Man uses Barack Obama's photo to get new mobile phone connection

HYDERABAD: If the records of a private telecom operator are to be believed, then US President Barack Obama is a 21-year-old resident of Nalgonda in Andhra Pradesh. In a telling laxity of the telecom service providers in granting telephone connections to all and sundry without proper verification, a Nalgonda resident by the name of M Prasad secured a cellphone connection with the number 9177523297 by passing off the photograph of the US President as his. Read more.....Man uses Barack Obama's photo to get new mobile phone connection

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Kilometre-long invite for Barack Obama

Barack Obama has mail - from a place in Uttar Pradesh state in India that he would never have heard of.

And how! Measuring over one kilometre, the letter has been put together by more than 11,000 people over eight months and carries a simple message for the US president - 'Come and inspire hope: lots of love from Basti district, Uttar Pradesh'.

Many of the two million-odd residents of Uttar Pradesh's Basti district, some 300 km from state capital Lucknow, have collaborated to prepare the one-km long invitation letter for President Obama. They want the US president to visit the district and address them. Read More................Kilometre-long invite for Obama - from Uttar Pradesh

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Indian villagers pray to Barack Obama for "honest" candidates

Ranchi: Villagers in Jharkhand chanted sacred hymns and offered prayers to Barack Obama on Wednesday, while appealing to political parties to field candidates like the US President in the upcoming general election. Read More................Indian villagers pray to Obama for "honest" candidates

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