1. An onion sale in India by deal-of-the-day website
Groupon was so popular it caused Groupon’s Indian
website to crash.
2. A Nagpur youth who lost money that his parents
had given him to buy a gas cylinder told police that he
had murdered one of his friends, hoping to go to prison
rather than be scolded by his parents.
3. Government statistics showed that couples in
India adopted significantly more girls than boys last
year through specialized adoption agencies.
4. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley inadvertently
locked herself out of the Governor’s mansion in her robe
while sending her kids off to school.
5. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal forgot to set
his alarm and missed an early-morning meeting with
several Cabinet members.
Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge.
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