http://www.indiatime.com Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:23:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been posting a new article every day for last 3 years or so. Time has to come to try a new format and this week onwards, I will be posting between 2 to 3 articles per week. There's a flip side to a lesser number of weekly posts. The ... http://www.indiatime.com/2009/09/06/new-format-starting-this-week/ Famous Indian personalities that have died in air crashes: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose - freedom fighter, (1945) - airplane crash over Taiwan Homi J. Bhabha - nuclear scientist, (1966) - airplane crash on Mount Blanc, France S. Mohan Kumaramangalam - politician, (1972) - airplane crash near Delhi Sanjay Gandhi - politician, (1980) - helicopter ... http://www.indiatime.com/2009/09/03/famous-indians-who-died-in-air-crashes/ "...Lord! It's a miracle! Man up and vanished like a fart in the wind! It's a conspiracy! That's what this is! It's one big damn conspiracy! And everyone's in on it! Including her!..." - Samuel Norton (warden) - The Shawshank Redemption (by Stephen King) The chief executive officer of one of ... http://www.indiatime.com/2009/09/03/mystery-of-the-missing-chief-minister/ Y S Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR), the chief minister (CM) of Andhra Pradesh and his helicopter, both went missing for several hours earlier today, giving heart attacks to the state police, and spurring speculationss about his whereabouts. Recent updates are confirming however, that the helicopter has landed safely in the Kurnool ... http://www.indiatime.com/2009/09/02/andhra-chief-ministers-chopper-goes-missing/ It was more 2 years ago that, Anand Jon, famous NY-based Indian fashion designer, went from page 3 to page 1, when the state of California charged and arrested him of sexually molesting more than dozen a young girls, between the ages 14 to 21. He was convicted of those ... http://www.indiatime.com/2009/09/01/indian-designer-anand-jon-gets-a-lifer/ Times is reporting about a global hygiene survey that shows only 44% Indians have clean hands. I wonder why we need a survey to tell us that the majority of Indians have dirty hands. If you add up all the politicians, top/mid/low level bureaucrats, law enforcement, judiciary, etc, that would ... http://www.indiatime.com/2009/08/31/dirty-hands-deep-ditches/ A week ago, Urvashi Dhanorkar, a TV actress in Mumbai was arrested (and later released on bail) for branding Rameshwari Jadhav, their family's 10-year maid with hot kitchen utensils and punching the little girl on the eyes. The 10-year old's 'crime' was that she had opened the refrigerator and eaten ... http://www.indiatime.com/2009/08/30/little-kids-next-door/ A storm is brewing inside India's opposition party, and the rumors and talks about political alliances is ripe once again. They say politics makes strange bedfellows, but whoever 'they' are, 'they' had little idea how promiscuous Indian politics typically is. But then again, just as art imitates life, so does ... http://www.indiatime.com/2009/08/29/politics-promiscuity-and-polygamy/ There's a feud going on amongst those who coordinated and participated in the 1998 Pokhran nuclear explosions. The principal scientists and the politicians involved have been maintaining that India's claims about the May 1998 nuclear tests are not to be doubted. K. Santhanam, the test site director and one of ... http://www.indiatime.com/2009/08/28/did-buddha-smile-or-did-he-just-smirk/ India's Youth Affairs and Sports ministry has now officially ruled that Formula 1 racing or F1 is not sports. The ministry's ruling came in response to a private promoter's request for about $36 million remittance for a license fee payment to the Formula 1 admin body. "...The proposed F1 race ... http://www.indiatime.com/2009/08/27/sports-ministry-toys-with-the-meaning-of-sports/