Page 55 - Chinese Whispers
Rahul can't be 'captain': Guha
Historian and author Ramachandra Guha has said that elevating Rahul Gandhi to the post of Congress president is like making a player
Retrospective effect
The CPI-M was relegated to the third position behind the Congress in the Assembly polls
Double whammy
Derek O'Brien said the Opposition parties approached the people of the state with a "double negative": stop development and defeat Mamata
The 'right' pen for Misa
When Misa Bharti went to file her nomination to the Rajya Sabha, she forgot to carry a pen with her
Helmet please
If you haven't bought a helmet yet, don't ride around in a two-wheeler in Odisha
Kalavati is back
Kalavati Bandurkar became the face of farm widows in Vidarbha after Gandhi visited her in 2008 and narrated her plight in Parliament
The outsider
Parrikar's comments come at a time when Goa is getting ready for elections next year
PM keeps bureaucrats on their toes
While some were taking the cleanliness pledge others were coming to terms with the "unpredictability" of what Prime Minister Narendra Modi would approve of and what he would not
Jayant Sinha takes the lead
That was just an hour and a half after all the ministers and bureaucrats had taken the pledge
A 100-hour cleanliness pledge
It started with an exhortation to follow in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi, who wanted a clean and developed India
Akhilesh's advice: Drink less
Yadav's remark came after his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar advised him to ban liquor in Uttar Pradesh
A 'warning' for Modi
In this capacity, Lieberman has taken it upon himself to issue a press release warning Modi of the risks of doing business with Iran because it sponsors Hamas and Hezbollah
Plan AB
A B de Villiers' 47-ball 79 helped Royal Challengers Bangalore qualify for its first Indian Premier League final since 2011
Tejaswi's take on jungle raj
BJP allegation that jungle raj was prevailing in Bihar under the Grand Alliance govt was an attempt to divert potential investment to BJP-ruled states, Bihar Deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav said in a Facebook post
Clean image
A week after Rishi Kapoor tweeted his displeasure at naming of several of India's assets after members of the Gandhi family, Congress workers named a public toilet in Allahabad after him
A Kejriwal-Manmohan 'link'
They don't take money themselves but allow others around them to do so, claims activist-lawyer and former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Prashant Bhushan
Wrong signal
At a telecom industry event last week, a handful of operators went overboard enumerating all the "great" things done by Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad
Fruit basket
Union minister and Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan believes the Grand Alliance against the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar is an orange fruit
BJP's social media chops
Though power tripped only for a few seconds over two instalments, television channels and websites were quick to run headlines about a "power-less" minister
National ambitions
Mamata Banerjee, who returned to power in West Bengal in Assembly elections, has decided to invite a plethora of national & regional leaders for her swearing-in ceremony