Current Affairs India

Here are some news about the current affairs in India: First there is news about riots in India’s Punjab State. Read More. Then we hear about cyclone Aila hitting India and Bangladesh killing at least 73 and destroying thousands of homes. Read More. Finally, there is some speculations that India might be the next country to start censoring the Internet. Read...

Dead Man Elected In Ultimate Political Comeback

Mayor Harry Stonebraker has been re-elected to a fourth term in the small town of Winfield in Missouri, about a month after his death, with 90% of the votes. Similarly in Missouri's 2000 U.S. Senate race, Democrat candidate Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash a few weeks before the election, but still defeated Republican John Ashcroft. Read more: Dead Man Elected In Ultimate Political...

How to Defend Earth Against an Asteroid Strike

This sounds like something from a science fiction movie, but it is a real threat to the whole planet. It can happen any time. A medium sized asteroid of a few kilometers in  diameter crashing into the Earth can completely destroy our civilization and exterminate the whole human race, just like it happened to the dinosaurs. But fortunately there are some ways to prevent all this. The human race is at the point that it can prevent it's own extinction. There are numerous ways of deflecting...

The Most Corrupt Countries

During the year 2008 corruption has increased in a lot of countries. The most corrupt countries (Chad and Kyrgyzstan) happen to be poor countries, but that doesn't mean that the rich countries aren't corrupt. Even Canada and Japan happen to be below the G7 standards on that matter. Read more: The Most Corrupt...

Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools

Children in the UK will now learn much less of the traditional school subjects such as history, geography and science. What will they learn instead? Twitter and blogs! Doesn't that sound ridiculous to you? Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary...

Quarter of state databases “should be scrapped”

A quarter of government databases in the United Kingdom are said to be fundamentally flawed and probably illegal: Quarter of state databases "should be...