An Italian company called Covini has revealed a peculiar six-wheeled supercar. The company plans to offer this to interested (and wealthy) customer through a partnership with industrial digger builder PMI.
Looking at the details, it's an impressive effort - powered by a 440bhp 4.2-litre V8 taken from the Audi R8, which is mounted behind the driver and sends power to the rear wheels only.Covini claims that the extra pair of wheels at the front make the CV6 handle and stop more effectively than a normal four-wheeled car. As you'd have guessed by now, it won't come cheap as the technical complexity of managing six wheels has always made such a car very tricky to produce. As per the information, this would cost around €300,000 (approx. 400,000 USD)
LONDON: After finding that Shane Warne, who Elizabeth Hurley had begun dating was two-timing her, a humiliated Hurley is begging estranged Indian husband, Arun Nayar, not to divorce her. The 45-year-old Liz appears to have changed her mind on the Indian textile tycoon after a disastrous fling with Warne, the famed Aussie cricketer known for his weakness for women. “Liz knows she's been a fool and has phoned Arun to say sorry and beg forgiveness. But Arun wants no part of it, and is still going for quickie divorce,” thesun.co.uk quoted a source as saying. — IANS
It looks like Liz Hurley has hit the road to relationships dead end, yet again and that too in just few days after news of her separation from her Indian husband Arun Nayar came in. The relationship between Elizabeth Hurley and former Australian cricketer Shane Warne was last night said to be over after he was accused of sending another woman more than 100 sexually-charged texts.
Warne, 45, is said to be very upset that Ms Hurley has left him after news of him sending a millionaire’s wife with the messages while also romancing the actress and model.
Bollywood’s latest sensation Sonakshi Sinha has shot to fame again, for wrong reasons this time. She is one of the most-talked-about actresses in town today, not only for her movie Dabangg but also for the fake bikini photo of her circulating in a section of the media.
The bikini photo is morphed – no doubt about it. The fake photo has Sonakshi’s face taken from the still of her debut film Dabangg and the body of another person in a bikini. The photo is revealing enough, as the actress’ looks in both the photos are identical. However, this has given her fan following a new insight of how Sonakshi could look in a 2 piece bikini. It is reported that her bollywood mentor, Salman Khan, is not happy over these developments.
Sonakshi had earlier expressed her shock over the fake bikini photo on her Twitter page. She came down heavily on a reputed publication house for publishing a photo of her in a bikini, claiming that it was meant for the cover page of Maxim but changed later.
It’s yet again. We heard the news of another girl gang raped in the city, the fourth incident in a month. Delhi is fast climbing the charts for being the worst policed and notorious city in India for crimes and harassment against women. According to NationMaster, India is at the tenth position for crimes globally and fifth in crime against women, mostly rapes and molestation. But note that these are the unofficial statistics and thousands of others go unreported and unnoticed.
According to Wikigender, a total of 1,85,312 incidents of crime against women (both under IPC and other laws) were reported in the country during 2007 as compared to 1,64,765 during 2006 recording an increase of 12.5% during 2007. These crimes have continuously increased during 2003-2007 with 1,40,601 cases in 2003, 1,54,333 cases in 2004, 1,55,553 in 2005, 1,64,765 cases in 2006 and 1,85,312 cases in 2007.
What the law says in our country against such crimes? According to IPC 1806, Section 376, the maximum punishment prescribed for this heinous crime is ten years. But is this adequate? Certainly Not. And that could be one reason why we see the crime against women on constant rise. Everyone would agree that the lengthy process of justice and inadequate laws to deal with the crime are hardly any deterrent so that the perpetuators are almost certain to do away with the crime barring few exceptional incidents.
All political parties would cry foul over law and order situation when incident like this happens but none of them would come forward to do anything concrete about the same. Women NGO's and liberation fronts would tear off bollywood posters at the slight nudity and fashion shows but would not put any pressure or go on hunger strikes to make the laws favourable to victims. The only noticeable act GOI did in last so many years was to prepare a bill to widen the ambit of 'sexual harassment' and include rape within it. But what we need more action rather than paper work. That too is pending for discussion in Parliament.
So what do we need? Obviously we can't summarize such a serious issue over a blog thereby reaching any conclusion. But few points which came to one's mind are as below:
1. Pass the bill prepared to widen the scope of 'sexual harassment' in the Parliament as quickly as possible so that it can be enacted as a law quickly.
2. Re-address the prerogative of voluminous definitions of IPC for rape punishment to a simple, comprehendible law so that the miscreants can't use or twist the law to their favour.
3. Raise the maximum punishment for this crime to capital punishment and carry out the punishments without delays to send the message clear across all sections.
4. Fast track courts, headed by lady magistrates and lawyers and if possible, lady police so that the victim can express herself without prejudice and fear.
5. Introducing 'sexual offence register' for offenders so that they be under constant vigil of local police.
For the last so many days, there has been a news doing rounds about some journalists being involved in portfolio distribution of ministries during UPA 2 or atleast were a privy to certain information which they should not be. There were tapes on the websites doing rounds involving lobbyists, journalists and coroporate barons which people can listen and easily comprehend what's going on.
However, what is more disturbing and shameful is that media (none of the news channels ) has not at all covered this story. One would expect Arnab Goswami of Times Now or Rajdeep Sirdesai from CNN IBN to come back in full force, just like they do for the smallest of any political or social activity, But Alas! none came forward and showed guts to take on fellow biraderein. The media houses showed even more guts and not at all shameful when they didn't move the journalists in question off air for even few days, whom now everyone would think of doing yellow journalism.
Is this bcoz of the old saying that 'dog-does-not-eat-dog' and that exposing or probing the journalists in question would actually open up a pandora box wherein every other journalists is going to be exposed? Had it been some western country where true 'freedom of speech' exists, the journalists in question would be put out of channel in 2 mins and on road facing public outrage. But in India, their fellow journalists and news channels are just quite and mum, burying the whole issue what looks like a tip of the icerberg.
It hurts to see that most of the channels would make big stories out of nothing but something as grave as hijacking the whole country for benefit of few is not making sense to these news channels. Indian Media has indeed proven the proverb in true sense that 'those who live in glass houses wouldn't throw stones at others'.
As per wikipedia, The LokAyukta (also Lok Ayukta) is an anti-corruption ombudsman organization in the Indian states.
The Administrative Reforms Commission(ARC) headed by Morarji Desai submitted a special interim report on "Problems of Redressal of Citizen's Grievances' in 1966. In this report, the ARC recommended the setting up of two special authorities designated as 'Lokpal' and 'Lokayukta' for the redressal of citizens' grievances.The LokAyukta helps people bring corruption to the fore mainly amongst the politicians and officers in the government service. It is to be noted that the LokAyukta conducts raids. But surprisingly, it does not have binding powers to punish anyone. However, we dont have Lokpals./Loayukta with proper and real investigative powers in more than 70% of Indian states after so many years of Independence.
Lokayukta/Lokpal have been appointed in many Indian states but probably the most visible face of this institution is Justice Hegde in the state of Karnataka. Nitte Santosh Hegde is a former justice of the Supreme Court Of India,former Solicitor General of India and the present Lokayukta (ombudsman) for Karnataka State of India.He was appointed as Lokayukta of Karnataka state on 3 August 2006 for a term of five years.
The Karnataka Lok Ayukta had exposed major irregularities in mines in the state, many of whom are run by ruling politicians. He had expressed concerns about illegal mining taking place in state of Karnataka which have deep repercussion for ecology and to exchequer of state. The damage to public interest was so serious that he recommended banning all exports of iron ore and limiting iron ore production for captive production of iron and steel. Other than this, he is heading one institution accessible to common man, unlike politicians whom we see on TV during election campaigns or else for the wrong reason of scams or power showcasing.
However, the question here is, Is the insititution of Lokayukta viable in Indian Polity? Whenever Lokayukta questions politicians or business houses, they are accussed of being biased, one way or the other. Justice Hegde resigned from the Lokayukta position on 23 June 2010 after an honest officer was suspended by order of a minister. He expressed inability to be effective in his anti-corruption mandate owing to a non-cooperative Government.
It requires political will and zeal to remove corruption from the system so that such men of integrity can bring some change to the society. And this political will should come right from the top, unlike some ploticians of the states who would order a parallel, almost pre-determined result enquiry on scams overriding the insititution of Lokayukta or Lokpal.
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