Mistaken Identity: Mumbai police picks up music director Pritam instead of cartoonist Aseem Trivedi
September 11, 2012 3 Comments
Shockwaves coursed through the music industry on Monday, when Mumbai police arrested music director Pritam early in the day. He was held in police custody for about three hours before the Mumbai police realized their mistake and released him. The entire scene was created due to a misunderstanding, according to the police department; Pritam had [...]
Continue reading …UPA floats Duckworth-Lewis bill to decide fate of bills blocked by adjournment
September 8, 2012 1 Comment
Taking a leaf out of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, the UPA government has floated the “Duckworth-Lewis” bill, to decide the fate of any bill stalled in the Parliament due to frequent adjournment. Brainchild of BCCI Vice-President, Rajya Sabha MP and whisperer-in-chief to the Speaker, Rajiv Shukla, the bill provides for the passing of any bill [...]
Continue reading …Coalgate scandal: Coal block allotee approaches court for quashing his own unmerited allocation
September 2, 2012 No Comment
The raging coalgate scandal took an interesting turn with one of the coal block allotees, Shri Rajesh Khandelwal, CEO cum proprietor of Jai Mata Di Power Ltd, approaching the courts to quash his own license to mine a coal block in Jharkhand, on the grounds that it was awarded in a completely arbitrary, opaque, ad-hoc [...]
Continue reading …Kapil Sibal slaps patent infringement suit on P Chidambaram over “Zero loss” statement
August 25, 2012 2 Comments
Minutes after news about Apple’s $1.05 billion victory in the legal dispute with Samsung over theft and patent breach of smartphone design and features broke in the Indian media, Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal slapped a lawsuit on Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram, over the latter’s ‘zero loss’ claim with regard to the [...]
Continue reading …What happened when real people behind @PMOIndia parody twitter handles met up to discuss ban
August 24, 2012 2 Comments
Incensed by PMO’s ban on Twitter accounts parodying Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s official Twitter handle @PMOIndia, the person behind one of the handles @Indian_pm decides to reach out to those behind the other parody accounts to share notes and discuss their next move. Through Twitter’s Direct Message (DM) utility, the people behind the four [...]
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After directing Twitter to shut down half a dozen handles, including @PM0India and @PMOIndiaa, for parodying and thereby “misrepresenting (sic)” the Prime Minister’s official @PMOIndia handle, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has surprised Twitterati by requesting the suspension if its own account on similar grounds. The PMO clarified as much through the following statement: ”The [...]
Continue reading …Indian Government appointed committee gives recommendations to increase medal tally in 2016 Olympics
August 21, 2012 3 Comments
Just after the conclusion of London Olympics, the Government of India set up a committee to review India’s performance and make recommendations for the future. The UnReal Times brings you the summary of the committee’s recommendations: 1. The committee recommends that Rahul Gandhi be the flag-bearer for India at the Olympics in 2016. Rahul Gandhi [...]
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In what is being hailed as one of the greatest speeches ever by a head of state to his people, comparable with Churchill’s stirring ‘we will fight them on the beaches’ address to the Parliament in 1940 and Pt. Nehru’s famous ‘freedom at midnight-speech’ discourse on the eve of India’s independence, Dr. Manmohan Singh stunned [...]
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 …Quotable Quotes: What they said about UPA’s free mobile phone scheme for BPL families
August 8, 2012 2 Comments
Come Independence Day, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is all set to announce the launch of the UPA government’s latest scheme – the Har Haath Mein Phone scheme. The decision has evoked mixed reactions from eminent personalities. We present some of the quotable quotes here. Sonia Gandhi “If they can’t have rice, let them have talk [...]
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