Page 47 - Chinese Whispers
Such a long journey
You may not be the only one harangued by break journeys and delayed flights
All for higher sales
As peak sale season gets underway, trust canny marketers to come up with new ideas to trash their competition
Dual purpose
Be it business or social issues, promotion through Twitter handles seems to be the name of the game
Not a good deal
Such variations are conspicuous in furniture and consumer durables, leaving people to wonder what they were really saving this sale season
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Hyderabad, incidentally, was the biggest contributor to the Income Declaration Scheme, and the institute is said to have contributed significantly to the success of the scheme
Back and forth
Bharatiya Janata Party General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya surprised many by his strident #BoycottChina tweets
Buy one get one free...
On Monday, Syed Haroon Basha walked into the airline's new office in Bengaluru to book a ticket amid the first-day commotion
One world
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been vocal in her attack against cow census, beef ban - almost anything that might affect the sentiment of minority communities
A matter of semantics
A former minister in Mumbai was heard telling his party men that the term stood for "a surgery conducted by a qualified surgeon on a patient suffering from a dreaded disease"
Auto-rickshaws in F1 mode
Getting an auto-rickshaw willing to take you to your destination is a tough task in perhaps any city in India
What's in a name?
Renaming of roads in Lutyens' Delhi has gained momentum of late
Pirated version of Economic Survey
There is considerable curiosity around the Economic Survey this year as everyone wants to know the surprises Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian would offer this time around
A different kind of parade
Foreign trade missions that introduce companies to invest in India have two clear tasks: How to help such companies navigate India's bureaucracy
Real-time advertising
While India Inc seems nervous about the surgical strike on alleged terror camps on Pakistani soil, a delivery-based restaurant chain in Delhi is trying to cash in on this
Conflicting signals
Despite the hullabaloo around Digital India, the National Democratic Alliance government continues to be in "freeze-frame"
Fraudulent email
An investigation by one alert official found that the email was a hoax and the Group informed the police
An all-inclusive ethos
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was scheduled to speak back to back at two different venues in Mumbai on a particular day, making it tough for reporters to shadow him
The 'better' partner
Subrata Roy and Vijay Mallya were partners in the Formula One team Sahara Force India, before the latter sold out
Liquor traders want dry day
West Bengal has decided to allow bars to serve liquor 365 days a year and to curtail the number of dry days - when liquor shops remain shut - from 12.5 to four
The 'amphibious' SUV
Anand Mahindra tweeted a picture of a flooded Mumbai road, saying, "Mumbai tonight. It's a deluge. We need to design amphibious vehicles."