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Top Ten WordPress Security Plugins

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To many a poor amongst us, this has happened at least once. You work hard on your blog, and during one fine session, you realize that your blog is full of spam comments, dangerous iframes that contain malware, having been infected with key-logger programs! Puff! Everything in jeopardy! I totally remember one such occasion when [...]

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Top Ten Best Budget Touchscreen Phones

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The age of smart-phones has ushered in an age of economy with an eye for the best features. With the top mobile proprietors responding to the demands of customers based on the current trend of Get More, Pay Less, its obvious that a number of phones have sprung up with competing features and flexible options. [...]

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Top Ten World Classic Books

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Trust me, its truly difficult to sort all the following classics into an order of ascendancy or vice-versa and its precisely for this reason that I will rather cite the names and give you my impressions of the books that have enthralled the reading public across the world. The very first name that comes to [...]

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Shadow Lines- Second View

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Often we come across works of art that create long-lasting impressions in our minds and hearts, something which in the words of William Wordsworth: “The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more” I will put Amitava Ghosh’s Shadow Lines in a similar category. Although it’s highly resistive to categorizations- [...]

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Sikh Student Abused in Texas

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Racism has “swam” literally from Australia to United States of America. A young Sikh student working part-time as a pizza delivery boy has been reportedly physically assaulted a group of unscrupulous US citizens when he came to deliver a pizza to their house, the Skh Coalition, a community advocacy group said. The attackers neither paid [...]

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Nitin Gadkari, BJP’s New President

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Nitin Gadkari, Maharashtra BJP’s leader has been sworn in as BJP’s new President. The politician, right after ascending to the throne, has made open acknowledgements to RSS as one of BJP’s prime supporters. Gadkari, famous for maintaining a really low-profile thus becomes the youngest president for the party. Fearless as he asserts himself to be, [...]

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No Discussion Until Joint Resolution On Telangana- Pranab

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As Telangana stands suspended, Pranab Mukherjee ensured while meeting a delegation of Congress MPs from the state’s Andhra and Rayalaseema regions in the Parliament House that the statehood of Telangana will not be discussed in Lok Sabha unless and until Andhra Pradesh passes  a resolution keeping into view the wishes and demands of the leaders [...]

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Indian metros Under Scanner

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Its time to tighten security. The metros are under alert. Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata have gone under scanner after rumours and hints about the presence of LeT militants loomed over the cities. Apparently, the terror groups have already installed their men for suicide bombings across the metros. Sources have confirmed that trained suicide squads have [...]

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Pak Officers Played Part- Headley

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After FBI’s revelation of David COleman Headley being one of the voice commanders present in LeT control room when Mumbai 26/11 attack took place last year, comes another crashing exposure that has long since been a prick to the Indian security system. FBI has apparently confirmed that a “section of serving Pakistan army officers”  have [...]

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Mayawati Seeks Three States of UP

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Perhaps Andhra Pradesh splitting into two states is acting as a catalyst to haste the formation of smaller states. For Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister has written to the Prime Minister of India to consider the trifurcation of Uttar Pradesh. She has requested Dr. Manmohan Singh to let the rise  of independent states of Bundelkhand and [...]

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