Delhi confidential: 200 women ISRO scientists and a selfie request for Jitendra Singh

One of the ministers in the new Nitish Kumar Cabinet in Bihar has a JNU connection.

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. As photographs of Nitish and his new team of nine ministers with the Governor appeared on the TV screens, people identified the man on the extreme left as Sumit Singh, an independent MLA. Sumit was a student of the Japanese Centre at School of Languages in JNU. (Express File Photo)

When 200 women scientists from ISRO met with Union Science Minister Jitendra Singh earlier this week, they wanted to click a selfie with him. Singh, however, said the request for a selfie should come from him as they [scientists] were the celebrities for having accomplished missions such as Chandrayaan-3, Aditya-L1, and Chandrayaan-2.

Difficult Task

At the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of the Supreme Court on Sunday, Bar Council of India chairman Manan Kumar Mishra heaped praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was present on stage. There were isolated rounds of applause from the audience. Delivering the inaugural address a short while later, the PM said his government had approved the third phase of the e-Courts Mission Project with a four-fold increase in funding as compared to the second phase.

In a lighter vein, he told the audience that they could clap as it was their subject. A round of laughter followed as the PM said he understood how difficult it was for them to applaud when Mishra was speaking.

JNU Connection

One of the ministers in the new Nitish Kumar Cabinet in Bihar has a JNU connection. As photographs of Nitish and his new team of nine ministers with the Governor appeared on the TV screens, people identified the man on the extreme left as Sumit Singh, an independent MLA. Sumit was a student of the Japanese Centre at School of Languages in JNU.

He joined the ABVP in JNU and later shifted to Bihar to join politics full-time. Son of veteran Rajput politician Narendra Singh, Sumit won the 2020 Assembly election as an Independent from Chakai, bordering Jharkhand.