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In August 2012, an IIM-Ahmedabad professor's decision to renounce the material world made headlines — a reminder of what the rat race costs the soul.

Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan as his 2012 running mate — energizing the GOP base while handing Democrats the potent attack line of the Ryan Budget.

Around 60 Hindu families from Pakistan's Balochistan and Sindh arrived in India in August 2012, fleeing violence, kidnappings and forced conversions.

String theorist Ashoke Sen of Allahabad's HRI won the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize in 2012 — the richest prize in physics, ahead of even the Nobel.

Russian police found 70 members of the Fayzarahmanist sect — including 20 children — living in an underground bunker near Kazan for nearly a decade.

While shooting Ek Tha Tiger in Mardin, Turkey, Salman Khan revamped his crew hangout Café Del-Mar — and the grateful owner renamed it Salman Khan Café.

Handwritten posters by Jharkhand Mukti Sangh in Ranchi threatened acid attacks on girls wearing jeans or without a dupatta from Aug 20, 2012.

Anuradha Bali alias Fiza, the estranged second wife of former Haryana deputy CM Chander Mohan, was found dead in Mohali and cremated per Hindu rites.

At least seven people, including the gunman, were killed in a shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek on Aug. 5, 2012.

Kodak's bankruptcy, RIM's collapse, J.C. Penney's tailspin — a look at once-great American companies in 2012 that may never come back.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak warned of 'horrible problems' as computing moves to the cloud: 'With the cloud, you don't own anything.

An evening of Indian classical music comes to Naperville on Sunday, August 5 — a rare chance for Chicagoland listeners to hear a living tradition up close.

After the July 18, 2012 Manesar violence that killed HR manager Awanish Kumar, Maruti Suzuki reportedly sought vaastu expert Daivajna K N Somayaji's advice.

Grids supplying half of India collapsed on July 31, 2012 — the world's biggest blackout — even as Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde was promoted to Home

The Romney campaign launched the 'Mitt's VP' app on July 31, 2012, letting supporters be the first to learn his vice presidential pick via push notification.

CFSL scientist BK Mahapatra told a Ghaziabad court that blood on Aarushi's clothes and mattress was her own, and fingerprints of both Aarushi and Hemraj

Mark Zuckerberg's youngest sister Arielle became a Google employee in July 2012 when Google bought her employer, social marketing startup Wildfire.

A Mayawati statue near the Ambedkar Memorial in Lucknow was beheaded in July 2012, days after the UP Navnirman Sena threatened to tear down her statues.

Five things known about James Holmes after his first court appearance: his past, his dating profiles, and how he spent months preparing the attack.

Syria publicly admitted for the first time to possessing chemical and biological weapons in July 2012, warning they could be used against foreign attack.