Women beat up Muslim clerics

Lucknow: Three Muslim clerics in a seminary here were on Tuesday beaten up by three women for allegedly not conducting their "talaq" (divorce) proceedings in accordance with Shariat (Islamic) laws, police said. Read More................Women beat up Muslim clerics in Lucknow

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`Dead' man walking, `guarding' and also getting salary

MUMBAI: Allauddin Sheikh, a security guard with the local civic body, reports to work regularly and draws salary every month. Nothing amiss, except that the 52-year-old was declared "dead" by civic authorities last year. Read More................`Dead' man walking, `guarding' and also getting salary

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Indian fan is on the ball with his FIFA football shaped tricycle

Guinnes World record holder Sudhakar Yadav poses inside a soccer ball-shaped tricycle made by him to cheer the various teams participating in the FIFA World Cup, in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, June 26, 2010. In cricket-crazy India, men and women have united behind their teams and are watching the late night soccer tournament. See the picture here

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‘Run over’ by goods train, woman has miracle escape

Kanpur: A 22-year-old mentally unsound woman escaped with just a laceration on her throat after a goods train passed over her at the Kanpur Central Railway Station on Wednesday morning. ‘Read More................Run over’ by goods train, woman has miracle escape

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Smiling in class leaves boy with a broken tooth

Bangalore: A class IV student of Balwin Boys High School in Bangalore had his front tooth partially broken when the class teacher hurled a wooden duster at him for smiling in the class.

Mohammed Ayman was later taken to a dentist who advised a root canal treatment after an X-ray. Read more...................Smiling in class leaves Bangalore boy with a broken tooth

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In Holy Varanasi, Get frogs married, pray for rain !

Varanasi : Following a delayed monsoon, locals in holy city of Varanasi organised the mythical marriage of frogs to please the rain gods on Thursday.

They prayed that the weather gods would open up the skies and bless them with ample rainfall.

The unbearable heat and no signs of monsoon had compelled them to organise the wedding of frogs to invoke divine powers of the rain gods.

At one of such venues, the local priest solemnised the marriage to the chanting of hymns from the Hindu scriptures during which he even applied vermilion on the forehead of the female frog. Read More................In Holy Varanasi, Get frogs married, pray for rain !

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Family boycotted for refusal to give death feast

In a shocking incident, a local panchayat (village council) in Bharatpur district of Rajasthan has ordered a village to boycott a family for not organising a customary feast on the death of a member, police said Thursday.

As directed by a lower court, a complaint was filed Wednesday by Ramesh Chand Jatav, a resident of Nagla Bandh Bhagatpura, against 25-30 villagers, including panchayat members, a police official told IANS.

'He said these people were forcing his family members to organise a 'mrityu bhoj' (death feast) after the demise of his mother in April,' the official said. Read More................Family boycotted for refusal to give death feast

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162 members of a family living under one roof

BAKTAWNG (MIZORAM): This family with 162 members can easily be one of the largest living together under one roof in this picturesque village, about 100km from here.

The head of the family and leader of the 'Chana' sect, 66-year-old Ziona, has 38 wives and 94 children with some of his sons having married and having children of their own living together in a building named 'Chhuan That Run' or the House Of The New Generation. One of Ziona's wives said though their sons lived in different rooms in the building they all share the kitchen where they cook for the entire family. Read More................With 162 members, is this the largest family under one roof?

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Man jumps onto funeral pyre, dies

Varanasi: A man, said to be mentally unstable, was charred to death after he jumped onto a funeral pyre in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi district, police said.
The incident occurred near the Manikarnika ghat (bank) of the Ganges river in Varanasi, some 250 km from Lucknow. Read More................Man jumps onto funeral pyre, dies

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Crying Competition by Women

Konark (Orissa): A cultural organization 'Arkashree' organized a crying competition in Orissa's Konark town on Wednesday, which saw the participation of over 20 women, battling it out crying and moaning.

The participants recited poems recalling their 'Vidaai' (a ritual where a bride bids a tearful farewell to her family) in full tears. Read More................Konark women battle it out in crying competition

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Women Steal from Cop’s House

New Delhi: Two women were arrested in the capital Monday for stealing valuable items from the residence of a Delhi Police woman head-constable, police said. Read More................Two women held for stealing from cop’s house

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Court tells man to inflict injury upon himself

New Delhi: In a dowry harassment case, the Delhi High Court Wednesday told a man to inflict injuries to his body similar to the ones on his wife's body. Read More................Court tells man to inflict injury upon himself

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'Child Goddess' asked to go to school

Sambhavi was proclaimed and celebrated as a child goddess. Her parents claimed she was Dalai Lama's friend in an earlier incarnation, but the Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission has ordered that the eight-year-old child from Kurnool district must go to school so her right to education is not violated. Read more..................Pressure builds to send 'child goddess' to school

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Four-year-old boy set record for push-ups

Rajkot (Gujarat): Ronak Vitha, a four-and-a-half-year-old boy from Gujarat's Rajkot city has set a record by doing 1,500 push-ups in 40-minutes.

Buzz up!Ronak' s mother Ruchi Vitha said her son's interest in push-ups began, when he just a toddler. Read More................Four-year-old Rajkot boy set record for push-ups

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Drunk father kills five daughters

Sehore (MP): A man allegedly in an inebriated condition killed his five minor daughters in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore district over the weekend. Read More................Drunk father kills five daughters

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Teenager kills father for using his mobile

A teenager killed his father by attacking him with a hammer after the middle-aged man made a phone call from his mobile at Khorinan village in West Bengal's Burdwan district, police said.

'The victim's wife lodged a complaint against her son alleging that he had murdered his father. The boy, who is a teenager, has been held for interrogation,' Kalna sub-divisional police officer Rathindranath Mukherjee said. Read More................Teenager kills father for using his mobile

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Poor man lynched for 'stealing' cellphone

SASARAM: A man was lynched at Torana village under Sheosagar police station of Rohtas district on Saturday allegedly for stealing a cellphone, said police. This is the tenth incident of lynching of a Dalit-Adivasi in Rohtas and Kaimur districts over the past two years. Read More................Dalit lynched for 'stealing' cellphone

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Woman Married to Indian Groom While Unconscious

A young woman was drugged and married to an Indian man while she was unconscious, the Times of India reported.

Officers investigating the sham wedding in Shanti Nagar, near Amravati, central India, said the astonishing plot was hatched when she refused to wed her teacher's son. Read More................Woman Married to Indian Groom While Unconscious

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32 suffer burns as man sprinkles acid during wedding

As many as 32 persons suffered acid burns at a marriage ceremony in the Pahasu area of Bulandshahr on Monday, after the groom’s cousin ‘mistakenly’ assumed acid to be water and sprinkled it on the bride’s relatives. The accused, identified as one Kailash, has been arrested. Read More................32 suffer burns as man sprinkles acid during wedding

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With goddess 'watching', houses here have no doors

Singipur (Uttar Pradesh): The houses of this village have no doors, yet its residents don't feel the lack of protection as they believe goddess Kali watches over them. What's more, no thefts have been reported here for many years. Read More................With goddess 'watching', houses here have no doors

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Woman gets power connection after 1,813 days

BANGALORE: The decks have finally been cleared for Lachhi Poojarthy, a poor illiterate widow from Kundapur taluk, to get compensation for being made to wait 1,813 days to get power connection for her hut by the Mangalore Electricity Supplying Company (Mescom). Read More................Woman gets power connection after 1,813 days

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Dancer on 5-day non-stop show to make it to Guinness

Seeking to make her way into the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest dance performance,well-known danseuse Kalamadnalam Hemalatha started a five-day-five night 'Mohiniyattam' presentation here on Monday. Read More................Dancer on 5-day non-stop show to make it to Guinness

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Railway station authorities launch drive to control bulls' menace

Varanasi: The increasing frequency of attacks by some rogue bulls in Varanasi has forced the temple town's Railway authorities to remove them from the Railway station premises.

The authorities have received a number of complaints by visitors to the railway station about the bulls' nuisance. Read More................Varanasi railway station authorities launch drive to control bulls' menace

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Hitler once worshipped as Kalki God in elite Kolkata homes

New Delhi: If Britain-based historian Nicholas Goodricke-Clarke is to be believed, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler was "compared to Kalki, the last avatar of Vishnu" by an Indian spiritualist, practitioner of occult and Nazi sympathiser from Kolkata, Savitri Devi.

Hitler was even worshipped in elite Bengali homes in Kolkata, says the writer at a time when Bollywood actor Anupam Kher will be essaying the role of the Nazi dictator in a new biopic to be directed by Rakesh Ranjan. Read More................Hitler once worshipped as Kalki in elite Kolkata homes

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Silk saree with 1330 couplets from a scripture

Coimbatore: Silk handloom weavers in Coimbatore have woven a resplendent new Saree with 1,330 Thirukurals or couplets from holy scriptures in Tamil spun into the silk.

Buzz up!The Thirukurals were written by legendary Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar and reportedly date back to the 4th century AD.

"We have accommodated all the aspects of the holy Thirukkural (Tamil couplets) in this silk saree (drape). The length of this saree is 6 1/4 metres and breadth is 48" inches and it weighs 1 1/2 kilograms, " said Balasubramanian, a silk handloom weaver. Read More................Tamil silk saree with 1330 couplets from a scripture on display at Coimbatore

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Most inefficient bureaucracy in Asia

India has the most inefficient bureaucracy in Asia and red-tape is much worse than in China, says a survey.

In the ranking of 12 countries, India has been named as having the most inefficient bureaucracy followed by Indonesia and the Philippines, according to the survey of expatriate business executives conducted by the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC).

Quoting the consultancy, news agency AFP has reported that bureaucratic red-tape is a serious problem in India and China but "the differences in the political systems of these two countries have made inertia much worse in India than in China". Read More................'Indian babus most inefficient in Asia'

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Forty percent of the world's child marriages occur in India

Forty percent of the world's child marriages occur in India, and 78,000 young Indian women die in childbirth and from pregnancy complications each year, according to UNICEF. Read More................Indian girl rails against early, arranged marriages

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Monkey enters Metro Train, delays services by 15 minutes

New Delhi: It was 10:15 am and a train going towards Dilshad Garden had just arrived at Rithala, terminal station of the Rithala-Dilshad Garden line.

As soon as passengers started boarding the train, somebody spotted a monkey entering one of the coupes. "The animal caused a flutter among passengers with everybody running helter-skelter," confirmed a Metro official, requesting anonymity. Read More................Monkey enters Delhi Metro, delays services by 15 minutes

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Women tied him to a tree and took turns beating him

For 19 years, he came home drunk every night, and beat up his wife, demanding dowry.

Tired of his promises to change his ways, the women of a small village in the Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh finally tied the offender to a tree on Monday and took turns beating him. Read More................Women tied him to a tree and took turns beating him

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66-year-old fails in Class 10 boards for 45th time

Lucknow: It was 45th time unlucky for 66-year-old Jabbar Husen from an Uttar Pradesh village who has failed his Class 10 exams again this year — but the never-say-die grocer is determined try and try again till he succeeds in clearing the exam. Read More................66-year-old fails in Class 10 boards for 45th time

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More Indians have access to mobiles than toilets

New Delhi: The overwhelming reach of mobile phones and people's dependence on them have been such that a Delhi High Court judge on Monday could not resist himself from commenting that the gadgets have become more accessible than toilets in India.

"The paradox is that more people have access to mobile phones than toilets in India," was how Justice Kailash Gambhir expressed his feelings while dealing with the issue of sealing of cell phone towers in the capital. Read More................More Indians have access to mobiles than toilets’

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Village can shed its derogatory name

There is something to cheer about for the residents of a non-descript village in Rajasthan who have been struggling for the last 23 years to get its "derogatory" name changed.

Replying to a notice issued by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in this regard, the Ministry of Home Affairs has recently said that it had no objection if the name of the village 'Chamaron Ka Vas' (home of cobblers) is changed to its original name 'Kuwan Ka Vas' (home of wells). Read More................Rajasthan village can shed its derogatory name

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