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Liquor casualty
Bihar Excise and Prohibition Department's Principal Secretary K K Pathak is an angry man
Padayatra damage
A retired public sector banker, who has not-so-fond memories of United Progressive Allaince-I's Rs 70,000-crore farm loan waiver in 2008
Please come back
Mamata Banerjee might have come to power in West Bengal riding on the anti-land acquisition movement in Singur
Timing it right
Banks and brokers engaged in distribution and marketing of initial public offerings (IPO) wanted L&T group firm L&T Technology Services' issue dates to be postponed by a day because of logistical constraints. L&T Tech's IPO opens on September 12 and closes on September 15, which happens to be Ganapati visarjan or immersion day. However, A M Naik, chairman, L&T, wanted to be done with the issue before September 16, when pitru paksha or shradh starts, according to people in the know. Many consider the shradh period inauspicious for financial transactions.
All work and no play
While launching a new book by Balvinder Kumar, secretary of the ministry of mines, Piyush Goyal, the power, coal and mines minister, remarked he was surprised that a bureaucrat had been able to write a book while still in office
Left hand versus right hand
The West Bengal Assembly passed the resolution at its special session in end-August
Tall claims
Janata Dal (United) leader and spokesperson Sanjay Singh has threatened to prevent Union ministers from entering Bihar if the Centre does not provide adequate flood relief
Desi supermarkets
Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was visibly irked when an international moderator at a discussion she was participating in suggested there were "no major supermarkets in India"
Putting up a roadblock
A media baron sent out an email to his employees explaining the spate of exits at his home-grown entertainment company
Why your name counts
Union Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu, who is engaged in the makeover of the Indian Railways, tried to convince an audience how one's name matters
A smart police station
If you wish to meet the officer, walk into his office, wait in the reception area, take a sip from a glass of cold water and a smiling officer will soon meet you
Don't uncork the bubbly yet
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which owns Lord's, may soon ban uncorking of champagne bottles on the ground
When buyer sets the terms
An ultra luxury carmaker was in for a surprise while trying to sell a Rs 2.5-crore car to the wife of an industrialist in Mumbai
Google to the rescue
When police officials from the traffic department in Mumbai started getting calls from their senior officers enquiring about the reasons for a snarl-up in an area, they were flummoxed
Same difference
Old timers recall how the play has negotiated the treacherous territory of Bihar's political landscape, much like its maverick leading man
Sindhu's 'representatives'
Since PV Sindhu created history for India after grabbing an Olympics silver medal last Friday
Craze over store opening
The opening of Swedish fashion retailer H&M's first store in Mumbai just before Independence Day drew huge crowds
Never the twain shall meet?
Rajya Sabha TV is headed by Rajya Sabha Chairman M Hamid Ansari, while Lok Sabha TV is headed by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan
Personal versus professional
A little digging revealed that the personal assistant had used the official platform to publicise many of his personal events on earlier occasions as well
Wrong number
An account claimed that a famous Mumbai cricketer, in a call to Karmakar, spoke to her in Marathi, only to be told that she didn't speak the language