In a story told across India, Lakshmana never slept during the fourteen years of his elder brother Rama’s exile. He stood guard over Rama and Sita day and night. His wife Urmila slept in his place for all fourteen years.
The story is not in Valmiki’s Ramayana or in Tulsidas’s version. The writer Devdutt Pattanaik traces it to the folk Ramayanas.
On December 5, 2000, the Indian cricket authorities banned Mohammad Azharuddin, the former captain of the national team, from cricket for life. The ban was based on a report by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
In 2012 the Andhra Pradesh High Court set the ban aside, on procedural grounds and without clearing him of wrongdoing, as Siasat reported. By then he had already been elected to the Lok Sabha from Moradabad in 2009. In 2019 he became president of the Hyderabad Cricket Association. On October 31, 2025, he was sworn in as a minister in the Telangana government.
On September 13, 2022, the Department of Personnel and Training issued consolidated guidelines on how officials deal with members of Parliament and the state legislatures. Officials “should not ignore telephonic messages left for them by the Members of Parliament.” An officer should “rise to receive and see off a Member of Parliament/State Legislature visiting him.”
A similar instruction appeared in a letter of the Department in 2013.
Section 405 of the Indian Penal Code defined a crime called criminal breach of trust. “Whoever, being in any manner entrusted with property, or with any dominion over property, dishonestly misappropriates or converts to his own use that property” commits it. The definition also covers anyone who uses the property “in violation of any direction of law” or “of any legal contract, express or implied.”
Section 316 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita of 2023, which corresponds to it, opens with the same words.
In December 2022 the fantasy sports company Dream11 was reported to give every employee one week a year completely off work, logged out of Slack, email and even WhatsApp groups. It calls the week Unplug. “Any employee who contacts another employee during the “UNPLUG” period will be fined Rs 1 lakh,” Business Today reported.
Rahiman dhaga prem ka, mat todo chhitkaay. Toote se phir na mile, mile gaanth pari jaay. Rahim says: do not snap the thread of love with a jerk. Once broken, it does not join again. If it joins, a knot remains.
The couplet by the poet Rahim is in the Hindi textbook Malhar of the National Council of Educational Research and Training, for the sixth grade.
In an excerpt from the book The Time Energy Toolkit, published by Scroll in July 2025, an employee who leaves the office at 6 p.m. hears a shout: “Half-day today!”
“Long work hours are equated with sincerity, ownership and drive,” the authors write. “They are celebrated, rewarded and expected.” Bank staff have a phrase for staying on: late sitting.
On August 20, 2022, Rishad Premji, chairman of the IT company Wipro, wrote on Twitter: “There is a lot of chatter about people moonlighting in the tech industry. This is cheating – plain and simple.”
In September 2022 he told a management convention that Wipro had “discovered 300 people in the last few months” who were working for a competitor while employed by Wipro. The company fired them. Premji called it a “complete violation of integrity in its deepest form,” Business Today reported.
Two months after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister, India TV reported on the new pace in the ministries in Delhi. Ministers insisted on punctuality. “Most senior officials are in office till 7 p.m. and their staff too stay put,” the report said on July 27, 2014.
In 1536 Banvir assassinated Vikramaditya of Mewar. The young prince Udai Singh was in the care of his nurse, Panna Dhai. She put her own son, Chandan, in the prince’s bed. Banvir ne Chandan ko rajkumar samajhkar maar dala. Banvir killed Chandan, thinking he was the prince, a Rajasthan history guide writes in Hindi. Udai Singh was taken to safety in Kumbhalgarh.
The story is taught in schools. The Sanskrit textbook Deepakam for the seventh grade has a chapter on her, titled Veerangana Pannadhaya, the heroine Panna Dhai.