In the last 19 years, Rs 6500 crores have been spent to clean the River Yamuna but it is dirtier than ever. What one wonders is what happened to that money? Who pocketed it while the main northern river has gotten worse and worse?? Six years back, Delhi Jal Board proposed interceptor sewers to treat sewage before it flows into major drains, but till date nothing has really happened! Meanwhile the total number of unauthorized colonies in Delhi have risen... Read more
How could the main accused in the high profile Gangrape case- Ram Singh – commit suicide in the highest security prison in the nation – the Tihar Jail? It surely seems fishy and strange. Yes, he committed something terrible and he knew his finality – most probably death sentence. But still, why would he do that? The incident came to light around 5am. Ram Singh was found hanging inside jail number 3. He was rushed to the jail hospital but... Read more
A Bengal tiger cub was rescued in 2009 from the Dhaba forest range in India. He had been left orphaned after the disappearance of its mother. The cub named Bhangaram, was then raised by the keepers of Bor Wildlife Sanctuary. They were hoping that one day, they could release him into the wild and he could take care of his life there. But the way things have turned out, their hopes have been completely dashed. And this became clear when they released a... Read more
How does a tiger behave when he is tickled? Here is a story of other animals, but the featured image shows the tiger being tickled 🙂 Read Quote of Kaushik Parashar’s answer to Wildlife: What happens if you tickle a tiger? on Quora Read more
With so much satellite debris out there in the space, it is becoming a nuisance and this threat will keep growing! Now, the Chinese satellite debris has made Russian satellite unusable after its debris collided with the Russian satellite. A piece of space debris left over from a 2007 Chinese missile test collided with a Russian satellite earlier this year, rendering the satellite unusable, a researcher said Saturday. The collision appears to have happened January 22. That’s when it’s thought... Read more
Sophie Morgan has been paralyzed waist down in 2003 at age 18. Now, she is 28. She thought that she will live a life of celibacy and will not have any experience or joy of sex. But things are different now. She not only has had the experience, but she enjoys it and also shares her joy with others. It is indeed a miracle for someone who has lost all feeling in her body waist down to have indulged in... Read more
You know something is terribly wrong with things, when the leaders are not giving any idea of what THEY want to do to improve things. Rather, they keep emphasizing on how they would block others who are doing good work. By ANY stretch of imagination and benchmark, Narendra Modi has contributed FAR more to India’s growth in a year than Laloo Prasad Yadav has done in a all his years. Yet, the dwarf Yadav’s ONLY aim in life is to... Read more
King Dhanananda, the last heir to the Nanda Dynasty rules the throne.Supriya Devi’s son Angadh has been missing for a few days. Minister Wakranas blames Shaktar when a gold coins missing from the salary of the workers in the palace. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmnRN9DGOS4 Read more
Fareed Zakaria, anchor of one of the most popular show on Geo-politics, interviews Shahrukh Khan, the Indian actor in this video – while he is promoting “My Name is Khan”. Zakaria asks: When George Bush was meeting Dr. Manmohan Singh, he tells Laura Bush that he is the Prime Minister of a country with the second largest Muslim population and no member of Al Qaeda. Why do you think, is that so? Shahrukh replies because we Indians are like that.... Read more
A very interesting question and a great / interesting answer! Read Quote of Marc Ettlinger’s answer to English (language): Why do people use “Nope” even though “No” is easier to say and shorter to spell? on Quora Read more
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