There was news doing the rounds recently that tons of food grains was left open to rot and here comes the news that 1000 Below Poverty Line (BPL) card holders in Rajasthan, got free cell phones, which was distributed to them by the government.

Immediate requirement of BPL family is food grain and job. What difference the cell phone will make to their living condition.

Gyarasi devi a BPL card Holder said, “We could have done with some grains or a job. What will we do with these mobiles?”

BPL card holders are clueless. They are confused as to what to do with this unwanted gift.

But the Government felt that mobile is more important in today's communication and technology era.

 ”Mobiles will actually add to our expenses. The food grains in the godowns are rotting, why not Government can distribute food grains, said BPL card holder, Govind.

Salman Khan and Sonakshi  Sinha starrer Dabangg hit the theatres today and its written blockbuster hit all over.

Are the fresh pairs the mantra of Bollywood to garner crowd to the silver screen?
In the wake of Salman-Sonakhshi  Jodi,  we checked few other fresh promising  pairs coming on silver screen shortly.

In the pipeline is ' Anjaani– Anjaani' .  The lead pair of this movie is  hot Ranbir Kappor and gorgeous Priyanka Chopra. Given the popularity both this actors enjoy, 'Anjaana-Anjaani' will be a film to look forward to.
The other fresh pair is from Karan Johar's production. 'Short Term Shaadi' will see the new heartthrob Imran Khan paired opposite the reining queen, Kareena Kapoor.

Katrina and Abhishek Bachchan will seen together in couple of films.
But the most interesting pair will be of Salman Khan and Deepika Padukone.
If things fall in place Salman and Deepika will be part of 'Bodyguard', which is a remake of hit Tamil movie.   after Wanted, Dabangg can we hope Bodyguard as the third blockbuster in the next Eid, what say Salman?

According to The Los Angeles Times,
“Friends and family say the three friends were on a hiking trip in the
scenic mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan near the Iranian border on July 31,
2009, when they may have strayed inadvertently into Iranian territory.
They have been locked up in Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison.”

One of the three hikers held by the Iranian government will be released
this Saturday, according to a a text-message sent to reporters by
Iran’s Culture Ministry.

The Washington Post
stated, “One of the three American hikers jailed in Iran for more than a
year on spying charges will be released Saturday, at the end of the
Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, Iranian culture ministry authorities
said Thursday.”

The BBC said, “Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27 were seized last July after entering Iran from Iraq.”

“The Ministry of Islamic Guidance and Culture official, in a text
message, did not specify whether Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer or Sarah
Shourd would be released. But observers in Tehran say that Shourd, a
woman in her 30s who has reportedly complained of medical problems, may
be allowed to go home.

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Pastor Jones’ insurance for his church has been cancelled and the bank that holds the church mortgage has just called the rest of the balance due immediately. It looks like there are a lot of American institutions that just do not support free speech.

The Rev. Terry Jones has planned a Burn a Koran Day for this Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the radical Islamic attack on America. Besides over 100 death threats against Terry, there have been threats of violence and death to American Christians from all over the world, including threats within our own country.

In 2009, the United States military was ordered to burn a lot of bibles printed in Pashto and Dari (the two primary languages in Afghanistan) when Al Jazeera showed a group prayer service at a military base and wrongly suggested that the troops were being instructed to evangelize Afghans. No world-wide protests, no death threats and not much coverage in the media were seen.

I know a Christian who was in the armed forces in Afghanistan. He did have Bibles printed in the two languages. He did hand them out to Afghans.

Surprisingly He handed the Bibles only when asked by Afghan people! Apparently, there is a great movement among the people of Afghanistan toward Christianity, despite the death threats by radical Islamic factions.

A lot of Afghan people want to know more about Jesus! The radical Muslims just want to literally kill this movement.

The threats even caused the Dove World Outreach Center's web site to be shut down for violating the terms of service of their Internet service provider. Terry's other web site Islamisofthedevil.com has also been shut down.

As an American, Terry Jones has the First Amendment right to burn the Koran, make cartoon drawings of Mohammed with a bomb hat and put out the flames with yellow liquid, burn the American Flag or make a statue of Jesus out of elephant dung. As a Christian, burning a bunch of Korans is probably not the smartest thing to do.

I'm sure you remember the cartoon pictures of Mohammed that caused world-wide death threats. You may remember the "artwork" pieces of Jesus made out of elephant dung or the crucifix with Jesus in a jar of urine that were applauded in the art world with no world-wide death threats from the Christian side, or any side for that matter. And the museums' web sites posted the pictures without reprisal.