Tourism Ad Featuring Scantily Clad Bavarian Women is YouTube Hit

A quirky new tourism campaign in the US featuring scantily clad Bavarian women, a nutcracker and lots of beer has garnered a lot of attention. Demonstrating the power of social networking, the tongue-in-cheek video promoting the Bavarian town of Leavenworth in Washington US, has become an Internet sensation with around 200,000 hits on YouTube. The 'Gitcha Goomsba Up' music video shows hip-thrusting...

Foreigners Look East For A Spouse

By Otiena Ellwand People from countries such as US, Russia are looking for soul mates with traditional Indian values on desi matrimonial sites The old saying 'marriages are made in heaven' gave way to the mantra 'marriages are made on matrimonial sites' a long time ago. And now, it seems, this mantra has also been adopted by foreign nationals looking for an Indian spouse...

Darjeeling Loses Tea Essence Over Gorkha Protest

Darjeeling, Feb 12 : Darjeeling is known worldwide for its tea essence. But now, it seems that the region may lose its all essence soon following several protests. The tea industry in the region including other businesses were stranded over the indefinite strike observed by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) members. Ram Gopal Jajodia, the Chairman of North Bengal Zonal Council stated, "From 2009 onwards...

Obama Hears Echoes of Gandhi in Egypt

Washington: US President Barack Obama heard echoes of history in the way Egyptians brought about change through the "moral force of nonviolence" like India's Mahatma Gandhi "leading his people down the path of justice." In Egypt, it was the moral force of non-violence - not terrorism, not mindless killing - but non-violence, moral force that bent the arc of history toward justice once more, Obama...

Why White Cars Never Go Out Of Vogue!

Washington: A new survey has indicated that amidst so many colour options, the most popular shade among American car buyers is plain old white. Since 2007, when white ended silver's long run as the most popular color, Americans consistently bought more white cars than anything else, according to the yearly DuPont Color Popularity Survey, reports Boston.com. Nonetheless, some experts do have a...

Egypt's Facebook Revolution: Wael Ghonim Thanks The Social Network

Shortly after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power on Friday, activist Wael Ghonim spoke with CNN's Wolf Blitzer and credited Facebook with the success of the Egyptian people's uprising. Ghonim, a marketing manager for Google, played a key role in organizing the January 25 protest by reaching out to Egyptian youths on Facebook. Shortly after that first protest, Ghonim was...

WWF Kidnapping Negotiation Stuck at Rs 1cr Demand

Security personnel patrol Ultapani in Kokrajhar on Friday. Picture by UB Photos Guwahati/Kokrajhar, Feb 12 : Negotiations to release the three WWF volunteers are stuck over ransom, with the abductors firm on their Rs 1 crore demand, while a section of the security establishment has questioned the rationale of paying ransom to abductors when there are forces deployed in large numbers to maintain...

Violence Against Our Ideology: ULFA Chairman

Union home minister P Chidambaram and a delegation of ULFA leaders at a meeting at North Block in New Delhi on Thursday. New Delhi, Feb 12 : Singing a new tune, the banned Ulfa today said violence was against its ideology and all these years it indulged in violent acts as "there was a threat" to the state and its people. Interacting with a group of Assamese students studying in the national...