Punjab Governor and UT Administrator Gulab Chand Kataria on Sunday said he has formally scrapped the colonial-era practice of using a special high-backed chair bearing the official emblem, both outside and inside Lok Bhavan. Explaining his decision after sitting on an ordinary chair at the All-India media meet in Chandigarh, Kataria said public office was about service, not symbols, and asked, “What’s in a chair?” Noting that after retirement one sits at home like everyone else, he remarked that it is better to always remain aware of one’s real place.

MPs spar over cigarette, khaini

Last week, MPs were seen exchanging barbs not over burning issues facing the country, but smoking cigarette inside the Parliament complex. A furore broke out as BJP MP Anurag Thakur alleged in the Lok Sabha

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