Another chargesheet may be prepared under the 2G spectrum scam and it may focus on DB Realty and Loop Telecom. Several others may face the same fate but that will take time.

Kantilal Bhuria may be the next president of Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee.

Sharing boundaries with Delhi is a state, whose chief minister is extremely fond of an IAS officer, and is also known as the CM’s moneybag. He was involved with a colleague IAS officer’s wife and would meet her often. He would book a room in a plush hotel in the state’s capital under a proxy name and share intimate moments with the officer’s wife. Since the place is small and people know each other, someone informed the officer’s wife about the affair, who landed up in the room and caught her husband red-handed. She called her husband to the lobby and publicly thrashed him with her slipper. Wounded and bloody, the husband went for an important meeting and gave the excuse of an accident for his condition and said he had to come for the meeting since it was an important one. The chief minister couldn’t stop feeling proud of his officer’s sense of duty.

The best part of the Indian judiciary sending letter rogatory to the 10 Malaysian companies is that all of them are in the same building. The finger of suspicion points to Shakil Balwa that all the companies to which the money was transferred belong to him. With investigation, layers are expected to peel even more.

CBDT’s most powerful official Sudhir Chandra, who is also a member of investigation as well as CBDT’s acting chairman, will have completed his tenure on March 31. It is hoped that the government will given him an extension, and why not, when he is being lobbied by Amita Paul. The finance ministry has sent its recommendation to the DOPT, from where it will reach the PMO for his signature. It is likely Chandra will stay back. Amita wants the CBDT’s chairman to have a fixed tenure of two years.

Since former CVC P J Thomas has been sent off after directions from the Supreme Court, the markets are rife with who the next CVC will be. But reliable sources in the PMO say that it will again be a Malyali because TKA Nair has succeeded in assuring the prime minister that since Kerala Vidhan Sabha election are round the corner, where Thomas’ departure hasn’t gone down well, it will work better if the next CVC is from the same state. So whether it is G K Pillai or someone else, it has to be a Malyali. “Kutty nair sahib, barbad-e-gulistan ko aap akele kaafi na they, jab har shaakh pe mallu baitha hai, to anjaam-e-gulistan kya hoga?”

A Raja is living a comfortable life in Tihar. His needs and comforts are being taken care of by the CBI and the prison administration. Citing language problems, he has been provided the security of Tamil Nadu policemen, who are more into care than security. As it is, before Raja’s arrest, Karunanidhi has spoken to the government and had been told why it would was imperative to arrest Raja, or the government would have lost face in front of the Supreme Court.

If you leave aside the descendants of Nehru-Gandhi family, Sardar Manmohan Singh is seen as the most powerful prime minister so far. He is running the government as he wants to and his favourites are taking their favourite decisions. And Manmohan feels he somehow has a big hand in the UPA’s second innings – the coalition party came to power only because of his honest image and clean governance. So his entire body language has changed

Sharma ji is currently the principal resident commissioner of Rajasthan in Delhi. But the question is, why is this official capable of a secretary’s job in the Indian government kept aloof? According to his status, he should be a secretary in one of the government’s ministries. Even Rajasthan’s Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot met with the PM and Sonia to help ease Sharma’s angst but nothing came of it. For Gehlot, the pain is even more – in the past four-five years, no IAS officer from the Rajasthan cadre has managed to get a secretary’s post in a ministry. Gehlot obviously wants to change this.

Opposition leader in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj should know why CVC Thomas is so crucial for the government. That’s because the entire coal matter was somehow told to the CVC; not just that, several scams from the first innings of UPA rule are alive and well in the CVC’s files. To have these matters laid to rest, it is imperative that the CVC be the chosen one, the closer one. The matter is inflammable and a spark can cause fire. So now you probably know why Thomas and the current be-all and end-all of PMO, Vinod Rai of the Punjab Cadre, and the current CAG are so important for some officials.