Angry Chidambaram

Finance Minister P Chidambaram lost his cool with Sanjay Nirupam’s constant nagging today. It was during a debate that the Shiv Sena&#1...

Finance Minister P Chidambaram lost his cool with Sanjay Nirupam’s constant nagging today. It was during a debate that the Shiv Sena’s vocal MP tried to make an issue of Chidambaram leaving the House in the middle of his speech. He even offered to end his speech when the Minister was seen coming back in. Soon Nirupam was pointing to the minister’s conversation with a member. At this Chidambaram retorted, ‘‘You can not dictate to me wether I should speak to my neighbour or who I talk to.’’

Close relations

The Rajya Sabha today saw some lively exchanges between External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh and his predecessor Yashwant Sinha. Most of the time Singh was addressing Sinha directly. Whem members poited it out, Singh remarked, ‘‘We have a jugalbandi. Later, Singh told the House in a lighter vein that Sinha’s son-in-law was working in his office and he was a fine officer.

FM’S advice to left

After CPM’s Jibon Roy said globalisation was increasing poverty and hunger, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had some advice for him. Quoting a member, the minister said ‘‘You create more Midnapores (in West Bengal, where potato farming is doing well). Remember McKinsey were the consultants there. So have more foreign consultants to have Midnapores.’’

Language panel report

The report of the Sita Kant Mohapatra committee on the inclusion of languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution is under the consideration of the Government, Home Minister Shivraj Patil told the Lok Sabha today. He was responding to a calling attention motion by Prabhunath Singh of the Janata Dal (U) that a decision on Bhojpuri on this count be taken ‘‘soon.’’ Singh said the language was spoken by 20 crore people.

The police said the trio from Chandigarh — Rohan (21), Sumit (22), and Mohit (19) — were dhol players by profession and had procured the weapons due to an old rivalry with local residents.

Suspecting affair, Odisha lecturer assaults wife and her friend, parades them on street

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A lecturer of Commerce and his associate were arrested for assaulting his wife, garlanding her with slippers and parading her on the road with her male friend. The woman, who has been living separately from her husband, was assaulted and humiliated in public. The incident was recorded and shared on social media. Police have seized evidence and are investigating the matter.

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