumar Sharma have been appointed Additional Judges of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, in that order of seniority, for a period of two years with effect from the date they assume charge of their respective offices.
DEBATE
It is being increasingly observed that children of civil servants now don’t want to go to civil services. Why is it so ? Those interested may mail their views, in short, to
suresh.mehrotra@yahoo.com AND mehrotra.suresh@gmail.com
Addl CIT Jodhpur posted as OSD (FIPB) in CBDT (UPDATED)
Rahul Garg, Additional CIT Jodhpur has posted as OSD (FIPB) in CBDT with immediate effect.
Three former IAS officers quit INTACH (UPDATED)
Three former IAS officers  Ms Samar Singh,Yogendra Narain and Arun Gupta have quit the INTACH.

CORPORATE
Jha is new MD of Hindustan Motors
Manoj Jha has been appointed new MD of the Hindustan Motors.He will succeed R Santhanam.
Nair is new Head of Citigroup
Sunil Nair has been appointed by the Citigroup as head of its private equity business in India.
Asit Bhatia appointed MD by Bank of America
Asit Bhatia has been appointed by the Bank of America as its new MD for Corporate and Investment Banking in India.
John is ED of Federal Bank
P C John has been appointed as the new Executive Director of Federal Bank .. He is the first official from within the bank to be elevated as Executive Director.
Prof Hasnain joins as Director

Prof Syed Hasnain, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad (UoH), has joined the board of Suven Life Sciences as Additional Director.
Rahul Singh appointed President
Rahul Singh has been appointed by the HCL Technologies as President, Business Services and Corporate .

FORUM
Army officers cannot be compared to CPO's
Army being a larger organisation and different organisation than police will naturally have higher number of officer rank entrants. Army officers cannot be compared to CPO's and especially not to Group B state services, as they are a class I gazetted and commissioned service, while State Services are group B and in some cases not Class I either. Anyway in a democracy, colonial police ranks like "Inspector General" etcetera should not be used, and police ranks should not be linked to army ranks. In the US WoP, the highest a police chief of a state police or large city is equitable with, is a full colonel. In the UK, no military sounding rank like "Director General" is used for police, and even the highest officer is known as chief constable. And all police personnel start at the rank of Constable, without exception. There is no lateral entry. Everyone must learn their job as constables, and work their way up, before aspiring to sky high rank. And the UK has a very good police system. Is it not time that India emulated the system that the British chose for themselves, rather than that which they chose for their subject peoples?
-Aditya
Society must pause and think.
Instead of waiting for the Government to do something, I believe, every citizen must take up an initiative against all types of corruption at their own level. For example, start hating people publicly, who are known to be corrupt, at all stages.
KRS
Don’t indulge in below the belt types situations
Whatever may be service conditions, my request is to all those who visit this precious site is not to indulge in below the belt types situations. There may be right or wrong in everything but why ridicule anyone? Why we all live in this urgency of showing someone else on a lower place? What do you finally achieve by this? Therefore I request that please express yourself but with a decent language and logic which would work better.
Sanjeev Raina
System needs to be reviewed
Forty lakh cases pending in courts? Judiciary is an industry with judges, lawyers and police officers as partners and wealthy are clients. No body is afraid of law. The whole system needs to be reviewed and changed.
Bishan Sharma
Sports Ministry has done well
The Ministry of Sports has done well to restrict the tenure of heads, secretaries and treasures of various sports bodies. They should have done this long time ago. It required a PIL in the high court to do this. Many individuals heading these sports federations have done irreparable harm to the sport of which they are heading the federation. Take hockey. To be a competent cop does not qualify one to be competent manager of a national game. Many of these worthies may not be even familiar with all the nuances of the sport they are supposed to promote as the head of that federation. They find themselves ensconced there for the money, the foreign trips and the patronage they can dispense. The next step required is to let only acknowledged sports persons head the sports body of the particular game in which they have brought laurels to the country.
Aarti Khosla