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India’s Oil Crisis

May 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Every country in the world is facing oil crisis. In India is is particular severe because it is has become unnecessary political tool in the hands of communists. I think the problem can be solved and it is really not as severe as it has been made out to be. I did some calculation and [...]

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Idiot of the year award goes to…

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Here is a guy, just because he has reached UK, he thinks he is better than everybody. I had heard some people thinking that people in western countries are better than people in eastern countries, but this guy takes the cake. He thinks even animals/fish are better in UK than in other countries.
The wiki page [...]

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Corruption crashes China’s anti-graft website

December 19th, 2007 · No Comments

After a long time a news that is almost funny. This could have happened anywhere but the fact that this happens is itself funny.
The website of the National Bureau of Corruption Prevention, which was set up to collect information on corrupt activities, was so popular it crashed on Tuesday, just one day after it was [...]

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King of spain, chavez and hit ring tone

November 19th, 2007 · No Comments

A ringtone based on the incident of King of Spain telling Venezuelan president chavez to shut up has become hit and earned approximately USD 2m.

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A company called Riya

July 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

So I am as usual surfing the net and I come across this interesting headlines from the times of India.
Wages killing Bangalore BPOs?
Now for most part I don’t really give much credibility to what TOI writes but this one had this reference so I thought I should read.
In a blog posting, company’s chief executive Munjal [...]

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