Rajinikanth website runs without internet! Not a joke

Bangalore: This is not to become one among the Rajinikanth jokes, but it's real. A website has been launched to honor, larger than-life, Indian film superstar that runs without an internet connection. Yes. You read it right.

www.allaboutrajni.com, is developed by Webchutney's creative director Gurbaksh Singh. As soon as visitors log onto this particular website, they get to read message that says, "He is no ordinary man, this is no ordinary website. It runs on Rajini Power." To proceed further into this specially designed website, the consumers must disconnect the internet connection as stated on the website. Read More................Rajinikanth website runs without internet! Not a joke

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Man learns from Net, bombs neighbour

NEW DELHI: In a bizarre bid to murder his neighbour, a man in east Delhi watched 37 movies and online videos on making bombs before planting an explosive device in the man's car. The crude bomb assembled by Parvesh Kumar, a resident of Khichripur, managed to explode but didn't cause much damage. Read More................Man learns from Net, bombs neighbour

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Web Cam / Internet Weddings are Islamic

Darul Uloom - Deoband, one of the oldest and prestigious Islamic seminaries in the world at Deoband has issued a Fatwa / Decree in India as per which it sanctions the Islamic weddings that take place over the Internet via web cam or Internet nikahs. The fatwa was declared after two couples got married over the Internet.

One of the head clerics at Deoband said: "The Internet assumes the role of a lawyer in such cases and is, therefore, competent to formally supervise the "Ijaab" (offer of marriage) and "Qabool" (acceptance) made by the bride and bridegroom."

Pl. note that earlier the same Islamic seminary has issued the Fatwas like Mobile ringtones are un-islamic, read "Quran Verses As Ringtones, Not Allowed". Then recently they declared Suicide is 'Un-Islamic'. Then there was Co-education system is “unlawful” as such an arrangement in colleges and universities spawn a “number of evils”. As per this decree boys & girls cannot study in the same college / university.

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Stop surfing & socialise, Indian students told

Students in one of India’s top engineering schools has restricted Internet access in its hostels, saying addiction to surfing, gaming and blogging was affecting students’ performance, making them reclusive and even suicidal.

Authorities at the elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai said students had stopped socialising and many were late for morning classes or slept through them.

“Now, a student doesn’t even know who lives two doors away from him because he is so busy on the Internet,” said Prakash Gopalan, dean of student affairs. socialise
“The old hostel culture of camaraderie and socialising among students is gone. This is not healthy in our opinion.”

Depression and dysfunctional lifestyles are known to be common among IIT students, and at least nine have committed suicide in the past five years. IIT-Mumbai has seen two suicides in two years and several attempts.

Students have unlimited free Internet access in their hostel rooms to help them in their studies, but many also use it to surf, chat, download movies and music, blog and for gaming.

Starting Monday, Internet access will be barred between 11 p.m. and 12.30 p.m. at IIT-Mumbai’s 13 hostels to encourage students to sleep early and to try and force them out of their ”shells”, Gopalan said.

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