Using perfume to assuage wounds of defeat

After suffering humiliating defeat in Assam polls, Ajmal brothers of AIUDF are now concentrating on core family business of perfume. Lok Sabha MP from Barpeta and scion of Ajmal group, Sirajudin Ajmal, now talks of expanding his business in India. Ajmal and Sons is a diversified business group with presence across India and overseas. Ajmal now plans to have 150 plus outlets in India by 2020. Currently, it has 42 stores.



Additional charge
Amid record snowfall in Himachal Pradesh, things are hotting up at Shimla-based Indian Institute of Advanced Studies. With the director having retired last month, chairperson Chandrakala Padia is learnt to have requested the HRD ministry to give her the charge of the director’s post too. The ministry has, however, handed over the additional charge of the institute to director, IIT Roorkee.



Toofan Mail
Chief Justice of India JS Khehar’s court staff, struggling to keep pace with his frenetic speed, fondly refers to him as Toofan Mail. The CJI is quick and decisive, and wraps up his board for the day much before the court’s lunch recess at one. Lawyers in court were heard chuckling in court at the new moniker!