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Bloated
Babudam
More
heads, less work-that's the state of the bureaucracy in India. A privileged
lot with guaranteed rights, pay and perks, they cost the taxpayers Rs
75,000 crore a year.The work culture makes them surplus but hard to get
rid of.
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NATION
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Taking
the
Plunge
Congress President Sonia Gandhi shedding her inhibitions and taking a
dip at the Mahakumbha in Allahabad and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad's Dharma
Sansad at the same venue were both seen as political moves.
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STATES
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Starved
of Future
With
the state reeling under a severe drought and government measures providing
little succour, the prospect of a famine looms large. The debilitating
results are now showing up as a chain of catastrophes in this rain-fed
region.
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BUSINESS
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Puppy
Paradise Professionals
have turned Ludhiana into the richest city.
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NEWSNOTES:
CAPLOOKS
Luck's Abode
 Delhi:
1 Talkatora Road is not just an MP's bungalow in the capital. M.K. Subba,
Congress MP from Tezpur, Assam, believes it will bring him luck of the
kind that visited Ajit Jogi recently. Though he was the allottee, Subba
had allowed Jogi to live there for over a year while he preferred to stay
in five-star hotels. Jogi, of course, went on to become chief minister
of Chhattisgarh. Subba recently moved in, even turning down a request
from Sonia Gandhi to let
AICC General Secretary Mohsina Kidwai stay there.
Subba may have taken a risk in rejecting Sonia's request
but believes he will move next to the chief minister's
bungalow in Guwahati.
Pen
Friend
Lucknow:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Rajnath Singh has unwittingly become a pen
collector. This is how. One day, he borrowed a pen to sign an urgent official
paper, but forgot to return it. When reminded that he had kept somebody's
pen, pat came the reply from his wife, also sitting there: "Of late
he has developed a habit of keeping others' pens." So is it a new
found fetish for pens? Or is it sheer work pressure that makes him forget
even elementary things like returning something that doesn't belong to
him.
Remote
Affair
Hyderabad:
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was livid that Chinese
leader Li Peng went to Bangalore and skipped Hyderabad last week. So he
got Lok Sabha Speaker G.M.C. Balayogi to persuade Li on a two-hour stopover
in Hyderabad. Li was taken to the 10-storey Cyber Tower where Naidu was
to give an audio-visual presentation. But just as he started, the screen
went blank. The mobile jammer that is part of Naidu's security had blocked
the signals from the audio-visual equipment's remote.
Losing
Sleep
 Mumbai:
Inaugurating a housing scheme in Mumbai for defence services personnel,
Defence Minister George Fernandes recalled that on his first night in
the city 51 years ago, he had slept on the footpath. Had he moved around
town a bit, he would have realised things haven't changed much.
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 If
planned well, the quake could be the Keynesian opportunity for Yashwant
Sinha to trigger growth,
says India Today Associate Editor
V.
Shankar Aiyar
in
Au
ContrAiyar.
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INTERVIEW |
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This is just the beginning, V.K. Aatre, who
is at the core of the LCA action, tells India Today Principal Correspondent
Stephen David in an exclusive
Interview.
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DESPATCHES |
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Managing
home and
a career was always tough but women in the metros can now choose from
an increasing array of options to work flexible hours.
India Today's
Namita Bhandare takes a look at the part-time and flexi-time job
market in Despatches.
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