Thursday, May 28, 2009

Woman awaits last rites for 25 yrs

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LUCKNOW: If you thought mummies can only be found inside Egyptian pyramids, then visit the State Medico Legal Cell (SMLC) office at Aishbagh. The dilapidated premises still houses the embalmed mortal remains of a murder victim who breathed her last almost 25 years ago. Read More................Awaiting last rites for past 25 yrs

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Youth lynched for stealing cellphone

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SANGAREDDY: A youth was tied to a tree and beaten to death for allegedly stealing a cellphone at Bachepally village in Kalheru mandal of Medak district late on Tuesday night. Read More................Man lynched for stealing cellphone

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Fear of flying? Divine help soon at Airport

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New Delhi: For those suffering from aviophobia, the fear of flying, divine help will be at hand soon with a grand temple with south Indian architecture coming up just outside the airport here. Read More................Aviophobia? Divine help soon at Delhi airport

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Bridegroom walks off after dispute over rituals

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VADODARA: A bridegroom and his marriage party left the wedding site without the bride after a dispute arose over observing religious rituals in solemnising the marriage at Likhvad village near here. Read More................Bridegroom walks off after dispute over rituals

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Monday, May 25, 2009

Kids bring mom home after 20-yr jungle stay

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MUMBAI: In the hospital ward in the western suburbs where Laxmi Baraskar is being treated, the staff call her "Jungle Laxmi" — an apt moniker for the wiry woman who spent the last two decades in the jungle near Guhagar taluka in Ratnagiri. Read More................Kids bring mom home after 20-yr jungle stay

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Indian Dad hasn't had a bath in 35 years!

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Kailash ‘Kalau’ Singh is from the village of Chatav outside the holy city of Varanasi. He is 63-years-old and the father of seven daughters. He has gone for 35 years without bathing apparently in an attempt to have a son.

One of Singh’s neighbors, Madhusudan, says that a seer told Kalau years ago that if he didn’t take a bath, he would be blessed with a male child. It seems that many Indians prefer sons for financial reasons. Sons are breadwinners. Girls have to have the matrimonial dowry for the grooms family when they marry. Also, in Indian culture, all their earnings go to their husband’s family. For those reasons, girl children are considered a burden.

So for 35 years Singh hasn’t bathed. It appears his efforts are not working so far.

Read More................Indian dad avoids washing for 35 years: report

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Father kills son for refusing to marry again

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Patna: A man in a village in Bihar’s Bhojpur district declined to carry out his father’s order to desert his wife and marry another woman. The enraged father and other relatives beat the son to death, police said Wednesday. Read More................Father, relatives kill son for refusing to marry again

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Four unemployed elephants get jobs

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BHOPAL: Four elephants have found a job in the Pench and Satpura tiger reserves in Madhya Pradesh after they were rendered jobless in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Read More................Four elephants get jobs at Pench, Satpura tiger reserves

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Bow down before your wife's 'diktat', Supreme Court tells husbands

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If you want to buy matrimonial peace just do whatever your wife says! This is not some piece of advice from a marriage counsellor, rather it is from the country's apex court. Read More................Listen to your wife, be happy: SC

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Scolded for serving cold food, woman ends life

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AHMEDABAD: A wife committed suicide because her husband had scolder her for serving cold chapattis in dinner. Read More................Scolded for serving cold chapattis, woman ends life

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Angry India skipper Bhutia waltzing towards club exit

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NEW DELHI – India soccer captain Bhaichung Bhutia has sought an immediate release from his club, accusing it of humiliating him after they claimed he appeared more keen to participate in a television dance show than play in the I-League. Read More................Angry India skipper Bhutia waltzing towards club exit

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Monday, May 18, 2009

Sacrificing for Lord Shiva

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In this ritual, men in a remote village in India's eastern Jharkhand state pierce their bodies with iron hooks and hang 90 feet above the ground from them. See the video & article here.........Sacrificing for Lord Shiva

Read Also............Jharkhand tribals suspend themselves 90 feet above ground to please their god

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Cop caught for chain snatching

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BANGALORE: A police constable was caught while trying to snatch a chain from a woman, police said on Friday. Read More................Police constable caught for chain snatching

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Friday, May 15, 2009

Drunk motorist rams into wall of minister's house

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Driving allegedly under the influence of alcohol, a man rammed his luxurious car into the wall of a cabinet minister's house after hitting and injuring a motorcyclist here, police said Thursday. Read More................Drunk motorist rams into wall of minister's house

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Girl dies after being hit by teacher with duster

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BURDWAN (WEST BENGAL): An 11-year-old girl died here after her class teacher allegedly hit her on the head with a duster when she failed to write the national anthem in the district, police said on Friday. Read More................Girl dies after being hit by teacher with duster

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Robbers laugh all the way to banks

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NAVI MUMBAI: Despite several requests made by the Navi Mumbai police to banks and private establishments to install CCTVs and hire effective security guards, the situation has not improved: they are still sitting ducks for armed robbers. Read More................Robbers laugh all the way to Navi Mumbai banks

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Gunning for a rival - and his wife

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A spouse often doesn't get dragged into the electoral battle between candidates. But that's what is happening in the Mandi constituency of Himachal Pradesh. Read More................Gunning for a rival - and his wife

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Monday, May 11, 2009

Father stabs son to death over TV watching

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MUMBAI: A 24-year-old cricket fan would have never imagined that his insistence to watch Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket match would cost his life. Read More................Father stabs son to death over TV watching

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Man buries infant daughter

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KOLKATA: A father of a three-day-old girl allegedly buried her in front of his house at Howrah's Liluah Kona Naskarpara on Thursday night. Read More................Man buries infant daughter, detained

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Court asks techie to sweep hospital

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A young software engineer will sweep the premises of a government-run hospital here for one month, in a novel punishment announced by the Andhra Pradesh High Court after the man was convicted of harassing two women. Read More................Court asks techie harassing women to sweep hospital

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160,000 singers set new world record

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A whopping 160,000 people sang in chorus seven keerthanas, or hymns in praise of god, of Telugu saint-poet Thallapaka Annamacharya here Sunday evening, and broke a 70-year-old world record. Read More................160,000 singers in Hyderabad set new world record

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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Working Three Years Without Off or Leave

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VADODARA: He is somebody every company would yearn to hire. Why not, if he has worked for 1,100 days without leave? K Vijayan, 59, employed with a city-based hotel, hasn’t taken a single day’s leave for over three years now. Leave aside casual or sick leaves, Vijayan hasn’t even taken a single weekly off. And, this unusual feat has earned him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Read More................Vadodara's workaholic sets world record

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A glass of wine with Samosa?

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India's new cutting edge fashion: Women drinking wine.

BANGALORE — Ever thought that a chicken tikka could be paired with a rose, or a palak paneer (cottage cheese in spinach) with a sauvignon blanc?

Aparna Bhagwat, 26, an architect who works at a Bangalore-based design firm, absolutely thinks so. So do her girlfriends.

In a country where drinking used to be taboo for women, and socializing meant sitting around watching the men get smashed, record numbers of urban women are taking to wine drinking, making it socially acceptable and even fashionable.Read More................A glass of wine with your samosa?

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Man commits suicide on father's refusal to buy a car

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LUCKNOW: A man not being able to purchase a car for his son led to his 22-year-old son committing suicide by hanging himself here on Wednesday. incident was reported from Ghazipur police circle. The youth who took the grave step was identified as Kamal Kishore Sharma, a resident of B block, Indiranagar. Read More.....................................Youth commits suicide on father's refusal to buy a car

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Monk's last rites go for more than 10 Million Rs.

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MUMBAI: He had barely shut his eyes and crossed his legs in a meditative padmasana when pain flashed through his chest. In a quiet hamlet of Nadiad in Gujarat, Hemratna Suri Maharajsaheb, spiritual mentor to lakhs of Jains, died last Friday. Read More................Monk's last rites go for a crore

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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

At Age-127, India's oldest voter has seen it all

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JUGGAR (Shimla): Like Tiresias in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, Bhadaru at 127 has seen it all. Fall of a mighty colonial power, rise of a democracy, a changed world order, falling values, rising temperatures.

But through the years he has not lost his commitment to the voting process. "I will vote this time too," he told TOI on Monday, reaffirming his faith in democracy. ``I have done it since 1952. Then it was Nehru," he recalled, going back in time. As he looked around, trying to bring back into his mind images from the past, he suddenly fixed his gaze on the present and said he hopes to see a day his village Juggar, 60 km from Shimla, will be connected by a motorable road. Read More................At 127, India's oldest voter has seen it all

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Hitler - the Management Guru in India

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Sales of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's autobiography and apologia for his anti-semitism, are soaring in India where business students regard the dictator as a management guru.

Booksellers told The Daily Telegraph that while it is regarded in most countries as a 'Nazi Bible', in India it is considered a management guide in the mould of Spencer Johnson's "Who Moved My Cheese".

Sales of the book over the last six months topped 10,000 in New Delhi alone, according to leading stores, who said it appeared to be becoming more popular with every year. Read More................Indian business students snap up copies of Mein Kampf

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Student rushes from exam hall to wedding hall

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Mumbai: A change in the schedule of Mumbai University exams has left 28-year-old university student Abdullah Siddiqui with no choice but to rush from the exam hall to the venue of the wedding fixed for the day. Read More................Student to sit for exams, hours before his marriage

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Doctors remove three-foot rod from man’s chest

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Lucknow: A team of doctors performed a marathon 12-hour surgery to remove a three-foot-long rod from a 60-year-old truck driver’s chest, officials said Wednesday. Read More................Doctors remove three-foot rod from man’s chest

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Monday, May 04, 2009

India's beggars eye Commonwealth windfall

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CHENNAI, India – Beggars in the Indian capital are eying a windfall from tourists during next year's Commonwealth Games and some are learning to ask for alms in foreign languages, according to a newspaper report Sunday.

"More than one lakh (100,000) foreigners will be in the city during the period," Vijay Babli, reported by Hindustan Times as the leader of over 1,200 beggar families living in New Delhi's Rohini's Lal Quarter, told the paper. Read More................India's beggars eye Commonwealth windfall

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