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Think or blink!!!

When National things become Internationally recognised....:clap2:

 [h=3]International Yoga Day: What you need to know[/h] In less than a fortnight, India and indeed the world would be celebrating the first International Yoga Day. In December last year, the UN adopted an India-sponsored resolution which called for 21 June to be declared as the International Day of Yoga. The resolution, led by India, was adopted without vote by 177 out of the 193 countries that constitute the UN. It had 175 co-sponsors, the highest ever for any such resolution in the UN General Assembly (UNGA).

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Smart Chinese cash in on the topical value!!! :thumb:

 [h=3]Lenovo launches affordable range of Yoga tablets[/h] New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) Chinese PC maker Lenovo on Tuesday introduced the new affordable range of Yoga laptops, meant especially for students. The new laptops in the Yoga series, which is a range of convertible laptops that offer 360 degrees of flexibility, will be sold at a price range of Rs.30,000 to Rs 1,14,000. Speaking at the launch, Shailendra Katyal, director, home and small business at Lenovo India, said: "Globally we are the leaders in the consumer convertible PC space.

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Facing the realities of racial discrimination!!! :(

 [h=3]Queen Elizabeth II to visit ex-concentration camp in Germany[/h] Queen Elizabeth II will visit a former concentration camp for the first time during her state visit to Germany later this month, Buckingham Palace said Monday. The queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, will travel to the Bergen-Belsen camp where diarist Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, died only weeks before the British liberated it on April 15, 1945. The queen will travel to both the German capital, Berlin, and the financial hub, Frankfurt, during the June 23-26 trip.

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How about the lovers and wives of these booze lovers???

Do they say :ohwell: or :dance:???


Liquor to come in tetra packs in UP

THE Uttar Pradesh government has come up with a novel idea that would please booze lovers in the state. Customers can soon expect to find their favourite brand of Indian Made Foreign Liquor ( IMFL) in tetra packs across all districts. "A proposal regarding the same was sent earlier this year and we have got the Cabinet?s approval today,"State Excise Officer Phoolchand Paul told M AIL T ODAY .

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Paid toilets are now becoming Paying toilets!!! :rolleyes:



  • [h=3]Now, get paid everytime you use public toilets in Ahmedabad - The Economic Times[/h] AHMEDABAD: A city council in western India is planning to pay residents to use public toilets in a desperate attempt to stop legions of people urinating and defecating in public. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has decided to give residents one rupee a visit in a bid to draw them into its 300 public toilets and away from open areas and public walls, which often reek of urine. AMC health officer Bhavikk Joshi said the offer would be trialed at 67 public facilities across Ahmedabad, the main city in western Gujarat state, where officers will give a coin to each user. "Once successful the project will be implemented in all the 300 public toilets in Ahmedabad," Joshi told AFP on Monday.
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An amazing Amzon development! :cool:

 [h=3]Amazon launches Global Selling programme for Indian businesses[/h] New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) With its endeavor to transform the way India sells, Amazon on Tuesday launched its Global Selling programme in India, opening doors for businesses here to export to ecommerce markets of the world, a company statement said. Amazon is extending two of its products - selling on Amazon (SOA) and fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) to businesses of all sizes and scale from across the country to go global and showcase their "Made in India" creations and products globally by listing on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. "Our Global Selling programme in India is designed to assist Indian manufacturers & businesses to grow their business by leveraging Amazon's state-of-the-art technology, world class logistics infrastructure and customer service expertise," said Chad Goelzer, director, global sales for Amazon.

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Any celebration will be fun to watch!:)

 [h=3]Yoga Day celebrations at UN to be broadcast at Times Square - The Economic Times[/h] UNITED NATIONS: The celebrations commemorating the first International Day of Yoga here, to be presided over by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, will be broadcast at Times Square to a global audience. The UN will commemorate the inaugural International Yoga Day on June 21 with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and General Assembly President Sam Kutesa gracing the occasion. The India-led celebrations will also feature a special lecture and demonstration by Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

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I bet he will never ever forget this BIG event!!! :wacko:

 [h=3]A non-terror plot’s unintended victim[/h] A 32-year-old proprietor of an event management firm who was arrested for releasing balloons that flew into Mumbai airport’s airspace is so troubled that he has gone for a pilgrimage. Immediately after securing bail, Kunal Shah went to Shirdi in Maharashtra, leaving his cellphone behind and asking a friend to speak on his behalf. “He is not a very religious person,” says Naytik Kamdar, the friend. Five unidentified objects were found flying across the Mumbai airport airspace on 23 May. The Air Traffic Control (ATC), the police and several departments, from the Indian Air Force to the Intelligence Bureau, were pressed in to investigate.

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He is far more honest for clearing the exam
in gazini style than produce a fake certificate!



  • [h=3]50-year-old peon passes SSC exam on 28th attempt[/h] Mumbai, June 10 (ANI): A 50-year-old peon, working at public health department, has cleared the Class 10th examination on his 28th attempt. Avinash Chaugule had been unable to clear his senior secondary certificate (SSC) examination as he failed in the mathematics paper each time. Chaugule had left his studies midway and joined the Maharashtra Ministry of Public Health 25 years ago.


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A fox may turn grey but never become good! :rolleyes:

 [h=3]A 74-year-old woman is standing trial for allegedly orchestrating a $15 million 'magic cheese' scam[/h] A 74-year-old woman is being tried in France for allegedly selling thousands of Chileans a kit that would let them produce "magic cheese" for the cosmetics industry, the BBC reported. The woman, Gilberte van Erpe, ran Fermex Chile, a company that allowed investors buy kits for around $394 (350 euros). Madame Gile, as she's nicknamed in France, promised buyers that they'd be able to make huge profits when selling their cheese back to French cosmetics companies for use in luxury beauty products.

Business Insider
 
He must have got bored with eve-teasing and moved on to animal-teasing! :)

 [h=3]Man arrested for teasing jaguar in Hyderabad zoo[/h] Hyderabad (Telangana), June 11 (ANI): Police in Hyderabad have arrested a 26-year-old man for trespassing into the enclosure of a jaguar and teasing the animal after bribing a zoo employee. Areeb Taha Mehdi was arrested on Wednesday after a zoo official lodged a complaint with Bahadurpura police station. Mehdi visited the Nehru Zoological Park on Saturday and went inside the night house of jaguar, which is prohibited for the visitors.

ANI
 
More the number of sophisticated medicines
more the number of baffling bugs! :sick:

[h=3]Threat of new virus puts India on high alert[/h] AFTER SWINE flu and Ebola, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus ( MERS- CoV) is the new global threat that has put many Asian countries, including India, on high alert. With the Ramadan arriving and several pilgrims slated to travel to Saudi Arabia for the Haj, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued an advisory to airports and general public to be alert about the deadly disease. The Health Ministry has asked all the airlines, including chartered flights, operating to and from Saudi Arabia and other MERS- CoV- affected countries to make an in- flight announcement regarding the disease.

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They will never go off the shelves since they are laced with alcohol! :spit:

 [h=3]Energy drinks banned but only on paper, not on shelf[/h] A clutch of energy drinks rejected by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) over a month ago is still being prominently displayed and sold in stores across the country. Also Read: What does the Indian cricket team drink? While a top official of the FSSAI confirmed that they had banned Monster, Tzinga and Cloud 9 from the market in May, The Indian Express was able to purchase cans of these products at stores from Srinagar to Bangalore last week. On May 8, the FSSAI ordered the immediate recall of Monster energy drinks after finding that they contained a “combination of caffeine and ginseng which have an opposing effect on the human body”.

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What will be the verdict of the Big bro? :decision:

[h=3]U.S. testing Nestle's Maggi noodles after India recall[/h]The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is testing samples of Maggi, a Nestle instant noodle brand, which was recalled from stores across India last week, a spokeswoman for the Swiss food group said on Thursday. Nestle, the world's largest food company, is seeking to defend its reputation in India after it pulled Maggi noodles from stores following reports by regulators that some packets contained excess lead. A spokeswoman for the Swiss-based company said the United States' FDA was now also looking into the issue.

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Do you mean a Gorilla-proof-phone??? :rolleyes:

[h=3]Unbreakable version of the Samsung Galaxy S6 announced[/h]The Samsung Galaxy S6 Active, a a water and dust resistant version of the Galaxy S6 for outdoorsy adventurous types, was revealed by AT&T, the company that will have exclusive resale rights in the US. Presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in early March, the Galaxy S6 is supposed to be more solid than its predecessors, thanks to its metal casing, but no longer offers a removable battery, nor the possibility of adding a microSD card. The S6 Edge does not have a similar version.

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There is no unmixed blessing in the world! Is there one? :(



[h=3]Chennai escalator accident: surgery on boy complete, but outcome not yet known[/h]Surgery on the two-and-a-half-year-old boy Krishik Santhosh, three of whose fingers were severed in an escalator accident on Tuesday, was completed around 2 a.m., early on Wednesday. G. Balakrishnan, medical director and consultant plastic surgeon at Right Hospital, where the child was admitted on Tuesday afternoon, said the results of the surgery would only be known by Thursday. A relative of the Krishik said the family was staying on in Chennai until treatment was completed.

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The Punch Paandavaas!!! :boxing:

[h=3]5 Indian Politicians Shrouded in Fake Degree Scandals[/h]HRD Minister Smriti Irani was shrouded in controversy for allegedly giving “false” information about her educational qualification in affidavits filed with the Election Commission. Rahul Gandhi went economical with the truth about his educational qualification, In the affidavit, he states that he obtained an MPhil from Trinity College of the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1995, in Developmental Economics.

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The ultimte luxury??? :couch2:

Living in huts built far from the maddening crowds!!! :rolleyes:
 

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