India’s defense forces have decided to rescue French merchants of death, Dassault, and promise them $10 billion and a few millions in change over the next few years for 18 planes and 110 assembly kits. So, why as a loyal Indian citizen, am I not rejoicing that we are finally modernizing our air force?...
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Madhya Pradesh wants to put people in jail for 7 years for eating beef. Well, that’s a bit harsh even for a lipservice law aimed at hoodwinking a vote bank. Here’s why this law should be repealed (10 marks): 1. The law aims to please a religious minority: ‘Hindus who will be hoodwinked’. I...
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It’s finally happened. A secular government official has withdrawn the clean chit hitherto given to this God person/persons/entities. After 61 babies out of 202 admitted to a government ICU died, the hospital administration refused to take responsibility for not maintaining their equipment. The hospital and the district administration has allegedly claimed there was no...
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An ancient reservoir of water has been discovered by scientists circling a quasar 12 billion light years away from the Earth. The quasar is estimated to contain a volume of water140 trillion times greater than all the water in the Earth’s oceans. It is 100,000 times more massive than the sun. “This is also...
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ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan has refused to counter Mindry.in allegations that the heaviest configuration of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, which successfully launched the communication satellite GSAT 12 into orbit will not be powerful enough to launch the 928-page tome by Vikram Chandra into orbit. The XL configuration of the PSLV is expected to provide enough...
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Since there was some sort of scam involved India is allegedly going to return all the Bofors guns that defend its borders. Unconfirmed reports have come in saying that the only thing holding India back is the somewhat onerous task of finding all the original bullets that came with the gun. “Yeah, we’re going...
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Alien Diary Day 23: Riots in Canada. Yes, it’s about Ice Hockey. Humans stereotype fairly well. Up until now had seen riots only in apparent dictatorships, heavily populated nations and those countries with many different ethnicities and mass superstitions (religions). But the nation of Canada which has a combined population of Delhi and Mumbai...
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Almost any company which is any company (and is not Apple) is out to release the next iPad killer. Samsung, Asus, Dell, HTC, NotionInk — tablet after tablet containing Honeycomb/Gingerbread/Froyo/Eclair/Windows NT/Pacman has been released in just the past few months. There is very little to tell these offerings apart. Even the Honeycomb variants have...
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Finally agreeing with the rest of the universe, Tobacco companies have decided to act against second hand smoke. “Look second hand smoke is injurious to health and profits. I mean, no one benefits from that. Not even us. Second hand smoke is a lost business opportunity,” said one executive on the condition of anonymity....
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Tobacco companies chose to highlight the prosperity, commerce, and capitalism that their product has enabled among convicts on “No tobacco day”. “Nobody’s thinking of the poor convicts. What are they going to use for trade in prisons? What I’ll have to use money or coupons? Like hell, youngster!” said a hardened convict. “In my...
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