Hackers steal 2 million Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo passwords

BOSTON: Security experts have uncovered a trove of some 2 million stolen passwords to websites including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo from internet users across the globe.

2 Million Google, Facebook, Twitter Passwords Stolen

Are you safe?

Researchers with Trustwave's SpiderLabs said they discovered the credentials while investigating a server in the Netherlands that cybercriminals use to control a massive network of compromised computers known as the "Pony botnet."

The company said that it has reported its findings to the largest of more than 90,000 websites and internet service providers whose customers' credentials it had found on the server.

The data includes more than 3,26,000 Facebook accounts, some 60,000 Google accounts, more than 59,000 Yahoo accounts and nearly 22,000 Twitter accounts, according to SpiderLabs. Victims' were from the United States, Germany, Singapore and Thailand, among other countries.

Representatives for Facebook and Twitter said the companies have reset the passwords of affected users. A Google spokeswoman declined comment. Yahoo representatives could not be reached.

SpiderLabs said it has contacted authorities in the Netherlands and asked them to take down the Pony botnet server.

An analysis posted on the SpiderLabs blog showed that the most-common password in the set was "123456," which was used in nearly 16,000 accounts. Other commonly used credentials included "password," "admin," "123" and "1."

Graham Cluley, an independent security expert, said it is extremely common for people to use such simple passwords and also re-use them on multiple accounts, even though they are extremely easy to crack.
"People are using very dumb passwords. They are totally useless," he said.

The list of hacked account provided SpiderLabs:
· 318,000 Facebook accounts
· 70,000 Gmail, Google+ and YouTube accounts
· 60,000 Yahoo accounts
· 22,000 Twitter accounts
· 9,000 Odnoklassniki accounts (a Russian social network)
· 8,000 ADP accounts (ADP says it counted 2,400)
· 8,000 LinkedIn accounts

Opinion:

Were you on the hackers’ hit list? How can you find out and what do you do about it?
Like most of you, I am on Twitter, Facebook, Google and every other major website or social network out there, and though I have learned that privacy and the Internet in the same sentence is an oxymoron, we still hope for a certain modicum of security when using these sites.
Maybe I should say an illusion of privacy. With that said, shouldn’t Facebook, Google, Twitter and the rest notify users of the breach? If they did, I have yet to receive an email or notification.
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and ADP claim they have notified the compromised users, but CNN Money said Google and Yahoo declined to comment.
To be on the safe side, I recommend changing all your passwords immediately and refraining from posting all your personal information online, although that ship may have already sailed for most of us.

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India To Have World's Largest Facebook Population By 2016: Study

Indians are increasingly logging into their Facebook and Twitter accounts, with the country recording the highest social networking growth of 37.4 per cent this year, according to a new study.

India To Have World's Largest Facebook Population By 2016

India will also have the world’s largest Facebook population by 2016, according to research firm eMarketer.


India, with the highest growth this year, will increase the user numbers by 37.4 per cent, while Indonesia’s numbers will climb 28.7 per cent and Mexico will grow its social network user base by 21.1 per cent.


All the three countries are also high-growth areas for Facebook, the world’s largest social network, which eMarketer estimates will reach a worldwide monthly user base of 1.026 billion this year.


The US remains the single country with the largest number of Facebook users, at 146.8 million this year, and India comes in a distant second.


But with India’s large population and high expected growth rate, eMarketer believes the country will develop the largest Facebook population of any country in the world by 2016.

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Two Indian Institute of Science scientists crack mystery of black holes

Theoretical physicists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore have unraveled new facts about black holes that are expected to have significant impact on understanding these cosmic bodies better. A black hole is a region of space-time from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping.

Banibrata Mukhopadhyay and Indrani Banerjee

IISc researchers, Banibrata Mukhopadhyay and Indrani Banerjee for the first time established a correlation between two fundamental and important facets of black holes (BHs) — their mass and their spin.

 Black holes of stellar mass are expected to form when very massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. After a black hole has formed it can continue to grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings. By absorbing other stars and merging with other black holes, super-massive black holes of millions of solar masses may form. There is general consensus that super-massive black holes exist in the centers of most galaxies. The hole is called “black” because it absorbs all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body in thermodynamics.

Despite its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with electromagnetic radiation such as light. Matter falling onto a black hole can form an accretion disk heated by friction, forming some of the brightest objects in the universe. Astronomers have identified numerous stellar black hole candidates in binary systems, and established that the core of our Milky Way galaxy contains a super-massive black hole of about 4.3 million solar masses.

Until the last decade, while the masses of several BHs had been determined independently through observation, there was no estimate of their spin. The IISc team has found that for a fixed accretion rate, the mass of Black Holes increases with the increasing spin, thus establishing a correlation between the two parameters for the first time.

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Microsoft buys Nokia mobile unit to fight Apple, Google

Microsoft buys Nokia mobile unit to fight Apple, Google

HELSINKI — Mobile phone pioneer Nokia on Tuesday announced the sale of its sinking handset business to software giant Microsoft, which is fighting to catch up with rivals Apple and Google in the fierce smartphone market.

Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker until last year, will now focus on network infrastructure and mapping services, which it called "the best path forward for Nokia and its shareholders."

The sale for 5.44 billion euros ($7.17 billion) was cheered by Nokia investors, pushing the Finnish company's share up more than 40 percent in late afternoon deals, but Microsoft shares fell 4.5 percent in early trading to $31.90.

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said the Nokia acquisition -- the second-biggest in its history after Skype -- was a "signature event in our transformation" and one that "will accelerate our success in smartphones."

Nokia pioneered the mobile phone and dominated the market for 14 years, until it was overtaken by Samsung in 2012 as the top-selling brand.

The company, long the pride of Finland, was blindsided by the shift to smartphones and struggled to fight off increasing competition from Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy and rumours of a sale have swirled for months.

Microsoft and Nokia have been partnered since 2011, co-creating Nokia's Lumia line of smartphones using Microsoft's Windows Phone software.

-- Microsoft attempting 'to stem the decline in global product sales' --

And with Tuesday's deal, Microsoft is following in the footsteps of rival Google, which created the Android smartphone operating system and then branched into hardware when it bought phone-maker Motorola.

"The trigger behind this is without a doubt the current restructuring of business at Microsoft in which the tech giant attempts to stem the decline in global product sales," ETX Capital analyst Ishaq Siddiqi said in a comment.

Microsoft "is still behind Apple and Android based handset devices in the global mobile phones market share but under this deal, Microsoft can start to take control of the operation and turn Nokia's declining handset business into a formidable competitor in a competitive market," he said.

Stephen Elop, the Nokia chief executive who was hired from Microsoft in 2010, will transfer back to his original employer, becoming a rumoured replacement for Ballmer whose retirement was announced this summer.

Risto Siilasmaa, Nokia's chairman of the board, will be Elop's interim replacement.

In 2011, Elop spearheaded dramatic change at Nokia as he warned the company was "standing on a burning platform" and needed to shift course.

The shake-up involved rubbishing Nokia's Symbian platform in favour of the partnership with Microsoft, and the launch of the Lumia smartphones.

-- Sale provides 'solid basis' for Nokia's future --

But Tuesday's announcement marks the end of Nokia's days as a phone manufacturer.

"Nokia alone does not have the resources to fund the required acceleration ... especially as we have great opportunities in our other businesses as well," Siilasmaa told reporters.

Some 32,000 Nokia employees are expected to transfer to Microsoft, including some 4,700 people in Finland, the company said.

The phone operations affected by the transfer generated approximately 14.9 billion euros in 2012, or almost 50 percent of Nokia's net sales.

Nokia will book a gain on the sale of some 3.2 billion euros, which will "clearly strengthen our financial position and it will provide a solid basis for future investment in Nokia's continuing businesses," Siilasmaa said.

Last month, Nokia finalised the purchase of German engineering giant Siemens' 50-percent stake in Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for 1.7 billion euros.

NSN, which is specialised in high-speed mobile broadband, had posted stronger earnings than Nokia's mobile phone business, booking a net profit of 8.0 million euros in the second quarter of this year, compared to Nokia's net loss of 227 million euros.

Going forward, Nokia's main rivals will be Sweden's Ericsson and Huawei of China, according to Danske Bank Markets analyst Ilkka Rauvola.

"Huawei's market share is growing and Ericsson's is stagnating. That's Nokia's real challenge," Rauvola told Finnish broadcaster YLE.

Tuesday's announcement is likely to spark speculation about the future of another big yet struggling phone maker, BlackBerry of Canada.

And the deal comes a day after US telecoms giant Verizon and Vodafone of Britain agreed that the British company would sell its 45-percent stake in their joint venture Verizon Wireless for $130 billion.

Hargreaves Lansdown analyst Richard Hunter said US groups were eager to snap up assets.

"The European stage is seen as one with growth potential for the big US companies," he said.

"It is often forgotten that, as a whole, the eurozone is the world's second-largest economy.

Microsoft's acquisition is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2014.

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Teenage Behavior Influenced By Images Of Friends Drinking, Smoking Online

Teenage Behavior Influenced By Images Of Friends Drinking, Smoking Online

Teenage Behavior Influenced By Images Of Friends Drinking, Smoking Online

A study from the University of Southern California (USC) claims teens are so impressionable that they can be influenced by what they see their friends doing online. Specifically, those teens who see their friends drinking and smoking in Facebook and Myspace pictures were more likely to do the same thing themselves.
The study was carried out between 2010 and 2011, accounting for the inclusion of Myspace. According to their numbers, 30 percent of the teens they surveyed had smoked while nearly 50 percent had tried alcohol. Most of these teens — four out of five — used social networks to communicate with their friends. The USC researchers have their results published in the online edition of the Journal of Adolescent Health.
“Our study shows that adolescents can be influenced by their friends’ online pictures to smoke or drink alcohol,” explained Thomas W. Valente, PhD, professor of preventative medicine and the Keck School of Medicine at USC. “To our knowledge, this is the first study to apply social network analysis methods to examine how teenagers’ activities on online social networking sites influence their smoking and alcohol use.”
Dr. Valente and Grace C. Huang, PhD, MPH, a graduate of the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Health Behavior Research program, surveyed a group of 1,563 tenth grade teens from the El Monte Union High School in California from October 2010 to April 2011. Though Myspace popularity was already waning at this time (only 13 percent of the teens interviewed said they checked it regularly) it was still listed as a frequent online spot for students.
After asking the teenagers how they spent their time online and what they liked to do after school, the USC researchers concluded that the size of a teen’s network of friends online wasn’t directly associated with use of alcohol and smoking. Rather, it was how many of these friends bragged about their risky behavior which most influenced the teens to do the same.
According to Dr. Huang, this is an important distinction given how many teens spend their time on social networks like Facebook.
“The evidence suggests that friends’ online behaviors are a viable source of peer influence,” said Dr. Huang in a statement. “This is important to know, given that 95 percent of 12 to 17 year olds in the United States access the Internet every day, and 80 percent of those youth use online social networking sites to communicate.”
At the time the students were being interviewed, nearly a third said they had tried smoking. Another third of the teenage respondents said they had friends who drank and or smoked. The USC report claims almost half of the students they interviewed were on Facebook or Myspace. The most popular option was Facebook, scoring 75 percent of the teens who reported being a frequent visitor to social networking sites. Fewer teens said they used Myspace, accounting for only 13 percent of online teens.
Though the study categorizes how many teens are involved in risky behaviors and how many are online, this study fails to draw a direct association between seeing a picture online and having a drink or smoking. Instead the study claims many teens are on social networks, twenty percent of them say they have friends who post party pictures online, and thirty to fifty percent of them have engaged in one or both of these illegal activities.
As a counterpoint, a 2012 study by the American Academy of Pediatrics found social networks could actually be helpful to teens, giving them an opportunity to expand their social connections and academic opportunities. This study did point out two potential pitfalls for teens who use social networks; an increase in cyber bullying and sex-ting.
Nonetheless, Dr. Huang believes these basic stats should act as a warning to teachers and parents.
“Our study suggests that it may be beneficial to teach teens about the harmful effects of posting risky behaviors online and how those displays can hurt their friends,” said Dr. Huang.

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Jawl Phoring (Hemlock Society)by Koushik Basu @Sampriti 2013

Sampriti(সম্প্রীতি) Fresher's 2013: Give me chance to perform solo on the stage, for the first time. Thanks Sampriti

Jawl Phoring by Koushik Basu: It is a journey from a Bathroom singer to a on stage performer...



Koushik Basu performed the song Jawl Phoring from the film Hemlock Society sung by Silajit Majumder @Sampriti 2013, Pondicherry University Bengali's Freshers.

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USB Gets A Speed Boost With 3.1 Release

USB Gets A Speed Boost With 3.1 Release:

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has completed its USB 3.1 Specification, which will enable the SuperSpeed USB, offering speeds up to 10 Gbps.

To get the 10 Gbps rate of the SuperSpeed USB, the standard uses more efficient data encoding. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group says it will deliver more than twice the effective data throughput performance. This is possible by using enhanced USB connectors and cables.

“The USB 3.1 specification primarily extends existing 3.0 protocol and hub operation for speed scaling along with defining the next higher physical layer speed as 10 Gbps,” said Brad Saunders, USB 3.0 Promoter Group chairman, in a statement from the organization. “The specification team worked hard to make sure that the changes made to support higher speeds were limited and remained consistent with existing USB 3.0 architecture to ease product development.”

Developers will be able to upgrade existing USB protocols, and use the faster speeds on new devices and applications.

“We recognize this advancement in USB technology is an important development for our customers,” said Tom Bonola, chief technology officer, Business PC Solutions at HP. “The USB 3.1 Specification enables us to meet the growing needs of our customers for faster data transfer while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing devices.”

While the USB 3.0 Promoter Group plans to continue advancements on the standard, the new update comes from industry demand as much as from the initiatives of the group.

“The industry has affirmed the strong demand for higher throughput, for user-connected peripherals and docks, by coming together to produce a quality SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps specification,” said Alex Peleg, Vice President, Intel Architecture Group. “Intel is fully committed to deliver on this request.”

The .1 release, USB 3.1, is backwards compatible with USB 3.0 and 2.0, The Register reports. “The new speed will only be achievable with a kit using USB 3.1, but such products will work just fine in older USB ports,” the article explained.

“While maintaining backward compatibility, USB continues to advance to meet customer’s growing need for higher speed data,” said Roland Sperlich, TI Consumer and Computing Interface Product Line Manager. “The 10 Gbps data rate allows designers across many industries to do more with a universal standard.”

“In this multi-device world, the USB 3.1 updates will enable end-users to move content across devices quickly, conveniently and without worrying about compatibility,” said Emile Ianni, corporate vice president of Platform Solutions Engineering at AMD. “AMD thanks our engineers as well as the other technology contributors for bringing to market robust innovation that is designed to work seamlessly with new and existing solutions.”

USB 3.1 competes with the Thunderbolt I/O standard, which promises data transmission throughput speeds up to 20 Gbps. Performance on the competing platform has not proven to be as promised. The 20 Gbps speeds have been demonstrated in the lab, but are yet to be fulfilled in commercial applications.

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SC gives govt deadline on blocking of porn sites

Government has to take steps to block porn sites: Supreme Court

 

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday made it clear that the government will have to take steps to block porn sites particularly those showing child pornography and granted four weeks time to chart out plan of action.

"Nothing, you have to do it," a bench headed by Justice B S Chauhan said when Additional Solicitor General K V Viswanathan sought time to file response on a plea for blocking such sites in the country.

On July 12, the apex court had granted four weeks time to the Centre to devise a mechanism to block such sites.

The court was hearing a petition filed by Indore-based advocate Kamlesh Vaswani who pleaded that although watching obscene videos is not an offence, pornographic sites should be banned as they are one of the major causes for crime against women.

Advocate Vijay Panjwani, appearing for the petitioner, submitted that the Centre has failed to devise mechanism to block the Internet sites and absence of Internet laws encourage people to watch porn videos and as it is not an offence.

The petition alleged that over 20 crore porn videos or clippings are freely available in the market, which are directly been downloaded through Internet or other video CDs.

"The sexual content that kids are accessing today is far more graphic, violent, brutal, deviant and destructive and has put entire society in danger so also safety threats to public order in India.

"The petitioner most respectfully submits that most of the offences committed against women/girls/children are fuelled by pornography. The worrying issue is the severity and gravity of the images are increasing. It is a matter of serious concern that prepubescent children are being raped," it said.

"At best, the IPC only recognises the offences of obscenity, kidnapping, abduction, and other related offences which are not sufficient to tackle the issue of pornography, and such videos," it said, adding that watching and sharing obscene videos should be made non-bailable and cognisable offence.

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Intel’s Thunderbolt Technology Doubles Data Transfer Speed

Intel’s Thunderbolt Technology Doubles Data Transfer Speed:

Intel took the stage at the National Association of Broadcasters conference (NAB) this week to show off its Thunderbolt technology, a new I/O protocol capable of transmitting data with up to 20 Gbps throughput.

What´s more, the new interface is capable of these speeds in both directions. In a demonstration at NAB, Engadget reported Thunderbolt was running at 1,200 Mbps. The speed isn’t quite the promised 20 Gbps, but it is faster than anything else out there. USB 3.0 promises to transmit up to 10 Gbps by 2014, up from a current speed of 5 Gbps, All Things D reports

Intel says Thunderbolt currently has about 200 licensees. Among those licensees is PROMISE Technology. The company showcased fast storage solutions using Thunderbolt at NAB this week. Included in its lineup of Thunderbolt products is the Pegasus R4/R6 and Pegasus J2.

“PROMISE is very excited to showcase the Pegasus R4/R6 and the Pegasus J2 on Windows at the NAB Show 2013,” said James Lee, CEO of PROMISE Technology, in a statement.

“The incredible throughput and ease of use of Pegasus are helping creative professionals on both Mac and PC work much more efficiently and there is no better stage than the NAB Show to demonstrate how PROMISE’s storage solutions with Thunderbolt technology can accelerate and simplify even the most demanding digital media workflows.”

Intel supports its licensees, and the demo of PROMISE storage solutions was as much of a showcase for PROMISE as it was for Intel.

“Thunderbolt brings incredible performance, flexibility and simplicity to professionals in the media and entertainment industry,” said Jason Ziller, Intel’s director of Thunderbolt Marketing, in a company statement. “The Pegasus J2 and Pegasus R4/R6 help highlight what is possible for creative professionals, whether they are working on Mac or PC.”

While there are numerous uses for Thunderbolt that take advantage of the speed, one key benefit is the ability to display and transfer 4K video simultaneously, Mashable says. The 4K TV standard, also called UltraHD, is on the marketplace. Adoption of the sets has been slow because the price is still high, but also because there is currently very little content for 4K televisions. Thunderbolt’s ability to send and receive video at speeds exceeding 4K means more options for delivering 4K content will likely become available, including streaming from a computer.

The Thunderbolt protocol was introduced in collaboration between Apple and Intel in early 2011. The standard is available for all current Apple computers with the exception of the Mac Pro tower. To date, adoption of Thunderbolt under the Apple Mac portfolio has reportedly been slow.

Future plans for Thunderbolt, which Intel has codenamed Falcon Ridge, expect to improve adoption of Thunderbolt protocols for devices for both PC and Apple markets. Advanced Thunderbolt hardware under the Falcon Ridge blanket will be available in the next generation of chipsets and in products by the end of the year. Intel expects to see a growing proliferation of these products throughout 2014.

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Saraswati Puja 2013 @P.G-2 Hostel,Kalyani University

Saraswati Puja 2013 @P.G-2 Hostel(Vivekananda Bhawan),Kalyani University 

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Google DNS VS Open DNS

On 3 December 2009, Google launched its Public DNS service. Google Public DNS is a free Internet name resolution service similar to the free version of OpenDNS. Both Google DNS and OpenDNS are designed to speed up and help secure the Web browsing experience by leveraging a fast worldwide network of DNS servers.

What's the difference between these two services? As of now, OpenDNS is the more established product, having existed for four more years than Google's and offering more options for setup and control. Which one is faster, or more secure, can be debated. The primary and secondary public IP addresses of each differ, obviously:

OpenDNS IP: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

Google DNS IP: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

Google Public DNS vs Open DNS

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Women Uses More Text Messages

Women uses more text messages than men: Survey Study

Women are twice as likely as men to use emoticons in text messages, according to a study by a US university.

The emoticons, which began as happy and sad faces, have developed into dozens of other expressions, and have become hugely popular in text messages and email.

The study by Rice University used Smart phone data from men and women over six months and analyzed 124,000 text messages, the Daily Mail reported.

Texting has become one of the most popular forms of communication. In 2012 alone, it is estimated that eight trillion text messages will be sent out across the world.

In the Rice University study, all of the participants used emoticons, but they did not use them very often. Only four percent sent all of their text messages containing one or more emoticons.

The study confirmed previous research that women are more emotionally expressive in non-verbal communication.

The authors also found that while women may use emoticons more than men, the men used a larger variety of emoticons to express themselves.Participants in the Rice study texted a wide variety of emoticons, the Daily Mail said.

A total of 74 different emoticons were used, but the top three emoticons - happy, sad and very happy - made up 70 percent of the total emoticons sent by the participants.

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All 13 Data Centers In India...

All 13 Data Centers In India...

All 13 Data Center In India

 

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Google's server farm in Douglas County

Google's server farm in Douglas County...

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India’s Largest Data Center

IBM & Tulip Telecom Build India’s Largest Data Center to Address Rapid Growth of Mobile Consumers in Emerging Markets..

IBM & TULIP TELECOM's Data Center

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Facebook Data Center in Prineville

Facebook Data Center in Prineville, Oregon... 

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Facebook Data Center in Prineville

 

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10 Reasons Why It is Awesome to have a Bong Boyfriend

Bengalis aka Bongs are prominent for many things, so much that we sometimes wonder what would we be without them, especially the men. While, most of my Bong female friends aren’t much interested in a Bengali boyfriend/groom for themselves, here I’ll tell you why it is just awesome to have a bong boyfriend -

1. He’s got your back in his own unique ways

He isn’t muscular like the Punjabi munda next door nor canny like the others but packed with all the righteousness in between, you will always feel safe in his company. No wonder, he’s always got your back in his own distinctive style making you go “Awww..” each time.

2. He’s liberal, modern and worldly wise

Plan your trip to an unknown location and he might actually tell you the culture, tradition, and history of the place. Oh yea, he is that cosmopolitan – familiar with at least one foreign language.

3. He has a doting mom which comes as a double bonus

You will never feel the guilt of neglecting your beau once in a while as he has the best mom who dotes her kid so much.

4. He will sing for you

He will sing for you and that too in a perfect tune – Whether it is “All Shook Up” of Elvis Presley, or “Tum Ho….” from the Ranbir starrer Rockstar. But, chances are when he sings a Hindi song he might forget the lyrics.

Myth Debunked - Even if he is a die-hard fan of Hollywood movies he secretly likes Bollywood films and music too. Also don’t be surprise to see  instruments such as guitar, tanpura, tabla, violin at his home which he played back in school days.

5. He’s opinionated and there starts the fun

Since he has an opinion on almost everything, you will love having a healthy debate with him on anything and everything.

6. He’s lazy which actually makes your life easy

Being lazy himself, he will never be behind your back to complete or finish any work that he had given to you – no matter how big or small it was. So, life is at ease in his company.

7. He’s a Foodie and always up for food

Oh that doesn’t mean you’ll have to stay glued to the kitchen while he watches his football match but it does mean indulging in a gourmet affair or haute cuisine every now and then. Don’t be surprise if he takes you on a holiday to Darjeeling only to indulge in those authentic Momos and Thupkas.

8. The “Dada” factor

Even the hottest girl of his college/office calls him “dada” – doesn’t that make you lucky when compared to other girls who waste half of their time in dealing with their archetypal girlfriend insecurities.

9. He is delightful and entertaining

There is a general misconception that Bong guys are all about books, theatre and football only. Perhaps, they have never seen him after he gets drunk. While many others might be a menace after getting heavily drunk, he is only funny and entertaining.  Besides, he might be terrible while dancing with you at a disc or in a party, but nothing can beat his bisorjon or dhunuchi dance. He simply rocks there.

10. He loves non-violence

Your Bong Boyfriend will never beat up your brother, but will logically explain you how and why he is right. Gentle and inoffensive, he will stand by you always in the matters of love – just make sure you pronounce the right name of that veteran German novelists name.

Lastly, he is as sweet as mishti doi just like his daaknaam, fiery as a chilly (just try telling him that Tamilians/UPite are clever than Bengalis) but mostly easy going and fun loving smart guy who knows how to bring a big smile on your face with those random surprises .

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