Every one of you would have read about the LHC scientific experiment and the possible Higgs Boson discovery this week. If you have not, this is the simple gist of it: When a series of sub-atomic particles are made to collide against each other, they release a great deal of money, measured in scientific units of billions of dollars, for… Read more →
Why is monsoon active over Cong-ruled States alone, asks Mamata New Delhi: With the rains playing truant in many parts of the country, the beleaguered UPA government was faced with further pressure with an aggressive Opposition taking it to task for letting slip the monsoon ‘just as it had Dawood Ibrahim, Bofors intermediaries and some 2G scamsters previously’. ‘It is… Read more →
The moment I heard that Ikea was planning to invest several billions of dollars and arrive in India in a big way, my reaction was naturally: ‘Whoa! Who the hell is this Ikea?’ It turns out that Ikea is a major international brand, which specializes in ready-to- assemble furniture, the kind that are bright and trendy in brochures but quite… Read more →
‘He will have independent authority to grant us total autonomy’ New Delhi: The country’s symbol of excellence in producing engineering graduates for management institutes, the IITs, today decided to establish their own ‘independent Education Minister’ who will be vested with the authority to help them have total autonomy in both administrative and admission matters. A decision to this effect was… Read more →
I don’t know about you, but I find the Spelling Bee competition boring, because studious kids just turn up and spell arcane words as they ought to be. Whereas I am used to the excitement of numerology/namology programmes, in local cable channels, where blokes seriously tell you as to how wrongly you are spelling your own name. Watching these programmes,… Read more →
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