Nigerian scam perpetrators now pose as DLF agents promising fantastic returns to dupe people
October 9, 2012 11 Comments
Thousands of internet con-men based in Nigeria, infamously known as the “Nigerian scamsters“, have modified their modus operandi and have begun to pose as DLF agents, in the wake of news about a seemingly controversial business deal between so called businessman Robert Vadra, and real estate company DLF, in which the latter extended an interest-free, unsecured loan [...]
Continue reading …RTI queries to be filed only through Twitter; only one tweet per query allowed
August 13, 2012 4 Comments
The Government of India has introduced a major amendment to the rules of the Right To Information Act: RTI queries hereafter will be permissible only when filed through the popular micro-blogging website Twitter. The move comes just after the government set a word limit of 500 words per RTI application. According to the new rule, [...]
Continue reading …Married couple who met through Facebook, decide to stay apart to rekindle romance through Facebook
June 5, 2012 1 Comment
In January 2011, Sameer Singhal, a software engineer working with HCL, was whiling away his time on Facebook, switching between Farmville and liking random posts on his feed, when suddenly, a comment on a post on his Facebook feed caught his attention. His interest piqued, Sameer clicked open the commenter’s profile, and after a great [...]
Continue reading …IIT student invents programming language ‘C-Shastri’ that uses Ravi Shastri’s cliches as commands
June 2, 2012 10 Comments
Balaji Rangachari, a 3rd year student at IIT-Madras has created a new programming language that might revolutionize the software industry as we know it. The programming language named ‘C-Shastri’ by the young IITian, uses popular cricket commentator Ravi Shastri’s cliches as syntax for complex programming constructs. Bajali’s innovation promises to make coding far more pleasurable [...]
Continue reading …Sonia Gandhi pays tribute to the late Eugene Polley, inventor of remote control
May 23, 2012 8 Comments
The passing away of Eugene Polley, the inventor of the ubiquitous television remote on Sunday, has brought great grief to Congress President and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. If Law Minister Salman Khurshid is to be believed, Sonia was supposed to have shed copious tears of sadness on hearing the news. In a press statement, Gandhi [...]
Continue reading …IIT-M to now provide dream escorts to ensure emotional security of female students on campus
April 19, 2012 3 Comments
After taking steps to protect female students on campus from eve teasing and molestation, IIT-M faculty is exploring means to secure their emotional safety as well. They aim to do by providing female students with ‘dream escorts’ – male student volunteers who will sleep next to the girls whenever they decide to take a siesta, [...]
Continue reading …Transcript: How the IIT-M Faculty conceived the idea of escorts, whistles for female students
April 18, 2012 2 Comments
Women students of IIT-Madras will have male escorts for their night strolls on campus, with a whistle to hoot. What led the faculty to zero in on this idea? The UnReal Times brings to you the transcript of the meeting that led the faculty to adopt this system. Prof. Swaminathan: Welcome, everyone. Here in this [...]
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Premier social networking site Facebook has sent shock waves through the world once again, by buying the popular matrimonial site shaadi.com for a head-spinning $10 billion. The acquisition took place early in the morning, barely a couple of days after Facebook acquired photo-sharing app Instagram for an extravagant $1 billion. David Ebersman, the CFO of [...]
Continue reading …IIT Guwahati invites Mamata Banerjee for a guest lecture on “Database Rollback and Recovery”
March 15, 2012 4 Comments
In a first-of-its-kind development, one of the top-ranked engineering destinations, Indian Institute of Technology – Guwahati (IITG), has invited West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to lecture on the subject of Database Management Systems. Didi will expatiate on the abstruse topic of handling “Rollback and Recovery” in Databases. The WB Chief Minister, on her part, gladly agreed [...]
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According to Livemint, India is the world’s second-largest market, after China, for telecom services with 812 million subscribers at the end of March 2011. 2010, they say, was the year of the smartphone in India. We will remember these last few years as the time when the phone was transformed into anything but a phone. [...]
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