Third Eye: A hospitable Health Minister

A Hospitable Health Minister Modi’s team-building exercise seems to have helped build bonhomie among ministers and their ministry officials. Hours before presentations were made to the PM, it is learnt that health ministry officials worked all night to get the specifics right at minister JP Nadda’s house. The hospitality was remarkable as there was constant flow of tea and snacks all through the working hours, an official said

Who Will Head CBSE? As selection process for a new CBSE chairperson draws to a close, there has been considerable interest over two candidates in the fray. It is learnt that former CBSE chairperson Vineet Joshi, an IAS officer from Manipur cadre, was again a candidate for the school board’s top job. IRS officer Vikram Sahay, who earlier served at HRD ministry and later at UGC, was also among the contenders.

Lip Service to Socialism Leaders of parties that project themselves as followers of Ram Manohar Lohia’s ideology of socialism and anti-Congress politics were conspicuous by their absence from a programme to pay floral tributes to the late leader on his birth anniversary last week. Only Venkaiah Naidu was present in Central Hall of Parliament on the occasion. Speaker Sumitra Mahajan is away on a foreign visit.

The Political Gamucha Ministers and delegates on stage at a recent RSS event were felicitated with the Assamese gamucha. While the reason for choosing the gamucha over a normal shawl is not known, the impending elections in the state and the BJP’s push to win it was hardly hidden in the attempt.