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The WEIRDEST Nobel Prizes ever!

The winners of the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize recieved their awards recently. The Ig Nobel Prizes are given out in ten fields for quirky and strange scientific achievements and are considered to be a......

Tit for tat: Should India pat down US diplomats?

There has been public outrage in India over the humiliating searches of Indian diplomats and visiting dignitaries at airports in the United States. But should India counter the pat down with a......

Check out Barack's home in Mumbai

Vaihayasi P Daniel checks out the Presidential suite at the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, home for Barack and Michelle Obama for a day. Mumbai's most expensive hotel room is the Grand Presidential......

Clinton seeks support for India initiative

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sought to take top Congressional leadership into confidence in her endeavour to take the Indo-US relationship to a new level, which she fondly says is 3.0.......

Half of investments in emerging markets go via tax havens

Nearly half of the money that multinationals and wealthy investors poured into emerging markets in 2011 came via tax havens, resulting in revenue losses for poor countries, anti-poverty campaigners......

2G scam: Bail pleas of 5 corporate honchos dismissed

A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed the bail pleas of five corporate executives, who were named as accused by the CBI in the 2G spectrum allocation scam but were not arrested. "All the bail......

What's behind India's spectacular economic growth

Five years ago, Raghuram G Rajan, Eric J Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and then chief economist of the International......

US Congressman against visa fee hike Bill

Leading US Congressman Jerry Lewis has come out strongly against a key border security Bill that would steeply hike H-1B and L-1 visa fees to fund new measures, a move resented by Indian IT......

India received $25 bn FDI in 2007-08

Foreign direct investment into India has surged to over $25 billion in 2007-08 and the country's foreign exchange reserve crossed $341 billion as of Tuesday, Ashwani Kumar, minister of state for......

Argo, Life of Pi win at Oscars 2013

The 85th Annual Academy Awards have been announced. Here's a quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: Best Picture Amour Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild Django Unchained Les......

Oscars 2013: Why Daniel Day-Lewis will win Best Actor

With two weeks time for the Academy Awards, it's time to look at the nominees more closely. We kick things off with this year's hard-fought Best Actor race, and here are my thoughts about five men,......

Argo, Les Miserables win at Golden Globes 2013

The 70th Annual Golden Globe awards have been announced. There were quite a few surprises and some expected nods. Here's a quick glance at the winners, listed in bold: BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN......

India to take centrestage at Oscar 2013

After Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire swept the Academy Awards in 2009, several Hollywood films with significant India connection have emerged as frontrunners in the 2013 Oscar nominations.Steven......

Oscars 2013 Nominess: Decoding Hits And Misses

Raja Sen analyses the 2013 Oscar nominations.What are we to make of you, Uncle Oscar? When you can have 10 Best Picture nominees and choose instead to have only nine, thus snubbing The Master and......

Jayadevan seeks Kumble's assistance on VJD system

Snubbed by the International Cricket Council, V Jayadevan, who devised the VJD System for calculating target scores in interrupted limited-overs matches, requested the ICC cricket committee's......

Hamilton wraps Barcelona testing with one last blast

Lewis Hamilton wrapped up his pre-season testing with Mercedes in eye-catching style on Saturday with a lap that was easily the fastest seen so far this year in Barcelona. The 2008 Formula One......

City lose at Southampton after defensive howlers

Manchester City's Premier League title defence fell apart at the seams in a 3-1 defeat to Southampton on Saturday when goalkeeper Joe Hart committed a howler and Gareth Barry scored a bizarre own......

Bale brace boosts Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal win

The unstoppable Gareth Bale scored twice in Tottenham Hotspur's 2-1 victory over Newcastle United in the Premier League on Saturday while rivals Chelsea and Arsenal also won to add spice to the......

Warne blasts CA officials, brands them 'muppets'

Legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne has slammed Cricket Australia (CA) for hiring ‘muppets’ from other sports such as high-performance chief Pat Howard instead of people with cricketing......

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Q. who is the nobel prize winner for the current year
: A. 2011Biology: Daryll Gwynne and David Rentz for discovering that certain kinds of beetle mate with certain kinds of Australian beer...... more

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Q. who wrote a book in which rule 42 asks "all persons more than a mile high to leave the court "Your choices 1. Lewis Carrol2. David M Alexander3, Forrest J Ackerman4. Others
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Q. can any1 suggest me a gud n interesting novel ....????
Stalin: A. 1984 by George Orwell To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Pride and...... more

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Q. who created this english boi quit webs ?
Ipshita Gupta: A. Historian David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution more

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Q. Best Movie Of Marcia Gay Harden?
: A. Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning and Tony Award and Emmy Award-nominated American actress.Harden debuted on...... more

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British Prime Minister David Cameron has said corporate tax avoidance will be discussed next month at the annual summit of the Group of Eight... ...

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Environmental Defense Fund Does Not Speak For Us On Fracking

WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --A total of 67 leading grassroots organizations focused on citizen and environmental issues today... ...

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From opera to exercises, U.S. and China deepen military ties

WASHINGTON Direct contact between China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) and some of its potential adversaries has increased dramatically in the... ...

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Add Oscar-winner Lincoln to your DVD collection

The critically acclaimed and best reviewed motion picture of the season, Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," arrives on DVD. With two Academy Award wins... ...

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Warner fined after Twitter outburst

I could have chosen my words better and I apologise for any offence that my language may have caused [ AFP] I could have chosen my words better and... ...

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