Man Who Married One Girl a Month For Five Years

Darjeeling: A 27-year-old with multiple identities who managed to marry almost one girl a month for five years and sell them to brothels in Pune and Mumbai has been arrested by Darjeeling police.

The arrest of Bikky Biswakarma alias Bishal Chhetri alias Prakash Rai from his Kalchini residence in Jalpaiguri district yesterday has helped police trace at least nine girls so far. The police believe they will be able to find the whereabouts of another “seven to eight” girls.

Social workers think the arrest could help track down around 60 victims. Read More................60-wife trafficker arrested - Youth sold girls to brothels

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Child Sacrifice Cases Stun India

New Delhi - Police in India's central state of Chhattisgarh have arrested seven people for allegedly sacrificing two children to gain 'supernatural powers,' officials said Thursday.

Witch-doctor Ishwari Yadav, his wife Kiranbai and five of their disciples were arrested after police found the bodies of a 2-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl at their home in Durg district Wednesday.

'The boy was killed on Tuesday and the girl was murdered some six months ago,' district police chief Amit Kumar said in a telephone interview. '(The suspects) were arrested for holding human sacrifices and have confessed their crimes.'

'During questioning the couple admitted that they had offered the sacrifices for appeasing the Hindu goddess Kali and attaining occult powers and wealth,' Kumar said. Read More................Child sacrifice cases stun India

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Mukesh Ambani's first power bill in Antilia — Rs70L

MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani's Godzilla-sized home in Mumbai, Antilia, has just notched up another headline. In the one month since he moved in with wife Nita and their three children, the house has generated a power bill of Rs 70,69,488, Mumbai's highest residential electricity bill. Read more........Mukesh Ambani's first power bill in Antilia — Rs70L

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Ban on Mobile Phones for Unmarried Girls

Muzaffarnagar: After beatings and murders, khap panchayats are ramping up the crackdown on females in Uttar Pradesh. A village panchayat here has banned the use of mobile phones by unmarried girls, a move they feel would prevent them from eloping with their lovers. Read more.........Now, a ban on mobile phones for unmarried girls

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Now a Fatwa says Donating Blood Un-Islamic

Muzaffarnagar/New Delhi In a potentially controversial decree, Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has said that donation of blood and body parts was against the tenets of Islam, but observed that giving blood to save the life of a near and dear one was acceptable.

However, the opinion of the prominent Islamic seminary has not gone down well with several Muslim intellectuals who have asserted that religious bodies have already stated that there was no (no) problem with blood donation. Read More................Darul fatwa says donating blood un-Islamic

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Debt-ridden man's daughter rescued from Money lender

A teenaged girl, handed over to a money lender by her father who failed to repay a loan of Rs.15,000, was rescued by police from Ghaziabad Sunday, an official said.

Sub-divisional magistrate Pushpa Devrar said: 'Police have informed me that the girl has been rescued today (Sunday) evening. The police are looking into other aspects of the case such as her age and the other claims made by the money lender.' Read More................Debt-ridden man's daughter rescued from money lender

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'Ghaans ki Roti'

In Gajnai village, starving tribals were forced to eat Ghaans Roti to quell their hunger. What is shocking and unacceptable is that this is not a new phenomenon. They have routinely faced such a grim reality to survive. Here lies text-book case of falling through the cracks. Read More................'Ghaans ki Roti' still a staple food for tribals in the times of PDS

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Doctor Arrested for Selling Corpses

Three people, including a doctor in a government hospital, were arrested in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh for selling unclaimed corpses to private medical colleges, police said Thursday.

'The three sold unclaimed bodies brought for autopsy at the Civil Lines Postmortem House,' police inspector Anil Kumar Raghav said in Moradabad, about 350 km from Lucknow. Read More................Doctor arrested for selling corpses

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India lost $462 billion in illicit financial flows: Report

Post independence, India lost a staggering $462 billion in illicit financial flows due to tax evasion, crime and corruption, a research and advocacy group said in a report today.

The report, The Drivers and Dynamics of Illicit Financial Flows from India: 1948-2008', released by Washington-based Global Financial Integrity (GFI) found that the faster rates of economic growth since economic reform started in 1991 led to a deterioration of income distribution which led to more illicit flows from the country. Read more..........India lost $462 billion in illicit financial flows

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Delhi’s ‘divine’ Goat costs Rs.4.5 lakh

New Delhi:
How does it matters, whether goat is valued at Rs.4.5 lakhs or of little value but both shall be killed or sacrificed!!!!!!

With a day to go for Eid-ul-Azha, the goat bazaar at Jama Masjid in old Delhi is doing brisk business. But the star of the show is a goat - with a price tag of a whopping Rs.4.5 lakh. Read More................Delhi’s ‘divine’ goat costs Rs.4.5 lakh

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Man killed for plucking two brinjals in Bihar village

Patna: A Dalit man was beaten to death for plucking two brinjals from a field belonging to a landowner of a higher caste in a village in Bihar, police said Wednesday. Read More................Dalit killed for plucking two brinjals in Bihar village

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Grave Benefits: Where, even dead get pension

LUCKNOW: UP is a classic case of corruption where even dead are being given old-age pension. This way, a sum of Rs 4.21 crore, was given away as pension and transferred to 18,461 accounts of the dead persons between 2007-09.

"What is disturbing is that no steps have so far been taken to seek refund of this amount for the past three years even after detecting the lapses on part of the social welfare department," the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India said in its latest report. Read more........Grave benefits: In UP, even dead get pension

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Unique Ritual: Pelting Stones to Appease Goddess

Shimla – A day after the festival of lights, a unique stone pelting fair was organised Saturday as part of an annual ritual in the former princely state of Dhami in Himachal Pradesh.

In local parlance it is known as ‘pattharon ka mela’ (fair of stones). During the fair, male adults gathered in a ground and pelted each other with small stones in Dhami village, some 40 km from Himachal Pradesh’s capital Shimla.

‘More than 500 people gathered in the village this (Saturday) noon for the ritual. People who got injured and bled, smeared the forehead of Goddess Kali (a deity in a temple) with their blood,’ fair organiser Jagdeep Singh told IANS. Read More................Unique Himachal ritual: Pelting stones to appease goddess

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Where Diwali is celebrated with cane fights!

LUCKNOW: As Diwali morning dawned Friday, young men armed themselves with 'lathis', waving the canes in the air and charging at their opponents. No, this wasn't a fight - but just how the festival is celebrated in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district. Read more........Where Diwali is celebrated with cane fights!

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