Mumbai dance bars set to open soon; Is senior IAS Vijay Satbir Singh satisfied after inspecting 4 bars?

LAST couple of days, 1984 batch IAS officer and Maharashtra’s principal secretary (appeals and security) Dr Vijay Satbir Singh visited four dance bars in Mumbai that were given temporary license. The senior IAS officer, accompanied by police officers including a DCP, visited the dance bars and checked whether the guidelines were being strictly followed, according to news reports. New norms say, dancers must be aged 18 and above and should not wear…

Rakesh Maria’s unceremonious exit as Mumbai Police Commissioner: 10 Questions and Answers

Nana Patekar playing the role of Rakesh Maria in a film 

MUMBAI top cop Rakesh Maria’s removal on Tuesday was no less confusing than the case he was trying to solve. In fact, BoI received many a question from its readers: Was Maria indeed promoted? Will upset Maria really resign? What is Maria’s relations with Peter Mukherjea, the media honcho whose wife is an accused in Seena Bora murder case, the one Maria has been investigating with lots of interest? Was CM Devendra Fadnavis upset with Maria? And what about Maria’s connection with Bollywood? BoI here presents 10 such questions with answers:

Will Guv Subbarao relent after meeting his ex-boss Chidambaram last weekend?

Chidambaram with Sebi chief UK Sinha

Will P Chidambaram’s maiden visit to Mumbai after he had taken over as finance minister on August 1, impact the amount that we pay as EMIs for our home and car loans? Along with three top North-Block bureaucrats, the finance minister flew down to the financial capital on Saturday and held serious deliberations with two former bureaucrats among others. Who are they, and what had transpired in those closed-door talks?

Maharashtra government may frame one-bureaucrat-one flat rules

IN WHAT could be described as direct fallout of Adarsh Society scam, the government of Maharashtra has been mulling over framing new rules that will allow a bureaucrat to apply for only one flat under government schemes. There are suggestions that a blanket ban should be imposed on the allotment of apartments or land to bureaucrats’ relatives under any government’s concessionary scheme.

Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar suggested that IAS or state officials would have to follow the one-bureaucrat-one flat norm, according to media reports. Under the current rules, one bureaucrat having a flat in Mumbai can also apply for flats in Navi Mumbai, Pune etc. under the government scheme as current rules allow a bureaucrat or politician to apply for a second flat in another district. In case of Mumbai, restrictions are limited only to the city.

In the wake of Adarsh scam, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan asked the JA Patil committee to submit recommendations to make the process of allotment of government land to housing societies more transparent.

11 IAS officers fail to disclose assets

After revealing the names of 851 Central Secretariat Service officers who failed to submit the annual Immovable Property Returns (IPR) for 2009, names of IAS officers have also cropped up for the same reason. Eleven senior IAS officers, including Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) commissioner and 1986 batch IAS officer Siddaiah, have failed to submit the assets and liabilities report for 2009-10, according to Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa’s written reply in Assembly.

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