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Minor raped video uploaded on social media

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Rajasthan's Alwar town and the video of the crime then uploaded on a social networking website, police said Tuesday. According to police, the victim's father registered a first information report (FIR) Tuesday with a police station at Alwar, some 150 km from Jaipur. "The man says that a youth befriended his daughter on Facebook. He raped her a few ...
Michelle Obamas bangs at G8 Summit slammed on Twitter

Michelle Obama, who headed to Belfast for this year's G8 summit, is facing backlash on Twitter for her fringes. Onlookers apparently were more concerned with the ill-received styling of her bangs than her speech, the Huffington Post reported. The first lady seems to be growing out her blunt trim and transitioning it to a side-swept style. ...
Nawaz Sharifs million dollar watch rumours go viral on Twitter

Twitter reports of a PPP leader wearing a 'million dollar watch', have been confirmed that it was none other than Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who reportedly wore a 'Meteoris' watch during the national budget presentation. The price of the Louis Moinet 'Meteoris' watch has been estimated to be a whopping 4.6 million dollars. According to the Dawn, calling the budget to be anti-people ...
Facebooks mysterious big idea Thursday event has netizens buzzing

Social media giant Facebook has created a mysterious event for Thursday, which is speculated to be the one where, the company would add video feature to its Instagram smartphone picture sharing service. Facebook acquired Instagram last year, but made it impossible for the users to integrate their images into tweets, following which Twitter launched Instagram-style smartphone photo sharing ...
Oceanside Chamber gets spotlight for being ‘Social Media Friendly’

OCEANSIDE -; David Nydegger, president and C.E.O. of the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce, recently announced that the Oceanside Chamber has been recognized as one of ...

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The Wolfman

There is something primal in the enduring appeal of the Universal stable of Gothic-inspired monsters--Dracula, Frankenteins monster, the Invisible Man, the Mummy, and the Wolf Man--which were introduced to movie audiences in the 1930s and helped to cement horror, which up until then had been ... ...

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Taylor Swift Twitter Parody Puts Feminist Spin on Lyrics

FeministTaylorSwift appeared on Twitter, but it's already racked up more 85,000 followers with its stream of endlessly clever feminist tweaks on the country-pop superstar's lyrics. The account even garnered an all caps shout out ...
Amazon Makes Your Boring Facebook Birthday Posts Worth Something

Facebook birthday greetings are the lowest level of well wishing. Or maybe they used to be. Now you can boost this laziest salutation with something that’s not just tangible, but actually pretty solid: an Amazon gift card. Amazon is hoping to capitalize on your inability to go to the store, buy a card, scribble your name in said card and drop it in a mailbox with a new, aptly ...
Google Bing Both Win More Search Market Share

release of comScore search engine rankings for the U.S. for May 2013. Google and Bing are both up, while the other top search engines comScore tracks (Yahoo, Ask, AOL) were flat or saw declines. Not surprisingly, Google led the way for search share in May, and grew its search market share to 66.7 percent, up from 66.5 percent ...
The Times of London has built “The retweeter” to get its journalists to push its stories in social media

posted a piece this morning on one way The Times of London tried, without much success, to get its (hard-paywalled) content noticed by the non-subscribing world. The paper’s Ben ...
GE moves into Industrial Internet service with Amazon

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday to make a wide range of data on products, including jet engines and gas turbines, available online so they can be analyzed. GE ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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PM conveys dismay over Sri Lanka move on 13th Amendment

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday told a delegation of Sri Lanka Tamil MPs that he was "dismayed" by reports suggesting that Colombo planned to dilute certain key provisions of the 13th Amendment on devolution of powers to provinces ahead of polls to the Northern Provincial Council.

The prime minister noted that the proposed changes "raised doubts about the commitments made by the Sri Lankan government to India and the international community, including the United Nations, on a political settlement in Sri Lanka that would go beyond the 13th Amendment," ministry of external affairs spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said in answer to a query.

"The changes would also be incompatible with the recommendation of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), set up by the Government of Sri Lanka, calling for a political settlement based on the devolution of power to the provinces," the prime minister said, according to Akbaruddin.

"The prime minister stated that he was deeply concerned about the welfare and well-being of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka.

"He stressed on the expectation that the Sri Lankan Tamil community would lead a life of dignity, as equal citizens, and reiterated that India would make every effort to ensure the achievement of a future for the community marked by equality, justice and self-respect," the spokesperson said. ...