The Supreme Court on Friday held that "Doctrine of Pleasure" under which certain authorities hold office till s/he enjoys the confidence of the President or the Governor is not absolute and unrestricted and cannot be at the authority's sweet will, whim and fancy."It is of some relevance to note that the Doctrine of Pleasure in its absolute unrestricted application does not exist in India [ Images ]. The said doctrine is severely curtailed in the case of government employment," a five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said.The court passed the order while curtailing the power of the Central government in removing Governors in the middle of five-year tenure without any valid reason.The Bench held that the court can interfere if such actions have been taken arbitrarily and the government has to explain before it."... at pleasure doctrine enables the removal of a person holding office at the pleasure of an Authority, summarily, without any [...]

A 19 year old ex-cheerleader (now an Air Force Security Forces Sniper) was watching a road that led to a NATO military base when she observed a man digging by the road. She engaged the target (i.e. she shot him). It turned out he was a bomb maker for the Taliban, and he was burying an IED that was to be detonated when a Canadian patrol walked by 30 minutes later. It would have certainly killed and wounded several soldiers. The interesting fact of this story is the shot was measured at 725 yards! (Folks, that's a shot 25 yards longer than seven football fields!). She shot him as he was bent over burying the bomb. The shot went through his butt and into the bomb which detonated; he was blown to pieces. And the last thing that came out of his mouth .. Was his ass! The Air Force made a motivational poster of her: That is Canada. If that had happened in India, the following would be the aftermath. 1. J& K state declares hartal and violent demonstrations follow.2. Civil Right [...]

The death sentence given to Ajmal Amir Kasab may take years to be executed as the lone captured terrorist of Mumbai attacks could be 30th in the list of prisoners who are waiting to be sent to the gallows. Today's order by judge M L Tahaliyani is the first step of a long process which will include appeals before higher courts and most importantly, if he exercises his right, a clemency petition before the President. Justice Tahaliyani will send his judgement to the Bombay High Court for ratification under Section 366 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The orders of a lower court are generally challenged in a higher court by either of the parties but in cases of death sentences, the orders are mandated to be confirmed by the High Court. Once before the Bombay High Court, all the evidence will again be examined by it. The High Court will then decide whether to uphold the decision or to convert it to a less harsher punishment. Even if the High Court upholds the death sentence [...]

Mumbai paralysed but Mamata busy with Kolkata pollsMay 04, 2010 15:23 ISTShe was conspicuous by her absence. Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee was not present in the Lok Sabha when the opposition members forced an adjournment on Tuesday, raising several issues, including the ongoing Mumbai motormen strike.More than 1,000 motormen from Mumbai's central and western railway, which form the backbone of the city's commuters, have been on a hunger strike for the past 30 hours and they refuse to resume their duties unless their demands are met.Three-hundred-and-ninety-seven Western Railway motormen and more than 600 Central Railway motormen have united at the iconic Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in south Mumbai, demanding a pay hike and weekly offs.Anticipating trouble, the Mumbai police had to increase security at CST, and 170 motormen were arrested for creating obstructions.As Mumbai is crippled by the strike and city administration gropes for a solution, angry questions [...]

Local deal sinks, play for Delhi honourOUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTCalcutta, May 2: Mamata Banerjee today said “the alliance had broken up in Bengal”, blaming the Congress for the collapse of the municipal poll tie-up but adding that she would stay in the UPA government as long as “I can do that with honour”.Predictably, she released the list of her party candidates for all 141 wards in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation this afternoon, a day after the Congress announced its nominees for 88 wards. Besides the CMC, 80 other municipal bodies are going to the polls on May 30.“The Congress has broken the alliance here (in Bengal) to help the CPM win the civic polls. We have not…. But we are not going to leave an inch of ground to those who have ruined the state for over 32 years. In order to oust the CPM, we have decided to field candidates for all the 141 wards in Calcutta though we had announced candidates for 115 seats earlier,” she told a media conference at her [...]

The tale of a disgruntled Ministry of External Affairs official turning into a spy for Pakistani intelligence agencies is gradually unravelling with investigators saying Madhuri Gupta allegedly had a “relationship of personal affection” with Jamshed, an aide of her “principal handler”, Mubashar Raja Rana. More importantly, the three had set up a common email id — sultanarao@ gmail.com — to access information stored as drafts. Some emails were also exchanged, and all this is now a subject of investigation. Investigators say Gupta was constantly egged on by her handlers, who used her disenchantment with the Indian officialdom to good effect. Though she has denied taking money for the alleged dealings, her bank accounts reportedly show a healthy cash balance and this is being investigated. According to sources, the “spying” story began when Gupta, a 1983-batch IFS-B officer, got acquainted with a journalist of a reputed media group in Pakistan. Known for his [...]

MEDICAL COUNCIL of India president Dr. Ketan Desai and two others were arrested on 22April, allegedly for taking bribe of Rs 2 crore to grant recognition to a medical college in Punjab. CBI searched the office of MCI president Ketan Desai following information that president Ketan Desai along with his associate Jitender Pal Singh was allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 2 crore to grant recognition to a medical college. Late in the night CBI arrested Ketan Desai along with his two aids. CBI spokesperson Harsh Bahal said on Friday that Desai along with another associate Dr Kanwaljit Singh of Gyan Sagar Medical College in Punjab have been arrested by CBI on corruption charges. After receiving complaint that the MCI president is asking for bribe, the CBI laid trap and caught the accused allegedly with Rs 2 crore, which was to be delivered to Desai. The spokesperson added that the three were interrogated and searches were going on at six places including Delhi. The MCI is highest [...]

Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Last 16 Years '.they illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange, but also almost impossibly beautiful.' Michael Hanlon/AH (Nov 25th, 2006) After correcting an initial problem with the lens, when the Hubble Space Telescope was first launched in 1990, the floating astro-observatory began to relay back to Earth, incredible snap shots of the 'final frontier' it was perusing. Recently, astronauts voted on the top photographs taken by Hubble in its 16-year journey so far. Remarking in the article from the Daily Mail, reporter Michael Hanlon says the photos 'illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange, but also almost impossibly beautiful.' Enjoy! Hubble Telescope's top ten greatest space [...]

Here are some pictures of the new Ferrari and what it can do! The new Ferrari: this is what it looks like: AND THIS IS WHAT IT DOES: Apparently, it melts elastic From John Kingsley

Chinese Proverb: 'When someone shares something of value with you, and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.So I'm passing this on...hopefully the tablets will lie idle by your bedside.Cheers and good health.Matt Aspirin Info ?To add to your body of body knowledge: Dr. Virend Somers, a cardiologist from the Mayo Clinic who is lead author of the report in the July 29, 2008issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Most heart attacks occur in the day, generally between 6 A.M. And noon, Somers said. Having one during the night, when the heart should be most at rest, means that something unusual happened. Somers and his colleagues have been working for a decade to show that sleep apnoea is to blame. 1. If you take an aspirin or a baby aspirin once a day, take it at night. The reason: aspirin has a 24-hour "half-life". Therefore, if most heart attacks happen in the wee hours of the morning, the aspirin [...]

Dear President Obama, My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor , allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country. One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man. So here goes. I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.I can't figure out what country you are the president of.You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like: " We're no longer a Christian nation" " America is [...]

Sikh group to challenge clean chit to TytlerPTI, Apr 28, 2010, 01.09pm ISTNEW YORK: Angry over a clean chit to Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a community group here has alleged that the CBI did not investigate material witnesses in the case when its team came to the United States. The Sikh group based in New York and India, Sikhs for Justice, says there are several witnesses living in the US who had seen the Congress leader inciting mobs in the killings. Sikhs for Justice, which had originally challenged CBI's closure report in 2007 are now preparing to challenge the Delhi court's decision to acquit Tytler, citing the new witnesses that have still not been heard. "The CBI did not investigate material witnesses when they came to the United States and they came with the premeditated notion of giving Tytler a clean chit," Gurpatwant Pannun, the lawyer for the Sikhs for Justice, told PTI. "The CBI should come back and speak to these witnesses who saw what [...]

Those who have taken medical insurance will understand the bricklayers plight given below.These insurance companies pose very rosy pictures while selling you the policy. They tell you, have an accident and the insurance man will coming running to you with the cheque.However, that is far from the truth as anyone who had the misfortune to have to claim medical insurance know. The number of forms they ask you to sign will make a healthy man sick so what would be the fate of the accident victim.I'll let the bricklayer speak for me.Dear Sir, I am writing in response to your request for additional information in Block #3 of the accident reporting form. I put "Poor Planning" as the cause of my accident. You asked for a more complete explanation and I trust the following details will be sufficient. I am a bricklayer by trade. On the day of the accident, I was working alone on the roof of a new six-story building. When I completed my work, I found I had some bricks left over [...]

New bank wage agreement will give staff Rs 4,816 crOur BureauMumbai, April 27After bargaining hard for over 30 months, the Indian Banks' Association and bank unions on Tuesday signed a new bipartite wage pact.Under this new wage agreement, the basic pay scale of officers will be Rs 14,500 at the entry level and Rs 52,000 in the general manager grade. In the case of the clerical staff, the new scale will range from Rs 6,200 to Rs 23,900 (at the end of the scale) while in the case subordinate staff it will be Rs 5,500 to Rs 13,800.Following this, banks' total wage bill will go up by 17.5 per cent. Besides hike in salary, employees (existing and retired) who had opted for Provident Fund, have been given the option to get pension benefit.The pension option was given subject to the condition that non-pension optees will bear the burden of pension cost to the extent of 2.8 times of their basic pay as of November 2007. Earlier, this burden was sought to be loaded on to existing [...]

Let ICC supervise IPL from now on: Miandad27 Apr 2010, 1143 hrs IST,PTIKARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad is not surprised by the mess the IPL finds itself in and wants the International Cricket Council to 'supervise' its organisation in future. Miandad said keeping in mind the huge stakes involved in the so called domestic event of the BCCI, the world governing body of the game must intervene. "Just to say the IPL is a domestic event does not work. IPL has too much foreign participation and interest at stake. ICC must supervise its organization from now on," he said. Miandad, who is Director-General of Cricket in the PCB, said that he was not surprised at the turn of events in the IPL or the suspension of its commissioner Lalit Modi. "It is not surprising because when you allow a private enterprise to deal directly with players bypassing the boards there is always bound to be trouble. "I have been saying from day one that the ICC can't allow any Board to [...]

Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. Well, for example, the other day my wife and I went into town and went into a shop. We were only in there for about 5 minutes. When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking ticket.. We went up to him and said, 'Come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a break?'He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him a Nazi turd. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn tires. So my wife called him a shit-head. He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote. Personally, we didn't care. We came into town by bus and the car had an Obama sticker. We try to have a little fun each day now that we're retired. It's important at our age.As usual, sent by Praksah bhartia.He too [...]

Alley by alley, raped girl from Bengal tracks down tormentors in Gujarat- Trafficking victim helps police put 10 members of gang behind bars ANANYA SENGUPTA New Delhi, April 24: A 13-year-old village girl from Bengal who was taken from town to town in Gujarat by traffickers and raped by “customers” returned with police to each of the safe-houses, managing to remember every street and address in an unfamiliar state.Mithu Das’s monumental feat of memory has helped put 10 men and women members of the inter-state child trafficking-and-prostitution ring behind bars, police say.Mithu (name changed), now 16, had never stepped out of hometown Habra, North 24-Parganas, before the gang took her away three years ago. After she was rescued by the NGO Anhad a little over two months later, she remembered every unfamiliar place name: Mehsana, Baroda, Viratnagar, Ahmedabad, Kanpur.She remembered the addresses of the private homes, hotels and guesthouses where she was stripped, raped [...]

Msg from Sir, Mr LoboThis was sent to me by a Friend in Assam, India and I agree with this Chinese Proverb: 'When someone shares something of value with you, and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others. MattOpen the below link, its amazing... I don't know who made this... http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf 1st Line is Seconds 2nd Line is Minutes 3rd Line is Hours 4th Line is the Day of the week 5th Line is today's Date 6th Line is the Month 7th Line is YearAnother msg from Sir.I sent you one on Clocks this morning...here's another one, a Birthday clock, that will tell give you bits and pieces of trivia of that auspicious day when you were born ! Matt Click on the Birthday Calculator then Just enter your birth date It tells you how many hours and how many seconds you have been alive on this earth and when you were probably conceived. How cool is [...]

It was the first day of a school in USA and a new Indian student named Chandrasekhar Subramanian entered the fourth grade.The teacher said, "Let's begin by reviewing some American History. Who said 'Give me Liberty , or give me Death'?"She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Chandrasekhar, who had his hand up'Patrick Henry, 1775' he said.'Very good! Who said 'Government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth?''Again, no response except from Chandrasekhar. 'Abraham Lincoln, 1863' said Chandrasekhar.The teacher snapped at the class, 'Class, you should be ashamed. Chandrasekhar, who is new to our country, knows more about our history than you do.'She heard a loud whisper: 'Fuck the Indians,''Who said that?' she demanded. Chandrasekhar put his hand up. 'General Custer, 1862.'At that point, a student in the back said, 'I'm gonna puke.'The teacher glares around and asks 'All right! Now, who said that?' Again, [...]

K T Gyaltsen, Speaker,Sikkim Assembly, making a point to explain the working of the Assembly during our visit to Sikkim in March, 2010Gangtok, May. 23, 2009 -- When Congress leader Charles Pyngrope will take oath as the new Speaker of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly on Monday, he will script a double success for the century-old Goethals Memorial School (GMS). GMS is one of the many schools administered by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in India. It is situated between Siliguri and Darjeeling at an altitude of 5500 feet above sea leve. It is set amid an expanse of forest 5kms from Kurseong town. It is set to have two of its former students as Speakers in a span of three days. Goethals Memorial School, located in Kurseong, Darjeeling, in W Bengal has produced several distinguished personalities for the nation, especially in the Northeast. The school had completed one century in service in 2007. Mr Pyngrope, a student of 1976 batch of Goethals Memorial School, had [...]

I know you are all looking forward to the weekend.Prakash Bhartia has sent these so that you can laugh your way through Saturday and Sunday DISNEYLAND Two blondes were going to Disneyland. They were driving on the Interstate when they saw the sign that said Disneyland LEFT. They started crying and turned around and went home.FLORIDA OR MOONTwo blondes living in Oklahoma were sitting on a bench talking, and one blonde says to the other, 'Which do you think is farther away... Florida or the moon?' The other blonde turns and says 'Helloooooooooo, can you see Florida ?????'CAR TROUBLE A blonde pushes her BMW into a gas station. She tells the mechanic it died. After he works on it for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly. She says, 'What's the story?' He replies, 'Just crap in the carburetor' She asks, 'How often do I have to do that?' SPEEDING TICKET A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license. She replied [...]

Wash B4 U Drink.......WASH THEM FIRST Same applies to Beer. This is Serious! This incident happened recently in North Texas . A woman went boating one Sunday taking with her some cans of cokewhich she put into the refrigerator of the boat. On Monday she was taken to the hospital and placed in the Intensive Care Unit.She died on Wednesday. The autopsy concluded she died of Leptospirosis.This was traced to the can of coke she drank from, not using a glass.Tests showed that the can was infected by dried rat urine andhence the disease Leptospirosis.Rat urine contains toxic and deathly substances. It is highly recommended to thoroughly wash the upper partof all soda cans before drinking out of them.The cans are typically stocked in warehouses and transported straight to the shops without being cleaned. A study at NYCU showed that the tops of all soda cans are more contaminated than public toilets (i.e.). full of germs and bacteria. So wash them with water before putting them to [...]

Reminds you of Bro Corbett telling his class that there are three ways of solving any problem.The right way.Thar wrong way andmy way.You have to do it my way.What do boys talk about when they are alone among themselves?Same as what we discuss.Oh!, How naughty.Sent by Sir, Mr. Lobo.

BILLY GRAHAM Current Age: 90Truth...........from a man the media has never been able to throw dirt on.....amazing! He has certainly hit the "world" on the head! Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation THIS MAN SURE HAS A GOOD VIEW OF WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY! 'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity [...]

The girl in the picture is Katie Kirkpatrick, she is 21 . Next to her, her fiancé, Nick, 23. The picture was taken shortly before their wedding ceremony, held on January 11, 2005 in the US . Katie has terminal cancer and spend hours a day receiving medication. In the picture, Nick is waiting for her on one of the many sessions of quimo to end. Inspite of all the pain, organ failures and morphine shots katie is going along with her wedding and took care of every detail. The dress had to be adjusted a few times due to her constant weight lossAn unusual accessory at the party was the oxygen tube that Katie used throughout the ceremony and reception as well. The other couple in the picture are Nick's parents, excited at their son marrying their childhood sweetheart Katie, in her wheelchair,listening to songs from husband and friendsAt the reception, Katie had to take a few rests. The pain do not let her be standing for long periods.Katie died five days after her wedding day. [...]