Ahmedabad: The Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), the country’s premier consumer of engineers, has introduced a new management programme, which it believes will ‘inspire some blue sky thinking in the praxis of corporate and political governance.’ “The new course we are introducing is on Resignation Management,” the Director of IIM-A told a press conference here [...]
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With 2014 General Elections approaching and in the wake of increasing frequency of ‘breaking news’, Times Now is reported to have decided to create multiple clones of Arnab Goswami. Each Arnab will cover a story in parallel while some other clones will be kept as a ‘standby Arnab’ in case the real Arnab is temporarily [...]
Continue reading …Minority community leader Ratan Tata hails Narendra Modi for being sensitive to his community needs
June 13, 2013 18 Comments
Even as questions continue to be raised over Narendra Modi’s lack of secular credentials, a leader of a minority community, one Mr. Ratan Tata, has rejected perceptions that the Gujarat strongman’s vision for development does not accommodate needs and concerns of minority communities. “I can tell you from personal experience that Modi has been very [...]
Continue reading …In Pictures: The real reason behind Arnab Goswami’s temporary disappearance from Times Now
June 13, 2013 13 Comments
The past weekend saw Times Now TRPs dropping to an all-time low, thanks to the mysterious and sudden disappearance of its chief superstar, Arnab Goswami. The disappearance sparked rumours of Arnab’s resignation but the man was soon back the very next day. Why did he actually disappear for a day? The UnReal Times correspondent Atul [...]
Continue reading …Parents of school kids panic on inclusion of Wasim Akram in Champions Trophy English commentary team
June 12, 2013 6 Comments
Like a Rohit Sharma innings, every summer vacation comes to an end just when you start enjoying it the most. Even as school kids reluctantly drag themselves to school with the same enthusiasm that Munaf Patel exhibits while marking his run up, parents are grappling with a far bigger headache: Wasim Akram’s English commentary for [...]
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Hours after LK Advani shot off a letter to Rajnath resigning from three party fora, a shaken Rajnath Singh was pacing his office restlessly, wondering how to handle the latest crisis. Drained after the National Executive meet in Goa, and exhausted by the in-your-face questions of the pestilent media, Rajnath, for a brief moment, thought, [...]
Continue reading …BJP deploys Shahid Afridi to persuade LK Advani to take back his resignation
June 11, 2013 4 Comments
Even as top leaders including Uma Bharati and Sushma Swaraj are working overtime to persuade LK Advani to withdraw his resignation from the party, the BJP leadership is leaving nothing to chance: BJP President, Rajnath Singh, has contracted the services of the master of U-turns and volte-faces, Shahid Afridi, to have a chat with the [...]
Continue reading …Facebook Wall: Barack Obama defends NSA’s PRISM for snooping on Internet users across the world
June 11, 2013 11 Comments
Following the earth-shaking revelations that the US National Security Agency has been blatantly snooping on Internet users all around the world on the pretext of gathering information, the naughty US intelligence community has once again been caught in the act. The Unreal Times’ US correspondent John Whassisname has been tracking the reactions of world leaders [...]
Continue reading …Facebook Wall: Reactions from politicians, journos to Narendra Modi’s elevation as poll chief
June 10, 2013 20 Comments
Even as LK Advani recused himself from the proceedings at the BJP national executive meet, other players, whether it be politicians or news anchors went into overdrive after Narendra Modi was anointed the party’s National Election Campaign Committee’s Chairman: while Congress leaders were quick to remind the nation of 2002, absent BJP leaders were trotting out ingenious [...]
Continue reading …Fed up with their batsmen’s failures, Pakistani bowlers dump team; knock on doors of Team India
June 10, 2013 7 Comments
Fed up with Pakistani batsmen posting lousy, impossible to defend totals on decent batting tracks, Pakistani bowlers have quit the national team and offered their services to teams with better batting line-ups, especially Team India, in the hope of reducing their burden. Pakistani bowlers are especially envious of their Indian counterparts, who are often spoilt [...]
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