“Don’t drink and fly!”
That is what the Indian authorities are telling their pilots. But still, pilots in India often fail alcohol tests.
A flight from India’s capital, Delhi, to the eastern city of Patna was canceled Saturday after a routine medical test on crew members revealed the pilot had consumed alcohol.
According to Indian civil aviation authorities […]

Vimla Atwal, 35, and 29 other female toilet cleaners are going to take part in a fashion show in New York. Thanks to a rehabilitation program run by a local firm, Sulabh International, these ladies are participating in a series of events by the United Nations to mark the International Year of Sanitation.
During their […]

The Delhi High Court, India, recently upheld the policy of Indian Airlines to ground overweight air hostesses. A bench headed by Justice AK Sikri dismissed the petition filed by some Indian Airlines air hostesses, who were grounded due to putting on weight excessive to the limit fixed by the airlines.
The court had on May 5 […]

What do you do when you realize that you have been divorced for the last ten years without your knowledge and that too being happily married all the time? Well, that was what happened to a couple in India who realized that the government record show they have been divorced for a decade.
Meena Verma, […]

Maths has always been the toughest subject to me. Thanks god, my wife didn’t care about it!
But a bride in Bhore of Gopalganj district, India thinks her groom should be a maths wiz.
The bride rejected her groom as he failed to solve a simple mathematical puzzle of four and three during a marriage […]

A hindu organization in Tamil Nadu, India seem to be forming a ”moral brigade” for film actresses these days. Hindu Makkal Katchi (HMK) wants to enter actresses’ wardrobes to choose which dress is decent and which is not. The group has filed a complaints against bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat over the issue of improper attire […]

The Chandrapur zilla parishad’s school education department issued an order on January 1, 2008, regarding promotion and appointment of an official as block education officer (BEO) in Nagbhid panchayat samiti.
The incident proved the lapse in administrative functioning in India as the former education extension officer Natthu Dashrath Gaikwad had already passed away about six months […]

India’s Tata Motors on Thursday unveiled its much anticipated $2,500 car, an ultra-cheap price tag that brings car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people. But critics worry the car could overwhelm the country’s roads and create an environmental nightmare.
Company Chairman Ratan Tata, introducing the Nano during India’s main auto show, drove […]

“Pay Rs 500 to take a look at your newborn baby girl and pay double if it’s a boy.”
That is what you will be told at BBMP’s maternity hospital in Austin Town.
Such threats and complaints of money being demanded to receive medical services were registered by residents of Koramangala, Ejipura and Neelasandra wards at a […]

The India’s Supreme Court allowed (wants?) women to serve drinks in bars saying it is unconstitutional to ban such a thing.
It was a decision to uphold a lower court’s decision that an earlier ban was unconstitutional. City authorities had wanted the ban reinstated, arguing that women needed to be protected from the bad behavior of […]