'Psycho' dad locked up 3 daughters, wife for 7 years in Mumbai

It's a story that will send a chill down your spine, a story of a 60-year-old father, who locked, beat and starved his wife and daughters for 7 years.

Francis Gomes, a 60-year-old unemployed man, living in Mumbai along with his wife and 3 daughters had confined his family in the house since 2002.

The father allegedly kept them locked up as he was convinced that his girls would be raped if they even stepped out of home. Read More................'Psycho' dad locked up 3 daughters, wife for 7 years in Mumbai

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2000 women whipped for 5 hours by priests

Like every Dussera, thousands gathered to pray at a 300-year-old temple in Tamil Nadu's Namakkal district . What followed next was unspeakable horror.

Two thousand teenagers and children, some as young as 10, were whipped by the temple's priests. For five hours. The priests' explanation: This whipping is a cure-all. Some 10-year-olds were lashed for not studying enough. Others were attacked for being slow to attain puberty. And menstruating teens were hit for being impure. The priests say this is nothing new. "We have been practicing this ritual for 300 years," declares Thangavelu, a priest. Read More................2000 women whipped for 5 hours by priests

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Donkeys disrupt Julia Roberts’ shooting in India

Nevada Donkeys and a dog interrupted Oscar winner Julia Roberts’ shooting in Mirzapur village in Haryana for “Eat, Pray, Love”, according to reports.
Immediately after director Ryan Murphy uttered “rolling camera”, two donkeys reportedly began braying. Some staff people ran to push the donkeys away while people present laughed. “Donkey disturbance” caused some retakes. Read More................Donkeys disrupt Julia Roberts’ shooting in India

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Rat delays Air India flight by 11 hours

Amritsar: Rat! It's that creature again that held up a London-bound Air India flight by nearly 11 hours from the Rajasansi airport here Saturday.

Flight AI-187, which was scheduled to depart at 6.30 a.m. Saturday, finally left for London around 5.26 p.m. after Air India provided a new aircraft.

There were 238 passengers on the flight.

"The flight finally left at 5.26 p.m. today. Air India provided a new aircraft to take the passengers to London," Air India manager Ashwini Kumar Arora told IANS. Read More................Rat delays Air India flight by 11 hours

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Girl seated near toilet for 6 hrs for applying mehndi

MUMBAI: A city school allegedly meted out corporal punishment, straight from the Middle Ages, to a 12-year-old girl for coming to school with mehndi on her hands.

Tinha Kausar, a Class VII student at Little Angels High School, Sion, who had applied mehndi on the occasion of Eid, has accused the school of making her sit outside the principal’s office on the cold stone floor facing a toilet for over six hours, for breaking school rules that prohibit jewellery and mehndi. Read More................Girl seated near toilet for 6 hrs for applying mehndi

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Beggar, the unlikely but popular village head!

He begs not just for himself but also for the greater common good. As head of his village in Uttar Pradesh, 46-year-old Dharmveer Bhoora has been able to contribute thousands of rupees for development, all made out of begging. Read More................Beggar Bhoora, the unlikely but popular village head!

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US tourist hitches rickshaw, weds driver

A 26-year-old American tourist travelling in India hitched a ride in a rickshaw last week and married the driver a few days later, a report said today.

Whitney from Chicago met her prince charming in Jaipur in Rajasthan, a state west of the capital famous for its stately palaces, after hailing a motorised rickshaw and hiring the driver for her stay in the city, the Mail Today newspaper said. Read More................US tourist hitches rickshaw, weds driver

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Hindus, Muslims line up for 'miracle cure' temple water

A hand pump located inside the premises of an ancient Hanuman temple in Uttar Pradesh is visited by hundreds of people irrespective of their religion every day. Reason: its water is said to have miraculous healing powers.Read More................Hindus, Muslims line up for 'miracle cure' temple water

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Workers lynch top company executive in India

New Delhi - A top executive of an Indian automotive company was killed in the southern state of Tamil Nadu by workers angry over the sacking of their colleagues, news reports said Wednesday. Roy George - vice president of Pricol Ltd, India's leading auto-component manufacturer - died Tuesday after he was attacked by workers at one of the company's plants on the outskirts of Coimbatore city, the NDTV network reported. Read More................Workers lynch top company executive in India

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Man cuts tongue to get a job

Lucknow: An unemployed man sliced his tongue at a temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad town as an offering to appease the Hindu god Shiva and “get blessed with a job”, police said Tuesday. Read More................Man cuts tongue to get a job

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Man gives away daughter in game of cards

MALDA: In a shocking near-rerun of Mahabharata, a habitual gambler staked his 18-year-old daughter as Yudhisthir had done with his wife Draupadi in the epic after losing everything in a game of cards. If that wasn't bad enough, Ismail Sk ended up losing his daughter to his opponent.
The incident occurred in Satgharia village under Englishbazar police station on Wednesday. Locals said Ismail, who is in his late 30s, lost all his money to Mustafa Sk, who is from a neighbouring village. Desperate, Ismail said he would continue playing, and staked his daughter. As luck would have it, Mustafa beat him again and walked away with the girl, against her wish.
Read More................Man gives away daughter in game of cards

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Father throws newborn girl into river

A 27-year-old man has been arrested for throwing his newborn baby girl into a river in Durg district of Chhattisgarh, police said Friday.

'Premjeet Deshmukh confessed that he tossed his week-old girl into Shivnath river as he was expecting a baby boy. He was arrested late Thursday,' Superintendent of Police (Durg) Dipanshu Kabra told reporters.

Kabra said police recovered the body of the girl from the river Sep 6 and sent it to Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Government Hospital in Raipur for examination. The doctors confirmed that the child was killed. Read More................Father throws newborn girl into river in Chhattisgarh

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Love-struck girl massacre 7 of family

Rohtak, Haryana: Facing opposition to her relationship with a neighbourhood boy, a 19-year-old girl murdered seven of her family members, including her parents and brother, in connivance with him, police said yesterday. Both have been arrested.

Seven members of a retired teacher’s family including his son and two daughters-in-law were found murdered in their house in Kabulpura village near this Haryana town, some 70km from New Delhi, on Tuesday morning. The village is about 20km from here. Read More................Love-struck Haryana girl massacre 7 of family

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Stealing bananas to recharge cell phones?

Patna: Need money to recharge your mobile phone and don't have any? Just steal a bunch of bananas and sell it to buy a recharge coupon - that is what poor youths in Bihar's Raghopur area are doing to keep their mobiles ringing. Read More................Stealing bananas to recharge cell phones? It's done in Bihar

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Teachers cut hair of Class 5 students for bunking classes

Lucknow, Sep 14: Two teachers of a private school in Uttar Pradesh forcibly cut the hair of four Class 5 students after catching them bunking classes, an official said Monday. Read More................Teachers cut hair of Class 5 students for bunking classes

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Children tortured for smashing car windscreen

Three children were allegedly tortured for several hours and their house usurped by a man who claimed that they had smashed the windscreen of his car, police said in Bijnor.Read More................Children tortured for smashing car windscreen

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Police search for teacher who forced students to dance nude

Raipur: Police have launched a drive to arrest a primary school teacher who forced students to strip and dance in Koria district of Chhattisgarh.

Khagesh Singh, 35, Monday instructed several students aged seven years to remove their clothes and dance nude in a classroom of a government-run primary school in Tedma village of Koria, 380 km from state capital Raipur. Read More................Police search for teacher who forced students to dance nude

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Expelled for having a beard?

NDTV Group Editor English, News Barkha Dutt had put a question before Md Salim who was barred by his school for growing beard: So is the beard so important to you that you don't go to school because you are not allowed to keep one?

Md Salim: "I will die but not give up my beard. It's a matter of my faith, it's in my religion." Read More................Expelled for having a beard? Ridiculous, says court

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Hindu salvation ritual performed for Michael Jackson

PATNA: Suresh Narayan never met Michael Jackson nor is he a die-hard fan but that did not stop him from offering 'pinda daan' or a Hindu ritual seeking salvation for the king of pop's soul in Bihar's holy town of Gaya. Read More................Hindu salvation ritual performed for Michael Jackson

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Scared of sun, this man hasn't stepped out for 25 years

Dhamtari (Chhattisgarh): He hasn’t stepped out of his house for 25 years. No, he isn’t physically challenged. This 44-year-old man, who lives in a Chhattisgarh village, is simply scared of the sun and its rays.

Gautam Singh Parihar has kept himself confined to his small house in Dhamtari district’s Hinchhapur village for all these years because of his great fear of the sun rays - a phobia neither doctors nor witch doctors have been able to cure. Read More................Scared of sun, this man hasn't stepped out for 25 years

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Indian farmers sell wives to pay debts

Drought-hit farmers in northern India are resorting to selling their wives to repay debts to local loan sharks, activists say, as one of the weakest monsoons in years takes its toll.

Poverty, poor administration and a lack of education means farmers in the rugged Bundelkhand region are taking extreme steps to pull through a poor rainy season, they say.

"This has been happening for quite some time now, but people were hesitant to come out with all this," said Manoj Kumar, a social activist working with farmers in the area.Read More................Indian farmers sell wives to pay debts

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Boy thrown out of a train by cops

A 13-year-old boy, Shahabuddin, was thrown out of the Sleeper class compartment of the Gwalior-Baruani Express near the Pudhani railway station in Muzaffarpur on Thursday. Read More................Boy thrown out of a train by RPF men in Bihar

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Begging bowls in hand, teachers strip

RANCHI: It was a Teachers' Day of a very different kind. Thousands of them walked through the streets of Ranchi in pouring rain towards Jharkhand Raj Bhavan with a long list of grievances and begging bowls in their hands. But what shocked everyone around was when about 300 of them started stripping to their bare essentials! Read More................Begging bowls in hand, teachers strip in Jharkhand

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Runaway Bride

For a thief, ingenuity knows no bounds. A 31-year-old woman "married" 15 men only to escape with their cash and jewellery but finally landed herself in police net near Palyamkottai town in Tamil Nadu. Read More................Runaway bride of Tamil Nadu

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Unable to meet Katrina, youth commits suicide

Bhopal: A youth, part of a large crowd gathered to watch Katrina Kaif shoot for her upcoming film here, is suspected to have jumped into a lake and committed suicide after he was unable to meet the Bollywood actor. Read More................Unable to meet Katrina, youth commits suicide

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Divorcees to line up for 'Swayamvar'

AHMEDABAD: If your first marriage ended in a divorce suit, there is hope. A 'swayamvar' is being held for divorced men and women to help the growing once-bitten-twice-shy brigade to give marriage a second chance! Read More................Divorcees to line up for 'swayamvar' in Gujarat

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This man spent a lifetime among dead for a good night's sleep

MUMBAI: On the face of it, 60-year-old Mukund Prabakhar Agte looks like a regular middle-class bloke with a steady job and a cosy home in a distant suburb. But this well groomed man in a light blue striped shirt, olive green trousers and a ready smile has a little secret. When the sun goes down and nocturnal creatures emerge from their hideouts, he heads to where not too many people would dare—one of the city's crematoriums for a good night's rest. Read More................This man spent a lifetime among dead for a good night's sleep

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67 fans die of shock, at death of leader!!!!

HYDERABAD: More than 60 people across Andhra Pradesh have died of shock or committed suicide after the death of their chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, prompting his MP son Y S Jaganmohan Reddy to appeal to his late father's admirers to be patient and brave. Read More................67 YSR fans die of shock, son appeals for restraint

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Man stabbed for denying beedi

An unemployed youngster Thursday stabbed a man to death for denying him a beedi, Delhi Police said.
Mohan Lal, 55, was stabbed allegedly by Raj Kumar, 24, at his Bapa Nagar residence in central Delhi around 4.30 a.m., a senior police official said. Read More................Man stabbed for denying beedi

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60 kids pack into 100 sq ft class!

NAGPUR: What is your idea of a classroom in a school? If you are thinking 50 students listening to a teacher in a huge classroom, think again. Mahatma Phule Prathmik Shala at Vijay Nagar is something different. Here, 60 students pack into a small 10x10 foot room and struggle to listen to the teacher. Read More................60 kids pack into 100 sq ft class!

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Teacher thrashes girl for refusing to clean toilets

An 11-year-old girl was beaten by her teacher after she refused to clean the toilets of her school in Rohtas district of Bihar, police said on Monday. Read More................Bihar teacher thrashes girl for refusing to clean toilets

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Caught on camera, a horrific story of vengeance, mob-style

Radha is pulled out of her house by furious women. For the next 20 minutes, the 28-year-old is attacked. Her hair is pulled, she is kicked in the stomach. Among those striking her, Laxmi, with whose husband Radha was allegedly having an affair.Read More................Caught on camera, a horrific story of vengeance, mob-style

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6-yr-old burnt for wetting bed at orphanage

Thiruvananthapuram: A six-year-old girl inmate of an orphanage near here suffered burns on her chest and arms allegedly after the staff of the institution applied a hot iron bar on her as ‘punishment for wetting the bed at night.’ Read More................6-yr-old burnt for wetting bed at orphanage

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