Christopher Nolan teams up with ace sleeper Deve Gowda to make Inception sequel
Hotshot director Christopher Nolan has announced the much-awaited sequel to his blockbuster, Inception, starring none other than Indian politician Deve Gowda. The sequel ventures into unchartered...
View ArticleAirforce called in to rescue lakhs of stranded commuters after drizzle during...
The air-force has been called in to airlift lakhs of stranded commuters after a gentle drizzle during evening rush hour over many parts of New Delhi brought traffic to a standstill. As soon as the...
View ArticleRiots across Pakistan after rumors that new Pakistan President Mamnoon...
Pakistani citizens cutting across class, ethnic, sectarian and ideological divisions have taken to the streets in protest after rumours of the new Pakistani President, Mamnoon Hussain, being a...
View ArticleFacebook Wall: Repercussions of carving out Telangana from Andhra Pradesh
The announcement of statehood for Telangana has raised more questions than answers. How did Sonia get the AP Congress unit and AP CM Kiran Reddy to toe the line? How will assets be shared between the...
View ArticleIn Pictures: How Rajya Sabha seats are auctioned and sold to the highest bidder
Recently, senior Congress leader Chaudhary Birender Singh raised a storm by claiming that people are ready to shell out Rs.100 crore to get a Rajya Sabha seat. What is the reality? Our political...
View ArticleICC to introduce DRS for DRS to minimize third umpire howlers
After Dharmasena, the Third Umpire for the ongoing 3rd Ashes Test, failed to see the yawning two and half mile gap between bat and ball even in super-slow mo while reviewing Khawaja’s erroneous...
View ArticleFacebook Wall: Politicians lock horns over IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal’s...
IAS officer Durga Nagpal’s suspension and subsequent charge-sheeting has triggered a political maelstrom with even the likes of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh breaking his silence and commenting on the...
View ArticleWhen MS took it to the last ball…
The team was in dire straits: the economy rate was in the doldrums and the asking rate was mounting. However, the skipper was nonchalant as ever as he proceeded to take fresh guard. Chants of “MS, hai...
View ArticleRahul Gandhi’s terrible vow
Rahul Gandhi clutched the edges of the podium, rearranging the sinewy threads on his striated forearms. He took a deep breath and stared into the eyes of the assembled listeners.“Because poverty is...
View ArticleWhen the Army top brass sought permission from the Chief to escalate matters…
There was hectic activity in Army HQ, unusual for a late Tuesday afternoon. The Chief’s staff officer sprinted down the corridor lined with portraits of former generals and rushed into the Chief’s...
View ArticleRajan arrests Bappi Lahiri minutes after taking over as RBI head to tame gold...
Within minutes of taking over as the RBI governor, Raghuram Rajan ordered the arrest of Bappi Lahiri to tame India’s unhealthy demand for the gold and thereby stabilize the rupee. Domestic demand for...
View ArticleIrked by Chennai Express, Kollywood hits back; announces ‘Rajdhani Express’...
“Dumara naam gya hai???”The simmering anger among Tamilians first kindled by Shah Rukh Khan last year when the mega star nonchalantly mixed curd with noodles in Ra.One, boiled over in spectacular...
View ArticleFacebook Wall: National and international repercussions of Narendra Modi’s...
Narendra Modi, true to form, once again created a stir with his public address in Hyderabad, which began tentatively with the Gujarat CM speaking in halting Telugu (or was it Telangana?) before...
View ArticleIndia strikes back: 10,000 pirated DVDs of Chennai Express smuggled into...
India has struck back hard at repeated Pakistani transgressions and provocations by smuggling over ten thousand pirated DVDs of SRK starrer Chennai Express into Lahore, and Karachi via Dubai. Another...
View ArticleDr. Raghuram Rajan raises interest rates by 2000 basis points to bring down...
With onion prices zooming into the stratosphere, RBI governor Dr Raghuram Rajan has taken swift and decisive action by raising interest rates by over 2000 basis points. “Normally I wouldn’t have raised...
View ArticleRavi Shastri takes us down memory lane with commentary on India’s freedom...
On the occasion of India’s 67th Independence Day, The UnReal Times commissioned ace commentator, Ravi Shastri, to travel back in time using proprietary time-travel technology licensed from CNN-IBN to...
View ArticleIn Pictures: When Dr Manmohan Singh took up Narendra Modi’s challenge on a...
With Gujarat CM Narendra Modi throwing down the gauntlet at Dr. Manmohan Singh by challenging him to a public debate on governance, the UPA leadership went scurrying for cover. How did Dr. Singh...
View ArticleWhen Dr. Manmohan Singh asked Sonia Gandhi for a favour on the eve of...
The sun had gone down but 10, Janpath resembled a bee-hive on a late evening on the 13th of August, with courtiers scurrying around like drones through the corridor. A Union Cabinet Minister, a...
View ArticleMcKinsey hires itself to advise itself to stay afloat in tough business...
In a move that has triggered tremors in the world of business, premier management consulting firm McKinsey has hired itself to advise itself on staying afloat and gaining traction in a sluggish market...
View ArticleGoogle requests UPA to not launch yet another Rajiv Gandhi scheme citing...
Google Inc has requested the UPA to refrain from launching yet another scheme named after Shri Rajiv Gandhi. The request comes in the wake of mounting speculation that the Food Security Bill may be...
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