Yaay, an exciting new professional soccer league, for India, with animal mascots and all!
The Telegraph - Calcutta: Sports
The I-League, which will be kicked off by film star John Abraham in Goa, will have a mascot in the shape of a snail.
I can just smell the excitement! Go Fighting Snails!!
Okay kids, here is a fun quiz for you. How many factual errors can you spot in the opening lines of this opinion piece from The Telegraph of Calcutta? The writer is “economist” and “consultant editor”, Ashok V Desai.
Sixty years ago, India’s most loved actress was Suraiya. She entranced our fathers in the romantic roles she played opposite Dilip Kumar. It is not entirely certain whether she broke his heart when she left for Lahore in 1947, for he stayed on in India, married Saira Banoo, and went on to make films with Nargis. But Suraiya broke millions of Indian hearts when she left.
It would have been all right if she had won millions of Pakistani hearts. But there was no film industry in Pakistan at that time, and nowhere could Suraiya display her talents. She married and sank into the humdrum life of an ordinary housewife — sorry, a distinguished homemaker.
But then, in the Sixties, emerged another actress who stole Pakistani hearts — Noor Jehan.
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If you have always wondered what formalisms and archaic legal expressions echo in the rarefied chambers of the abode of justice, how about a couple of quotes from an Indian Supreme Court judge who wants to string people up by lamp posts?
“The only way to rid the country of corruption is to hang a few of you on the lamp post. The law does not permit us to do it but otherwise we would prefer to hang people like you at the lamp post,” a Bench of Justices S B Sinha and Markandeya Katju remarked during arguments put forth by counsel for an accused.
As counsel R Singh, tried to make some submission Justice Katju further said, “Everywhere, we have corruption. Nothing is free from corruption. Everybody wants to loot this country. The only solution for this menace is to hang some people in the public so that it acts as a deterrent on others.”
KOLKATA: It was packed with explosives and shrapnel, triggered to explode at the slightest pressure. Yet they dragged it around, toyed with it, tried to unscrew it, and then went at it with a hammer and chisel — all on camera as journalists milled round for the best shot.
No surprise then that the mine exploded, killing CID bomb disposal constables Utpal Bhakta and Basudeb Chakraborty and injuring 29 onlookers, including two senior police officers and seven journalists.
I am rarely surprised when an Indian actress turns snake charmer (link via India Uncut).
As she went closer, the snake hissed. We all moved back, but Sushmita went down on her knees and closed her eyes,” said Chandra. “She bowed before the snake and chanted some mantras.”
Chandra said the unit members were surprised when “the snake didn’t move from that place for a few hours. Later it left quietly.”
Sen, who plays a rock star in the movie “Zindagi Rocks,” or “Life Rocks,” said she wasn’t afraid.
“The snake is considered very auspicious so I asked everyone not to get scared of Nag Devta (snake god),” she told the paper. “I assured Tanuja that with the blessings of Nag Devta the film is bound to rock.”
The militant right wing places a bounty on the minorities.
In a bizarre turn to BJP protests against the rise in militant attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, the party today offered to pay Rs 1 lakh to any civilian who kills a militant.
Am I kidding you? Do I ever kid you?
The Delhi police, starting today, will watch all Page 3 parties in Mumbai very closely. A three-member team headed by Station House Officer of the Connaught Place police station, Suresh Kaushik, arrived in the city yesterday. They will visit parties at short-listed pubs and discos where drugs are taken.
The car of a politician in a hurry knocks down a pedestrian and breaks his leg. And the headline reads — Venkiah Naidu has narrow escape
Pondicherry, June 5: BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu escaped unhurt when the driver of his car applied brakes suddenly to try avoid hitting a man who was crossing the road at Kalapet near Pondicherry.
Police said Naidu did not suffer any injury. The BJP leader’s car hit the man, who fractured his right leg, they said.
In today’s edition of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Malaysia tries to figure out which way to kneel for namaz if you are in space.
BANGI, Malaysia (Reuters) - As Malaysia prepares to pick its first astronaut, the country’s space agency is hunting for solutions to the problems it expects devout Muslims to face while in orbit, such as in which direction to pray.
Clearly this calls for a two-day conference of scientists and mullahs.
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