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Sathya Sai Baba (Telugu: సత్య సాయిబాబా) born as Sathyanarayana Raju (23 November 1926[4] – 24 April 2011)[5] was a major Indian guru, spiritual figure and educator.[6] He is described by his devotees as an avatar, godman,[7] spiritual teacher and miracle worker.[4][8][9][10][11] The apparent materialising of vibhuti (holy ash) and other small objects such as rings, necklaces and watches by Baba has been a source of both fame and controversy – skeptics consider these simple conjuring tricks while devotees consider them evidence of divinity.[12] Sathya Sai Baba claimed to be the reincarnation of the spiritual guru, Sai Baba of Shirdi, whose teachings were an eclectic blend of Hindu and Muslim beliefs.[13] Sathya Sai Baba and his organisations support a variety of free educational institutions, hospitals, and other charitable works in India and abroad. The number of active Sathya Sai Baba adherents was estimated in 1999 to be around 6 million, although followers' estimations are fa...

reaking records isn't anything new for the Master Blaster and he proved that on Wednesday afternoon at about 2.30 pm, when he became the first Indian on Twitter to reach a million followers. Only last week, we had  spotted  that the Master Blaster overtook Shashi Tharoor as the No 1 Indian on Twitter. The run up to Sachin scoring a million on the popular microblogging site has been bolstered by fans and friends, who've all been urging users to follow the World Cup star. On Tuesday, friend and photographer Atul Kasbekar tweeted, "@sachin_rt is just 2000+ followers from a million, btw do I get a 'Twitter-Ratna' (or similar) for getting him on board? #justasking." Last week Shahid Kapur had also urged his own fans to help Sachin cross the million-follower mark. "@sachin_rt 25 k away from a mill followers ... Make it happen today people .... He the legend !!!!" In spite of his mammoth following, the Little Master has posted just 237 tweets, his most re...

It may just be an elaborate hoax, but a video has surfaced showing the body of an alien found dead in snow in Siberia . The slender, badly damaged corpse was found lying on a bed of snow with its head to one side and mouth slightly open, the Daily Mail reported. The video, posted on April 17 on YouTube, has already had over 100,000 views and showed the body of the unidentified "creature". Irkutsk, Russia is apparently a known UFO hotspot, and UFO believers think the body was left behind by alien visitors after an accident, or was missed in a clean-up by the Russian government as part of some sort of alien cover-up. Dozens of UFO sightings are reported every year in the area, and only last month there were reports of an unidentified object hurtling into the nearby Irkutsk region of Siberia. "We couldn't believe it when we saw it. And what was spooky is that there was no sign of the spaceship. Perhaps that was taken away and the body overlooked," s...

Mumbai:   At the young age of 15, she has gone through more pain than most people do in a lifetime. Told by her mother, Khajabi Banu, that she was brought up solely to be a source of income for her, she was forced to work at a rubber factory at the age of 13 but even that was not enough for the monster mom. Banu looked on and even encouraged her boyfriend, Raju Rathod, as he molested and allegedly raped her teenage daughter repeatedly and then forced her to have sex with strangers in her house so that she could get money to spend on liquor and the good life. "My mother forced me to work in a rubber factory since I was 13. When I used to return home, she would take off my clothes and Raju uncle would force me to have sex with him in front of my mother.   I used to shout and try to run away, but my mother never cared. She used to tell me that she wanted money from me. 'I brought you up, so that I could earn from you,' she used to say. She would hit me if I refused to comply...

his post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about howIBM helped one client solved its server sprawl problems. After a couple months trying out Google's Chrome OS powered tablet, the CR-48, and countless conversations about the company's vision of the future I've reached one conclusion - the future of the cloud is not in my browser. It may be powered by standards-based technologies and work over the usual Web protocols, but it has to look better than this. If you haven't yet seen Google's Chrome OS, just take a look at the Chrome browser. That's it. It's a browser without a close, minimize or resize button. You're eternally stuck inside that browser screen to do any and everything you want. There's no other menu, there's no nothing. Chrome OS seems to be saying that, just because everything exists in the cloud ...

Shane Watson knocked Bangladesh's bowlers senseless with a world record tally of sixes as the Australians galloped to a nine-wicket victory in the second limited overs match in Mirpur to seal the series. The target of 230 had appeared a possible banana skin on a slow pitch offering some turn, but Watson made such light work of it, that his unbeaten185 from 96 balls now stands as the highest ODI score by an Australian, overtaking Matthew Hayden's 181 against New Zealand in 2007. Xavier Marshall's 2008 mark for most sixes fell when Watson swung his 13th over the rope, the second six in as many balls off the bowling of Abdur Razzak. Watson added two more for good measure to also shatter one of ODI cricket's more enduring records, for the highest individual percentage of runs in a completed innings. His 79.74% bested Viv Richards' 69.48% in his momentous 189 not out, out of 272 for 9, against England in 1984. Following Michael Clarke's century in game one, vic...

Kisan Bapat Baburao Hazare (Marathi: किसन बापट बाबुराव हजारे) (born 15 January 1940), popularly known as Anna Hazare (Marathi: अण्णा हजारे), is an Indian social activist who is especially recognized for his contribution to the development of Ralegan Siddhi, a village in Parner taluka of Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India and his efforts for establishing it as a model village, for which he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the government of India in 1992.[1] On April 5, 2011, Hazare started a 'fast unto death' to exert pressure on the government of India to enact a strong anti-corruption act as envisaged in the Jan Lokpal Bill, a law that will establish a Lokpal (ombudsman) that will have the power to deal with corruption in public offices. The fast led to nation wide protests in support of Hazare. The fast ended on 9 April 2011, the day after all of Harare's demands were agreed by the government of India and the government issued a gazette notification on the formatio...

The World Cup final was Kumar Sangakkara's last game as Sri Lanka's limited-overs' captain  © Getty Images Enlarge Related Links Players/Officials:  Kumar Sangakkara Teams:  Sri Lanka Kumar Sangakkara  has stepped down as captain of Sri Lanka's ODI and T20 teams but has offered to continue as the Test captain on an interim basis for the forthcoming series against England and Australia "if this is considered helpful for the new captain". He will continue as a player in all formats of the game. His decision, revealed on Tuesday, comes days after he led Sri Lanka to the World Cup final. Tillakaratne Dilshan and Angelo Mathews are among those tipped to take charge of the limited-overs' sides, while Thilan Samaraweera is being discussed as an option to lead the Test team. Sangakkara was the  third highest scorer  in the 2011 World Cup and scored 48 in their defeat to India  in the final . "I would like to announce that after careful consideration ...

NOW that we have won the World Cup, the person everybody is searching for is Poonam Pandey — the svelte beauty, who declared that she would go nude if India wins. Her mobile has been switched off since the match got over. Before the finals, Poonam wrote to BCCI that she was serious about baring it all for the boys, as it would be a therapeutic method to boost and inspire people to perform better in any field. When asked about this cheap publicity, Poonam firmly said that she was doing this to excite the Indian players to play better, and not for her own publicity. After creating such a huge hype among the public, the missing beauty seems to have disappointed many by not keeping up her promise. Immediately after the match was over, there were several Facebook captions like, “Where is Poonam?”, “I’m waiting for you Poonam”, “Where the hell is Poonam Pandey. I bought an HD TV for you!”, etc. According to the latest news, she has requested the BCCI to choose another country such as Paris ...