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 people need not worry.
March 11, 2010 | Filed under
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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 have named Maneka Gandhi and Arundhati Roy as their choices for the role of mediators. Maoists had directed killings of dogs as they suspected them of conniving with security forces.
March 9, 2010 | Filed under
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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 them. This week’s Sunday Magazine takes a closer look at those questions, while we also celebrate the Indian Hockey Team’s stellar performance. And yeah, meet the JK Cement Bikini Model.
March 7, 2010 | Filed under
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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 might fail yet again at the exams for no faults of his own. Murli has also blamed the education system for failing to create a level playing field for all the students.
March 6, 2010 | Filed under
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Godman Shiv Murat Dwivedi, also known as Ichchhadhari Sant Swami Bhimanand, who was arrested a few days back for running a high profile sex racket, has claimed that he was suffering from schizophrenia i.e. split personality, and had no idea what his evil twin was doing. Following this, his lawyers have moved a petition in Delhi High Court to get the Godman released on medical grounds.
March 4, 2010 | Filed under
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Within a few days of him accepting the Qatari citizenship, noted painter Maqbool Fida Husain is facing a fresh controversy. One of his lesser known paintings, The Nude Dude, has been deemed to depict an Arab Sheikh in a nude posture. Although Husain denies it, various Arab groups have accused the former Indian painter of deliberately insulting the Arabic culture in general and Sheikhdom in particular.
March 3, 2010 | Filed under
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At a time when almost the whole nation is submerged in Holi revelry, an unadulterated asshole in a one-room flat here quietly refuses to take part in the celebrations owing to his self-imposed ban on such traditional festivals. Kiljoy Borekar believes that festivals like Holi are meaningless in the modern times and must be shelved by the humanity. Kiljoy claims that he had stopped celebrating festivals when he was just 3.
March 1, 2010 | Filed under
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Parliament has been adjourned till tomorrow afternoon to allow honorable members to discuss important issues such as pregnancy of Aishwarya Rai, mistresses of Tiger Woods, and IPL ticket. The members showed exemplary alacrity early this morning to wind up discussions on minor issues such as price-rise within a couple of hours, forcing adjournment of the house that gave them the whole day to discuss other important issues.
February 23, 2010 | Filed under
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24-year-old Anushka felt like yuck this morning when she saw the same irritating face of that asshole from her earlier office, asking her to add him as friend on facebook. Navin, her colleague in her last job, had tried too hard, almost nauseatingly, to win her attention and appreciation and had even spread some rumors about Anushka. She had breathed a sigh of relief when she got a new job last August.
February 22, 2010 | Filed under
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The last week saw celebrations over India’s test victory over South Africa and mourning over deaths of people killed in Pune’s German Bakery blast and policemen killed in West Bengal. While an unknown group claimed responsibility for Pune’s blast, a very much known group was behind the massacre of policemen in West Bengal. This week’s Sunday Magazine documents all aspects of this known group called Maoists.
February 21, 2010 | Filed under
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