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application to supplication

The height of seva IF you want to please Lalu Prasad Yadav, you’ve got to be meticulous. Sukhbir Singh, General Manager of North...

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Papa PC on lobbying mission

LIKE any other politician of the country, Finance Minister P Chidambaram wants to intro duce his son, Karthik Chidambaram, who is a Chennai...

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Hooda, the land shark

Duping farmers As a result of the unprecedented property boom in the National Capital Region of Delhi, NOIDA and Greater NOIDA in UP...

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PMO at war with Patil

HERE is no love lost between the Union Home Ministry and the Prime Minister’s Office over the issue of internal security. While the...

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Congressmen’s lot

SCRIBES can extract an apology from Congress president Sonia Gandhi if the Special Protection Group (SPG) men guarding her get a mite too...

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Saffron lovefor Suu Kyi

AUNG San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader of Myanmar (pronounced ‘Myamma’) or Brahmadesh – as the RSS calls it – was never a...

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Headless chicken and absenteeism

There is an interesting sideline to the drama of the Indo-US nuclear deal. Sources say our envoy to the US, Ronen Sen, will...

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Tina Dixit sitting pretty; high command quandary

Let us hark back to the time when that formidable gang of three – HKL Bhagat, Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar – was...

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Divided we stand: UP loyalty split

The change of power in UP has split the state bureaucracy vertically. The officers who ruled the state from a certain floor of...

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Procrastinating Patil’s a pain!

Minister-bureaucrat collision course Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil’s ouster in the run-up to the Presidential election is seemingly a body blow for bureaucrats...