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BSF Director met Rajiv Mehrishi and submitted a second interim report on allegations made by jawan Left red-faced,   BSF Jawans Video   today came out with fresh guidelines for maintaining high quality of food for its personnel along the border as the Union Home Ministry directed it to file a complete report on allegations of substandard food made by a soldier posted along the LoC. BSF Director General K K Sharma met Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and submitted a second interim report on the allegations made by Tej Bahadur Yadav on a video that was uploaded on social networking sites. The BSF chief avoided queries from waiting media after his meeting but the paramilitary force came out with a statement in the evening announcing six measures for providing quality food for its jawans posted along the border. Also Read   :   BSF jawan video: Home Ministry seeks full report by today "Issues related to diet of jawans, issues of ration purchase procedure...

PMO stamp in Cabinet rejig Among many political, administrative and ideological messages in the changes in the council of ministers that Prime Minister  Narendra Modi  carried out, the most important was the unambiguous stamp of his office. The sweep of influence of the Prime Minister’s Office in Tuesday’s rejig was rarely witnessed in the past three decades. In expanding this influence of the central government, the PM was assisted by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah. The changes in the Cabinet worked at several levels. They were definitely done with an eye on electoral compulsions —  Dalits  and Other Backward Classes found increased representation. New ministers were inducted from states that are either electorally crucial for the  BJP  (Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat) or are going to polls in the near future (Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh). Also, alliance building was kept in mind. Allies like...

Prime Minister   Narendra Modi , who once called himself the “Pradhan Sewak”, is walking the talk, and how. He has not taken a single day off after taking charge on May 26, 2014, his office replied to a query posted through Right to Information (RTI). While the specific question was how many sick and casual leave were availed by prime ministers in the past 10 years, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has replied only for Modi. On whether Modi follows any official working hours, the reply was “he’s on duty all the time”. The PM has had an engaging international calendar during the past 18 months, with 18 foreign trips and spending 89 days away from the country, government data shows. A Russia trip is coming up next week. His domestic tours have been much shorter, mostly confined to a day each. From May 26, 2014, to October 26, 2015, Modi went on 10 trips, spanning 11 days, within India. That makes it a total of 100 days on the move within one and a half years. In another RTI qu...