Heralding a new era in public-private partnership, Planning Commission has decided to partner with fast-food restaurant chain McDonald’s in an attempt to remove poverty from India. McDonalds will soon give employment to a poor Indian and pay him one McAloo Tikki in kind, which costs at least 20 rupees even during Happy Hours, thus meeting the threshold set by the Planning Commission to identify urban poor.
May 21, 2011 | Filed under
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In yet another goof-up in documents submitted to Pakistan, it has come to light that government had listed “terrorism” as one of the tradable goods between India and Pakistan when the commerce secretaries met for talks last month. While the government has called it a minor “oversight”, this error could have far-reaching impacts on international relations benefitting interests of Pakistan and harming those of India.
May 20, 2011 | Filed under
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Realizing that political leaders with nicknames reminding people of blood relations (e.g. Behenji, Didi, Amma, and Aunty) have been tasting electoral success of late, former CM of UP Mulayam Singh Yadav has decided to drop his earlier nickname and take on a new one that conforms to this phenomenon. He now wants to be called “Bhaiyyaji” and is willing to partner with Behenji under leadership of Madamji.
May 19, 2011 | Filed under
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Realizing that Bollywood songs with some Hindi gaali have been doing consistently well for years and there could be a race to use more gaalis by film producers in future, government is planning to sell commercial rights of Hindi gaalis to willing producers. A list of commercially available gaalis is being prepared by the HRD Ministry and could soon be put up for auction next month.
May 18, 2011 | Filed under
Movies |
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After full four years since he launched his lethal “Aap Kaa Surroor – The Moviee – The Real Luv Story” on unsuspecting and unarmed citizens, Indian army claims to have located the secret hideout of Himesh Reshammiya. Army could conduct a live raid anytime and capture the maverick artist along with his weapons of mass destruction stashed in his hideout, a defense ministry official confirmed to Faking News.
May 17, 2011 | Filed under
Celebrities |
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What happened when Rahul Gandhi clicked “Click here to find out how will you look like in 20 years” link on his Facebook wall? And what happened when Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari clicked “leaked video of Osama execution” link? Faking News brings to you three instances of Facebook wall conversations that followed after a celebrity fell for a spam link on his Facebook wall.
May 16, 2011 | Filed under
Internet |
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A software engineer has reported his manager’s Facebook profile for abuse after being upset with the appraisal rating given to him. Working as a Junior Software Engineer in TCS for the last eight years, Mukul who joined the IT giant as a fresher, had almost reconciled himself to the harsh verdict but the latest Facebook status update from his boss proved to be the last straw.
May 16, 2011 | Filed under
Assorted |
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Government has clarified that the recent hike of 5 rupees per liter in the prices of petrol is applicable to all forms of petrol – leaded, unleaded, ethanol blended, and adulterated. The confusion was created after a set of over enthusiastic citizens refused to pay at the new rate for the adulterated petrol, claiming that the effective price of “pure” petrol was already higher owing to adulteration.
May 15, 2011 | Filed under
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After facing strong criticism from Pakistan for its unilateral military action on Pakistani soil to kill Osama, US has apologized for any such step that it may take in future to target those whom it consider terrorists. White House conceded that Pakistani military or establishment was not involved or informed about the anti-Osama operation, but clarified that US didn’t do that on purpose.
May 15, 2011 | Filed under
World |
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Barely a few hours after important papers related to Adarsh Housing Society scam were reported to have gone missing from the Ministry of Environment office in New Delhi, CBI officials discovered that the whole Adarsh building itself was missing from its place in Mumbai. The area in Colaba, where the Adarsh Housing building stood tall till now, wore a naked look as there was no trace left of the skyscraper, which was often called the “monument of corruption”.
May 14, 2011 | Filed under
Crime |
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