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Germany said that she was surrounded by a ring of enemies who were trying to strangle her.

Modi selects right person?

What is the secret of Narendra Modi's success? People say he has a great knack for selecting right person for the right job.

Raj Nath Singh's full support to Amar Singh?

It is widely believed that Home Minister Raj Nath Singh is giving full support to Amar Singh to demolish the chances of Formation of SP Government in Uttar Pradesh. They had a meeting in Delhi last month.

Was PK engaged for a deal?

Poll alliance between Congress and SP has surprised many. At a gathering in Delhi discussion was centered around pros and cons of the alliance but one seasoned bureaucrat said that Prashant Kishor or P K was engaged to finalise the deal to regain the lost ground because PK had realised that Cong cannot fight elections independently.

Union Cabinet defers proposal ! (UPDATED)
The Union Cabinet is learnt to have deferred today a proposal to let the overseas Indians vote through electronic means by amending electoral laws.

POTUS and GOTUS

Now Priyanka is being credited for UP Alliance!!!
Is this Yuvraj ke khilaaf defiance !!!
Does this mean Priyanka has arrived on the Scene!!!
Kya Bhaiya ki kursi Didi ne lee cheen!!
Or will The Yuvraj take on Mom's role and Didi his role!!!
So as to curtail Congress's rising electoral toll!!
Well in actuality Pact was finalized by Gopal and Patel!!!
Patel was ordered go meet Gopal 'wagging tail' (notionally)!!
Bandh Haath laak ka,
Khul gaya toh khaak ka!!!
The Hand will only stop The Cycle!!!
Congress is hoping on a Tandem-Cycle both Parties will cycle!!
SP's idea is Congress will ride pillion in best case!!
Worst case behind the cycle it'll race!!
All depends on Seats!!
Will decide if Congress roars or bleats!!
Anti Incumbency deflated SP cycle's tyres and handle fell off!!!
If Congress rides pillion balancing will get tough!!
Congress was responsible for OROP woes!!!
And where do you think Political General Satbir goes!!
He's supporting Congress… yes so very funny!!!
Could this be the power of money!!!
There must be some magic trick which Congress uses!!
It ditched and it's BJP that took curative action but faces abuses!!
Now it's clear if Congress wins Punjab CM will be Sidhu!!
Teh gusse wich Amrinder kuddu (jump)!!!
Posters claiming Sidhu for CM up in his area!!!
And seems it's going to turn into hysteria!!
Captain your 'new son' has rebelled!!!
Via him by High Command you've been 'belled'!!!

Project Create chaos is on,
Now to Chennai this Project's gone!!
First few days the protest was Public Driven,
But now a totally political color has been given!!
Talking about the Jalikatu protest,
Don't we know to convert it into strife whose tried their best!!
Well now at least the Cops know who to talk to!!
Now this Protest has a mooh (face)!!
Confucius says....US ..they've got POTUS,
Delhi has got GOTUS (Gunk* Of The Union-Territory State)
*Gunk: Urban slang ...unwanted
Disclaimer: Poetical Satire. Not meant to influence or inform. With inputs from MSM, SM and Blogs

VJS

DEBATE

How do you see the two most powerful leaders of the World - Donald Trump and Narendra Modi ?

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If Modi, with his magnetic electoral campaign, won an absolute majority for his party for the first time in 2014, Trump also staged a spectacular campaign to win the top job for himself.

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BUREAUCRACY

46 IAS officers of 1984 batch are in the zone of consideration?
As many as 46 officers belonging to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of 1984 batch are reported to be in the consideration zone for the empanelment to the rank of Secretary in the Government of India. The officers include: Kumar Arvind Singh Deo of Uttar Pradesh cadre; Deepak Kumar of Bihar cadre; Durga Shankar Mishra of Uttar Pradesh cadre; Arun Kumar Panda of Orissa cadre; Ravi Kant of Bihar cadre; Basant Pratap Singh of Madhya Pradesh cadre; Anup Chandra Pandey of Uttar Pradesh cadre; Tarun Shridhar and Ajay Tygi of Himachal Pradesh cadre; R Rajagopal of Tamil Nadu cadre; Bhagwan Sahai of Maharashtra cadre; Reena Ray of UT cadre; Nirmaljeet Singh Kalsi of Punjab cadre; Malini V Shankar of Maharashtra cadre; Udai Pratap Singh of Jharkhand cadre; Vijay Shrivastava and Alok Shrivastava of Madhya Pradesh cadre; P C Meena of Madhya Pradesh cadre,Shailendra Kumar Joshi of Andra Pradesh cadre; Pritam Singh of Rajasthan cadre; Rajiv Kumar of Jharkhand cadre; Anand Kumar of Kerala cadre; Rashmi Shukla Sharma of Madhya Pradesh cadre; Nilam Sawhney of Andhra Pradesh cadre; ABP Pandey of Maharashtra cadre; Ashok M R Dalawai of Orissa cadre; T Jacob of Tamil Nadu cadre; Ajay Prakash Sawhney of Andhra Pradesh cadre; R Balakrishan of Orissa cadre; Ajoy G Mehta of Maharashtra cadre; Ajay Kumar Bhalla and Alok Kumar of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; D V Prasad of Karnataka cadre; Smita Nagraj of Tamil Nadu cadre; Yashpal Singh of Manipur-Tripura cadre; K V Eapen of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; V S Senthil of Kerala cadre; Nikhilesh Jha of Manipur-Tripura cadre; Jaideep Govind of Madhya Pradesh cadre; Shakuntala Gamlin of UT cadre; P Marapandiyan of Kerala cadre and Ruolkhumlien Buhril of Tamil Nadu cadre. Anant Kumar Singh UP,P K Taneja Gujrat,D N Narsimha Raju of Karnataka cadre; Davinder Kumar of Assam-Megahalaya cadre; Prem Chand Dhiman of Himachal Pradesh and R P Meena of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Foreign Secretary Dr Jaishankar gets one year extension
The service tenure of Dr S Jaishankar as Foreign Secretary has been extended for a further period of one year upto January 2018. He is a 1977 batch IFS officer.
(We said this on January 6)

Shaktikanta Das gets three months extension
The tenure of Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das has been extended by three months till May 31.He was to retire next month.
(We said this on December 23)

Alok Verma likely to take charge as Director, CBI after January 26?
Delhi Police Commissioner, Alok Verma is expected to take over the charge as Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after January 26, 2017?

Ms Anshu Sinha appointed as CEO, KVIC
Ms Anshu Sinha has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Mumbai. She is a 1999 batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre.

Mrs Rina Mitra appointed as Spl Secretary, Internal Security
Mrs Rina Mitra has been appointed as Special Secretary (Internal Security), Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). She is a 1983 batch IPS officer of MP cadre.

Manoj Pande promoted as Additional Member, Railway Board
Manoj Pande has been promoted to the post of Additional Member (Staff), Railway Board.

Sikkim is totally ignored in GoI
Sikkim is the only state in the country which has no Secretary or the Additional Secretary. In the last forty years there has been only one Secretary from this bordering state. S C Gupta a 1986 batch IAS officer who served the Government of India for 12 years has been left out during the empanelment to the rank of Additional Secretary. It means the there will be again no Secretary from this state for another 5 to 10 years.

Tough stand by DG Shipping
DG Shipping Malini V Shankar cracks whip against unscrupulous placement agencies preying on the gullible unsuspecting youths ready to board the ships owned by foreign companies.

Sheheryar likely to be given additional charge
F Sheheryar, DG, AIR, is likely to be given additional charge of Member (Personnel) in Prasar Bharti Board (PBB). Presently S C Panda Member (Personnel) is holding additional charge of CEO, PBB.

40 IRS(C&E) officers selected for PAAC
This year 40 IRS (C&E) officers have been selected for grant of Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate (PAAC) for Specially distinguished record of service. These include: 2 Pr Commissioners, 2 Commissioners, 1 Director, 14 Addl Directors? Addl Commissioners, 3 Jt Commissioners, 2 Dy Directors, 1 Asstt Commissioners and 10 Superintendets? Senior Intelligence Officers, 2 Ministerials Officers, 2 Inspectors/Intelligence Officers, 1 Driver and 1 Head Gavildar.

No ad-hoc promotion?
It is believed that the DoPT has denied ad-hoc promotion of IRS-IT officers to Joint Commissioners. These officers belong to 2008 batch. It is said that the file has been returned to the concern department.

More than one dozen PSUs still headless

More than one dozen posts of Chairman-cum-Managing Director and Managing Director have still been lying vacant in various Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs).

Why some states not sending officers on deputation?
It is learnt that the Government of India is not happy with some state governments because despite reminders they do not send their officers on central deputation. It is said that presently quota of six states- West Bengal, Maharastra, Chhattisgargh, Harayana, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan, is below 30 - 60 per cent. According to sources WB and Maharastra has 78 each quota but only 12 and 21 officers are on central deputation. from Chhattisgarh only 5 against 38, Harayan's 15 officers are on deputation against 44, From Tamil Nadu only 22 are on deputation against 81 and from Rajasthan 18 are on deputation against the quota of 64.

WB & TN has peculiar situation
Two states- WB and TN have peculiar situation. According to sources if relations with union govt are good or cordial then only Government of WB and TN allow them to join central deputation otherwise they flatly refused. That is the reason their quota remains always vacant or will sight various excuses.

Fight over seniority delays in promotions in CBEC
Timely promotions to the various grades are reported to have stuck off due to fight over seniority in Central Board of Excise and Customs.

I-T faster and better than Customs
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) appears to be faring much better than Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) as far as timely promotion of officers of Customs cadre to the various grades is concerned.

Orders of Mohanty as Director (Mktg), IREL issued
The orders of Kishore Kumar Mohanty, DGM, IOCL, for the appointment as Director (Marketing), Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) have been issued by the Government of India.
(We said this on August 26, 2016)

S K Garg promoted to ADG (Civil) in CPWD
S K Garg has been promoted to the grade of Additional Director General (Civil) in the Central Public Works Department (CPWD).

Five IPS Probationers of 2015 batch allocated AP cadre
As many as five Probationers of Indian Police Service of 2015 batch have been allocated Andhra Pradesh cadre after the completion of training at Vallabhbhai Patel Police Academy, Hyderabad. They are: Vakul Jindal, Y Rishanth Reddy, Sathish Kumar S, Krishna Moorthy K and Vasana Vidhya Sagar Naidu.

Two Principal Commissioners of Customs to get President Award
Two officers of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) of Customs & Central Excise: Satya Narayan Saha, Principal Additional Director General, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence (DGCEI), Zonal Unit, Hyderabad and Syed Haider Hasan, Principal Commissioner , Central Excise Zone, Meerut, have been selected for Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for Specially distinguished Record of Service.

Two Commissioners of Customs to get President Award
Two officers of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) of Customs & Central Excise: Srinivas Murty Tata, Commissioner (Service Tax), Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), New Delhi and Sunil Jain, Commissioner, Central Excise Zone, Hyderabad, have been selected for Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for Specially distinguished Record of Service.

13 officers of Customs to get President Award
As many as 13 officers of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) of Customs & Central Excise at the level of Director have been selected for Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for Specially distinguished Record of Service. They are: Rajendra Kumar, Director (Legal), Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), New Delhi; Neeraj Prasad, Additional Commissioner, Directorate General of Tax Payers Services, New Delhi; Manish Goyal, Additional Director, Directorate General of Human Resource Development (DG HRD), New Delhi; Nasim Arshi, Additional Director, Risk Management Division (RMD), Mumbai; Dr M. G. Thamizh Valavan, Director (Anti-Smuggling), Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), New Delhi; Dinesh Kumar Gupta, Director (Drawback), Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), New Delhi; Mihir Ranjan, Additional Commissioner, Directorate General of Vigilance (DGoV), New Delhi; Nitin Saini, Additional Director, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence (DGCEI), Regional Unit, Ludhiana; Zubair Riaz Kamili, Director (Customs), Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), New Delhi; Maneesh Kumar, Additional Director, Directorate General of Revenue Intelligence (DGRI), Zonal Unit, Ahmedabad; Dr Pradyumn Kumar Tripathi, First Secretary, High Commission of India, Singapore; Pramod Kumar, Officer on Special Duty (Joint Commissioner), Tax Research Unit (TRU), Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), New Delhi and Sanjiw Kumar Mishra, Joint Commissioner, Directorate General of Systems and Data Management, New Delhi.

Three Dy Commissioners of Customs to get President Award
Three officers of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) of Customs & Central Excise: Chanderpal Singh Chauhan, Deputy Commissioner, Customs Zone, Mumbai-II; Ms Samrita Kaur Gill, Deputy Director, Directorate General of Revenue Intelligence (DGRI) (Hqrs.), New Delhi and Avinash Shashikant Patane, Assistant Commissioner, Central Excise Zone, Pune, have been selected for Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for Specially distinguished Record of Service.

Steel Minister inaugurates state-of-the-art Universal Rail Mill at SAIL Bhilai
Union Steel Minister, Birender Singh inaugurated the new Universal Rail Mill at Steel Authority of India Ltd.'s (SAIL) Bhilai Steel Plant and flagged off the first rake from the new mill. With this, SAIL has begun the commercial production of world's longest single rail of 130 meters from the new Universal Rail Mill (URM). Birender Singh congratulated SAIL collective for commencing production from URM and said that, "it is a huge step towards the Make in India initiative, where India is pioneering in production of such quality products. The country needs to be self sufficient in meeting its specific requirements and products like the longest rails will solidify industry confidence." The state-of-the-art URM, established at a cost of about Rs. 1200 Crores will now take BSP's total capacity to produce rails at 2.0 MTPA, which will be the largest rail production capacity in any single location for a Plant world over. Alongside the URM, which is part of the plant's modernization & expansion programme (MEP), a long rail welding complex had also been set with proven technology for world class rail welding. The welding complex is equipped with fully automated flash butt welding machine to weld rail panels of 260-metre length and fully automated long rail handling facility. This URM complex would equip SAIL to meet Indian railways' specific demand of 260 metre rails as the new mill is capable of producing 260 m long rail with a single weld and also has the provision to supply welded panels up to 520 m length in future. The rails rolled from this new URM will enable SAIL to produce rails with improved surface quality, less residual stress and improved straightness. Speaking at the occasion, Chairman, SAIL, PK Singh said that, "With the inauguration of URM, SAIL has come one significant step closer to completing the modernisation. This URM complex with the latest technology will empower SAIL to meet the specific needs of Indian railways with greater efficiency and finesse. In the challenging market scenario, we expect to offer better solutions for specialized needs of our valued customers."

What Trump and Modi discuss today ? (UPDATED)
The bureaucrats in Union Ministry of External Affairs are speculating as to what new president of US Donald Trump will talk about if he calls India's PM Narendra Modi over phone today.

DVC confers with NTPC award (UPDATED)
DVC was awarded 3rd prize of "NTPC AWARD- 2015-16" in a prestigious ceremony at New Delhi recently. Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, Govt. of India, gave away the said prize to Andrew WK Langstieh, Chairman, DVC. The prize is awarded to the organisation from amongst the Power Sectors under the Govt. of India for implementation of Official Language.

CBI arrests Assistant Director, MSME (UPDATED)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an Assistant Director of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Development Institute, Hyderabad for demanding and accepting a bribe from the complainant.

Ms Soma Mondal appointed as Director (Comm), SAIL (UPDATED)
Ms Soma Mondal, Director (Commercial), National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), has been appointed as Director (Commercial), Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has approved her appointment to the post.


A K Bhalla is also Director, IIFT (UPDATED)
A K Bhalla, DGFT, has been assigned an additional charge of Director, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT). He is a 1984 batch IAS officer of AM cadre.

Avinash Joshi appointed as MD, OPaL (UPDATED)
Avinash Joshi has been appointed as Managing Director, ONGC Petro additions Limited (OPaL) on depubation basis. He is a 1994 batch IAS officer of AM cadre.

S S Mishra appointed as IG (Ops) NSG (UPDATED)
Major General S S Mishra has been appointed as Inspector General (Ops) in National Security Guard (NSG) on deputation basis.

Tenure of R N Jha as Director (Tech), MECL extended (UPDATED)
The tenure of R N Jha as Director (Technical), Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited (MECL) has been extended for a further period of two years upto January 2019.

Ghosh continues as Director (S), GRSE till June (UPDATED)
Cmde Ratnakar Ghosh will continue as Director (Shipbuilding), Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited (GRSE) tillJune 30, 2017.

Hegde posted as Assault Commander, Greyhounds in Telangana (UPDATED)
IPS Probationer Rahul Hegde has been posted as Assault Commander, Greyhounds in Telangana.

Additional charge of Director, IITM to Dr Krishnan extended (UPDATED)
Additional charge of Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meterology (IITM), Pune to Dr R Krishnan has bee extended for a period of six months.

Additional charge of DG, NILERD to Dr Yogesh Suri extended (UPDATED)
Additional charge of Director General, National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development (NILERD) to Dr Yogesh Suri, Adviser, NITI Aayog has been extended for a further period of six months.

Additional charge of Chairman, DGWB to Biswas extended (UPDATED)
Additional charge of Chairman, Central Ground Water Board (DGWB) to K B Biswas, Member Engineering CGWB extended for a further period of six months.

Additional charge of Director, NCESS to Dr Prakash extended (UPDATED)
Additional charge of Director, National Centre for Earth Sciences Studies (NCESS), Thiruvananthapuram to Dr T N Prakash has been extended for a further period of six months.

Dr Srivastava appointed as Member, ASRB (UPDATED)
Dr A K Srivastava, Director, NDRI, Karnal, has been appointed as Member (Animal Sciences), ASRB.

CORPORATE

Bajpai inducted into HUL Board
Hindustan Unilever Limited has appointed Dev Bajpai who is Company Secretary of the company also as Director on the Board of Directors of the company.

Garg is Head of SRS Real Infrastructure Ltd
SRS Real Infrastructure Ltd has appointed Ankit Garg as Head (Overseas Business) of the company.

Kaul is COO of Ola
Vishal Kaul has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Ola.

Yang quits Amara Raja Batteries Ltd
Shuqing Yang has quit as Non- Executive Director of Amara Raja Batteries Limited.

Nevill appointed as Addl Director of Amara Raja Batteries
Trent Moore Nevill has been appointed as Additional Director Amara Raja Batteries Limited.

Desai is Ind Director of NRB Bearing Ltd
NRB Bearing Limited has appointed Rustom Desai as Non-Executive and Independent Director of the company.

Rangani is Whole-time Director of NRB Bearings Ltd
NRB Bearings Ltd has appointed Satish C Rangani as Whole-time Director of the company.

Sankpal appointed as CS of Ruby Mills Ltd
Ruby Mills Ltd has appointed Nikhil Sankpal as Company Secretary of the company.

Bhave appointed as Ind Director of Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Ltd
Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Ltd has appointed Yashwant Shripad Bhave as Independent Director of the company.

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Trump and Modi both mean business.
Neeraj Gupta


Trump loves to meet opposite sex but Modi keeps himself at distance.

Dinesh Gupta




Think it over
1.For the first time in world history RBI is being questioned in PAC and gheraoed in any country.
2. First and Foremost is both Pakistan and China should return back our occupied land and occupied Tibet to Dali lama .Then terrorism comes next.
3. RSS should have talked about LORD Temple in Ayodhya first. What to talk about Hindu Ekta. All Hindu are one.
4.It is high time India should understand that whole world is fooling us. Because they see India as big consuming market due to population and unorganised. They do not want us to be developed otherwise their market will be finished.
5. Digitisation etc are for less populated country. To some extent it is good which already exists and effort is going on. If you get into it, backward integration will start, which has already started and you will not move ahead with upgrading technology and renovation.

Rajesh Tenany

IRS Customs and Central Excise Titanic sinking
In the history of Indian bureaucracy, no other service might have suffered from this kind of tragic neglect as is suffered by this service. There is imminent challenge of GST implementation and the whole service has shrunk to almost 40 percent of its cadre strength of 84000. Not a single promotion has been given even after 3 years and 4 months of cadre review. There are virtually no Chief Commissioners . Only 30 percent Principal Commissioners , 25 percent Commissioners, huge vacancies in all grades, no support staff, no infrastructure, no funds for office expenses. It's such a demoralising scenario that even the most optimistic officers have started crying of neglect .the present regime is only interested in squeezing the officers much beyond their human capacity without any motivation whatsoever. Not even NFU is granted to the officers of this cadre who ranked far higher than audit accounts , railways, income tax, civil accounts services in the UPSC exam. Many of them left the IPS also but now having seen the utter pathetic plight, everyone is speechless. Will the arrogant administration ever realise that they are killing so many bright officers who could have contributed much better to the national goals had some amount of motivation been given to them.

Sunil

Why disparity between IAS and non IAS?
IAS officers can go on deputation as MD/CMD of public sector entities but officers from group A services have to take permanent absorption all such cases.
Vox Populi

Time to put control on channels
An agitation limited to a few villages has been made into a great national agitation for Tamil culture mainly due to the TV channels and TV debates. The great Tamil culture does not confine itself to a Jallikattu, which many feel cruel to the bulls and against our culture. It is time for the government to put a minimum control on channels. The channels in their competition for TRP has many times brought in odd cases of Dalit attack and beef eating into a national issue creating bad blood between castes and religions. It does not auger well for the nation.
N Krishnan

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