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The Chief Minister of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa is on his way out. The decision to this effect was made at the meeting held at the residence of NDA Working Chairman L K Advani on Monday itself, where Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj, BJP president Nitin Gadkari and Karnataka BJP president K S Eswarappa were present. At the meeting, all the leaders were of the view that given the seriousness of the indictment of Yeddyurappa by Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde, his position has become untenable and he can no longer continue in office. Actually Yeddyurappa’s ouster came up for discussion at the NDA meeting on Tuesday, where BJP allies, including NDA convenor Sharad Yadav, was assured that an appropriate decision would be taken against Yeddyurappa. Ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament, the NDA leaders’ meeting decided on their strategy to take the Congress-led UPA government head-on, particularly when former telecom minister A Raja has named both the then Finance Minister P Chidam...

You would think that a meeting between the founders of the world’s most popular social networks would be a fun affair, with conversation revolving around funding, investments and who has the bigger userbase. In reality, it appears it is a much more dour experience, at least if Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is to be believed. In November 2008, Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams jumped into a car and ventured over to Facebook to meet Mark Zuckerberg, in a meeting which we recognise as the time when Facebook tried to buy Twitter. Talking in an interview with NPR’s Peter Sagal, Stone reveals the awkward meeting with Zuckerberg, thanks largely to the Facebook founder’s apparent lack of humour. When asked whether Twitter’s founders were members of “incredibly luxurious club “you and Zuckerberg and the guys from Google all get together and you sit in these, like, solid gold armchairs and you all just stare at your smartphones and never talk to each other,”  Stone admits it ...