Cops to return Bribe with 9% interest

SONEPAT: Eleven years ago, when SHO Gulshan Rai and assistant sub-inspector Rao Ramkumar winked at murder accused Mukesh Kumar, asking the terrified man to shell out Rs 30,000 to escape torture at the police station, they hardly knew they would one day have to actually return to the victim not just the principal amount but add interest of a healthy 9%. Read More................Cops to return bribe with 9% interest

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Infant charged with 'breach of peace' by police

Patna : A court in Bihar's Muzzaffarpur district has served a show cause notice to a police official who filed a chargesheet against an 18-month-old boy for allegedly insulting someone with the intention of breaching peace. Read More.............Infant charged with 'breach of peace' by police in Bihar

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Mobile phone in Buffalo's tummy, gets 7 missed calls

BIJAPUR: This buffalo must have been taken aback when it heard a mobile ringing in its tummy. But not as much as the callers. There were seven missed calls! Read More............Buffalo swallows phone, gets 7 missed calls

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Day it rained money on streets

KOLKATA: This will make you wish you were on Jawaharlal Nehru Road around 1 pm on Wednesday. It rained money on this sizzling afternoon. Crisp Rs 500 notes, some in bundles, others loose and lazily floating to the ground. It wasn’t lady luck showering her bounty, but officials of a company trying to duck an income tax raid. Read More................Day it rained money on streets To avoid deductions at IT raid

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Two Devotees of Shiva Jump Into Fire

In a case of alleged self-sacrifice out of superstitious devotion, two people jumped onto a ritualistic fire lighted in connection with Maha Sivaratri festival at a remote village in Andhra Pradesh's Adilabad district.

Devidas (23) and Sitaram (30) had been observing 'Siva Deeksha,' a religious vow for a period of 40 days, and they jumped onto the fire during 'jagran' (a ritual of remaining awake during the night of Sivaratri) at Shivnoor village in Jainoor mandal of the district late on Monday night, police officials told PTI over phone. Read More................Two Devotees of Shiva End Life by Jumping Into Fire in Hyderabad

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Woman sold baby to pay bills

A POVERTY-STRICKEN single mother in India reportedly sold her newborn son to a childless couple for 6000 rupees ($180) so she could pay her medical bill. Read More................Woman sold baby to pay bills - report

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Huge procession to mourn death of Ox

Bhubaneswar - Hundreds of villagers took out a huge procession in Orissa to mourn the death of an ox that injured many people, a police officer said Wednesday. Read More................Villagers mourn death of ox in Orissa

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Wife throws acid on husband for illicit affair

Raipur: A woman was arrested here Saturday for throwing acid on her husband after he allegedly had an extramarital affair, police said. Read More................Wife throws acid on husband for illicit affair

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Helicopter stops play in Indian cricket match

Mumbai – A helicopter stopped play in a domestic cricket game in India after the pilot mistook the pitch for a landing pad, local media reported Sunday.

Players were forced to abort Saturday's one-day game and scurry for cover when the hapless pilot set the chopper down on the letter 'H' painted in the corner of the cricket ground. Read more................................Helicopter stops play in Indian cricket match

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Man, wife kill mother to cut down on expenditure

A government employee in a West Bengal village and his wife were arrested for allegedly killing his 82-year-old mother, reportedly because they wanted to cut down on their expenditure, the police said Monday. Read more..................................Man, wife kill mother to cut down on expenditure

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Boy marries dog to ward off tiger attacks

An infant boy has been married off to his neighbours' dog in eastern India by villagers who said it will stop the groom from being killed by wild animals.

Around 150 tribespeople performed the ritual recently in a hamlet in the state of Orissa's Jajpur district after the boy, who is under two years old, grew a tooth on his upper gum. Read more................Boy marries dog to ward off tiger attacks

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Headmistress forcibly cuts eight girls' hair

Angry parents surrounded a school in West Bengal Wednesday and threatened to shut it down after the headmistress forcibly gave eight students a hair cut, the police said. Read more...............Headmistress forcibly cuts eight girls' hair in West Bengal

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Casanova Groom Lands in Jail

The groom-to-be would have been on his honeymoon, but instead he landed in the police lock-up, when on the night of his wedding, his girlfriend spilled the beans on her "long sexual relationship" with him in front of a gathering of 250 guests. Read more..............Casanova groom lands in lock-up

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Marriage in hot air balloon

LUCKNOW: Imagine a young bride and her groom performing the marriage rituals in a floating mandap some 100 feet above the ground! If you find it hard to imagine, then watch it happen live before your eyes on February 26 in Lucknow when an adventurous young couple will tie the knot in a hot air balloon with a pandit reciting hymns and couplets from the religious scriptures. This would be the first hot air balloon wedding in the city. Read more............Couple to tie the knot in hot air balloon

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Man murders wife for Rs 50

CHANDIGARH: All she wanted was her husband should abstain from drinking. So instead of giving in to his demand for Rs 50 to buy liquor, Indira Colony resident Kiran, 33, resisted due to which her husband Sunil in a fit of anger hit her fatally with a stick. Read more...............Man murders wife for Rs 50

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They call it Mellow Yellow!!!!

NEW DELHI – A hardline Hindu organization, known for its opposition to "corrupting" Western food imports, is planning to launch a new soft drink made from cow's urine, often seen as sacred in parts of India. Read more............They call it Mellow Yellow?

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Girl refuses to marry drunk groom

An uneducated woman in a Bihar village stunned members of her family and community when she refused to marry the groom because she found him in an inebriated state just ahead of the wedding ceremony, police said on Tuesday. Read more.........................Bihar village girl refuses to marry drunk groom

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Man challaned for not wearing helmet while driving a car!

Allahabad: A local court here has issued summons to a traffic policeman for having challaned a person for not wearing a helmet, though the commuter was driving a car. Read more................Man challaned for not wearing helmet while driving a car!

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Hot iron rods pressed on 16-month-old to cure fever

RAIPUR: A 16-month-old baby in a Chhattisgarh village was shockingly subjected to treatment by hot iron rods, leaving burn marks on his body - all to cure the child of fever and vomiting! Read more.............Hot iron rods pressed on 16-month-old to cure fever

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'Holy' pumpkins fetch Rs.100,000

Pumpkins grown in a mosque compound in a Bihar village were auctioned for Rs.100,000 with people frantically bidding for what they believed was a god's gift. Read more...........'Holy' pumpkins fetch Rs.100,000

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Mother kills daughter to appease deity

Patna : In a bizarre occult ritual, a 10-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her mother and brother in a Bihar village to appease a deity, as per one police officer. Read more....................Bihar mother kills daughter to appease deity

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A 'temporary' teacher for 18 years loses his job

After working for 18 years at a government-run school in West Bengal, a man lost his job as a judge ruled he had been appointed only temporarily. Read more............A 'temporary' teacher for 18 years loses his job

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Across India in a rickshaw

Dodging cattle, buses and mongrel dogs on India’s roadways in a rickety, motorized rickshaw reminded a group of Saskatchewan adventurists it’s the journey, not the destination, that truly matters.

Rick Mitchell, one member of the Rotary Rockets trio, admits there were times during last month’s 14-day, 3,500-kilometre Rickshaw Run when he asked himself, “What in the hell am I doing here?” — when facing cockroaches pouring out of his shaving kit bag like it was an anthill, or looking for repair parts in a city “full of the scariest people I have ever seen.” Read more...........Across India in a rickshaw

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Poor boy marries rich girl, family beheaded in Bihar

Patna Eight members of a man's poverty-ridden family were shot and beheaded before their bodies were thrown into a river in Bihar after he secretly married a wealthy girl, police said on Wednesday. Read more.............Poor boy marries rich girl, family beheaded in Bihar

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Arrest warrant against Kerala ex-CM 5 years after death

A Thiruvananthapuram court has issued an arrest warrant against former Kerala chief minister E K Nayanar -five years after his death with the police failing to inform the magistrate about the Marxist leader's demise. Read more..............Arrest warrant against Kerala ex-CM 5 years after death

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Couple buries baby girl alive

Vadodara: A couple, along with their son, has been remanded to judicial custody for burying alive their fourteenth child, a newborn girl, in Jalodra village in the district. Read more............Couple buries baby girl alive

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Want a rented house, Furnish character certificate first

BANGALORE: It’s one thing to check out potential tenants for possible links with unwanted elements, but quite another to cast aspersions on unmarried 20-somethings.

House owners in the city are now asking single working women to furnish character certificates on company letterheads, before renting out their houses. Read more..............Landlords play moral police

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Football sized tumour removed from jaw

An Indian woman has had a tumour as big as a football removed from the side of her face, 25 years after it first developed.

Doctors who performed the operation believe 67-year-old Lakhmani Devi's parotid gland tumour, which weighed nearly two kilogrammes, may have been the biggest ever removed from a human. Read more................Indian woman has football-sized tumour removed from jaw

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‘Pink Undergarment Campaign’ on Valentine's Day

A “consortium of pub-going, loose and forward women”, still seething under Pramod Mutalik’s moral policing and hectoring, will collect chaddis (undergarments) from across the country and courier them to the Sri Rama Sena’s Bangalore office by V-Day. This is the revenge of the urban woman, ‘pink undergarment’ her symbol of annoyance. Read more...............Pink chaddis for Mutalik on V-Day

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Man writes lost love's name on postcards 1.4 mn times

Ranchi: A man in Jharkhand has written the name of his lost love 1.4 million times since 1997 and wants to continue till he reaches the figure of 10 million as penance for not having had the courage to ask for her hand in marriage as well as to inspire other lovers. Read more..............Jharkhand man writes lost love's name on postcards 1.4 mn times

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Entire village faces arrest over felling trees

GIRIDIH (JHARKHAND): The entire male population of a village numbering more than 350, including children, have deserted their homes in Jharkhand apprehending arrest by police in connection with cases of felling trees. Read more...........Entire village in Jharkhand faces arrest over felling trees

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Man assaults jeans-clad wife for dressing up like men

Sirsa, Feb 04: In a brazen act of violence, remniscient of the Shri Ram Sene goons in Mangalore, a man kicked and stamped his wife because she was dressed “as a man”. Read more.............Man assaults jeans-clad wife for dressing up like men

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Man jailed for taking 50 cents 24 years ago

PATNA -- An Indian court sentenced a 75-year-old doctor to jail for accepting half a dollar (35 pence) as bribe nearly a quarter of a century ago, officials said on Wednesday.Read more...................Indian man jailed for taking 50 cents 24 years ago

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Police books 80-year-old under Gangster Act

Lucknow: How much harm can an 80-year-old man do? Apparently enough to be booked under the Goonda Act by the Uttar Pradesh police, who now deny any knowledge of the matter and have promised an inquiry into the matter.

Hamid Khan, an octogenarian in Shahbazpur village in Badaun district has been booked under a tough anti-gangster law, the Goonda Act.Read more..............Uttar Pradesh police books 80-year-old under Gangster Act

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Ram Sene to marry off dating couples

BANGALORE: The fuss over Valentine’s Day celebration by the self-styled moral police appears to be getting on Bangalore’s nerves. Clearly unwilling to let themselves face a culture shock of sorts by spoilsports of the Sri Rama Sene who have threatened to ruin the celebrations, youth wings of many parties and student leaders vowed to keep the city safe and peaceful on February 14. Read more...........Ram Sene to marry off dating couples

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Life and Love under a tree for 25 years

Ranchi: Left without a roof over their heads for marrying against their families’ wishes, a couple in Jharkhand took shelter under a tree 25 years ago. It was to be their nest for the rest of their life.

Mangra Mahali and his wife Balkhi, both tribals in their early 50s, have been living under a tree near the Tatisilve railway station, about 30 km from here.Read more.................Life and love under a tree for 25 years

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Free mobile phones to fight Maoists in Indian state

RANCHI – Authorities in an insurgency-hit eastern Indian state are distributing free mobile phones to villagers to provide information about Maoist rebels, officials said.

The heads of about 220 villages in Jharkhand have been provided with a mobile phone each and users are provided with a list of police numbers to call as part of the latest strategy to fight Maoist insurgency. Read more................Free mobile phones to fight Maoists in Indian state

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Baby boy for sale

New Delhi - In yet another shocking incident that illustrates the deep-rooted prejudice against female children in India's society, police have arrested four people in connection with the attempted sale of a newborn baby boy in the northern Punjab state. Read more................Baby boy for sale: bizarre crime shows India's deep-seated gender bias

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Man killed over a cigarette

KOLKATA: One man died and another is battling for life in a city hospital after a misunderstanding spiralled out of control and took a violent turn in Gobra, Park Circus, on Tuesday. And, it was all over a cigarette. Read more.............Kolkata man killed over a cigarette

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