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The Ministry of External Affairs is about to be restructured. While the Public diplomacy division is being merged with the External publicity division,the BSM division will be split. The new divisions will have two divisions — Bangladesh,Myanmar in one division,with Sri Lanka,Maldives in the other. This will take care of the countries in the

neighbourhood,which need more attention.

At last,Tamil Nadu

The Congress leadership seems to have set its mind to putting its house in order in Tamil Nadu. Two years after B S Gnanadesikan was appointed state unit president,the party is preparing to announce his team. The state unit was last reshuffled years ago,and the same team has continued even though presidents have changed. Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s merit-based appointment system is likely to be employed in selecting district presidents as well,a clear break from the ‘normal’ of appointments on factional lines.

NIA’s burden sharing

With its workload increasing,the National Investigation Agency has moved some of the ‘Hindu’ terror cases it is investigating to its new Mumbai field office. Among them is the probe into the 2008 Malegaon and Modasa blasts. It is the Mumbai team which will now argue before the Supreme Court for the custody of Lt Col Shrikant Purohit,which the NIA wants.