e-way firm to pay 10,000 rupees to a man(india)

The company running the delhi-gurgaon expressway toll plaza has been ordered by a consumer forum here to pay 10,000 rupees as compensation to a commuter for damage to his car after the toll gate barrier accidentally fell on it.
                                              The mishap had occurred at delhi-gurgaon super connectivity Ltd-run toll plaza,which has been asked to pay the sum to east delhi residence Abhinav by new delhi district consumer disputes residental forum.
                                      Rejecting the toll plaza contention that the costumer that the commuter hit the barrier,the bench presided by CK chaturvedi said he could not have hit the barrier if it was blocking the path. 

Who let the hot dogs out(a shocking competition)

              For those who dismiss competitive eating of western stuff, the hot dog competition recently organized in Delhi,India was quite a eye opener. As about 40 participates took part in this shocking rather strange competition, competitors stuffed their faces with hot dogs doused with mustard and ketchup,washing them with water or coca cola,judges and food show hosts rocky and mayur kept cheering and jeering. The world record of eating most number of hot dogs in 10 mins lies with a Japanese man who had 69 hot dogs in 10 mins.shocking?

There were not many rules in this competition,except one important one- no food fighting. Finally winners were announced. Arjun vajpai,Abhijeet and shinjan who all had 8 hotdogs each were given consulation prizes.

Shocking Rules for International Adoptions

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Adoptive parents must provide a signed
Acceptance Statement about the adoption from the Mayor of their city
or town.

CHINA: China has a number of stipulations in place around adopting
children by foreigners including that couples consist of one man and a
woman and that neither parent is blind in one eye, has a severe facial
deformation, has had a major organ transplant within 10 years,
has AIDS or a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or more.

CONGO: If you are single, widowed or divorced, you can’t adopt a child of the opposite sex unless you have the court’s say so.

INDONESIA: Prospective adopters must believe in God and the child
waiting to be adopted must be of the same religion as the parents.
If it’s not known what religion the parents are, the child will be
deemed Muslim.

IRAN: Potential adoptive parents must be Muslim, be married for at
least five years and have no children already.

RUSSIA: Russia has laid out some medical stipulations for those
wanting to adopt including that adoptive parents must not have any
dysfunction of their limbs or a disability that prevents them from
working.

SRI LANKA: Like South Korea, single people cannot adopt from Sri
Lanka, nor can gay or lesbian people.

The Eyeball Tattoo

The eyeball tattoo tends to attract the attention of a large amount audience. It seems like the people are really liking this trend a lot of people are getting their eyeball tattooed. Here are some pictures of the people getting it done:-

Facts about Steve jobs

                          

1. He tried LSD: He reportedly said it was "One of the two or three most important things I have done in my life."

2. He dated Joan Baez: Jobs dated the folk singer when he was in his 20's.

3. He was a vegetarian: PETA praised Jobs for his vegetarianism and his support of animals.

4. He saved Pixar: Jobs purchased the company from George Lucas' LucasFilm for $5M in 1986. The first film produced by Pixar under Jobs was the critically acclaimed "Toy Story."

5. He was Disney's largest shareholder: He became Disney's largest shareholder when the company bought Pixar in 2006.

6. He was offered an internship with Hewlett-Packard ... in eighth grade: As an eighth-grader, he called William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, to inquire about a part missing from a frequency counter he was assembling, the New York Times reports. Hewlett reportedly spoke to Jobs for 20 minutes, then offered him a bag of parts and a summer internship.

7. He and Steve Wozniak originally sold "blue boxes": The duo reportedly built so-called "blue boxes" that could trick phones into allowing users to make free calls to anywhere in the world. They reportedly raised a total of $6,000.

8. He was homeless: “I didn’t have a dorm room,” he said in a commencement address given at Stanford in 2005, “so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."

9. He patented the glass staircase in the Apple Store: He is listed among the group of inventors for 317 Apple patents.

10. He drove without a license plate for years: Jobs drove his 2007 Mercedes-Benz SL55 for years with no official license plate, just a barcode, according to USA Today.

Osama bin laden: predator or prey?

The most wanted criminal, the most feared name, the founder of Al-Qaeda which is  responsible for the attack September 11 on united states, along with numerous number of attacks on the civilians and military targets. He was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists, he was a major target of war on terror with a US $25 million, but he wasn't a born criminal so what is the story behind him turning a most feared monster.

He was living in peace with his wife and children, his wife got sick and the doctors refereed her to take to the hospital, there was no hospital in Pakistan so he took his wife to USA to get a proper treatment of her illness;as most of you may know that it is a tradition to wear burka(a black cloth which hides the face)  there at the airport a American security guard made fun of him and her wife.That was the time when Osman started to hate the Americans which further turned into a major disaster, millions of people died just because that one security guard. The world suffered a lot, certainly the punishment was more sever than the crime.

Facts about kissing

• "Kiss” is from the Old English cyssan from the proto-Germanic kussijanan or kuss, which is probably based on the sound kissing can make.
• A woman in China partially lost her hearing after her boyfriend reportedly ruptured her eardrum with a passionate kiss. Apparently, the kiss reduced the pressure in the mouth, pulled the eardrum out, and caused the breakdown of the ear.
• The science of kissing is called philematology
• The insulting slang “kiss my ass” dates back at least to 1705.
• Lips are 100 times more sensitive than the tips of the fingers. Not even genitals have as much sensitivity as lips.
• Approximately two-thirds of people tip their head to the right when they kiss. Some scholars speculate this preference starts in the womb.
• On July 5-6, 2005 a couple in London locked lips for 31 hours, 30 minutes, and 30 seconds, making it the longest kiss ever recorded.
• The most important muscle in kissing is the orbicularis oris, also known as the kissing muscle, which allows the lips to “pucker.”
• French kissing involves all 34 muscles in the face. A pucker kiss involves only two.
• The Four Vedic Sanskrit texts (1500 B.C.) contain the first mention of a kiss in writing.

Facts about India

• India ranks 85th Position among 160 countries in corruption according Transparency International Index. In one year it takes a step further and ranks 84 with regard to 2009's statistics

• Total corrupt money is estimated to be 2 Trillion dollars, although this just a guess figure.

• The biggest scam ever in India was the 2G Spectrum scam involving more than 1 and a half trillion dollars. 

• 12 Rupees  is the current poverty line of India. Ask them to show atleast one man who can live with 12 INR a day

• 80 Percent of the population can be considered poor who's life is worse than deplorable, Thanks to the economic term poverty line, Government claims 90% of the population is above poverty lin

• The Value of Indian Rupee is decreasing rapidly. According to current conversion rate 1 USD = 54 INR.

• India stands second in most number of Murders, with over 32,719 murders per Annam.

Shocking facts about animal experiments

1. More than 100 million animals are poisoned, burned, crippled, and abused in other ways in U.S. labs each year.


2. No experiment is illegal, no matter how cruel, irrelevant to human health, redundant, or painful.


3. Ninety five percent of animals used for experiments are excluded from the only federal law offering any sort of protection.


4. Even when valid alternatives to animals are available, the law doesn't require that they be used.


5. Ninety two percent of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they don't work or are dangerous.

Shocking facts

1. The organization Environmental Defense says that U.S. cars and trucks emit 314 metric tons of CO2 every year, and -- in case you were wondering -- that's equivalent to burning as much coal as would fit in a 50,000 mile long freight train.

2.On average there are 27 oil spills every day somewhere in the waters of the worlds, and the Valdez spill doesn't even make the list of the top 30 all-time largest.

3. The American Petroleum Institute (API) tells us that if the government would lift those silly environmental restrictions and allow the petrol industry to drill everywhere, there's enough oil right here in the U.S. to fuel 60 million cars and trucks for 60 years.

4.According to an Associated Press article, American kids between the ages of 12 and 19 now spend about $179 billion annually. That translates into more than $100 per teen per week.

5.According to the U.S. EPA, Americans spend $25 billion a year on lawn care. Residential lawns and gardens are doused with 80 million pounds of chemical pesticides and 70 million tons of fertilizers annually.

 6.According to the Harvard Center of Risk Analysis, more than 2,500 deaths and 330,000+ injuries every year in the U.S. are caused by the use of cell phones (both handheld and hands-free phones) while driving. Yet only six states prohibit the use of cell phones while driving, and that only applies to hand-held phones; no state currently prohibits the use of hands-free phones.

8.According to the Children in Nature website, "Children can identify up to 1,000 corporate logos, but fewer than 10 plants or animals native to their backyards."