'Delhi's streets were not alleys but an artist's canvas,' the eminent poet Mir Taqi Mir noted more than 150 years ago. Syed Firdaus Ashraf savours the sights and cuisine of the national capital.
'We arrested the girl on a complaint from the boy's father. He told us that his son died by suicide due to the girl.'
'Journalists must ask the Mumbai police why are they sending notices via X to cartoonists.' 'The Mumbai police must come clean. Who is giving them such orders?'
S N Subrahmanyan earns Rs 13,98,630.14 per day!
'The government does not want to be transparent or accountable. Therefore, they do not want to appoint information commissioners.'
'Retail investors have to stick to their asset allocation plans and continuously do portfolio reviews.'
'The CM's credibility is on the line.'
'Mrs Gandhi had nothing to do in the day-to-day working of Dr Singh's government.' 'People say Mrs Gandhi's office used to give orders, which is nonsense.'
'During his stint as prime minister, he got 270 million people out of poverty.' 'This, according to the World Bank, is the fastest compression of poverty anywhere in the world.' Arvind Mayaram, the former finance secretary, recalls his encounters with Dr Manmohan Singh.
'When we reached there only a small portion of the boat was above water and people were desperately clinging on to it.'
'He used to do his homework before singing a song.' 'He used to find out who the hero of the movie would be or the situation in which the song would play in the film.' 'Accordingly, he moulded his voice.' 'For example, he sang Tel Maalish and Main Bambai Ka Babu for Johnny Walker in Johnny Walker style.' 'He would sing in different tones for Shammi Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Guru Dutt.'
'Women and children were crying desperately for help.' 'We had to save them first.'
'We pressurised him (to accept the deputy chief ministership).' 'Being out of power would have made him weaker.'
Simran Shaikh stays in a tiny 12 by 12 feet room along with her grandmother, parents and siblings. On Sunday, her life changed perhaps forever when she became the most expensive hire at the Women's Premier League auction.
'If you are going to make undeserving MLAs as ministers, then why should sincere and hard-working people like us continue?'
'In the case of a road accident, prevention is the only answer.' 'There's no cure to death or disability when the accident happens, and when it's due to reckless or negligent driving, it's worse because it's avoidable.'
'This is the first case in which we saw use of Starlink by smugglers.'
'Look at the post mortem reports. Every body (of the 10 Kuki-Zo youth who were killed) has almost 12 bullet marks on it.' 'Why do they have to fire so much even if they wanted to kill them?' 'One or two shots would be enough to kill them. Why then they had to fire so many bullets on them?'
'Maharashtra is virtually in a debt trap.'
Allu Arjun broke the myth that dubbed South movies don't do well at the pan-Indian box office, and became a brand.
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