2007 April : It’s Indiatime

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Top 10 players of Indo-US nuclear deal vote
MPs from hell
Three tales of anger and terrorism
Top 10 interesting facts about India’s 1974 explosion
The illuminated asses in the parliament
Rape tragedy reunites missing woman with family
Murder mystery in the Asaram Bapu ashram
Mumbai’s Siddhivinayak gets a cell phone
Pilgrims’ immigration progress
Unsacred hearts and cruel temptations
NRI gets 15 years for embezzling September 11 funds
His judgement cometh and that right soon…
Mayawati’s maya
Air India 182 bomber makes bail
To go or not to go
Manekshaw who?
Car bomb hits Kabul’s Indian embassy
Real gems from India’s parliament - 8
16-year boy killed for writing a love poem
train ticket collector throws 12-year old off the train
A tiger, three friends, and a reality show
Government tells Mumbai citizens to learn to live with it…
Johann Bach caught in India 250 years after his death
The bridge on the river Tapti
The circle of karma for an NRI math professor
Domestic disturbances
Sam Manekhsaw (1914-2008)
Ten reasons the Talwar murders are so hard to crack
Sparks igniting in Kashmir
Mahatma Gandhi, the State bank trainee
India’s cyber-cops wasting time and money on stupid netizens
Bolly-Holly-yabba-dabba-doo
Ice on Mars
A 21st century Ahalya in Nagpur
The missing missies of Pune
Are we still kadwa chauth-positive?
A murder of crows halts India’s trains
New light shed on Pakistan’s dirty nuclear secrets
India’s porous border problem
Solving murders by truth serums
Indian kids sleeping less
Mumbai’s manholes are covered even they are open, says commissioner
Of Statues
A sitcom tribute for a murdered 14-year old
Of bystanders and onlookers
Indian school chooses Monkey God to be school chairman
Kolkata to Connecticut
Archeological Survey halts its monumental mutilations at Ajanta
Free speech getting muffled in India
Australian cops nab NRI husband in family’s murder
The gifts of the magi
Three Indias
The bravehearts and the fainthearts
NRI music maestro’s indecent behavior is exposed
Musharraf’s end game
Statistical error
Other Blackmailing Classes
India’s alternative energy programs need to be sustained and not killed
Rajesh Talwar, so far a Prometheus Bound
The smokey and the pundit
The rising trend of dysfunctional families
Village children burn guns and worship peace in troubled northeast
Police stories
Bun roller millionnaire saves Indicted Swami’s buns by posting $10 bond
Ten reasons Rahul Vaid needs to be a free man
Einstein’s religion
Indian Politician says 90% Gurus don’t wear underwear
Turban warfare
8 simple rules for living in Mumbai
sex, dowry and videotape
The cost of complacency
Several dozen feared dead, hundreds injured in Jaipur bomb blasts
What about Dr Binayak Sen?
Supreme court rejects bail plea in Jessica Lal case
False dreams and fake promises
High court supports artist MF Hussain, blasts puritans
Indian villagers stone ‘killer’ dolphins to death
Ten reasons why Bobby Jindal will not be the next US Vice President
Making cyclone warnings louder and authentic
Kishan Maharaj (1923-2008), Tabla maestro
A disappointing finish to K for Kishore
Drinking water woes
Baby dropping ritual in Solapur shrine
India a hot target for terrorism, says report
Maharashtra punishes movie houses that won’t play Marathi movies
Indian Swami in divine love trouble
Smoking and drinking gets younger and hipper
India’s youngest criminal
Will Pune be India’s next Bhopal?
Ferdinand Magellan’s masala cruise
Arjuns Singh’s new challenge - transgender quotas
Ten reasons Maharashtra politicians banned seminude cheerleading
No stress for Mistress if wife alleges cruelty, says court
Indian government decides against a tougher Sati law
Pune Marriage breaks over mango pulp dowry
Top 10 reasons Amitabh Bachchan became a blogger
Government docs back to work in Mumbai after a 6-day strike
You talkin to me? You talkin to me?
Top 5 explanations for the president’s gesture
Kaho na copy hai - 2
Cook dies after falling into hot sambar
Lest we forget
Capital cops quarrel over jurisdiction, leave a man to die
Get some help for little marathoner Budhia rightaway
Kaho na copy hai - 1
Love Delhi, lust Delhi
India’s Gallantry award allowances
The idiocy of reservitude
The torching of the Olympic spirit
Baby faced goddess born near New Delhi
Lata Mangeshkar wants to visit Pakistan
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a problem
Bachchan-Thackeray non-spat
A witch-hunt and then a woman paraded naked
Mumbai father gives alcohol to 5-year old
High-end Surgeries - the next big outsourcing wave for India
Cricket gets a life in New York
Some kind of justice for Megha Razdan
Masala missiles and curry bombs
Top 10 april fool jokes from 2007 which weren’t
He’s so fair, he’s so fine
Man bites cobra to teach it a lesson
A modern day Muslim Rama from Kerala
An IIT on every street, an IIM on every block
Bollywood has gained more than it has lost because of piracy
Life is a you know what
NDA versus DNA for a stranded Indian boy in London
India’s security alphabet
India’s second sundance kid this year
What? Reforming murderer Sharma already? Let him rot, for Shivani’s sake.
In India, Murder is cheaper, punishments shorter and lighter
Pakistan breaching international conventions in the Arabian sea
The looting of Chandigarh’s treasures
The day India becomes a Marijuana nation
Hussain painting makes auction history for Indian art
Massive earthquake in the Himalayas
More power to India’s health minister
The burden of being a meek nation
Madhubala on a postal stamp
TB still a huge problem for India, says WHO
Don’t worry Aishwarya, MIT’s research is here to vindicate you
The epidemic of student suicides in India
Sony TV fooling Kishore Kumar fans?
Why Musharraf will not execute Sarabjit Singh
Gere, Gore and Nandkissore
Sena’s Manchurian candidates
BCCI tries good karma, indicates desire to sponsor other sports
10 years ago…
10-year old beaten up and burnt to death in New Delhi
A. R. Rahman, original, innovative and doing the right thing
Who owns your body when you die? Your family or government of India?
Who is the Goa government trying to protect?
Radhakant Bajpai, Man of the ear
Indian Hockey loses to Indian Cricket
Las Vegas NRI doctor under scanner for exposing 40000 patients to hepatitis C
The Shinde letters
Making flying safer in India - 1
Numb and dumber - a million female babies murdered in India
Are Goa police covering up a tourist’s murder?
India’s Supreme court errs on dowry, okays customary practices
India railway comes of age with greener and cleaner toilets
Does India too, need an Obama?
How can Himalayan goats die of cold?
Change? What change?
CBI rules on Rizwanur case, declares suicide, rejects murder
Forgotten Indians at Oscars
India tests underwater missile
What should India put in the doomsday vault
Music in North Korea
Pakistan causes major youtube outage
Where can Musharraf go?
Andhra Pradesh to pay blood money to save Kerala murderer from Kuwaiti gallows
Hillary, Obama and Gandhi
Road to perdition
Definitely not saved by the bell
Start investing in Cricket cards and growth hormone companies
Elephants go ballistic in India
A surprise in Pakistan?
Musharraf, the Undertaker wins again!
Saregama little champs and religion
Mammotty slapped, but it was a high-five!
If you want to break the law, at least don’t use your mobile phone
This zero-pollution TATA car, I WILL buy
Is India’s election commission out of its mind?
Bhopal seniors offer body organs to curb illegal organ trade
North Carolina NRI husband arrested for wife’s murder
Highest court hears from a flight officer and a gentleman
India to pass anti-torture law
No foul play in Mahesh Subramanian’s death, say US authorities
A kidney shaped puzzle
Baba Amte (1914-2008)
Free Saul Itzhayek, the Canadian languishing in an Indian jail
Bhutto’s handwritten will
Chennai court throws sex doctor in jail for life
Bollywood rookie actor hangs himself
Indian law makes amends to the elderly
Raj Thackeray plays king’s gambit
Mahesh Prasad Verma aka Mahesh Yogi (1911-2008)
Who cut the internet cables out?
Benazir was impressed by India’s rise, saddened by Pakistan’s fall
Fun with the book of records
Delhi wife beats man up at secret second wedding
If tomorrow comes
India’s soldiers braving bitter cold
Undersea cable damage strangles internet feed to India
Meher baba from Pune
Citizen Khan
A Chinese Walmiki
An Indian chief (yeah, not chef) at Oxford
Invasion of kidney snatchers
The grandfather paradox in India’s constitution
Stuck in Nigerian hotel - email scam
Can India hide the stinking statistics
Dr. Abhijit Mahato, PhD (1979-2008)
Nano ki tang!
Ten people who the Bharat Ratna should not go to
India launches Israeli spy satellite
How will India cope with the new gay disease
The coward bystanders
A bird-flu-free nation? Not!
India’s Supreme Court sings Saqi Saqi Re
Bollywood and Inter-religion marriages - 1
Supreme Court lifts ban on bullfighting, for now
Shaken, not kissed…
Fire rages in Kolkata for 2 days
Kids’ health out of our jurisdiction, says Madras High Court
Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008)
My Top 10 NRIs list
Socialist democracy’s flavored milk
P. K. Sethi, co-creator of Jaipur foot (1927-2008)
The sissies and crybabies of Cricket
Why Delhi’s photographers are ecstatic
Top 10 ways to deal with Mumbai’s molesters
MP chief minister has private visit with Sabharwal murder suspects
Uganda Deja vu for Indians in Kenya
NRI burns daughter, son-in-law and grandson
Is it a jungle out there for women in Mumbai?
Can Oxford blues ever overcome Pakistan’s militant green?
Pakistan, Jinnah, Wadias and the American anthem
Portfolio management for beginners - 2
Portfolio management for beginners - 1
K for counterfeits
NRI brothers shot to death
Why Tata’s $2500 car spells trouble for India
Ten things about Bhutto murder that don’t make sense
Missing NRI woman found safe
A question of guts and guns in Pakistan
Indian woman traveler puts USA on TB alert
Top 10 little known facts about Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto killed in terrorist attack
The doggone Delhi politics
Jaguar from the land of tigers?
Tallest Xmas cake and other records for 2007
Orissa to sue online garment company for hurting Hindu sentiments
Bhagwat Gita in America’s motels and inns
Saregama’s little champs and their big scheming parents
Flavored lies from Mumbai’s milk bandits
Is the Madras High Court out of its mind?
Maharashtra teacher gives electric shocks to 22 students
Mumbai to get levitating trains
NRI couple found guilty of maid torturing, now face decades behind bars
NRI doc gets 30 years in US jail for illegal internet pharmacy
Judgement day for the Cain and Abel story within India’s Hindu party
Healthcare gems from Indian Parliament
Indian PhD students killed in US home invasion
The China syndrome
Australian woman charges Indian husband with dowry harassment
Top 10 things to blame in India’s recent school shooting
2-year old Israeli tourist found wandering the streets of Varanasi
Beware of Nigerian email scams
Nirbudhha!
Does brand India have value?
India passes law to punish those who neglect elderly parents
What distinguishes India? Songs and dances? Or democracy?
Have you told a Sardarji joke lately?
Indian housewife goes missing in Florida
India’s northeastern states are safest for women
The reality of India’s television
Ban the caste-system first, and leave Madhuri alone
Tales from India’s crypts - the dark secrets of Gray’s anatomy
Can democracy and Islam coexist?
Indian social worker is a CNN hero finalist
Mumbai’s commercial real estate hits a record high
Maharashtra minister says CM approves of reservation quotas to 85%
India doesn’t need sports. We have Bollywood!
Communists sell out to Muslim terrorists for a change
India completes translating Ayurvedic knowledge database
Dow’s New pals eager to forget Bhopal
Man marries underage daughter, convinces wife he is obeying God’s will
As Pakistan heats up, India needs to be prapared - just in case
India votes to keep death penalty
Kerala teacher tries tant-rum therapy to cure student’s bedwetting habits
Nirbudhha Deb government sponsoring rape and murder in West Bengal
US presidential hopefuls ignore India as they speak about Pakistan and Musharraf
Fighting the corruption cancer
Man weds dog in Tamilnadu
Monkeys in India’s capital
India fares poorly on hunger index
Traffic lights and intersections
Maiden exposures for migrant Indian maids
UNO officials secretly speak to northeast terrorists on Indian soil
Praying for happy times ahead
Opening night for a ‘White Nights’ spinoff
ICICI’s third eye
Why the world community should outsource Pakistan’s governance to India
Indians know how to multiply and divide better than anyone else
India’s Gandhian apathy
‘Screwed’ is the word for Pakistan’s plight
Saregamapa little champs are better singers than Indian Idol finalists
Acci-dental glory
Government hospital in Kanpur murders new mothers
Should army and police recruit HIV-positives?
How God saved The Tamilnadu Congress party king
Why I’m happier than Mukesh Ambani
Gap kids clothes - made in India by underage kids
Can Shahrukh Khan smoke in public?
Red dust rising in India
The Unhindu Hindus
The poor man’s space race begins
Remembering Turing and invariably, Ramanujan
Yes, Home Minister!
What’s going on with Harry Potter creator J. K. Rowling?
Tamilnadu snubs constitution’s secular promise, begins religion-based quotas
Capital monkeys kill Delhi’s deputy mayor
Bobby Jindal’s time has come
Finally, Mona Suri rests in peace
Ghaziabad’s bad apples
Kashmir militants give up landmines
Benazir Bhutto returns to homeland amidst bombs and bodies
The toilet zone
India’s first political party of, by and for women
Upset about her performance, a Tamil director slaps his actress
The next Oscaracharya
Hyderabad clues
Saregamapa finale is an uninspiring anticlimax
Sri Chinmoyanand (1931-2007)
Rajendra Pachauri’s UN panel shares Nobel peace prize with Al Gore
Another body on the railway tracks, another corrupt state
Harry Potter sues Durga devotees
Indian chef tastes slavery in Australia
Haryana doctor couple in trouble for brotherly blood transfusion to increase son’s IQ
West Bengal government stalling the Rizwanur Rahman murder case
Jammu Kashmir court lashes out at CBI’s impotence
Bharat, Pakistan and Hindustan, Indiana
Outstanding, mindblowing, fantastic
What every Indian woman nose
Turn the TV volume up, will you? I can’t bear those farmers’ cries
Blind love
A question of preferred access
A sickening trend
British actor discovers his Indian ancestry
Unsafe travel for women
Crimes and demeanor
Stupid Mumbai merchant comes up with Nazi collection
Real gems from India’s parliament - 7
India’s V. Anand is new undisputed world chess champion
Gorkhas have more serious issues to be indignant about
Fifty-two upon two is twenty-seven? Did math error get OBCs an extra percent quota?
Why did Kolkata police murder Rizwanur Rahman?
Doing Business in India gets a shade better
Real gems from India’s parliament - 6
Two Thumbs down for Eklavya - India’s Oscar bet
Poaching the poachers
Top 10 conclusions from India’s 20/20 world cup victory
India-Pakistan cricket finals : The day of the bookies
My Indian Idol prediction - Prashant Tamang
The dowry gazette - September 23
Journalists are not above the law..but what about the judges?
Punjab state government stealing people’s kidneys
Salman Khan’s Ganesh-worship is rewarded with a fatwa
The dark side of ICICI’s personal banking
Tamilnadu’s Stupidity-nidhi says Hindu god didn’t have engineering degree
Who is Musharraf kidding?
India’s economy has a long way to go, says Milken
The art of living and Mother Teresa
India’s arctic venture
Who says India is biased against its muslims?
15-minute Idols
India’s most polluted places
Will India’s new Space institute take up the $20 million Google challenge?
Pak agencies plant death story of India’s wanted terrorist
Anti-semitism? Never heard of it in India
Archeological Society of India saying Hindu God didn’t exist
India’s mediot box
Supreme court finally allows stripping of the Blue Lady
IT people making the baloney argument of a declining west
High court judge rules Gita should be followed by all citizens
Mumbaikars ignore naked unconscious young woman on train
Sharif returns, is arrested, held and deported, all in 4 hours
India’s nucelar submarine to hit waters next year
Sharif en route to Pakistan, blames Musharraf for Kargil
Coca cola to bring bonaqua to India
A flat footed nation
Bin Laden inching closer to irrelevance
Rajasthan truck mishap is one of India’s worst road accidents
Indian Idol - last 3
Top 10 reasons why Jimmy Carter is upset about Indo-US nuclear deal
Student elections - criminalisation and politicisation - 1
Indian Sinbad recovering in a China town
Indian mythology was well aware of human-animal forms
Handful tribesmen capture 300 of Pak’s elite army
Intel snubs India citing governmental apathy
Ten reasons 12-year olds are driving fast in New Delhi
The dowry gazette - September 5, 2007
Starship Saptarshi - India to resurrect night sky’s seven sages
Giving up on Amitabh Bachchan
Stop blaming Adnan Patrawala for his own death
Bajaj Auto’s patent misstep
Russian hackers play with Bank of India site
Mumbai hotel throws a guest out for showing Pakistani passport
Musharraf to take his clothes off for Benazir
Is BJP losing it?
Adnan Patrawala didn’t die in vain
Chennai GPS-enables mail trucks
Sholay prequels, sequels, animations and remakes
The bovine identity
Near Taj, night of forgiveness turns into a night to forget
Prime suspect
Undressing society princesses
Men in khaki and men in white
Help wanted - a coach for Indian cricket team
The babying of Salman Khan
The knife and times of Amarendra Nath Ghosh
Patrawala family - a profile in courage and fortitude
Why Tasnim Aslam has zero credibility
Army daughter dies of hunger in the capital
Shaking hands
Citizen Chang
Chidambaram’s historical revisionism
Bomb blasts rock Hyderabad, dozens dead
New Hindu temple wins neighborhood hearts in Atlanta
Who’s next? Aamir?
Citizen-friendly FIR registration is coming our way
Islamists take over Sikh temple of worship in Lahore
Salman’s turn
Mayawati, the legal innovator
School shut down for not celebrating Independence day
Gajendra’s wooden khatola
What killed Adnan Patrawala?
10 ways to improve today’s India with Sanjay Dutt’s jail auction
UFOs may be ‘idlis’ but time travels only in ‘medu-wadas’
Adnan Patrawala’s last messages
Patriot games
Adnan Patrawala, coool dude from Orkut
Ten reasons India’s left is opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal
Rajiv Gandhi Awards - more of a mockery, less of a tribute
What about Laibar Singh
Nana’s millions
Saregamapa, India and Pakistan
Goodbye democracy, welcome castocracy
Opposition trying black magic on the PM?
What’s next? Item dance and escort service on Indian railways?
Real gems from India’s parliament - 5
Aspiring cricket heroes, expiring sports zeroes
10 Bond girls for India
India walks diplomatic tightrope as it welcomes Japanese PM
India’s gold rush
Top 10 reasons Indians want to be reborn as Indians
India’s top 3 peacetime heroes
India’s tryst with density
Ten reasons why India is doing better than Pakistan 60 years after independence
Parents in drowning tragedy urge court to mandate swimming in schools
10 reasons why India wants to draw this cricket match against England
Would you qualify for ULFA membership?
A hundred dollars for restraint
Bachchan’s blemish
Indian doctors in UK cry foul
Uttar Pardesh sets a novel precedent with private sector quotas
The real criteria for backwardness
Taslima and Fatwa
How Sanjay Dutt got the short end of the Arms Act
Remembering the father of Bollywood
Musharraf contemplates emergency
There is absolutely no credence, no truth to the report!
Raw deal, says India’s former spymaster
The mystery behind Dawood’s detention
Dawood Ibrahim caught!
Shahrukh’s stick shtick
Drawing and painting what you like about India
Enter Walmart
Indian muslims won’t take the Al-Qaeda bait
Tenants who wanted to be millionaires
Indians help invent a breakthrough cervical cancer detection method
What about freedom of speech?
The dowry gazette - August 4, 2007
Time magazine says it’s indiatime!
Sanjay U Watch
A league of his own
Visibility issues with India’s aviation dreams
India’s science institutes on life support
Sanjay Dutt sentence is a totally missed opportunity
From yawn to dust
The mango misstep
If Arjun Singh can distance himself, why can’t I?
Top 10 careers for the newly free Dr. Mohammed Haneef
The Adman family values
Broadcast ministry removes underwear ads
Indian Swami back to showering the nectar of love
Never give your SIMcard to your cousin
Tata welcomes Jaguar and Land Rover
Buddhadeb goes bananas
A new talk show with hosts Kalam and Bedi
India gets first woman teacher performing surgery
If it looks like vendetta, sounds like vendetta, and tastes like vendetta, then it is vendetta!
Four varnas and a superpower
A quintessence of secularism
Uttaranchal reports an earthquake, but the big one is yet to come
India starts a Clinical trials registry
OK. India has a woman president. Now what?
Smoke and mirrors
Low AIIMS are crimes
A supreme lapse
Ram Gopal Verma ki stupidity
The wheels of fate turn for Shilpa, Pratibha and Monica
I am willing to trust Renuka Chowdhury with my vote for presidency
India to have zero unemployment by 2010
Top singer Sonu Nigam blasts famed journalist
6 Indian companies make Fortune’s global-500 list
Top 10 tips to survive non-stop flights from Mumbai to USA
The left and the hypocrisy : synonymous is the word
Indian Idol - a glorified bathroom singing contest with wrong premise and little promise
Not a myth, hardly a reality, definitely a hope….
Sex, lies and CD at the Delhi Jal Board (DJB)
You have a right to know why you are screwed
Indian doctor’s killer gets 17 and a half years
Hospital rapes are almost becoming an everyday thing
An IAS officer’s nightmare of lustful, lascivious stares comes true
Mussy’s ninety-nine lives
The original Devdas wasn’t the Saigal version, stupid!
Seeking the truth on India’s HIV figures
Housewife’s naked protest a damning indictment of khakis and khadis
A rebel for India’s president
‘Riversal’ of fortunes
Top 10 reasons Indians wait to lose virginity
Third Indian in the UK terror plot now identified as the bombmaker
Predator memories
Blackmailing the billionaire
The pirates of the arabian
Two Indian doctors arrested for UK terror plot
A Indian housewife fights corruption
George, of the political jungle
We, the arrogant sons of bitches!
The dowry gazette - July 1, 2007
Head to head comparison - Saregamapa and Indian Idol
Wanted: a brand ambassador for condoms
Burping faster than the speed of sound
The hypocrisy of India’s communist parties
Injecting accountability in India’s healthcare
It’s this nation, not the Lord, who needs a cold shower
Crouching tigers and hidden crocodiles
Reshammiya’s veil is lifted!
The Purification of the Temple
Top 10 ways India can show some gratitude to celebrities
A busy week for the Pandya family
Karachi battles nature’s fury
India to build 30 world-class universities in 3 months
Mumbai, New Orleans, and accountability
History, as was where was
Death toll rising in Andhra floods
A billing blooper nails the East India Company
The woman who would be president
Hypocritical care and hippocratic hogwash
Come clean Tata memorial people…
Suswagatam, Sunita!
Islam’s real blasphemers
Passport to the republic of pleasure
Walmart’s trojan horse
The rewards of squalor
Trainspotting in Bihar
Too Soon to Love?
The dowry gazette - June 18, 2007
The land of the drunken masters
Village women shave their heads to protest governmental land grabs
Arjun Singh’s decrepit doctrine
Kalpana, Suneeta, Pratibha
Cementing our frustrations
Divergent destinies for two 73-year olds from Rajasthan
Dr. Ashis Roy - India’s marathon man
I, too, am available to be India’s next president
Rajni - the nightking is back!
The unbearable lightness of being Indian
A million temples for Rama
Denmark halts Indian adoptions
New coach-select Ford rejects offer, BCCI’s coach hunting circus continues
Recolorizing old black and white classics - why?
Individuals, not policies
Who’s afraid of e-bombs
Overheard at the G8
Top 10 ideas to raise a singing idol in the family
Less than hero
And my vote for a modern day wonder goes to…..India!
Al Qaeda threatens India
India extradites two high-profile sex-offenders
India’s child-sex-slavery problem
Idol Chatter - June 7, 2007
Top 10 reasons why India should elect Pervez Musharraf as its next president
The dowry gazette - June 7, 2007
Top 10 reasons why BCCI outsources the coaching job
Old bollywood star has a farm..e..i..e..i..o
The great reservation paradox

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