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Dialling up a storm
The government might have provided brand new smartphones to all its information officers, but it will not foot the bills of those who are below the rank of director
Point taken
Conrad K Sangma, the newly elected member of Lok Sabha from Meghalaya, was one of the three Young Turks, among other members of Parliament, to highlight the havoc caused by floods in their respective home states
Confusing signals
Addressing a rally of Bahujan Samaj Party rebel R K Chowdhary's supporters in the state capital, Kumar said while the SP brandished Lohia's name to garner votes, it never followed his principles
A matter of release
Advani surprised some in the audience when he highlighted how compassion was integral to the four 'Indic' religions and also to Christianity
Family versus politics
The RJD supremo's youngest daughter is married to Mulayam Singh Yadav's grandnephew
Fresh coat of paint
The NITI Aayog building in New Delhi is being refurbished ... again... within a span of just over a year
From behenji to 'devi'
They took to the streets in large numbers in Lucknow protesting the remarks made against her by Dayashankar Singh, until recently the vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh
Common friend
Shalabh Kumar, chief executive officer of AVG Advanced Technologies, a conglomerate of electronic technology firms, is said to have donated around $1.1 million to the Trump campaign
Advani denies consent to book
The book, slated to be released today, is published by Anil Prakashan
When beard seems weird
Arshad Badruddin, a 36-year-old imam, alleged that his wife had been haranguing him to shave his well-groomed beard
Friend or foe?
The JD-U was part of the NDA for about 17 years till it fell out with the alliance in 2013
An index of Parliament disruption
The index will identify the member, who emerges as the chief disruptor during the course of the day, the political party he/she belongs to and the amount of time wasted
Parliamentary ribbing
Supriyo has been telling Ahluwalia, 65, that it doesn't behove him at his age to be handling a portfolio that has "affairs" in it
Swamy's self-goal
The re-tweet came too late - by then, the Twitterati had had a field day poking fun at Swamy"s "double standards"
Time to pay the price
In a recent internal communication, Naidu has warned that officers and staff members who are absent during designated hours or arrive late for work repeatedly will have to forgo a day's casual or earned leave
Swachh Bharat gone too far
The headmaster of a school in Bardhaman district of West Bengal seems to have taken the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan too seriously
Being social
Publicity during initial public offering and listing of shares is tightly regulated
Oxford and back to West Bengal
To keep mid- to senior-level bureaucrats from leaving West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to send 20 senior civil servants to Oxford University for a crash course
Comrades up in arms
In neighbouring West Bengal, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is said to be facing unprecedented internal conflict as members are challenging the party's stand on its alliance with the Congress before the Assembly elections in the state earlier this year
Divided on prohibition
It looks like the whole idea of prohibition and the way it is being implemented in Bihar are causing much grief and heartache within the ruling Grand Alliance in the state