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What Happpened when a Leopard entered IIT BOMBAY ??

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 "A leopard has been sighted this morning in a workshop of Metallurgy department of the IIT. The forest officers have arrived and they are examining if the leopard is still present in the campus. "As soon as one of our staff members alerted us about the presence of a leopard, we called the forest department officials," Rashmi Udaykumar, Public Relations Officer of IIT, told. Meanwhile, forest department officials said that a team has been dispatched to the campus and rescue work is going on. "We have sent a team to the campus led by the Range forest officer. They are trying to search the area to check if the leopard is trapped somewhere in the campus. More details can be provided only after our team manages to find the animal," a forest officer said.  The twitterati have a funny bone. This was evident from the many jokes that flooded the social networking site soon after news broke that a leopard had broken into the campus of IIT Mumbai and had

SSC Exam Paper Asks – Who is “Tallest”- Deepika, Katrina, Huma or Preity!!!

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he SSC, or the Staff Selection Commission, which runs an exam to make appointments in central ministries and other government departments, has readily apologised for a question paper that asked candidates which Bollywood actress was the tallest and gave a multiple choice of 4 answers The question in topic on Bollywood, one with multiple choice selections, rested between a question on this year’s Lok Sabha elections and another question on the month in which Valentine’s Day is celebrated. The applicants were asked to select the name of the actress who was “tallest in height” amongst the given options of a) Huma Qureshi, b) Katrina Kaif, c) Deepika Padukone and d) Preity Zinta. Not just this blunder, but another section of the paper tested the deductive reasoning of candidates with the bizarre statement- “All women are cats, and all cats are rats.” An enraged Women’s Commission in Kerala has rightly demanded an explanation for what is being severely criticised as