Free TV sets distributed in Tamil Nadu-India

Till now you must have heard of wild promises being made by politicians to gain votes in elections. But have you ever heard of any Party making promises of distributing Free TV sets once it comes to power. Again, it happens only in India & now DMK party in Tamil Nadu is distributing free TV sets after it came to power after making such promises during election campaign. Obviously voters lured by such promises brought the party to power.

Indeed now Voters are happiest and the most benefited lot in the state of Tamil Nadu. Till now DMK, has handed out 60,000 TV sets and plans to give 30,000 more in the coming months for free. Read more.............Tamil Nadu ruled by free TV sets, rice

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Widow paraded for Stealing Bananas

As per a report, in a weird act in Vaishali district in Bihar state of India, a widow was paraded after tonsuring her head on the charge of stealing a few bananas. 55-year-old widow 'Desri Devi', was guilty of stealing bananas from the field of a farmer Dinesh Rai at Balua-Basant village. She was also fined Indian Rupees 2,500 ( US $ 55 ) by village head despite knowing that she earns her living by begging after her husband had died about a decade ago. As she expressed her inability to pay the hefty fine, a local barber was called and her hair were shaved off.

As per the poor lady, "Some people wanted me to be stripped and then paraded on the streets, but others stopped them from doing that. Still, I was paraded in the lanes of the village for no fault of mine," she said in the FIR lodged with the Lalganj police station. In fact Desri Devi was suffering from somnambulism & in her sleep had walked to the banana field where she was caught by the night-watchman.

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Living on less than 26 cents a day, there are 200 million such Indians

Can anyone ever dream off, two third of American population living on less than 26 cents a day? India is nowadays being projected as 'India Shining', it's economy booming, it's GDP growing at 8-9 % per annum. But how much it is benefiting the rural Indian population, below data shall reveal very much. As per one News report here is some startling data. This data is as per one report prepared by The National Sample Survey Organization.

a) More than 200 million people in rural India, lived on 12 Indian rupees
(26 cents) a day or less.
b) In India Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chattisgarh and
Uttar Pradesh are the poorest Indian states.
c) In Orissa and Chattisgarh 55 to 57 percent of villagers lived on 12
Indian rupees (26 cents) a day.
d) 10 percent of the rural population all across India lived on just 9
Indian rupees (20 cents) a day.
e) 30 percent of poor in India's cities lived on just 19 Indian rupees
(42 cents) a day.
f) 10 percent of poor in India's cities lived on just 13 Indian
rupees (28 cents) a day.
g) In Madhya Pradesh, 47 percent of the rural population lived on
12 Indian rupees (26 cents) a day, followed by Bihar and Jharkhand,
where 46 percent were living on that amount.
h) In Uttar Pradesh, 33 percent of the rural population lived on 12
Indian rupees (26 cents) a day, while in Maharashtra, home to India's
financial hub, Mumbai, 30 percent lived on that amount.
i) In Bihar, as many as 55 percent of the urban population were living
on 19 Indian rupees (42 cents) a day, followed by Orissa with 50 percent.

Isn't these are weird statistics & show how benefits of economic boom in India are hardly reaching the rural masses.

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'Cold Drinks' means 'Toilet Cleaner' : Ramdev

If there is one person who is causing maximum harm to 'Cola' companies in India, it is 'Baba Ramdev'. He is the renowned Yoga Guru in India & widely acclaimed for his Yoga practices abroad also. Now as per one report, he says that 'Colas' & all such carbonated soft drinks should be treated as toilet cleaners & he advises Indians to drink only fruit juice and milk to keep diseases away. His logic is that these carbonated colas have a low 'ph' i.e. these are acidic in nature & this acidic nature of such drinks with carbonation ( CO2 gas) in it, cause great harm to one's body system. As all such drinks are acidic in nature, he says that these are good only for cleaning Toilets ( many people use acids to clean their toilets in india).

As per one statement of Baba Ramdev, 'Cold drinks have no place in our society, they are basically toilet cleaners. You must get over this western fast food and cold drinks culture.' Already a few south Indian states in India have banned these 'Colas' & 'Junk food' in schools. Indian society which is mad with this Yoga Guru & his Yoga practices, gives much weight to his words. It seems that he wants to hit hard at Coke & Pepsi who are major brands for all such products in India.

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