spar (v)

ahul and Uddhav spar on Mumbai migrant issue


AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi addressing a press conference, in Patna on Tuesday. Photo: Ranjeet Kumar

.Fight verbally

pernicious (adj)

Shiv Sena contention a pernicious thesis: Chidambaram


Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Mumbai belonged to all Indians who are free to live and work there.

.Exceedingly harmful
.Working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way