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The most startling part of the whole thing is that everyone appears to be perfectly happy with this arrangement. Ministers fall over one other to pay obeisance to the officer. Bureaucrats way senior to him in the hierarchy are in awe of him.

Test cricket, for them, is a needless distraction that has to be somehow endured till the marquee event. And the tragedy is: the players and the BCCI are on the same page on this.

Unknown to the intrepid reporter, the grieving woman and her angry relative, I too was recording the sound byte of the wailing on my mobile phone. My commissioning editor in Delhi had kept reminding me about that elusive wailing audio with which she wanted to start the radio package even before I had reached Ground Zero.

The second phase of the Budget Session of the Parliament was washed away in the clamour of the ruling Party for his apology for his alleged statements against the country on foreign soil.

In this article, I shall explain these patterns that help us understand meta-communication as it happens and use it appropriately in organisational context.

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Retirement is a significant phase of life, offering the opportunity to pursue personal interests and enjoy the fruits of one's labour. However, without adequate financial planning, retirement can become a daunting prospect.

The Constitution Bench had observed that an unaccountable and non-responsive civil service may pose a serious problem of governance in a democracy. 

In an exclusive chat with them, the suave Party Supremo advised them to work wholeheartedly to strengthen the Party. The massive revamping saw entry of more women legislators into the Council of Ministers raising their number to five in the total Council comprising 23 members. 

These three ancient Railway Stations, older than Cuttack and Puri, deserve world-class facilities as well.  Another Railway Station that deserves a much better infrastructure is Koraput, the nerve center of the southern part of Odisha. 

The staunch supporters of PM Modi in particular and the BJP, in general, are derisively called ‘Andh Bhakts’ (literally translated as blind devotees) by many of his/BJP’s fierce opponents. If we discount the reason (intense dislike) that prompts them to use this epithet, they do have a point in using this term. 

The goal of the scam is to trick you into entering your personal information, such as your Social Security number or credit card number. 

Those interpreting the Karnataka results as an early indicator of the defeat of the BJP in the coming Lok Sabha elections would do well to remember what happened the last time.

At the cost of repetition, it needs to be said again that a dense forest has always been an effective defence against rapid precipitation runoff.

Organisational communication can be both formal and informal. While formal communication is considered to be more objective and evidence-based, informal (grapevine) communication is often misunderstood as rumour mill.