When Parrot Was Killed for Wrongly Predicting Cricket Match

Bangalore: The first casualty of the cricket frenzy has been pronounced. It's not a human being, but a sad little parrot that had to forego its life at the hands of its master. The only mistake the “psychic parrot” did was predicting that Pakistan will win the World Cup 2011. Not only did it predict the win once but did the same grave mistake three times in a row. Read More................The first casualty of the Ind VS Pak cricket fever

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Molester told to organise feast as punishment

Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh): Defying the law, a village panchayat here dealt in its own way with a molester -- it ordered him to organise a feast for the villagers as his punishment, police said.

But the accused was later arrested as the disappointed victim approached the police to seek justice.

The order was pronounced March 13 by the panchayat of Kapsa village on a complaint by a 45-year-old widow, who had accused one Ram Bahadur, a native of the same village, of molesting her. Read More................Molester told to organise feast as punishment

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Panchayat asks man to stand in seven-feet water

AJMER: The remote Surajpura village of Kekeri block in Ajmer witnessed an unusual ritual on Thursday when a maha panchayat of kanjar' tribal community ordered a man to stay under seven-feet water and another person to swim a distance of 100 feet to prove their innocence following a family dispute. Read More................Panchayat asks man to stand in seven-feet water

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'Death money' custom causing law and order in Rajasthan

Jaipur: Rajasthan Police are probing if a recent case of arson in Pratapgarh district is a fallout of the tribal system of collecting 'death money' from a person causing someone's death and resorting to protests and even violence if it is not paid, officials said.

The 'Mautana' tradition, literally the 'death money', prevalent in Rajasthan's Mewar region covering Pratapgarh, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand and Udaipur districts, has created serious law and order situations recently, they said. Read More................'Death money' custom causing law and order in Rajasthan

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Election Sops: Free rice, Grinders, Laptops

Chennai: From free grinders to 35 kg free rice every month for 1.6 million poor families, free bus passes for senior citizens to free laptops for Dalit engineering students, increase in old age pension to new insurance scheme for fishermen, the DMK manifesto released here has offered sops to all. Read More................Karuna's `karuna': free rice, grinders, laptops

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Four held for selling fake Million-Dollar note

Indore: Four persons have been arrested for trying to sell a fake million-dollar currency note here.

Acting on a tip-off, the police laid a trap and arrested Mohammad Taj of Asansol district along with Radheshyam Luniya, Narendra Dangi and Prem Narayan Rathod -- all from Madhya Pradesh, the police said.Read More................Four held for selling fake million-dollar note

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A septuagenarian held for 86 vehicle thefts

New Delhi: He started it in the 1960s, stealing cars from the parking lots of local courts, and claims to have even forged papers of a judge and presided over a district court in Rohtak for some days. Now in his 70s, Dhani Ram Mittal has been nabbed for involvement in 89 cases of vehicle thefts and forgery in the capital, police said. Read More................A septuagenarian held for 86 vehicle thefts

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Black Magic Students Give Qualifying Exam

Ghatsila (Jharkhand): It was a qualifying exam with a difference.

Aspiring students of black magic in Jharkhand’s Ghatsila town performed rituals to pass qualifying tests conducted by Tantrics on Saturday.

Some of the rituals included performing yoga while suspended from a tree and meditating in birthday suits for hours.Read More................Black magic students perform rituals to qualify

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TV, Cinema tools of Satan

The last time the Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind (JUH) hit the headlines was in November 2009 when it reiterated an old fatwa against singing Vande Matram. And now the supposedly nationalist organization is at it again — last week, at its managing committee's meeting in Delhi, JUH ( Mahmood Madani faction) cautioned Muslims against "vices" such as television, cinema and condoms. Read More................‘TV, cinema tools of Satan, must be buried’

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Judge Outsources His Verdicts

NEW DELHI: Ghost writers are common in the literary world, but this probably is the first case in the judiciary. A Jharkhand trial court judge has been shown the door for outsourcing writing of judgments. Read More................SC dismisses judge for outsourcing his verdicts

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Man Gets Shot In Head But Keeps Date With Bride

Jaipur: It was a scene even Bollywood’s scriptwriters could not have imagined. A man gets shot in the head while he is getting ready for his wedding procession.

Shocked relatives rush him to the SMS Hospital. Friends and family start praying for his life. What does our hero do next?

Next morning, Babu Lal, the 27-year-old man who got shot in Bharatpur on Sunday, flees from the hospital, head heavily bandaged, medicines still flowing in his veins, and goes straight to the bride's home. An hour later they get married. Read More................Man defies death, keeps date with bride

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Drunk official forgets to deliver question papers

NAWADA: Scores of examinees went on rampage on the first day of the Intermidiate examination on Tuesday as a drunk education official arrived with question papers an hour after the exams began.

Nawada district education officer Sayeed Akhtar has removed the officer from duty and slapped him with a show cause notice.

Sources said intermediate examinees of economics, biology and commerce subjects at Nagar Madhya Vidyalaya, located in Nawada, resorted to stone-throwing as the question papers were delivered to them at 11 am, instead of scheduled 10 am. Read More................Drunk official forgets to deliver question papers

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Youth workers thrash professor with sandals

Khandhwa, Madhya Pradesh: A professor in Madhya Pradesh was dragged out of his classroom and attacked by members of the BJP's student party, the ABVP.

Hours later, unrepentant, after a police case has been registered against three ABVP workers and 50 others who were with them, they say the teacher deserved it. Read more at: BJP youth workers thrash professor with sandals

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Mother, daughter to appear for exams together

Kolkata: Displaying a never-say-die spirit, Bharati Devi, a 40-year-old mother of three, is all set to appear for her secondary examinations this year along with her daughter in northern West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district.

Bharati, who works at a child education centre along with her married daughter Sanchita, is sitting for the examinations at Sunitibala Sadar Girls High School as an external candidate. Read More................Mother, daughter to appear for secondary exams in Bengal

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Burglers robbed garment shops for starting own shop

New Delhi: Delhi Police claimed to have busted a gang of burglars, who wanted to start a garment shop using the stolen goods, with the arrest of three youths allegedly involved in at least nine cases.

The receiver of the stolen goods has also been apprehended with police recovering 9.5 kg of silver, 1.2 kg of gold, three LCDs, three laptops and ten gas cylinders besides a large number of sarees they stole from a garment shop. Read More................Burglers robbed garment shops for starting own shop

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Man who came back from 'dead' to sue wife

Chandigarh: A septuagenarian former Indian Air Force (IAF) official declared dead by a local Punjab court in 1996 on the basis of evidence submitted by his family members, has now decided to file a case against his wife and sons. Read More................Man who came back from 'dead' to sue wife

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'Dead man' lands in police net after 20 years

New Delhi, For 20 years, he was a "dead man" but landed in police net following a renewed drive to apprehend proclaimed offenders in the national capital.
Akthar (47), wanted in cases of murder and other heinous cases, was apprehended from south Delhi''s Mehrauli recently when he came there to catch a bus to Pul Prahaladpur where he stays with his family. Read More................''Dead man'' lands in police net after 20 years

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After years of legal battle man proves himself alive

Mohali, The 12-year-old legal battle of a retired warrant officer of the IAF to prove that he was was not dead came to an end when a sub-divisional court declared him alive.
Deciding two separate suits dating back to 1999 and 2002, in favour of Sital Singh Bagi, a sub-divisional court at Rajpura in Patiala has set aside the court order issued in 1996, wherein the septuagenarian ex-serviceman was declared "dead", and has now declared him alive. Read More................After years of legal battle ex-IAF man proves himself alive

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Freak man-eating elephant eats 17

Elephants are attacking and even eating villagers in the Sundarban Islands of West Bengal, India.

A documentary episode titled ?World's Deadliest Towns: Man-Eating Elephant,? broadcast by Animal Planet in the U.S.

Feb. 21, showed the at once terrifying and miserable story of an elephant which ate 17 people before being put to death.

The farming village is at times visited by the nocturnal elephants that are looking for food, revealed the broadcast. Read More................Freak man-eating elephant eats 17

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Badminton champion told to clean utensils

Shimla - A badminton champion, studying in class 12 of a government school in Sirmau district of Himachal Pradesh, was asked to clean utensils at the school's annual function presided over by state Health Minister Rajeev Bindal.

Aarzoo Thakur, a student of Government Senior Secondary School at Dadahu in Sirmaur and gold medallist at the National Women Festival - 2010 held in Agra, attended the function Tuesday, where she and a couple of other students were later asked to wash utensils, her family said.

'It's a high disregard for a champion,' her father Inder Singh Thakur told IANS Thursday over phone. Read More................Badminton champion told to clean utensils in Himachal

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Weird but true

Monkey catchers in New Delhi, India, got a raise after the city found that at $5 per critter, they were paid too little to live on.

Catchers now get about $7 for each monkey they snag.

It takes them about two days to catch a monkey. Read More................Weird but true

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India: past life regression therapy takes hold

NEW DELHI, India — When Sumeet Kohli's husband was killed in a traffic accident, the 37-year-old cineplex manager was devastated. But when psychiatric medicines failed to help her, her husband's memory inspired her to make a decision she says changed her fate: She sought out a regression therapist who helped her dredge up memories of a past life. Read More................India: past life regression therapy takes hold

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