Prediction predicament
The nodal officers, in-charge of coordinating H1N1 activity in the Capital, are an unhappy lot. With the Delhi Health Minister insisting on making their personal mobile numbers available to the public, most doctors are spending sleepless nights answering calls. Worse, most calls are horoscope inquiries and not H1N1-related queries since television channels have been carrying the phone numbers adjacent to their horoscope advertisements. 

Money matters
Labour Minister Mangat Ram Singhal seems to out of luck as far as his official residence is concerned. Just when a controversy surrounding the huge bill for the house’s renovation seemed to be settling down, a fresh storm is brewing over a bill of Rs 15 lakh for its furnishing. Singhal had got this bill cleared from the Finance department, bypassing the Chief Minister’s office. Unfortunately for Singhal, when the bill reached the PWD to begin work, the department forwarded it to the Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for ratification. Dikshit immediately shot down the bill, as it was three times more than the sanctioned amount of Rs 5 lakh. 

Left out
A lawyer who had represented a client in the BMW hit-and-run case is sour that his name has not been included in the final judgment of the Delhi High Court. The lawyer, who has given various interviews to the media, was shocked to find his name omitted from the list of advocates who had fought for Nanda. Now, he is back in the Delhi High Court with a petition asking the court to remedy its “oversight” and to carve his own niche in the country’s legal history. 

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