Language Barrier

The Central Information Commission had last month passed an order asking the Presidents Secretariat to do two things: reveal official documents related to the imposition of Emergency in 1975 and to consider making the Presidents assets public. After waiting for over a month,the Presidents Secretariat challenged the order in the High Court last week,but was careful enough to restrict its appeal only to the part directing it to reveal papers on the Emergency. To ensure that the President was not seen to be anti-transparency,the Secretariat duly honoured the CICs suggestion and disclosed the Presidents assets on Monday.

Headless Body

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation CDSCO is faced with uncertainty ever since the Madras High Court stayed the nine-month extension granted to the Drugs Controller General of India,Surinder Singh. While Singh has stopped coming to office,the Health Ministry is loathe to make a fresh appointment,having decided to challenge the order in the Supreme Court. The CDSCO remains headless in the meanwhile.

Room for Doubt

Soon after he was named a Congress general secretary,Vilas Muttemwar let it be known to everybody close to him that he would go back to his hometown Nagpur only after he was given a specific assignment and a room at the AICC headquarters. After a fortnight,Muttemwar finally has been allotted a room but his precise brief still remains elusive. Since it implies that he continues to stay away from Nagpur,Muttemwar is not sure what to make of it. Still in the wilderness or out of it?

Premature Retirement

Air Chief Marshal P V Naik still has a week to go before retirement but the Integrated Defence Staff IDS Headquarters seems to have already written him off. On its website,the official think-tank of the IDS,the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies CENJOS,carries the name of Naiks successor,Air Marshal N A K Browne as the Air Chief and names him as a member of the advisory board. The same list mentions Pradeep Kumar,who took over as the CVC two weeks ago,as the Defence Secretary. No wonder that despite being set up in 2007,a hit counter on the site reveals that just over 1,200 people have visited it.

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