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India strikes back: 10,000 pirated DVDs of Chennai Express smuggled into Pakistani cities

India has struck back hard at repeated Pakistani transgressions and provocations by smuggling over ten thousand pirated DVDs of SRK starrer Chennai Express into Lahore, and Karachi via Dubai. Another lethal consignment, comprising DVDs of Goldie Behl’s Drona, Ram Gopal Varma’s Aag, and Aditya Chopra’s Jab Tak Hai Jaan, has been shipped via the Indian consulate in Jalalabad to strife civilian settled areas in Pakistan’s restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. This is the first move under a new strategic doctrine formulated by the security establishment to overwhelm Pakistan with proverbial Indian soft power. Mollycoddling India’s non state Bollywood actors by providing them with financial and logistical support to export their wares beyond the borders of India’s truculent Western neighbor and fermenting mental chaos at an unprecedented scale constitutes the cornerstone of this ambitious plan dubbed ‘killing with softness’, RAW’s riposte to ISI’s ‘death by  a thousand cuts’. Acc...

Beef in temple; Hindus provoked in Assam's Barak Valley

Tensions are rising in Assam’s border district of Karimganj amidst reports of pieces of beef being recovered from the Sitala Mata Mandir in the Badarpur area on the night of August 28. Coming close on the heels of similar troubles in the Cachar district, it appears that the entire Barak Valley, a sensitive region bordering Bangladesh, is being inflamed in a systematic manner by unknown forces, whose motives have so far not been discerned. On the night of August 25, tensions rose sharply in the Silchar town of Cachar following the discovery of animal meat in three temples in the Rangpur area. Nearly 30 persons, including policemen, were injured in violence that followed. The State Government quickly put the Army on alert in all the three Barak Valley districts, i.e. Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj as these are regarded as communally sensitive areas. Despite the precaution, the incident in Sitala Mata Mandir occurred. Local residents informed this writer on telephone that uniden...

In pictures: The fallout of Narendra Modi’s “Hindu Nationalist” remark

In his explosive  interview  to Reuters, Narendra Modi described himself as a ‘born Hindu’ and a ‘nationalist’, and therefore a ‘Hindu nationalist’. Not surprisingly, the comments kicked up a storm across the polity – ‘secular’ parties geared up to roundly bash the Gujarat CM, while BJP representatives braced themselves for a barrage of questions on prime-time Television. Brings you the story in pictures: source: theunrealtimes

In Pictures: How AK Antony kept Pakistan and Chinese troops off Indian territory…

With the Pak army continuously  violating  the 2003 ceasefire agreement on the LoC, and the PLA  ensconcing themselves well within Indian territory on the eastern front, the prospect of a 2-front war no longer sounds like a figment of one’s imagination. What strategy did our very capable Defence Minister, AK Antony, come up with to handle this?  The UnReal Times  defence correspondent Nikumuddin Raina brings you the story in pictures: source:-  theunrealtimes

Sexual assault case: Police arrest Asaram Bapu

Bhopal:  After days of evading the police and refusing to join investigation in the alleged sexual assault case of a minor girl, the 72-year-old self-styled Godman Asaram was finally arrested on Saturday midnight by Jodhpur Police officials from his ashram in Indore. The police will question Asaram on Sunday morning after 11 days of hide and seek. "As of now he is fit for investigation and travel. If he claims that he is innocent, the investigating officer will take a decision on further action and whether to arrest him or not," said Jodhpur police DCP Ajay Pal Lamba. Source :  IBN Live Saints and Hindu activists unite against defamation of H. H. Asaram Bapu August 30, 2013     Surat (Gujarat) :  One girl has accused H. H. Asaram Bapu, the Chief of ‘Yoga Vedanta Samiti’, of molestation. Capitalising on the so-called accusations, media has started defaming H. H. Bapuji. On 28th August, Saints and pro-Hindu organisations united at Surat to o...

Govt constitutes expert committee under Raj Babbar to devise new methodology for poverty estimation

Impressed by Raj Babbar’s lucid exposition of how it is possible  to have a nutritious meal for Rs. 12 in a city like Mumbai, the Planning Commission has invited the ex Bollywood star to chair a new expert committee to come up with a revised methodology for measuring poverty in India. The committee, also comprising Congress leader Rasheed Mashood and Farooq Abdullah, will estimate state wise poverty lines based on their nuanced understanding of prevailing prices structures for meals and accordingly compute poverty head-count ratios. The government has been hardpressed to  defend latest poverty estimates  based on the  methodology recommended by the late Professor Tendulkar, and Babbar’s intervention has been timely in this regard. “Truth be told, even we are not sure how to interpret the Tendulkar method for poverty estimation. It’s indeed the Duckworth-Lewis method for poverty computation. No one gets it.  I think it has something to do with taking a pove...

Google requests UPA to not launch yet another Rajiv Gandhi scheme citing indexing problems

Google Inc has requested the UPA to refrain from launching yet another scheme named after Shri Rajiv Gandhi. The request comes in the wake of mounting speculation that the Food Security Bill may be named after the late leader, thereby adding to the kitty of the thousand and odd central schemes named after one of India’s tallest and most dynamic leaders. Google CEO, Larry Page, said that it is becoming impossible for Google’s crawlers to index all the schemes, universities, ponds, bridges, roads and stadiums named after the late leader. “No matter how hard we try, the UPA has been one step ahead of us in spawning more Rajiv Gandhi schemes than we can index. While we endeavour to improve our search infrastructure , we request the UPA to give us some time to play catch-up,” was the plaintive appeal from the CEO of the internet technology giant. Googlebot, the crawler that day in and day out crawls the web to index pages, seconded his boss’ statement.  “Just as I finish one cycle...

Online humorists exasperated over rupee’s reluctance to settle at 69 to the dollar

Social media wits have expressed extreme frustration at the Rupee’s inability to settle at the 69 mark. A few days back, the Rupee had  briefly touched 69  before a highly embarrassed RBI swung into action by selling a few million Dollars from its reserves to push it back. End of trading saw the Rupee settle at 63.88 to a Dollar. In a petition to the RBI, a group of five hundred comedians on social media has requested the central bank not to curb the Rupee’s march upwards and to let it find its equilibrium at 69. “This is our bread and butter,” said Twitter celebrity Ramesh Kumar. “We had our entire Rupee at 69 jokes ready at least a month ago, but what’s the use? We are surviving by cracking onion jokes for now, but they are now getting stale,” rued Kumar. “People threaten to douse us with unadulterated petrol if we dare crack yet another lame petrol price joke,” added Manoranjan Singh, another social media enthusiast. “Just when you think it looks promising, it goes ba...