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Tech: Internet or sex, which would you choose?
The U.S. survey, which queried 2,119 adults last month, found that the gap grew even wider for both men and woman who were 18 to 34 years old. For woman, the percentage of those willing to skip the sheets in favor of the Web rose to 49 percent, while it climbed to 39 percent for men. While 46 percent of the women surveyed were willing to engage in abstinence verses losing their Internet, only 30 percent of the men surveyed were willing to do likewise.
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News: Mumbai attack will be last on live TV
With visual media coming under attack for its coverage of Mumbai terror attacks, the News Broadcasters Association on Thursday came out with guidelines that insisted on no live coverage of armed and communal violence. The guidelines also banned the broadcasters from providing information on security operations. The NBA's self-regulatory guidelines also said that no information about hostage situations and rescue operations should be provided. The guidelines further said media should avoid live contact with victims and security personnel during crises and stressed that no live reporting that provides publicity to the terrorists should be made.3 comments | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: Shame: A letter to the prime minister
Dear Mr Prime Minister, I write to you as the term terrorism takes on a whole new meaning for the Indians. In some ways, terrorism has shaped the collective consciousness of us all since as long as we can remember. But in the hurly-burly of India's emergence as a major economic power, the fact that India remains a patently insecure nation somehow got relegated to the background. The middle-classes started believing in their own invincibility as if all they needed was 8 percent rates of economic growth and the future of the country would take care of itself. Even when bombs after bombs were being exploded in city after city, we continued to live in the fantasy-world of our own making, first blaming the outside forces and then training guns at ourselves. It became a Hindu versus Muslim debate: whose terrorists were better, mine or yours? And today when our soldiers and security personnel had to wage a war in their own homeland, we look askance, unable to comprehend how we could have been so na�ve, how we could not have realised that when we don't take the fight to the enemies, they bring the fight to us. It was Trotsky who said: "You may not be interested in war but war is interested in you." After all, India has been facing a sustained terror offensive of unprecedented lethality for some time now. And unlike the West that has the luxury of fighting the wars of choice, we are now fighting a war of national survival. And Mr Prime Minister, with due respect, you are to be blamed for this. The buck stops with you, not with your home minister, not with your party leader, but with you.3 comments | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
News: Chidambaram, home minister
Palaniappan Chidamabaram will be India's new home minister. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images] will hold additional charge as finance minister. Chidambaram replaces Shivraj Patil [Images], who resigned on Sunday, owning up responsibility for the Mumbai terror attacks. Congress sources said Chidambaram is a man who can plan strategy and execute it in time of crisis. A Congress source told rediff.com,"We understand that India has the sympathy of the people and governments all over world." Chidambaram was minister of state for internal security in the Rajiv Gandhi government, at the height of the Punjab crisis. Dr Singh was finance minister in the P V Narasimha Rao government.6 comments | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
News: Some questions about the terror attacks
Some unanswered questions about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai need to be answered. If you wish to add questions to this list, please do e-mail questionsterror@rediffmail.com and we will post the most relevant questions here. How many terrorists were there? Did they number 20 as Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh told a press conference on Thursday? Or did they number many more? If two or three terrorists attacked the CST, how many terrorists were present at the Taj and Trident? Did the CST terrorists drop a grenade/explosive device at Dockyard Road on the way to the station? Or was someone else responsible for that act of terror which claimed three lives? The terrorists are said to have set up control rooms at the Taj and Trident hotels, a Cabinet minister told PTI on Thursday. When were these bookings made? A detailed investigation into the bookings made at both hotels in the months, weeks and days before the attacks may reveal the names of suspicious guests who registered there. Military sources tell rediff.com that there was no way the terrorists could have carried so much ammunition with them when they assaulted the two hotels with their guns blazing. They believe the ammunition may have been stored earlier in rooms at both the hotels, perhaps on the higher floors. If some of the terrorists had registered at the hotels earlier, could these men/women have left along with the guests who were released? Did the police record the identities and addresses of the guests who were released from both hotels? Indian Hotels Chairman Ratan Tata indicated on Thursday that the terrorists had intimate knowledge of the Taj, its service corridors, its layout. Does this mean that they had a mole inside the Taj? Or more worrying, did a couple of them work there at some point of time? Did they have drawings of the layout of the two hotels? If the terrorists were Pakistani, how did they have such an intimate knowledge of the terrain? The two or three cowards who attacked the CST on Wednesday night made their way from the CST through a road on the left side of The Times of India building towards the Cama and Albess hospital/Azad Maidan police station, a route that is known only to true-blood Mumbaikars. Were they locals? Or did they conduct extensive reconnisance of the likely routes of escape? These same two or three men, who are said to have commandeered ATS Chief Hemant Karkare's [Images] police Qualis after shooting him, Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte and Inspector Vijay Salaskar, revealed similar familarity with the road outside the Esplanade Court, making an easy U-turn towards the Metro cinema junction rather than head on the road towards the CST. How did they know this if they were Pakistanis? How did those men, whose images have appeared all over the world, get to the CST from Colaba where they are said to have landed by boat? Did they take a taxi? Or did they have local transportation? Did they come by a suburban train, which could explain the firing on one of the suburban train platforms? Who left the grenade on the Gitanjali Express, which killed a Bengali mother? The terrorists are said to have done extensive reconnisance of the city. If they are Pakistanis, how did they get earlier entry to the city unnoticed? Did they come in by boat? Or did they use other routes to escape notice? Such an operation could not have been conducted without extensive training and preparation, possibly on models of the Taj and Trident or Chabad House/Nariman House. Could this have been achieved at the rudimentary training camps hosted by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba in Pakistan occupied Kashmir? Or was it a more systematised operation conducted by a State agency in a hostile country? How did they know Chabad House/Nariman House, which even long-time residents of Colaba -- the area in South Mumbai where the Taj, the Leopold Cafe [Images] and Chabad/Nariman House are located -- are unfamiliar with? The choice of this target indicates precision thinking -- it is doubtful if the Lashkar strategists are capable of such deep strategy -- and again points the needle of suspicion at a government intelligence agency in a nation inimical to India or renegades within such a bureau. Early on Thursday morning, the television channels spoke about an exchange of fire between the terrorists and the police near the Liberty cinema (which is close to the Metro cinema/Cama hospital, but situated on an inner road). There was even fear expressed that these terrorists would enter the Bombay hospital, but nothing was heard about them thereafter. Where did they go? Were these two/three terrorists the same men who took over the police Qualis and shot at people near the Metro junction? Or have they escaped? The police say the two men, who took over the Qualis, grabbed the Skoda that was halted at a police road block near the Girgaum Chowpatty [Images] beach. One of them was later killed by the police. Where did the other man go? Is he the Ismail, the Lashkar terrorist who is appparently singing like a canary to the police? Or is he someone else? If these are the two of the three terrorists who attacked the CST, what happened to the third man seen in photographs and video captures? Where did he vanish? Another terrorist is said to be in custody. Where was he captured? What has he told the police? The Times of India reported on Friday morning that wellknown food critic Sabina Sehgal-Saikia's cellular phone recorded activity in the Raigad area, which is located across the sea from the Taj, where she was staying on the night of the attacks? Nothing has been heard from Saikia for over a day, so how did her phone reach Raigad? Could one of the terrorists have escaped under the guise of a guest to the Raigad area? Could some of the terrorists have come by boat from the Alibag-Murud Janjira area in Maharashtra's Raigad district, rather than from Pakistan? Boats ply through the day from the Alibaug area to the Gateway of India, and it would be easy for terrorists to use this mode of transport rather than high-speed boats which would have attracted the Coast Guard's attention. If the attacks were restricted to South Mumbai for logistical reasons, who was responsible for the explosion on the taxi near the Santa Cruz airport in northwest Mumbai, which is located at least 25 km from Colaba?3 comments | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: When terror strikes, are we ready?
The National Disaster Management Authority organised a mock bomb-blast response drill at Secunderabad railway station. As three 'bomb blasts' rocked the crowded Secunderabad railway station on Monday, leaving more than a hundred people 'injured', many of them critically, the entire emergency response machinery of the state capital Hyderabad swung in to action.
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Miscellaneous: Do Know YOUR Value?
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News: APJ Abdul Kalam's, The Supreme Boss of Thumba!
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News: Pakistan on the verge of bankruptcy
Pakistan's woes seem to have no end. After years of terrorism and bad governance spread havoc, the country is witnessing one of the most depressing economic crisis of all times. The global meltdown is now taking a heavy toll on the economy as it faces bankruptcy. Today, the country's creditworthiness rating is the second-worst among nations ranked by Standard and Poor's. The Karachi Stock exchange has lost more than half its value in the last 6 months, eroding the wealth of many investors. Investors are a worried lot, as most of them have seen their profits wiped off completely in months. The crisis in Pakistan worsensed this year as the country could no longer bear the huge burden of subsidies. Under former president Musharraf's regime, fuel and food prices were subsidised when international commodity prices rose last year. This eroded the government's coffers. This year also saw the assassination of the country former prime minister Benazir Bhutto leading to more internal strife and unabated terrorist attacks.
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IndiaShining: Hinduism makes India a successful democracy : Advani
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate LK Advani on Friday said only Hindu religion allows secularism and pluralism, making India a successful democracy. "For the success of democracy, there should be tolerance for the other point of view. Intolerance is most visible in religious matters. Hindu polity never accepts theocracy, making us a successful democratic nation," Advani told a gathering during a book launch function organised by India First Foundation. He gave examples of theocratic nations to prove that it is only India that could support democracy. "Generals and others take over nations after independence in theocratic nations. Look at Bangladesh, we gave them a secular nation but they could not sustain that for long," Advani pointed out. Commenting on one of the three books released at the function, 'Fateful Fourth Generation' - a compilation of dynasties of the world that fell during their fourth generation, Advani laughed and said, "I will not comment on this for it might create a controversy, but going by the examples it seems that all the troubles begin at the fourth generation." He said the present United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is "intentionally inactive" against terrorism. "We keep on deceiving ourselves for the sake of vote bank politics. Why can't we see the obvious and take action against it. Is it our policy or habit now to keep deceiving ourselves?" he asked. Advani has been on the offensive against the government as the general elections approach next year and many states go to the polls in the next one or two months.9 comments | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
LetsDiscuss: Top 10 places to Have SEX!
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IndiaShining: Where will you smoke from October 2?
Smoking a cigarette may now burn a hole in your pocket. From October 2, smoking would be banned in all public places. Private offices and other establishments can no longer have designated rooms for puffing cigarettes. The ban also includes hotels and restaurants. According to Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, smokers will have to step outside into open space if they wish to smoke. Though in the beginning, the fine would be only Rs 200, the government is trying to amend the act and in future the fine may go up to Rs 1,000. Even the employer can be fined if somebody is found smoking within the office premises.24 comments | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
Business: Who will be the bigger loser from the Nano pullout Tatas OR West Bengal?
The Tatas and West Bengal government believe that the Singur project will not take off, reports CNBC-TV18, quoting sources. The Tatas have started removing equipment plant parts 10 days back, the sources further stated. Sources have also said that It\\`s a long process and it will take some time. If the sources are to be believed then the Tatas will begin pulling out Singur in the next few days. The Pune plant will roll out 1000 Nanos by mid-october, sources added. CNBC-TV18 Disclaimer: This information is source-based and has not been provided to the stock exchanges.9 comments | | category: Business | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
LetsDiscuss: Top 10 tips to prevent excess gas
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Passing gas can be uncomfortable, not to mention embarrassing. It is however a fact of life. Most people avoid discussing it though, and for as common as it is -- everyone passes gas either by belching (burping) or flatulence (farting) -- not too many people know what normal levels are and whether they truly suffer from excess gas.
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Tech: Porn is no more the top search on Internet
Social networking sites are the biggest drawers, when it comes to Internet searches, dethroning online pornography, according to a new survey, which has provided an up-to-date view of how society is changing.
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