Central Bureau of Investigation has approached the External Affairs Ministry with an unusual request. It wants to facilitate the visit of a Pakistani family to India. It is the family of Khan Bahadur Qurban Ali Khan, was the first chief of the Special Police Establishment (SPE). In the upcoming Golden Jubilee celebrations, CBI will be honoring its past directors. Since Khan was the Chief of CBI predecessor, he is being given the honor as well. In fact, interestingly, CBI has... Read more
For an entire year, an Afghan student at University of California at Irvine in Engineering, was hassled because people were mistaking him for another guy. He finally met the guy and posted their picture online on Reddit. The post has already gotten close to 1500 comments and over 2500 likes in just 9 hours. This student is Afghan, while his look-alike is “Half German / Half African-American”. Yet, they look so much alike. First of all, it is tough to... Read more
Richard Branson shared an interesting story on his blog, about the generosity of his friend, Pankaj Shah. Pankaj is a businessman who has an intriguing, but generous habit – “Whenever he is out to dinner, he asks the staff to find the couple who look most in love, and takes care of their bill.” Over the holidays last year, he was in Boston at a restaurant he hadn’t been to in 3 years. The manager came up to him and... Read more
A very dangerous move is afoot. CPI leader A B Bardhan went to Home Minister with a 14-point memorandum to create fast-track courts to expedite trial of “innocent” Muslim youth accused of terror acts. Sushilkumar Shinde promised to look into it seriously. “We will examine the demand,” Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told PTI after a delegation of political leaders, MPs met him demanding justice to “innocent” Muslim youth accused in terror charges languishing in jails. The Government is obviously all excited to... Read more
The whole country knows. The world knows. But somehow the Congress Party has been pretending to not know it. But now the Joker of the Pack – Digvijaya Singh – also exclaimed in that Freudian slip, something equivalent to “The King has no clothes”. He said in a statement that Congress is now trying its best to distance itself from: “Personally, I feel that this model hasn’t worked very well. Because, I personally feel that there should not be two... Read more
Does fame lacking any basis in accomplishments last only 15 minutes? Well, a new study now says no. It does last many years. Sometimes decades. Even in the world of entertainment, where fame is fleeting and transient. Researchers studied the names mentioned in approximately 2,200 US daily newspapers, weeklies, and more infrequent periodicals over a period of several decades using Lydia, a research project in natural language processing (NLP) that reduces text streams to time-series data on the news volume... Read more
The problem with the Jehadi Muslims is not just that they are indulging in Jehad. But, that they feel that it is not just their right to do so, but anyone even so much as pointing it out, has to apologize. Heck, should even be sued! An internal circular of Mumbai Police about a local Islamic Organization of girls says that this organization is brainwashing the girls to prepare them for Jehad. This is certainly not the only organization which... Read more
Most of the news coming out of Tribal Pakistan is usually pretty sad and negative. Sometimes, one needs to also acknowledge news which shows these guys as “somewhat” normal people. Badam Zari is a lady from Bajur, part of Pakistan’s semiautonomous tribal region bordering Afghanistan. The area is populated by the Pashtun tribesmen. Conservative and medieval in their mindset. It is not far from this area that Malala was “put in place” by the Taliban. Now, Zari, a 40-year old... Read more
It has now been 50 years since it closed. Alcatraz, the legendary prison in California, remains etched in every person’s mind who has seen it once. Only 3 people ever escaped that place. No one knows if they ever made it to the other side of the bay.. on the shore. The guards believed that they drowned, while the rest of the prisoners wanted to believe that they had reached the shore. There was a certain romanticism in it. Here... Read more
Marriage is achanging. Several trends are showing up in the world. Not just in the West and US, in particular, but even in India. Gay/Lesbian marriages: There is a growing acceptance of such a phenomenon and it is the understanding of this social attitudes change that Republicans are hurting from these days. It is only a matter of time before the Gay/Lesbian marriages will be accepted in more and more countries and societies. Delayed Marriages: Women are working and having... Read more
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