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It seems that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) scheme has found a major rival. Academics from the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) and the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) have started work to create a $10 laptop for poor kids. If it is successful then it will be a major blow to the [...]

Laxmi Das from Calcutta is one wise lady. She has been begging in the streets for 44 years and managed to save her self a nice retirement fund. And what a fund, 4 buckets of coins to be precise. The 60 year old beggar decided, after been advised by police, to deposit the money in [...]

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In a previous article we reported babies in India being thrown from 50 feet. Babies go through an equally scary test in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain, where grownups dressed as devils jump over them. This happens annually since 1620 during the Corpus Christi festival. This “jump” takes place to scare the devil away from [...]

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Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid from Gurgaon, Haryana (Pune, India), was arrested today for creating an Orkut community named ?I hate Sonia Gandhi? and posting derogatory content about Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi

He was arrested not for hating Sonia Gandhi, as this falls under the category of personal opinion which is not an [...]

I am not sure if i should call this huge $2bn building a house, but this is what it’s owner, Mukesh Ambani India’s richest man and the 5th richest person in the world wants to call it.

This 22 story 550ft tall building in the heart of Mumbai will soon be the residence of Ambani, his [...]

The video above is really out of this world. It seems there is a 500 year old ritual in Western India where people throw infants from a 50 feet high tower down to a bed sheet that people hold.

According to them this is for the baby’s good as it is supposed to make them healthy [...]