Tenali Rama Reports
Archive for October 2011
“What’s my number?”
Lucknow : Actor Ranbir Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt have welcomed the arrival of the 7 billionth baby in the world. The baby girl was born at a hospital near Lucknow at 720 am today and has been named Nargis. While Sanjay Dutt thanked the parents for naming the child after his mother, Ranbir called her … Continue reading
Metallica, F1 and Mayawati raise a lot of heat and dust
New Delhi : Mayawati is wiser after the Metallica fiasco in Gurgaon. The Uttar Pradesh chief minister has put a spoke in the wheels of Formula 1 over the weekend in Greater Noida, asking the traffic cops to issue a challan to anyone who drives faster than 60 km/hour. Unwilling to budge even when told … Continue reading
Watching `Ra.One’ to be made compulsory for school students
Mumbai : Shahrukh Khan has written to Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal suggesting that `Ra.One’ be made compulsory viewing for all school and college students in the country. In an email to Mr Sibal, SRK has said no Indian should miss out on watching this sci-fi film, that is also India’s most expensive movie till … Continue reading
Team Anna faces the heat
New Delhi : A little-known organization called `India Against India Against Corruption’ has accused Arvind Kejriwal of blatant corruption and has questioned his credentials in leading a movement against politicians. At a press conference organized to spill the beans on Kejriwal, IAIAC claimed that the Magsaysay award winner on two occasions did not buy the … Continue reading
YSR or Mayawati : Who will be statue no. 1?
New Delhi : Sometime in the future : The Guinness Book of World Records is confused. And fed up. They have revised their latest edition eight times already, thanks to the entry `The maximum number of statues in the world’. The record has to be revised, with Mayawati and late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy competing … Continue reading
Pakistan objects to US reference to its snakes
Islamabad : Pakistan has strongly objected to aspersions cast on its snakes by Hillary Clinton. The US Secretary of State in a reference to Pakistan encouraging the terrorist Haqqani network said “you can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them to bite only your neighbours. Eventually the snakes are going to turn on those … Continue reading
Revealed : The real differences within Team Anna
New Delhi : Sharp differences have come to the fore in Team Anna, with two members quitting on Tuesday and more members threatening to bid goodbye if Anna Hazare did not rein in some of the star members of the team. But contrary to popular belief, it is not about Prashant Bhushan’s views on Kashmir … Continue reading
Lucknow on high alert, PC admits intel failure
Lucknow / New Delhi : Lucknow has been put on high alert after a man, Jitendra Pathak, attacked Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal with a slipper. Soon after the incident, random frisking was ordered on the streets of Lucknow. Slippers and shoes of anyone found moving around suspiciously were confiscated by the city police, acting … Continue reading
Will Gandhi meet Gandhi-an?
New Delhi : Even as a team from Ralegan Siddhi waits for an audience with Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party’s PM-in-waiting has despatched a secret team to Anna Hazare’s village. The mission : to test out the cuisine in the village and report back to Rahul. Sources in Rahul Gandhi’s office say the young politician … Continue reading
Bangalore Jail, hospital go offline
Bangalore : All laptops and desktops were hurriedly removed from the Bangalore Central prison on the outskirts of the city, before B S Yeddyurappa was admitted as undertrial number 10462 on Saturday evening. Jail officials did not want to take any chances after the treatment Yeddy is said to have meted out to Venkaiah Naidu’s … Continue reading
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