The Hindu

Keralam govt. appoints S. Karthikeyan as Excise Commissioner in another bureaucratic reshuffle

He replaces Seeram Sambasiva Rao, who was controversially relieved from the post last week a few days after Excise Minister M. Liju publicly indicated his disapproval on the granting of bar licence to a lounge at the Kochi airport despite the governments objection to a similar application