Campaign duty

According to the tour schedules released by the party,Advani is slated to campaign for seven days in these states.

Campaign duty

If election tours of top BJP leaders in the poll-bound states are any indicator,party patriarch L K Advani still seems to be in demand. According to the tour schedules released by the party on Tuesday,Advani is slated to campaign for seven days in these states.

The other leaders who will be campaigning for more days are Rajnath Singh 12 days,Narendra Modi 10 days and Sushma Swaraj 9 days.

hutdown effect

Although the partial shutdown in the US has now been resolved,its after effects are still being felt,especially when it comes to military matters. Navy Chief Admiral D K Joshi was slated to take part in the International Seapower Symposium at the US Naval War College this week. However,with the event being called off due to the shutdown,the visit has been postponed,making him the second Indian Armed Forces chief whose trip to the United States has been put off.

Earlier this month,Army Chief Gen Bikram Singhs visit to the US too was postponed due to the economic crisis.

Top race

With K Saleem Ali,a 1978-batch IPS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre,set to retire next month,the race for the top post of CBI special director has begun.

Among those in the race are: Orissa Director General of Police Prakash Mishra 1977 batch,Maharashtra State Security Corporation Managing Director Arup Patnaik 1979 batch,Special DG,BSF,Rajdeep Singh 1979 batch and National Crime Records Bureau Officer on Special Duty R R Verma 1978 batch. A final decision is likely to be taken early next month.

Slip-up,live

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One cardinal principle in TV news is never give credit to your rival channel unless you do it inadvertently. Which is exactly what happened earlier this month when NDTV Group Editor Barkha Dutt referred to Times Now on air to Army Chief Bikram Singh.

On the morning of October 8,the Army Chief spoke to Times Nows Arnab Goswami on the Keran operations over phone. Dutt,in Srinagar to cover the operations,called up the Army Chief after Times Now went on air with the interview. A technical glitch ensured that some of the pre-interview casual chit chat went live on NDTV.

Asked by the Army Chief what points she wanted to raise during the interview,Dutt replied: Basically,the same two things that you said to Times Now. Promptly,the live interview was cut and the anchor in the Delhi studio took over with news of the Army operations with a perfect,straight face.