Gmail accounts of women accessed by anti-reservation lobby »
A senior Google official told Faking News on Thursday that groups considered opposed to Women’s Reservation Bill had accessed Gmail accounts of thousands of women in the past few weeks. These groups read emails and chat-scripts of these women and analyzed their contact lists, and even tried to send fake e-mails from their accounts. But Google has assured that the attacked accounts were now safe, and...
March 11 2010 / 5 comments / Read More »
IIM student has started believing his salary quoted by media »
In a serious development raising concerns of his well being, an IIM student has started believing that he would actually be getting the same amount of cash in hand as has been reported by media for being his annual salary. The 24-year-old student from one of the top IIMs (campus withheld to protect identity) bagged a job offer of 1.92 crore rupees as per media reports....
March 10 2010 / 9 comments / Read More »Dogs name Arundhati Roy as mediator for talks with Maoists »
Barely a day after Maoists announced a diktat to poison all the dogs in Jhargram-Lalgarh area of West Bengal, dogs have announced their willingness to talk to the Maoists and arrive at a peaceful solution. Dogs...
Mar 9 2010 / 6 comments / Read More »Women’s Reservation Bill passed with quota for Men within it »
In a historical decision announced on the occasion of International Women’s Day, Indian parliament today unanimously passed the long-pending Women’s Reservation Bill, clearing the deck for 33% reservation for women in parliamentary and assembly seats. To...
Mar 8 2010 / 28 comments / Read More »Sunday Magazine: The curious case of Rahul Mahajan’s marriage »
So finally Rahul Mahajan got married and the national breathed a sigh of relief. But the incident has left the society grappling with some existentialist questions that were brushed off when Rakhi Sawant’s sawayamvar had trigged...
Mar 7 2010 / 8 comments / Read More »Matric examinee angry at family for not helping him with cheating »
Murli Prasad, a third-time matriculation examinee, has expressed deep frustration over the half-hearted attempts by his father and elder brother in helping him cheat during the ongoing class Xth board examinations. The 17-year-old fears that he...
Mar 6 2010 / 5 comments / Read More »
