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A TWEET AND SOUR LOOK AT NEWS HEADLINES
04.03.2010
A temple dedicated to Mayawati? Move over Kuber. There’s a new Goddess of Wealth. With a handbag as a weapon.
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03.30.2010
No public urinals around H’bad Secretariat for security reasons. Thus ensuring that it’s surrounded by pissful people.
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03.29.2010
TV sets & cleaning solvents wiped out in Army Canteen fire. In other words, they are completely out of soaps.
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03.05.2010
Two-and-a-half-year-old boy booked for power theft. Good idea. This way the case can be completed within his lifetime.
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02.25.2010
Multi-storey graveyard crops up in Bihar. Which means one will have to literally lift one’s spirits eh?
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02.19.2010
Married women allowed to join nursing courses. Why on earth weren’t they allowed to, so far? Some kind of Thaali-ban?
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02.18.2010
TN bans shoes, belts, socks in exam hall. Their policy – forget the cheat, go after his accessories.
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02.13.2010
To locate husband, cops ask woman to pay for petrol. Now we know how to express our gratitude to the police – Tankfully.
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02.11.2010
And in K’taka – Bill proposes 7-year jail term for cow slaughter. Damn. Now all steaks will be rare.
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02.05.2010
Rat delays AI flight by over 4 hours. Someone should tell Pachauri that the real problem is Global Vermin.
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02.05.2010
Wow. TN to have a Valentine Krishna temple. Will the priest be called a Prem Pujari?
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01.16.2010
A plot on the moon as b’day gift for Mayawati. She must have asked for Chanda, I guess.
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01.13.2010
Police parade cross-dressers to identify bag thief. They must have been caught in the police drag-net.
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01.13.2010
Dumb thief gets caught because he settles down & makes phone calls. Guess, all the smarter ones are busy in politics.
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01.05.2010
Stray cow attacks a man and flings him in the air. Oh well, gais will be gais.
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