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India stands ahead in terms of corruption. As per the worldwide Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), prepared by independent international agency, Transparency International, India ranks 74th. U.S. is at 20th position. Ranking is based on the least corrupted countries. Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, Singapore and Sweden, who tops in the list are the five least corrupted [...]

And here is the explanation from NGC. The image was lifted from Worth1000, a Web site that hosts contests for digital artists. Created by an artist using the alias IronKite, the picture placed third in a 2002 competition titled “Archaeological Anomalies 2,” which asked contestants to “create a hoax archaeological discovery.” “I laugh myself silly [...]

“The Lives Of Others” (Germany) won the Oscar in “Foreign Language Film” category. Deepa Mehta’s “Water” was nominated too, among others in this category. Best Picture: “The Departed”. View the complete Oscar Winners list on the official site here: http://oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/index

Amazing but true! A family of 180 members in Mizoram makes one complete village. In the quiet Mizo hamlet, 64-year-old patriarch Ziona presides over 180 members, including his scores of wives and over a hundred children. Ziona, who married 50 times and fathered 109 children, is the self-styled chief of Baktawng, a village ringed by [...]