- Age spares no one, especially celebrities
Age is hard on the poor, but if you ask celebrities, age is harder on them. The photo on right is of Axl Rose now, in his 50s, probably sober, and eating well (food for him). The photo on left is from early 90s. The …
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- Iceland, a country with the population of 334.000, just qualified for the Football World cup
Iceland, with 334,000 people, is the smallest country by population to ever qualify. The country's football is on an upswing. Iceland made it to the quarter finals of Euro 2016, where they lost to France. Iceland's natio…
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- How Harvey Weinstein might survive the sexual abuse allegations (blame the news cycle)
This is what Elaine Lui, a veteran gossip columnist thinks:
1. Like Bill O’Reilly and Bill Cosby earlier, both of whom got away light with almost no sincere apology, Weinstein also seems to be getting away with a simp…
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- Will Facebook's new Context button succeed in helping users identify fake news?
Facebook's fake news problem is real and it is having a devastating effect on the world as we now it. The social sharing sites' new context information button provides relevant information to any linked article shared in…
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- Five ÃâàImplications of Supreme Court banning sale of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR till 1 November
1. Small traders and manufacturers will suffer. They had no inkling.
2. This will boost the unregulated black market. People will just buy it outside NCR and carry it in.
3. Baby steps would have been better, starting …
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- Facebook post made by Rohini Singh, Taking on all BJP IT Cell trolls (and the government)
Here's a FB post by Rohini Singh, the reporter who wrote about strange dealings of Amit Shah's son Jay Shah's company. Now trolled by BJP IT cell, aka India's no.1 (troll) terror outfit, earlier, Rohini also exposed the …
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- GST protests: 90 Lakh Truckers Begin India-wide Chakka Jam Against GST, 'Extortion' at Toll Booths
The introduction of GST hasn't meant that policemen manning interestate borders are a dejected lot.
New18 reports about the truckers' protests:
Truckers are bearing a loss of Rs 80,000 crore as bribes to various …
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- Maharashtra textile minister Subhash DeshmukhâEUR(TM)s firm leases land to garment unit funded by his own department
Maharashtra textile minister Subhash Deshmukh, who is Maharashtra BJP’s vice-president, also owns the Lokmangal Group, which has been chosen as the landlord for a new cooperative society’s garment unit being set up throu…
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- Amit Shah's Son: Government all out to defend him, with mainstream media's help, and BJP IT Cell being India's most hated troll/terror group, again
Development 1: Most media channels black out Kapil Sibal's press conference on Amit Shah's son. Among the newspapers, save the Hindu and Indian express, all other main newspapers have framed the story as Amit Shah's son …
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- Remove âEUR~MâEUR(TM) from AMU, âEUR~HâEUR(TM) from BHU, says UGC panel
The Indian Express reports that a UGC committe has suggested that the words ‘Muslim’ and ‘Hindu’ be dropped from the names of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and Banaras Hindu University (BHU), respectively, to reflect t…
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- Big business is big time tax avoider: Airbnb is the latest to pay as little tax as possible
Yet another story of a big business doing good business but paying very less taxes. We shouldn't be surprised to hear te latest news, this time, about Airbnb paying less than £200,000 in UK corporation tax last year desp…
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- All modern industrial supply chains rely on labor exploitation to succeed
Smartphones, iPhones, jeans...and now laptops. A newspaper writes about a labor watchdog saying that the world’s biggest laptop brands, HP and Acer among them, relying on Chinese student labourers as young as 16 to work …
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- âEUR~Antibiotic apocalypseâEUR(TM): 700,000 people a year die from drug-resistant infections
The Guardian writes about a report by doctors saying that about 700,000 people a year die from drug-resistant infections, and that this global figure is growing relentlessly and could reach 10 million a year by 2050.
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- Harvey Weinstein Removed From The Weinstein Co.
Yet another powerful, rich, publicly admired, famous man has (hopefully) come undone, after finding it difficult to keep everyone in line and hush up. Yet another powerful and what-not person has found cops and the syste…
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- U.S. Vice President uses $250,000 of taxpayer's money to go and stage protest at a football game
The ethics watchdog in U.S. has critized U.S. Vice President Mike Pence of misusing government travel to Colts game , just to stage a walkout of the game, a wasteful exercise in grandstanding too. The cost $250,000 is ju…
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- Annals of government loot: DOD, HUD Defrauded Taxpayers Of $21 Trillion From 1998 To 2015
All government departments waste people's money, defense ministires more than others. The U.S. DOD (Department of defense) has been accused, in past and now, of falsifying its accounting (for example, wrong budget adjust…
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- What happens to the Vegas shooter hotel room now?
A hotel management expert says the Vegas shooter hotel room would likely be gutted, refurbished and renumbered, at a minimum, or transformed into something else entirely, like storage space or a boardroom.
A better o…
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- Automation: UK farm first in the world to successfully plant, tend and harvest a crop without a single person ever setting foot in the field
Reasearchers belonging to an organziation, Hands Free Hectare, claim they have created a 100% automated farm, where no person ever set foot in the fields.
People with large farms may be their target users. Basically, …
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- Referendums for secession a trend?
While Catalans fight to set up their own nation, news has come of "The South Is My Country", a movement where Brazilians in the south have been asked in an informal vote whether they want to be part of a new country.
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- Annals of irony: Tunisian health minister dies after charity marathon
Slim Chaker, 56, Tunisia's health minister died of a heart attack on Sunday after taking part in a charity marathon to help battle cancer. He only ran 500m and then gave a speech. A preexisting heart condition may have b…
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