Delhi Confidential: No Phones, Please

The last two CWC meetings of the Congress, including the one in August which appointed Gandhi as Congress president again, saw deliberations getting leaked real time.

Sonia Gandhi

TOP CONGRESS leaders were in for a surprise the other day when they reached AICC headquarters to attend a meeting chaired by party chief Sonia Gandhi. All of them were asked to keep their phones outside the meeting hall. And the rule was equal for one and all. So, what prompted Gandhi to ask the leaders to keep their phones out. The last two CWC meetings of the Congress, including the one in August which appointed Gandhi as Congress president again, saw deliberations getting leaked real time.

Poll Mode

ALERT AFTER the party’s less-than-expected performance in Maharashtra and Haryana, BJP poll managers are taking no chance in Jharkhand. Om Mathur, the BJP national vice-president, who has been made election in-charge of Jharkhand, has decided to camp in the state full-time for the elections. For this purpose, the state unit is learnt to have taken a five-room flat on rent in Ranchi for Mathur’s stay.

Search For Top Post

EVEN AS 25 members of the 33-member National Medical Commission wait in the wings to consign Medical Council of India to history, the hunt is on for the chairman of the apex medical education regulator. The health ministry has received 53 applications for the post all of which have been sent to the search committee. The committee is also free to recommend a name that is not among the applicants.

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Donald Trump may replace H-1B lottery with wage-based selection process

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Days after hiking the fees for new H-1B applications to $100,000, the Donald Trump administration has proposed to overhaul the visa process for high-skilled non-immigrant workers. The Trump administration has suggested a wage-based selection process for the H-1B programme, instead of the current lottery system.

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