Journalism of Courage
The margin of victory may have come as a pleasant surprise to her,but BJPs chief ministerial candidate in Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje never seemed to have any doubt about the results. Even before the elections,she had started reaching out to officials who had been in her secretariat during her last term. Start counting your days there. You have to come back, she had told one such official on phone posted in another state about a month before the election. A couple of days back,Raje was learnt to have met 1983 cadre IAS officer Ashok Singhvi who is currently posted as joint secretary in the Ministry of Urban Development in New Delhi. He is now tipped to join her secretariat in Jaipur.
SPACE CRUNCH
GROWING UP
The National Investigation Agency NIA is about to celebrate five years of its existence. Set up in December 2008 in the wake of the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai,the agency has since grown in size. Presently,it has about 500 officers and has also set up five field offices besides its New Delhi headquarters. While the nitty-gritty of the fifth anniversary celebration next month is still being worked out,Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to be the chief guest at the function. Recently,the Intelligence Bureau IB and the CBI had organised three-day seminars after completing 125 and 75 years,respectively. Manmohan Singh was the chief guest at both these events.
GOING OFFLINE
After making an impressive debut on the social media,the Indian Navy,it seems,has beaten a quiet retreat. The official Twitter handle of the Navy INSpokesperson was launched in October,following the footsteps of the Army that had a presence on Twitter. Over the past two months,the Navy managed to get an impressive following of over 5,700 on Twitter. However,since late last week,the official Twitter handle has been taken offline. While there had been no new posts for almost a month,it was taken completely offline on Friday,leaving many to wonder what went wrong.
