If you thought that the judiciary was perhaps the last bastion of righteouness, then it might, perhaps, surprise and dissapoint you to know that an obscure journalist in Gujarat managed to have warrants issued against the President of India (APJ Abdul Kalam), Chief Justice of India (VN Khare) and Supreme Court judges (BP Singh and RK Jain) without any case against them, by bribing a metropolitan magistrate in Ahmedabad through local lawyers.

On being made aware of this bizarre judicial order, Chief Justice Khare said…

“What is happening in Gujarat? By giving Rs 40,000, you can obtain a judicial order? If this is the state of affairs, only God knows what will happen to the country,”

Well… thats the question that every one in India seems to be asking… for a long time now!

A second-by-second account of the final few minutes of the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle. Its a gripping (and yet horrifying) tale of how a seemingly inconsequential piece of foam caused the destruction of one of the most complicated machines ever built!

“The most complicated machine ever built got knocked out of the sky by a pound and a half of foam. I don’t know how any of us could have seen that coming. The message that sends me is, we are walking the razor’s edge. This is a dangerous business and it does not take much to knock you off.”
– Flight director Paul Hill

The account is an extract from a book titled, “Comm Check … The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia,” by Michael Cabbage and William Harwood, which was published yesterday.

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