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(A random compilation of jargon, motherhood statements and high-sounding nonsense ) "Experts from the tiger range countries have called...

“ INDIA SNUBS CHINA ”, screamed the TV headlines in Font size 72. By way of explanation, it added in slightly smaller font size, “PM tells...

How did the custom of ‘raising a toast” originate? Why is it called a ‘toast’? What is the significance of the ritual of the ‘clinking’ of ...

(A random compilation of jargon, motherhood statements and high-sounding nonsense) "Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today reviewed the...

(A random compilation of jargon, motherhood statements and high-sounding nonsense) Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on the eve of his depa...

( Beginning a new series that will provide a random selection of jargon, motherhood statements and high-sounding nonsense.. Editor) "T...

Responding to reports that the Nobel Prize winner Mr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan had ‘expressed disgust at the outpouring of fan mail received ...

In all the episodes of “American Idol”, the camera repeatedly turns in the direction of the tall red glasses, with the logo of Coca Cola pr...

We may hold cows as sacred (or holy), but that doesn’t stop us from being the 4th largest producer of beef (after the USA, China and Brazil)...

My daughter signed up for a Vodafone Plan that included an allowance of 5000 messages (sms) every month. Why this ridiculously high number, ...

The Dalai Lama is credited with these lines: "We have bigger houses but smaller families: We have more degrees but less sense; more kn...

Career coach Marty Nemko writes: "Hire ugly. All other things being equal, I'd give the nod to an ugly candidate. It’s not charity...

Raja Ram Mohan Roy , the Bengali reformer, has been given a large share of the credit for stopping the practice of women being compelled to ...

Over the course of four years in the 1970s, artist G. C. Haymes sent approximately 500 letters to a wide-ranging selection of high profile ...

This news report says: “India on Monday morning successfully test fired one of its most sophisticated missiles, Prithvi II, from Chandipur ...

In his latest book, “The Greatest Show on Earth”, Richard Dawkins comments on Darwin’s understated writing style: “Darwin’s treatment of hum...

“Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Vice-Patron and Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward visited the Games venues and Games Village in the Capital...

How successful were the nuclear tests conducted by India in 1998? So many experts have commented on and analysed the subject ad nauseum in r...

The two New Yorkers, Dave Aur Jenny continue to write about their ‘struggles’ in Delhi. In their latest post , they talk about ‘Jugaad” or “...

The Kangaroos beat the Kiwis in the finals of the Champion Trophy. In the semi-finals, they had beaten the Pommies. Cricket correspondents a...