More Money -> Higher BP in India!

Last updated on: August 22, 2007 at 9:26 am By Desh Kapoor

Economic prosperity brings many good things.. and many ills as well. As India grows economically, lot of diseases also. Now, 20% of adult Indian population (and that means a greater percentage of urban and/or rich Indians!) is suffering from High Blood pressure. Something that may kill them. India is now the country with the most people with high blood pressure in the world. Over 10 crore Indian adults presently suffer from high BP — the measure of the force of blood against the walls of the arteries.A silent killer that has become the single most important factor causing strokes, heart attacks, diabetes, blindness and paralysis, high BP affects 30% of the country's urban population and 10% of the rural folk. Read more

Xenophobic Germans beat up Indians in Germany…

Last updated on: August 21, 2007 at 9:30 am By Desh Kapoor

Does xenophobia go away? Does the fundamentalism go away? Here is a story on how a group of Germans fought with a group of Indian fair-goers in a village and beat them up while the bystanders kept cheering! Living in the US - most do not realize how close-minded most of the western world really is.. specifically the Europe. A mob attacked a group of Indian fairgoers in a village in the eastern German state of Saxony, German police said.Eight Indians and four Germans were reported injured. The incident occurred at a village festival in Muegeln.After a scuffle broke out shortly after midnight in a festival tent, a group of about 50 mostly young Germans apparently pursued a group of Indian visitors, who fled into a pizzeria. The doors of the restaurant were kicked in by the pursuing mob. Read more

AQ Khan is the next Pakistan "President" – "defeats" Musharraf!

Last updated on: August 21, 2007 at 9:25 am By Desh Kapoor

This is the scenario that most in India are worried about! Abdul Qader Khan, the detained scientist who pioneered Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, was "elected" the country's president, defeating the incumbent, Pervez Musharraf, in a mock poll held by lawyers. Musharraf received only one vote and Khan, whom he has placed under detention since January 2004, got 2,103 votes in the "presidential referendum" organised by the Save Judiciary Committee of the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA). Read more

A fifth of Brit women wish they hadn't married their man

Last updated on: August 21, 2007 at 9:13 am By Desh Kapoor

Hahaha this is funny. This study says that 20% women in Britain say that they married the wrong guy - and may swap him for someone else! Hmm.. and what is the stat for the other way around? I mean the feeling is probably mutual 😉 One in five Brit women really do think that they have married the wrong man, and wouldn’t mind swapping their husbands for someone else.And in what is sure to be a big morale damper to men, one in 12 women believes that she should never have tied the knot at all. The findings are based on a survey of 1,250 women aged 35 to 44 by the Bradford & Bingley bank.The results also showed that only 58 per cent of the women were “very happy” with their choice of hubbies.And while they may not want a man in their lives, most women do want kids, for one in five plan to have more children.“Over 35s need not despair — as there is plenty of time for them to change their lives for the better,” The Sun quoted spokesman Paul Whitlock, as saying.The survey also found that more wives than singles had savings, as well that a sixth of divorced women had wished that they had not relied on their ex to sort their finances. Read more

Sikh father to convert his daughter to Catholicism for school admission!!

Last updated on: August 21, 2007 at 9:02 am By Desh Kapoor

This is one father I just cannot understand. I just cannot believe that any school that is so exclusivist - that too based on religion - is worth going to anyways!! Shame on this Singh guy.. he has got his priorities all screwed up! Any educational institution that is so fundamentalist about religion is imparting anything but education.. for education promotes free minds which are capable of open exploration. THAT is something that St Paul's will never be able to impart. The parents of a Teesside Sikh girl say they will convert her to Catholicism in order to get her into the best school in the area.Maya Kaur, four, has attended a nursery at St Paul's RC School at Wolviston, near Billingham, for two years.But her parents have been told there is no place for her at the school when she starts primary education next month.Now her father, Bal Singh, says he is prepared to change her religion, if it helps his daughter stay at St Paul's. Read more

China's Chairman is our Chairman – Indian Leftists who work against our interests!

Last updated on: August 20, 2007 at 12:18 pm By Desh Kapoor

Honesty and Nationalism are two things for which the leftists in India are not known for!! They are hypocrites and shamelessly work against the nationaal interest as they have always.. even in the wake of a full fledged war launched by the Chinese in 1961. If someone was to dump all these idiots in a ship and sink it close to the Arctic I doubt if anybody would really be bothered much about it.. except the clearly stupid and masochistic West Bengal population which from decades has been shooting itself on its foot by electing these idiots as well as the Keralites. I really have no sympathy for people from these two states. At least the Mallus work hard and have made their state one of the most prosperous. The Bengalis have nothing better to do than smoking cigarettes and talking politics endlessly... all wrapped up in HUGE egos! That state has become a HUGE dump of much and nonsensical chatter.. there is hardly any substance left in that part of the world. It is hard to imagine that such a land once gave birth to such giants as Swami Vivekananda, Subhash Bose and Tagore! Read more

How politicians change!! Is this really Dick Cheney?

Last updated on: August 19, 2007 at 2:43 pm By Desh Kapoor

Look at this video - how Dick is arguing against invading Iraq. All the reasons he gave then.... came out to be TRUE... and I wonder why or how he changed his mind to fight an unnecessary war? There is a saying in Hindi: "Vinash-kalya Vipreet budhhi" (when one's time of destruction comes about.. one loses his mind) Read more

UFO in Haiti (Aug 15, 2007)?

Last updated on: August 19, 2007 at 2:30 pm By Desh Kapoor

Did you see this UFO's video footage from Haiti (Aug 15, 2007)?: Read more

Girl Education is unIslamic

Last updated on: August 19, 2007 at 2:13 pm By Desh Kapoor

This guy Anwar Syed writes in Dawn – a Pakistani daily – that a Maulana (Islamic cleric) has pronounced that Girl education is un-Islamic and asked the parents to withdraw girls from public school. Syed says that this is untrue from the religious scriptures standpoint and from history. He cites a few examples of learned women. Unfortunately, none of the ladies had any secular credentials – all were religious in orientation. None, for example, boasts any knowledge of Math or Science. It is not the madrasa education that the Maulana is targeting but the “Public School” education! And this is very common in rural Muslim areas. Modern education is Math and Science subjects is deemed unIslamic for anyone by many Maulanas! Read more

Vatican and CIA make changes to Wikipedia secretly

Last updated on: August 19, 2007 at 1:56 pm By Desh Kapoor

Sometimes state and God - both need an extra hand. Vatican and CIA are busy trying to do their bit to put some color into the information available around the world via Wikipedia. A US hacker's homemade program to pinpoint origins of Wikipedia edits indicates that alterations to the popular online encyclopedia have come from the CIA and the Vatican. Virgil Griffith's "Wikiscanner" points to Central Intelligence Agency computers as the sources of nearly 300 edits to subjects including Iran's president, the Argentine navy, and China's nuclear arsenal. Read more