Employees of software company Infosys who had joined the company last year straight out of their colleges, were pleasantly shocked to see a three-hour break given to them for discussing CAT scores and MBA admissions. The decision was taken after the HR employees noticed freshers, and other still-young employees, discussing the same today morning instead of paying attention to work. CAT scores were announced last midnight.
January 11, 2012 | Filed under
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Researchers have found out that if a Brahmin, Muslim, Yadav, and Paswan were left exposed to the same cold weather conditions, they will develop different health complications and hence they required different levels of treatments. Based on this finding, Vicks, the leading manufacturer of cough-and-cold over-the-counter medicines, has launched caste based VapoRubs, throat lozenges, and inhalers.
December 23, 2011 | Filed under
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With Food Security Bill cleared by the union cabinet, millions of rats living in and around FCI godowns have gone on a reproduction spree in anticipation of free grains that will be left rotting by the government agencies. Rats are confident that their coming generations will not die of hunger as there would be enough grains lying unused in the warehouses and railway stations.
December 20, 2011 | Filed under
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With rupee weakening against the US dollar, NRIs are suddenly back in demand for everyone – relatives, shopkeepers, real estate companies, and beggars. With every dollar fetching more benefits of an aam aadmi amidst rising inflation, Indians are back to giving importance to NRIs. However, there is a downside too for the NRIs back in the US, where they have been denied salary hikes.
December 14, 2011 | Filed under
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A totally fake Walmart store has been found at Ulhasnagar, a suburb of Mumbai. The fake store was discovered by BJP workers who had actually gone to tear it down thinking it to be the American version. The black flags turned white with shock when they discovered that the desi Walmart belonged to the USA – not the United States of America but the Ulhasnagar Sindhi Association.
November 30, 2011 | Filed under
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In a strong indication that shows animals catching up with the human beings on the evolution front, a group of cats and dogs have lodged strong protest against an ad released by Benetton, which shows a dog and a cat kissing each other. The latest ad released by the clothing retail company is part of its latest UnHate campaign, which had earlier shown world leaders kissing each other.
November 18, 2011 | Filed under
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A week after he was released on bail, Ramalinga Raju has been appointed the new CAG of India. Raju will review all the earlier reports of the outgoing CAG and release new figures in cases of losses reported in various scams. Kapil Sibal, who has often argued that CAG had erred in calculating the 2G loss, claimed that Raju would prove to be a better CAG.
November 12, 2011 | Filed under
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In its first major marketing initiative after Steve Jobs’ death, Apple Inc. has announced that it will give away free IIPM degrees with its MacBook brand of laptops in India. These special laptops are priced at 5 lakhs rupees each and will come with a pre-installed IIPM degree that a buyer can print after he successfully turns the laptop on. Apple has named these laptops iDare.
November 7, 2011 | Filed under
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Intelligence agencies have concluded that Chinese toy guns and bombs, which are being sold as Diwali firecrackers, are actually defective ammunitions that were rejected by the Pakistani army while buying war equipment from China with US aid money. Delhi police had earlier banned such toy guns, but now an inquiry has been ordered to find out how India ended up buying these substandard firearms disguised as firecrackers.
October 21, 2011 | Filed under
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The disruption and outages in BlackBerry internet services early this week successfully removed the disparity between managers and common employees in many offices, sources say. According to industry experts, many bosses and managers were totally indistinguishable from other employees of their offices once their BlackBerry smartphones turned into normal mobile phones due to the outages. While this caused hardships to managers, workers were largely happy.
October 15, 2011 | Filed under
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