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After what seemed like a lull before the storm, terror reared its ugly head again with a vengeance, this time in Pune, one of the few big cities in the country to have escaped a terror strike so far. Around 7.15pm today evening, a powerful bomb ripped apart the age old German Bakery, a very popular [...]

One of the biggest WTF kinda news I’ve come across…  Ghanshyam Kevat, a dreaded dacoit, was gunned down by UP cops in a village in Chitrakoot yesterday. Nothing particularly amazing about this piece of news, but then look at the stats.. it was a single dacoit against almost 500 heavily armed cops and commandos, and what’s [...]

The DNA seems to be my latest source of timepass news and this time it was a piece on how the underworld is outsourcing “supari”, which in this context means contract killing , and not the betel nut we have after a meal. Put briefly, it goes:

In an interview with the TOI, Sanjay Dutt revealed his ancient thought process, when he made statements like “No sister gets along with her brother’s wife”, and also, That’s a message not just to my sisters, but to all girls who hang on to their parents’ surname. It’s become fashionable these days. But I strongly [...]

Pakistan has been in a state of continuous denial over involvement of their citizens in the Mumbai terror attacks, and it is amazing if not wholly surprising to see how long drawn this affair promises to be, with no country seemingly capable of doing anything about it. While intelligence failure on India’s part has been glaring, one slightly “positive” aspect, if [...]

Inspite of all the heavy damage suffered by them during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel, along with the Trident, are both set to throw their doors open this coming Sunday, 21-Dec-08. 268 guest rooms, including nine suites and 26 Taj Club Rooms, located in the tower wing will be open to guests, though the [...]

It is now just over a week since Mumbai faced the brunt of yet another terrorist attack. I was at Bangalore on 26/11, watching the India-England one day match being played, when a switch of channels brought this horrific reality into our living room. It was difficult to take in the sheer volume of information [...]