Dear Rummy, Please credit the members of this group with a little intelligence.
Its all very well to tease poor Urvashi Sharma (the poor woman is enjoying her 10 seconds of fame on every other RTI group), but when you do cut-n-paste from Wikipedia and the CIC website, please remember to use the "text only" option while saving. Sarbajit --- In [email protected], Raminder Singh <ramisingh....@...> wrote: > > MoS(M.E.A) Shashi Tharoor has expected to submit his resignation as a > Member of India's Parliament after he was picked to be India's next Chief > Information Commissioner after a high voltage campaign which has excited the > nation. > > Tharoor is a member of the Indian > Parliament<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Parliament>from the > Trivandrum > constituency<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvananthapuram_%28Lok_Sabha_constituency%29>in > Kerala <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala>. He served as the UN > Under-Secretary > General<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-Secretary-General_of_the_United_Nations>for > Communications and Public Information between June 2002 and February > 2007, during the term of Secretary-General Kofi > Annan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Annan>at the United > Nations <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations>. In 2006, he was the > official candidate of India <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India> for the > office of United Nations > Secretary-General<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Secretary-General>, > and came second out of seven official candidates in the race. He is also a > prolific author, columnist, journalist, human-rights advocate, humanitarian > and adviser or fellow of various institutions, including the International > Committee of the Red > Cross<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross>, > the Aspen Institute <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Institute>, and the > USC > Center on Public > Diplomacy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USC_Center_on_Public_Diplomacy> > . > > The Chief Information Commissioner of India is selected by a 3 person > Committee which includes Mr Lal Krishna Advani the leader of India's > opposition the Bharatiya Janta Party. The appointees must be person s of > eminence in public life with wide knowledge and experience in law, science > and technology, social service, management, journalism, mass media or > administration and governance. > > The previous incumbent Mr Wajahat Habibullah had resigned last month to join > the cabinet of India's autonomous state Jammu and Kashmir where India's > Information law does not apply. >
