Senior journalist Harish Khare will be the new Media Adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. 62-year old Khare,senior Associate Editor and Chief of Bureau of The Hindu,is a well known political columnist. He is expected to take over next week. Khare,who holds a PhD in political science from Yale University,has also worked as editor of the Ahmedabad edition of The Times of India and as a senior Editor for Hindustan Times. Khare will succeed Deepak Sandhu,who was appointed to the post last year after Sanjaya Baru took up a teaching assignment in Singapore.
