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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With the entire country speculating over the reasons for L K Advani’s absence from the BJP national executive meet in Goa, with reasons ranging from uneasiness brought on from watching Yamla Pagla Deewana to stomach-flu induced by change of season, The UnReal Times decided to do its own snooping around. Our Gmail enthusiast, Barry Page, [...]
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In a move that’s being widely hailed as a victory for democracy and free speech, a Bangalore man has filed an RTI petition demanding to know if such a thing as the state government of Karnataka exists or not. Mr. Satish Kumar, 48, who works at a public sector bank, said, “I could have sworn [...]
Continue reading …BJP claims LK Advani trying to book IRCTC tatkal tickets to get to Goa, hence the delay
June 8, 2013 1 Comment
Scotching rumours of a growing rift within the party after L K Advani failed to turn up for the second day of the party’s national executive meet in Goa, BJP spokesperson, Prakash Javelinthrower, insisted that Shri L K Advani is very much trying to make it to Panaji and take part in deliberations but his [...]
Continue reading …Govt to launch “Ho Raha Bharat Nirman ka Nirman” campaign to publicize Bharat Nirman ads
June 8, 2013 15 Comments
After splurging over Rs. 100 crores on the Bharat Nirman ad campaign that tom-toms the achievements of the UPA government over the last 9 years, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has green-lighted a proposal to unleash a new media campaign, Ho Raha Bharat Nirman ka Nirman, which will highlight the achievements and impact of [...]
Continue reading …Home Minister Shinde’s follow up reply to Justice Katju’s letter rejecting pardon for Sanjay Dutt
June 8, 2013 7 Comments
To The Chairman, Press Council of India, New Delhi. Your Excellency, This is further to my earlier letter promising to look into your appeal to pardon actor Sanjay Dutt under Act 4, Scene 1 of “The Merchant of Venice” after reading and understanding the play. As promised here is my reply. I had a discussion [...]
Continue reading …Facebook Wall: Team India celebrates win over SA, Kundra squirms as Delhi police turn on the heat
June 7, 2013 6 Comments
Even as the IPL spotfixing-betting scandal refuses to die down with more skeletons tumbling out of the closet – the latest is that RR owner and Shilpa Shetty’s husband, Raj Kundra, has confessed to betting on his own team – Team India’s on field form against South Africa took a turn for the better with [...]
Continue reading …Kings XI co-owners Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia now under the scanner for failing to fix their match
June 7, 2013 1 Comment
After CSK owner enthusiast, Gurunath Meiyappan, and RR co-owners, Raj-Shilpa, it is the turn of Kings XI Punjab co-owners, Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia, to come under the scanner of law enforcement authorities for match-fixing, or rather, the lack thereof: the estranged couple have been summoned by the special cell of the Delhi police to [...]
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