Talking point

While journalists battle informal gag orders on the release of information by some ministries, there is at least one Union minister who believes that the current crop of bureaucrats is more vocal than some of the ministers. Speaking at a media interaction, this key Union minister faced a volley of questions about the perceived "communication gap" in the National Democratic Alliance government. "There is no such thing," he retorted, adding the government was fortunate to have "cordial" and "media-friendly" bureaucrats. "Some of them speak more than I do with the press," the minister claimed.