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Did you Offer SMS your prayers today?

God was never that easily accessible! If you feel like offering prayer, and don’t feel like walking up to the temple, all you are required to do now is just SMS your wishes to the temple-managed electronic message box. After doing that tough, tedious…

Osama’s niece, Wafah Dufour Dares to Bare

Wafah Dufour, who is all set to launch her pop career, has already become talk of the town because of being Osama Bin Laden’s niece. She claims that she has never met Osama Bin laden and to avoid unwanted attention and troubles she took her mother’s…

Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Runs a Blog

Giving fillip to the Karnataka government’s policy of e-governance, a computer-savvy Superintendent of Police of the Dakshina Kannada district, B Dayananda, has launched a blog, SPDK. The blog is aimed at keeping both media and people informed about the..

Tata Interactive Systems is here with ‘TIS Blog’

It is good to have a premier e-learning company like Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) as a co-dweller in the blogosphere, which has come up with its TIS Blog. It augurs well for the future of blogging in India, for the TIS move suggests that corporate…

Indian Tarzan: Wife-spurned man makes tree his abode

Ever heard of a human being living away in dense forests like the mythological Tarzan…surrounded by wild animals and feeding solely on wild fruits? Well, here comes one, from the Indian state of Orissa. He has been living in a tree-house, 25 feet abov

Cash-for-query scam: 11 tainted MPs thrown out of Parliament

Finally, the axe fell on the 11 tainted MPs of cash-for-query scam-fame. In an unprecedented historical move creating a parliamentary history, the Lok Sabha on Friday adopted the motion to this effect by a voice vote, following which 10 MPs were shown..

Prison bars no barriers for jailed achievers in India

Where there’s will, there’s a way. Among those to interpret and embrace the proverb in the most meaningful manner is Ashok Ray, a rape accused awaiting court verdict in the Tihar Jail. Ashok has cleared the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission…

Sting operations fail to sting the ‘culprits’

It’s disclosures, disclosures and more disclosures. Every other day, Indian electronic media has been conducting sting operations, one after another – starting with Tehelka exposures, it’s down to Operation Chakravyuha, en route Operation Duryodhana…

Taliban kills Kutty: Is the Indian life dispensable?

Raman Kutty, an Indian BRO driver abducted in Afghanistan on November 19 has been killed by the Taliban. We didn’t expect him to return alive once he was abducted by the Islamic terror outfit that ruled Afghanistan in a beastly from the mid-90s till…

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