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French President Hollande arrives in India

French President Francois Hollande arrived in New Delhi on Thursday on a two-day visit which is expected to include talks to finalise the purchase of Rafale fighter jets from Dassault Aviation.......

French President Hollande to visit India on Feb 14

French President Francois Hollande will pay a state visit to India on February 14-15 during which he will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders on ways of enhancing the......

In Dhaka: With Messi and Manmohan, without Mamata

We see several huge banners of welcome strewn across the city. They are not for Dr Singh. The world's greatest footballer is in town, you see. Rediff.com's Sanchari Bhattacharya, who travelled with......

Why Pakistan today feels let down by its defenders

Pakistan's stubborn and equally supercilious military and intelligence establishment has a habit of not learning from its mistakes, no matter how serious they are, say Amir Mir. It was on October......

10 killed as terrorists attack Pak military base

Suspected militants stormed an airbase in Karachi late on Sunday night, rocking one of Pakistan's heavily guarded military installations with fiery explosions and leaving at least 10 people dead......

Some smart ways to save and still have fun!

Recession is an ugly word. And one of the fallouts of globalisation is the ripple effect that the state of one economy has on multiple others, whether they are directly or indirectly connected.......

What Mukund Toys has to offer

A true enthusiast offers no explanations and accepts no excuses for following his hobby. So even with family members disapprovingly clucking each time he chooses to spend hundreds of dollars on......

Ten truly amazing robberies

In 1950, when a gang of thieves broke into the heavily guarded offices of the Brinks Mat's armored car company in Boston, the headlines heralded it the crime of the century. The building was......

A polo club with a difference

In 1997, Colonel Kuldeep Singh Garcha could have easily retired after 32 years in the Indian army.The former commandant of 61st Cavalry instead spent the year wrapping up his two-year-old......

Night At the Museum 2 is boring

The only good thing one can say about a movie like Night At the Museum: Battle of The Smithsonian is that it provided gainful employment for a few hundred behind-the-scenes people. Since a lot of......

Angels & Demons beats Terminator 4

Christian Bale, who had a sensational success with The Dark Knight last summer, has proved he isn't a box office giant. He has also proved -- with his newest film Terminator: Salvation -- that he......

Who was Mangal Pandey?

For the few who think of Mangal Pandey as just another character role played by Aamir Khan, a quick lesson in history:So, he's not a fictional character?Of course not. Born in the village of Nagwa,......

Thieves loot Greek museum at Olympic birthplace

Armed thieves looted a museum on Friday in Greece's Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, stealing bronze and pottery artefacts weeks after the country's National Gallery was also burgled.......

Robben Island reminds of liberating power of WC

A small but much-prized soccer trophy on display in a cell of Robben Island prison is a reminder of how football touched the lives of the activists locked up there by the apartheid regime.Political......

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Q. Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj divisionalrailway office in 1909. It is on display at the Railway Museum in NewDelhi. It was also reproduced under the caption "Travellers' Tales" inthe Far Eastern Economic Review. You can check up from WIKIPEDIA too."I arrive by passenger train in Ahmedpur station and my belly is toomuch swelling with jackfruit. I therefore went to a toilet. Just I wasdoing that nuisance that guard makes a whistle blow for the train togo off and I am running with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in thenext when I fall over and expose
: A. wow :D nice piece - but i heard this for someone else more

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Q. My friend says "Hinduism is the oldest of all the religions and thus the, most pure, authentic and best of all the religions of the world" is it true??? I know the answer but want u to answer.
Laloo: A. Islam is the oldest religionHinduism is not the oldest of all the religions. It is Islam which is the first and the oldest of all religions. People...... more

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Q. Which is the most OLDEST RELIGION in the WORLD ?
Shahid Khan: A. 1. Islam is the oldest religion.Hinduism is not the oldest of all the religions. It is Islam which is the first and the oldest of all religions....... more

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Q. the money that shd have gone for upliftment and rehabilitation of dalits and other poorer sections of the society has gone to adorn mayavati\'s neck....., how justified is it...? ur opinion, plz!!
LeaveMeAlone: A. And to top it all off, when asked about her statues she built of herself she counters "nobody complains about Wax Museum in London." Can...... more

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Q. When Aryans migrated to India, all Aryan tribes of India and Iran followed the same pagan religion with one difference for Aryans of India, Deva was a good spirit and Asura was a bad spirit and for Iranians, Asur was a good spirit and Deva was a bad spirit. Later on, Aryans of India got Indianised and a great religion called Hinduism evolved. But the ancient religion of Iran has followers even now; our Parsi community follow this ancient religion. But many Hindus consider Hinduism as the oldest religion. Is it not factually wrong?
Minati Vishwakarma: A. Sir ,Islam is the oldest religionHinduism is not the oldest of all the religions. It is Islam which is the first and the oldest of all religions....... more

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