Old rivals
With the MCD finally coming under the wing of the Delhi government, there is still tension within the Delhi government between age-old rivals Sheila Dikshit and Finance Minister Ashok Walia. While Dikshit was recently stumped by the media on being asked if there would be a 'new ministry' headed by her to manage the MCD, Finance Minister Walia, was heard assuring those who asked him that he would be heading the MCD in his capacity as the urban development minister. While the demand for MCD was spearheaded by the chief minister, speculation about who would controls the municipal body continues.

Divided house
Delhi University students gave unto themselves a split DUSU this year, and it already looks as if the four office bearers of the Students’ Union belong to four distinct offices. The DUSU has been denied entry into what should be their office and forced to accept portable cabins for offices and they have done so without even a murmur of protest. Even as fee hike agitations rocked North Campus in the past week, the DUSU was uncharacteristically silent on the issue. 

DUAC site hacked
The Delhi Urban Arts Commission was recently caught unawares after somebody hacked into the Commission's official website recently. Members realised that information had been tampered with and the site had been declared "harmful." The urban body "reviewed" the website in its monthly meeting and has now decided to modify it making it more secure besides making it more "transparent and user-friendly."  

Callous comment
Last week, the CII's former deputy director general Jayant Bhuyan's family went to the Medical Council of India complaining about a hospital's alleged negligence which led to Bhuyan's death. Despite admitting that the patient had died due to an 'accident' in the operating theatre, Dr Parvez Ahmad, executive medical director of the hospital justified the incident by saying, "many people died when the heart-lung machine was invented before technicians could learn to use the machine".     

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