Delhi confidential: Ticket, Please

For once, Malayalam was perhaps drowned out by Marathi at the Kerala House in Delhi on Wednesday. Ramesh Chennithala, the Congress in-charge of Maharashtra, was staying there and he had a steady stream of visitors — ticket hopefuls and their supporters from the state. But among the visitors, one person stood out.

Actor Swara Bhasker, too, reached the Kerala House and had a meeting with Chennithala. The buzz was that she expressed her interest to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Mumbai North-Central, the seat Priya Dutt had earlier represented.

Future-Ready

In the recent brainstorming session on Viksit Bharat 2047 vision, PM Narendra Modi was understood to have taken a dig at the Indian bureaucracy. At the session, which saw presentations on a range of identified sectors by secretaries and top government officials, the PM is understood to have said that 19th century bureaucracy won’t work in the 21st century.