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According to a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst named Bruce Riedel, the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack was intended to change the future of South Asia, perhaps even by provoking a war between India and Pakistan. He also pointed out that the attackers received considerable assistance from the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) and Al Qaeda.

With a current growth rate of 37.4%, India will have the world's largest Facebook population by 2016, research firm eMarketer said. At present, US has the greatest number of Facebook users, at 146.8 million, and India comes in a distant second. Also, the world's largest social network Facebook, will reach a worldwide monthly user base of 1.026 billion this year.

A study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that students who are cheats in school are more likely to opt for government jobs. Similar is the case with nurses working in India, those found to be dishonest in a unique test were more prone to fraudulent absenteeism in the government sector.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's slack approach in tackling Maoists in Bihar is the reason why there has been a 41% rise in casualties in Maoist violence this year as compared to 2012, says a Central Intelligence Committee report to the PM. The report also says top Maoist leaders stuck inside jails in Bihar are guiding their cadres from inside them.

With 63% of the Indians admitting to have felt vacation-deprived, India is the world's tenth most vacation-deprived country, said an annual report by online travel portal, Expedia. It also found out that 18% of Indians do not use all the leaves, fearing to leave a wrong impression on their employer. Within India, Delhi employees felt the most vacation-deprived at 74%.

A study by Centre for Media Studies and MDRA has revealed that in 60% cases, cops and officials extort money from truckers by stopping them without giving a reason. The study estimated the total bribe on roads around Rs 22,000 crore/year. The findings were based on interaction with 1,222 people including drivers and law enforcing agencies.

The lack of adequate cold storage facilities and refrigerated transport accounts to a wastage of fruits and vegetables worth Rs 13,300 crore annually to India, according to report by Emerson Climate Technologies India. Currently, India has only 6,300 cold storage facilities, half the amount of cold storage facilities that India needs.

A research on greenhouse gas emissions revealed that only 90 companies has accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total carbon dioxide and methane emissions in the world since 1751.Though most of the companies belong to rich countries, three Indian companies - Coal India Limited, ONGC and Singareni Collieries Company Limited - also feature in the list.

About 38 million people in India fall below the poverty line every year due to healthcare expenses, of which 70% is on drug purchase. Yet, the DPCO-2013, meant to control the price of medicines does not cover over 80% of them. Ten years ago, in 2003, the Supreme Court had directed the government to bring essential drugs under price control.

An RTI application has shown that Mumbai registered eight gangrapes till mid-August including the Shakti Mill gangrape case. The figure for 2013 is likely to be greater compared to 2012 (eight gangrapes), as in November alone, two gangrapes were reported in Dindoshi and Borivli Link Road. Moreover, cases of single-offender rape are many times more: 229 were reported till mid-August.

According to a report by Mobiles Unlocked, iPhone 5S costs Indians the most globally when compared with their purchasing power i.e. Indian buyers have to shell out 22.3% of the national gross domestic product per capita (GDP PPP). Despite this, Apple enjoys its best-ever sales for iPhone 5S in India. China, another Apple's fastest-growing market, stands fifth in the list(10%).

US magazine TIME has listed "India's Rape Epidemic" -- the nationwide uproar over a number of rape incidents, especially following the 'Delhi gangrape case' -- as the ninth top world news story of 2013. The top three stories of the magazine included "Syria's Civil War -and the War That Didn't Happen", "Iran's New Chapter" and "The End of Egypt's Revolution?".

Centre's Joint Intelligence Committee has accused the Bihar government of being soft towards the banned CPI (Maoists), and not taking effective steps to control the Red terror. It says that despite substantive decline in Maoists violence in India, Bihar has registered an increase of 41% in killings in Maoists-sponsored violence this year compared to last year.

In its annual Compassion Research Day on Friday, Facebook revealed that Indian Facebook users are among the angriest in the world. The study categorized people in the US and Australia on the top of Facebook's anger scale. Indians were also found to be very inexpressive about their love or affection on the social media platform.

Nearly 17% of current Rajya Sabha members have criminal cases against them, a report by National Election Watch revealed. The report also shows that 67% of Rajya Sabha members are multi- millionaires. With assets worth Rs. 683 crore, Mahendra Prasad of JD(U) is the richest and with assets worth Rs.2.75 lakh, BJP's Anil Dave is the poorest.

As per the latest census data, the population of India's homeless has fallen between 2001 and 2011. Though, the overall population of homeless people has fallen, their numbers in towns and cities have increased by almost 21%. Notable, only four states - UP, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and MP - account for about half the country's homeless population.

India is home to nearly one-third of world's unregistered children (infants under the age of five not having their births recorded), a Unicef report revealed. Among the 10 countries with the largest numbers of unregistered children, India has 71 million, the most, followed by Nigeria at 17 million.

A study by ASSOCHAM has revealed that the Indian stock market is excessively dependent on foreign institutional investors (FIIs) and the retail investor participation is poor. Moreover, the study shows that retail investor confidence in the equity market does not see chances of restoration in near future. FIIs reportedly resulted in a net inflow of Rs.1,00,577 crore till Dec-6.

A study conducted by AIIMS doctors revealed that women who take oral contraceptive pills regularly are 9.5 times more likely to develop breast cancer, compared to others. The study, conducted on 640 women (of whom 320 were breast cancer patients), also stated early menstruation cycle, late marriage and lower duration of breastfeeding as other factors responsible for the disease.

There has been a 43.6% increase in Delhi's crime graph in 2013 over 2012, Police Commissioner BS Bassi said Friday. Around 74,000 cases were registered in 2013, up from 51,479 in the previous year. "Strict instructions have been given to police stations that each and every complaint be registered," Bassi said. "This is why (the number of) cases has increased."