The BT Brinjal issue seems to be going the same way as the global warming one. Both sides of the dispute claim to be speaking the truth backed by scientific and empirical evidences. Whom do we trust before making a baingan ka bhurta? With a final decision likely to be taken before Valentine’s Day, this edition of Sunday Magazine explores the various aspects to the controversy.
January 31, 2010 | Filed under
Sunday Magazine |
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Mukesh Raj Tendulkar, a Marathi Manoos who owns Mumbai along with several other similar stakeholders, has decided to sell his stake in an open public offer after he failed to meet his daily expenses amid rising prices. Mukesh has approached SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) and BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) and has asked them to help him get buyers, a request that has foxed both the institutions.
January 30, 2010 | Filed under
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With a special police force to protect them from evil doers, statues of Mayawati could now peacefully speak up their mind on Twitter. Sounds unbelievable? But this has been made possible by Avinash Singh, a final year Electronics and Communication Engineering student at IIT Kanpur, who has designed a gadget that could create automated tweets for Mayawati statutes based upon the surroundings and ongoing events in the vicinity.
January 30, 2010 | Filed under
Technology |
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Home Minister P. Chidambaram, who believes that sporting relations with Pakistan should not suffer due to diplomatic problems, is all set to play Frisbee with his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik in Islamabad on the sidelines of the SAARC Interior Ministers’ conference. The game of Frisbee, which could tentatively take place on 21st February, is being projected as a CBM (Confidence Building Measure) to boost Indo-Pak relations.
January 29, 2010 | Filed under
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C. Sailesh, a resident of Ameerpet in Hyderabad, was violently assaulted on board a local train yesterday by a crowd of angry passengers shortly after he decided to stand up from his seat and start singing an ad jingle of a popular new cellular service provider. “DO TWO RUE” was all Sailesh could sing in tune, before the fellow passengers swarmed towards him and started punching him.
January 28, 2010 | Filed under
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Rajesh Khanna aka Kaka has finally broken his silence and has confirmed what was being widely speculated and rumored around in the Indian blogosphere – James Cameron’s latest blockbuster Avatar being a copy of Kaka’s 1983 Bollywood masterpiece Avtaar. In an exclusive interview to Faking News, the romantic superstar of the 70’s has accused James Cameron of lifting certain scenes from his movie without giving due credits.
January 28, 2010 | Filed under
Movies |
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Zaheer Khan’s spectacular performance when he took 7 wickets in the second innings of the Mirpur test has upset many Indian cricketers. Zaheer actually ruined a carefully hatched plan where the Indian team had decided to give Bangladesh a lead of about 150 runs, which would have allowed Gambhir to get a century and equal Don Bradman’s record of scoring centuries in six consecutive test matches.
January 27, 2010 | Filed under
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Leading cartoonist Karan Khan has announced the arrival of his latest creation – a frog called Gaydhak. Gaydhak has orange spots on its largely green skin, and walks upright like human beings. It leaps over only when it sees a fellow male frog that gives it a gay character, therefore making it the first gay cartoon hero of India. Gaydhak will soon be seen in one of the leading newspapers in India as a daily comic strip.
January 27, 2010 | Filed under
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After releasing an audiotape addressed to the US President Barack Obama, world famous terrorist Osama Bin Laden has now released a book of poetry, but surprisingly, he has dedicated it to his first wife Najwa Ghanem, even though speculators favored former US President Geroge W. Bush to be the recipient. The book, expected to be a runaway success, had been rumored to be released for over two years now.
January 26, 2010 | Filed under
World |
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Various married men, apart from Aamir Khan fans, have been hurt by the news of a crater on moon being named as “Shah Rukh Khan”. These men, under the aegis of Jealous Husbands Association (JHA), have written a letter to The International Astronomical Union to overturn the decision. JHA members fear that their wives will stop thinking about them on Karwa Chauth if the moon had SRK on its surface.
January 25, 2010 | Filed under
Entertainment |
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