The Absurd News Thread - Stuff that makes no sense

[rootyme]

This thread is to be a infinite collection of absurd, stupid and illogical stuff that happen around the world. Members are encouraged to post their reactions/opinions/commentaries alongside the news. Please remember not to be hateful/abusive. If you prefer to be a critic, please aim to post constructive criticism(s).

Here I go:

UP college students clear exam with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on answer sheets, two professors suspended

The students scored 42 marks out of 75, which is 56 per cent.

indianexpress.com

Speechless.

 

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This could be the longest thread ever. There is no shortage of batshit crazy things from this country alone and then you add the world. Haha!

I don't have a link only a story from over ten years back

A teenage boy goes missing from a village in Bihar. Some days later the local police recover a headless body but it's of someone in their 30s. They inform the father it's not his son. A few days pass but the distraught father doesn't believe the police and gets a gang of many together to attack the police station and recover the body. The police have to resort to firing charge to save the station and themselves. Some of the villagers were injured in the melee. Can't remember if it was more serious injuries or not.

A month later the teenage boy is spotted in Delhi having eloped with his girlfriend

 

[dpandey]

This thread is to be a infinite collection of absurd, stupid and illogical stuff that happen around the world. Members are encouraged to post their reactions/opinions/commentaries alongside the news. Please remember not to be hateful/abusive. If you prefer to be a critic, please aim to post constructive criticism(s).

Here I go:

UP college students clear exam with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on answer sheets, two professors suspended

The students scored 42 marks out of 75, which is 56 per cent.

indianexpress.com

Speechless.

This is a very well established technique. Not sure why you are calling it absurd or illogical.

This is how it works. Most boards will remove all information identifying the student before sending the paper for evaluation. The student who has bribed the evaluators has to put some unique pre-agreed signs on the answer sheets. The interesting part is not Jai Sri Ram, which many students may write. They also put names of Indian cricketers on the paper, which would most probably have been the codeword.

The stupid part was writing Jai Sri Ram which turned this minor event into a headline.

This may also have been the method used in far more sinister WB teacher recruitment scam where blank OMR sheets were given pass marks

How the West Bengal school job scam unfolded

KOLKATA: Days after the Calcutta High Court invalidated the fraudulent appointments of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching staff by the state's School Service Comm

www.newindianexpress.com

Exam grading scams are far more common than we would like to believe. Here is an American story. One of my friends, a PhD student in a east coast university, was asked to grade some junior student's papers. One of the students, who was most likely to fail, showed up at his office and threatened to thrash him up if he didn't pass. When my friend contacted his professor, the professor asked him to give the student the lowest passing marks and end the matter.

 

[lockhrt999]

If India didn't have UP, life would be boring.

 

[valar007]

Drugs: India police say rats ate 200kg of seized cannabis

Police in India have blamed rats for destroying nearly 200kg of seized cannabis in police stations.

www.bbc.com

Drugs: India police say rats ate 200kg of seized cannabis
"Rats are tiny animals and they have no fear of the police. It's difficult to protect the drug from them," a court in Uttar Pradesh state has said. The court had asked the police to produce the stash as evidence in cases of drug peddling.

The judge cited three cases in which marijuana was destroyed by rodents. Judge Sanjay Chaudhary said in an order that when the court asked the police to produce the seized drug as evidence, it was told that 195kg of cannabis had been "destroyed" by rats.

In another case involving 386kg of the drug, the police filed a report saying "some" of the cannabis was "eaten up by the rats".

Judge Chaudhary said some 700kg of marijuana seized by the police was lying in police stations in Mathura district and that "all of it was under danger of infestation by rats".

 

[nRiTeCh]

UP college students clear exam with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on answer sheets, two professors suspended

The students scored 42 marks out of 75, which is 56 per cent.

indianexpress.com

Not at all surprised nor amazed as such crap can easily happen in India esp. given the no. of andh bhakts around and their supporters either willingly or under pressure. I'm expecting someone easily cracking UPSC JEEE NEET CET and every such entrance exams by only writing the lords name and if that guy fails I'm sure that will be a global issue and an Indian law will be willfully passed to allow such bullshit along with a discount for gals to only write the name in short..

SO..

 

[kartikoli]

Drugs: India police say rats ate 200kg of seized cannabis

Police in India have blamed rats for destroying nearly 200kg of seized cannabis in police stations.

www.bbc.com

Drugs: India police say rats ate 200kg of seized cannabis
"Rats are tiny animals and they have no fear of the police. It's difficult to protect the drug from them," a court in Uttar Pradesh state has said. The court had asked the police to produce the stash as evidence in cases of drug peddling.

The judge cited three cases in which marijuana was destroyed by rodents. Judge Sanjay Chaudhary said in an order that when the court asked the police to produce the seized drug as evidence, it was told that 195kg of cannabis had been "destroyed" by rats.

In another case involving 386kg of the drug, the police filed a report saying "some" of the cannabis was "eaten up by the rats".

Judge Chaudhary said some 700kg of marijuana seized by the police was lying in police stations in Mathura district and that "all of it was under danger of infestation by rats".

All female rats would be under stress because males don't have any control now

 

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Another one I recall from 2015 from across the border

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/world/asia/pakistani-taliban-blame-electric-company-for-heat-wave-deaths.html

“Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan considers K-Electric to be completely responsible due to its unnecessary power outages and profiteering practices,” the statement said. It warned that the Taliban would take action if the power failures continued, but gave no specifics on what those actions might be.

 

[rootyme]

'People in East look Chinese, South like Africans': Sam Pitroda after inheritance tax row

In a recent interview, Pitroda spoke on the diversity of India referring to how people in the East look like the Chinese and those living in the South like Africans.

www.businesstoday.in

'India Has N-Word Type, Mongoloid Class': Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Parrots Sam Pitroda's Racist Slur - News18

'India Has N-Word Type, Mongoloid Class': Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Parrots Sam Pitroda's Racist Slur"Humare desh mein proto Australian hai - NEGRO TYPE CLASS HAI-mongoloid class hai. Hai toh hai!..koi safeed hai toh koi kaala hai", said Adhir Ranjan

www.news18.com

 

[TEUser2K1]

Sidhu’s remark on greater cultural affinity with Pak than south India draws flak

Other States News:Sidhu’s remark on greater cultural affinity with Pak than south India draws flak

www.thehindu.com

 

[ashish]

This thread is to be a infinite collection of absurd, stupid and illogical stuff that happen around the world. Members are encouraged to post their reactions/opinions/commentaries alongside the news. Please remember not to be hateful/abusive. If you prefer to be a critic, please aim to post constructive criticism(s).

Here I go:

UP college students clear exam with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on answer sheets, two professors suspended

The students scored 42 marks out of 75, which is 56 per cent.

indianexpress.com

Speechless.

Well, anything is possible in reign of this govt.

Would like to appear for every exam in UP if writing God's name helps me clear it free... I wish govt. passes such quota as well for exams and proves BJP govts stupidity as they are already helping India grow backwards passing caste quotas and b*shit.
They should also legalise child marriages once again.
Also make India only women centric country as anyways all laws are in favour of women so ultimately might make India a lesbian nation if all or maximum men decide to settle or run abroad.
I may sound harsh but this is the sad reality of our nation. What people see is only constructive development but we lack the actual growth and day by day are rolling backwards.

 

[dpandey]

@mods, time to lock this thread. The "Party workers" have arrived

 

[PunkX 75]

Please keep this thread light-hearted and devoid of political debates.

 

[TEUser2K1]

@ashish
This may interest you:

Too woke for comfort: Ola to boycott Microsoft’s Azure, move workload to Krutrim Cloud in one week - CNBC TV18

Aggarwal also pledged to work together with Indian programmers to create a social media platform based on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) standards

www.cnbctv18.com

Ola Cabs Cuts Ties With Microsoft Azure After Social Media Spat: Here’s What Happened

Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal announces the company's shift from Microsoft Azure to its own Krutrim's cloud service after a social media clash., Technology & Science News - Times Now

www.timesnownews.com

 

[dpandey]

Sidhu’s remark on greater cultural affinity with Pak than south India draws flak

Other States News:Sidhu’s remark on greater cultural affinity with Pak than south India draws flak

www.thehindu.com

Funny he says that. Because one African .. err .. I mean south Indian, Mr Mani Shankar Iyer, has the same views.

 

[rootyme]

Those blaming the govt for the news I posted. -
The article doesn't say this. The conclusion you reached has nothing to do with reality. I am pretty sure that individual corruption is to blame here and the government is not responsible for this. I can bet UP is not a state where writing God's name can pass you any exam and you know this very well.

Tbh this is TechEnclave's r/india moment. Part of the reason Reddit can be toxic is subreddits like r/India where a visit will make you believe we're in an apocalypse as a nation.

As mentioned in the thread starter, no political discussions will be allowed on this thread.

Edit: I had forgotten to write "No politics". Please count it as a rule from here onwards. This thread is only for fun and laughter over the absurd and nothing else.

 

[TEUser2K1]

@dpandey
> Funny he says that. Because one African .. err .. I mean south Indian, Mr Mani Shankar Iyer, has the same views.

Don't think Iyer talked about cultural affinity, rather opposite of that.

Don't think south / African anywhere / will be happy about an nbomb hit on north-north west unlike those who are culturally more affine towards Pak (can't blame them, probably because of violently forced non-consensual regular racial intermixing after multiple wars were lost to barbarian invaders in that geography, thats in their DNA apparently):

BJP leaders have love for Pakistan, Advani called Jinnah secular: Bhupesh Baghel

Raebareli, May 10 (PTI) Hitting back at the BJP as a row erupted over Mani Shankar Aiyar's remarks, senior Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel on Friday claimed it is the ruling party's leaders that have love for Pakistan and cited Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2015 surprise visit to the...

www.deccanherald.com

When LK Advani lost his job as BJP president for calling Jinnah a 'great man'

Almost seven decades after he died, Pakistan's founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah continues to trigger controversies -- be it over praise by some BJP leaders or merely because of a portrait of him hanging on a university wall.

www.dnaindia.com

Wait, what rabbit hole am getting into... will stop going on this path...

 

[dpandey]

... will stop going on this path...

I too am out.

Going to add this thread to 'ignore' list.

 

[ashish]

Such blood and brain boiling threads shouldn't be encouraged nor allowed then..

Members are encouraged to post their reactions/opinions/commentaries alongside the news.

That's exactly what the members are doing

One of my friends, a PhD student in a east coast university, was asked to grade some junior student's papers. One of the students, who was most likely to fail, showed up at his office and threatened to thrash him up if he didn't pass. When my friend contacted his professor, the professor asked him to give the student the lowest passing marks and end the matter.

And these goons then start working as graduate doctors holding some shit phd and confident enough to treat patients on renowned hospitals and are involved in kidney rackets and kingpin.. Same graduates then go on to construct a multi-storey building only to have it collapsed within no time.

@mods, time to lock this thread. The "Party workers" have arrived

They are yet to see this thread else they would have painted this thread orange with saffron flags.. don't provoke them. Elections are going on.

 

[rootyme]

That's exactly what the members are doing

Please remember not to be hateful/abusive. If you prefer to be a critic, please aim to post constructive criticism(s).

Strange. If this is what constructive criticism means, I'm sorry for using that phrase here.

Anyways, as the thread starter, I'm just letting the mods know that I'm not responsible for what's going on/what might go on here. This is not what I wanted and I'm sure nobody cares about that. People have their blood boiling on this thread when this want meant to be just for fun. Locking it is pointless. Maybe just nuke the thread if that's going to solve the issue. @Crazy_Eddy

Thanks. Unwatching and ignoring my own thread.