Hand Written
Chhattisgarh finance minister OP Choudhary presented a unique budget on Monday. This was his second full budget, but first of its kind as he had hand-written 101 pages of the budget. Only the first page with his name was typed out, but the remaining was all hand-written.
Controversy Over Jagannath Tattoo
A tattoo of Lord Jagannath on a foreign woman's thigh has triggered an outrage in Odisha, leading to a police case against her. A photo of the woman's tattoo, which she got inked at a parlour in Bhubaneswar, went viral on social media, triggering protests by Jagannath devotees, a police officer said, adding she works for an NGO. Afew Jagannath devotees filed a complaint with the Sahid Nagar police station and a case was registered under Section 299 of BNS (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs), the officer said.
'FiXing Chair': A Grain of Truth
A day before the Maharashtra assembly session, the ruling alliance addressed a press conference and asserted that the news of differences between partners is not true. To prove a point, deputy CM Eknath Shinde sat neXt to CM Devendra Fadnavis and said that they have only eXchanged chairs (Shinde was CM in the previous govt and Fadnavis his deputy). Without missing a beat, Shinde looked at Ajit Pawar, seated neXt to Fadnavis, and said that his chair (as deputy CM) is permanent. Ajit promptly responded to Shinde's jibe: "You couldn't fiX your chair so don't blame me."
Chhattisgarh finance minister OP Choudhary presented a unique budget on Monday. This was his second full budget, but first of its kind as he had hand-written 101 pages of the budget. Only the first page with his name was typed out, but the remaining was all hand-written.
Controversy Over Jagannath Tattoo
A tattoo of Lord Jagannath on a foreign woman's thigh has triggered an outrage in Odisha, leading to a police case against her. A photo of the woman's tattoo, which she got inked at a parlour in Bhubaneswar, went viral on social media, triggering protests by Jagannath devotees, a police officer said, adding she works for an NGO. Afew Jagannath devotees filed a complaint with the Sahid Nagar police station and a case was registered under Section 299 of BNS (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs), the officer said.
'FiXing Chair': A Grain of Truth
A day before the Maharashtra assembly session, the ruling alliance addressed a press conference and asserted that the news of differences between partners is not true. To prove a point, deputy CM Eknath Shinde sat neXt to CM Devendra Fadnavis and said that they have only eXchanged chairs (Shinde was CM in the previous govt and Fadnavis his deputy). Without missing a beat, Shinde looked at Ajit Pawar, seated neXt to Fadnavis, and said that his chair (as deputy CM) is permanent. Ajit promptly responded to Shinde's jibe: "You couldn't fiX your chair so don't blame me."
