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Piyush Goyal's creative licence
Don't grudge a dyed-in-the-wool politician his moment of creative licence
Designation game
Siddiqui is a senior RJD leader who has served as Cabinet minister as well as Leader of the Opposition in the state
Making the right moves
Considered closer to the rival camp, Goel was in the doghouse in the first two years of the Narendra Modi government
Prohibition drama
The prohibition issue of Bihar is making its reverberations felt in New Delhi
Lalu, the 'star'
RJD President Lalu Prasad's mannerisms and histrionics are the stuff of headlines; now he says he can beat any actor with his acting prowess
Dirty secret?
Digvijaya Singh has alleged that the money collected as Swachh Bharat cess is being diverted to the publicity campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Mamata's date with Delhi
After winning Assembly elections in Bengal earlier this year, Mamata Banerjee had declared that she would visit Delhi every two months
Maha jungle raj in Bihar: Paswan
Paswan hit back. He said Yadav was "a fake" and alleged that he had failed his matriculation examination five times
Eid bonhomie
Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar was one of the few ministers to head to the non-vegetarian counter to sample some of the kebabs, biryani and korma
A reversal in tradition
When a new minister of state takes charge, it is customary for the senior minister to welcome his deputy with bouquets or garlands
What makes Tej Pratap angry
Yadav started shouting at the journalist and asked him to delete the picture
Power cycle
Meghwal was one of the three members of Parliament (MP) who would bicycle to Parliament
Suhel's witty advice
Adman Suhel Seth has a habit of retweeting random requests for help and engaging with strangers
Side by side
State Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his protege-turned-rival Jitan Ram Manjhi sat next to each other, drawing hushed comments from some others in attendance
Dignity over ideology
Varun Gandhi reached out to a television journalist who was at the receiving end of singer Abhijeet's unwanted social media attention
Berth pangs in BJP
Some were busy accepting congratulatory messages and even discussing the portfolio they were likely to be offered
Not in step with the times
There are times when insurers, too, become critical of how their industry functions. At a recent conference, the chief executive of a mid-size private life insurer said that while several other sectors were looking to deliver today what a customer might want tomorrow, insurers were not even delivering today what a customer had wanted yesterday.
Forgotten ally?
Everyone who was around during the Emergency was felicitated by the National Democratic Alliance government on June 26 last year as well as this year - everyone except one man, who embodied the resistance to the Emergency: George Fernandes. In a powerful and poignant piece for a newspaper, Fernandes' colleague Jaya Jaitley asked why this was so. "George is fiercely against any form of self-aggrandisement. He hated the trend of huge cut-out figures of politicians that proliferated from the late 1980s," she wrote. "When a young tribal political worker from Madhya Pradesh wanted a huge sum of money to have cut-outs of his own image during an election campaign George refused and gave him a mouthful. The person switched to another party along with his wife. They could soon be seen with newly acquired gold jewellery." "He was a person who fought from the streets and pavements up to the point when he could call a total strike in Mumbai on the strength of a phone call, and to being a Union min
CAG's encounter with a scamster
In a rare public appearance, Comptroller and Auditor General of India Shashi Kant Sharma recalled a 20-year old incident where he met a scamster, who had duped investors by running a network of chit fund schemes.
Selfie shocker
Photos of Somya Gurjar holding her iPad to take a selfie with the alleged rape survivor and the state commission chairperson, Suman Sharma, went viral on Wednesday