4 held for feeding on half-cremated body

ROHTAK: In a gut-wrenching case, four persons in Palwal town were reportedly caught feeding on a partially-cremated human body. According to sources, horrified by what he saw in the night, a watchman of the cremation ground raised an alarm. Soon a crowd gathered and thrashed the cannibals before handing them over to the police. Read More................4 held in Haryana for feeding on half-cremated body

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Sweeper wields the scalpel in Madhya Pradesh

Sagar (M.P.) : A sweeper in a government hospital here performed a minor operation on a three-year-old boy “successfully” on Saturday.

R.C. Mishra, a doctor in the hospital said here that one Sanjeevan Mishra, a resident of Gulab Colony, brought his three-year-old son Arpit to him for treatment.Read More................Sweeper wields the scalpel in Madhya Pradesh

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Red hot chilli peppers come to India's defence

GUWAHATI, India – India's security forces are planning to mix one of the world's hottest chilli powders in hand grenades to control riots and durin g insurgency operations in the remote northeast, as per defence official. Read More................CORRECTED-Red hot chilli peppers come to India's defence

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In Ajmer, begging's Rs 10 cr biz

AJMER: The rate varies depending on the handicap. Someone without hands or legs can hope to pocket Rs 2,000 a day. The rate drops sharply to Rs 950 someone who still has the use of one eye, a hand and a leg. The rate also varies with age: an elderly woman is obviously preferred over a young, healthy one. Read More................In Ajmer, begging's Rs 10 cr biz

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TWO frogs 'married' to bring the rain

TWO frogs have been "married" in a ceremony in the western Indian state of Maharashtra to usher in the delayed monsoon rains, a report said today.

Residents in a suburb of Nagpur, 860km east of the state capital Mumbai, looked on as the groom, Raja, and bride, Rani, were joined in union in a solemn ritual at the weekend, the Times of India said. Read More................Hoppy couple to bring on rain

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Three arrested for shaving off Dalit's hair, moustache

Three people were arrested in this Kerala town Sunday evening for forcibly shaving off half the hair and half the moustache of a Dalit, police said. Read More................Three arrested for shaving off Dalit's hair, moustache

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Man beaten to death by in-laws

LUCKNOW: A 35-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by his in-laws over a petty dispute in Thakurganj area of the city, police said on Thursday. Read More................Man beaten to death by in-laws

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Indian hockey team sent on a flight of misery

NEW DELHI – Indian women's hockey team were finally allowed to leave for a tournament in Russia after bungling officials got their act together having forced them to miss their original flight the previous night.

The team headed to Kazan barely 48 hours before the opening game of the inaugural Champions Challenge Trophy Sunday after officials and travel agents failed to procure transit visas for Germany and the airline turned the team away at the airport. Read More................Indian hockey team sent on a flight of misery

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Three-month-old given Dettol instead of polio drops

Panaji: A three-month-old child was hospitalised here after the baby was given Dettol instead of polio drops at a health centre in Goa, the state's leader of opposition said. Officials Saturday confirmed the incident but said the child's father, and not the hospital, had made the mistake.
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Cop gets bail to help kid take exam

NEW DELHI: A Delhi Police head constable, in jail for the last two years after he was arrested in connection with a robbery case, has been granted 10 day interim bail by a trial court to help his daughter appear for her entrance exams. Read More................Cop gets bail to help kid take exam

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Techie cuts cook's husband into pieces

NEW DELHI: A 26-year-old software professional was arrested Tuesday for allegedly murdering the husband of his cook, with whom he had illicit relations, Delhi Police said. Read More................Techie cuts cook's husband into pieces

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Politician to unveil six statues of herself

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is all set to unveil 40 statues — including six of her own — on July 3, along with the Kanshi Ram Memorial and the Gautam Buddhasthals, which has cost the state exchequer dear. Read More................Mayawati to unveil 40 statues, six of them of herself

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Callous Kasab asked to stop laughing or face Dara Singh

Mumbai : The lone surviving gunman behind the Mumbai terror attacks, Ajmal Amir Kasab, has been reprimanded by lawyers for laughing during the court proceedings, and recently a lawyer asked him to be serious or else he would call Dara Singh. Read More................Callous Kasab asked to stop laughing or face Dara Singh

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Dead get wages for building road in India

Lucknow: Authorities in Uttar Pradesh have shown “over 100 dead villagers” as beneficiaries of a central government sponsored job guarantee scheme, according to a plea filed in a court. Read More................Dead get wages for building road in Uttar Pradesh

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Techie ends life to see 'what lies beyond curtain of death'

HYDERABAD: The reasons for suicide range from failure in love, failure in exams, severe financial losses to mental depression. Even being fed up with life too is a common one. But 'eager to see what lies behind the curtain of death' is an incredible reason. But 26-year-old software engineer Pradeep Kumar Gondkar of IBM, Bangalore, just did that. Read More................Techie ends life to see 'what lies beyond curtain of death'

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Snake served with mid-day meal - 55 kids fall ill

New Delhi: Fifty-five school children were hospitalised in West Bengal's Birbhum district on Friday after they found a dead snake in their mid-day meal.

Authorities said that the snake must have fallen into the food accidentally when the meal was being prepared. Read More................55 kids fall ill after snake served with mid-day meal

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Teachers tonsure `untidy' boys

SOLAN: Three students of a government school near Subathu were taken back to centuries-old method of crude chastisement when their angry teachers chose to dehumanise the boys aged between 12 and 14 by leaving them partially tonsured for coming to school unkempt. Read More................Teachers tonsure `untidy' boys

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Chennai sex workers learn karate to keep violent customers at bay

Chennai: Sex workers in Chennai are learning karate to protect themselves from violent customers.

Clad in white, around 75 masked sex workers are undergoing training in self-defense techniques. Read More................Chennai sex workers learn karate to keep violent customers at bay

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Male power officials forced to wear bangles

Lucknow: Agitated over rampant power outages, Congress party workers led by a woman made electricity department officials in an Uttar Pradesh district wear bangles - a measure to shame men - the police said on Saturday. Read More................Male power officials forced to wear bangles

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Rs.450 million Gold Crown for Tirupati God

Hyderabad: Karnataka's minister for tourism and leading industrialist Gali Janardhan Reddy Thursday presented a diamond-studded gold crown, estimated to be worth Rs.450 million (Rs.45 crore), to the famous Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirupati.

Janardhan Reddy, who owns Brahmani steel plant and Obulapuram mines in Andhra Pradesh, made the rich offering on the occasion of his birthday. Read More................Karnataka minister donates Rs.450 million gold crown to Tirupati

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‘Dead’ girl comes back to nail abductor, rapist

New Delhi, June 10: This is straight out of a Bollywood plot: A 'dead' girl returned home in Ballabgarh, a satellite town of Delhi, to nail the person who had abducted her and forced her into prostitution. And the Supreme Court believed every word of her and convicted the accused of abduction and rape. Read More................‘Dead’ girl comes back to nail abductor, rapist

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‘Ghost’ Restaurant

Kolkata: If you move into a rundown building off a national highway in Howrah this November and are ushered in by a skeleton to a cob webbed dining hall, don't shriek.

Ghosts will take orders from you with a welcome smile and goblins will pop out of frames on walls to sit beside you in a ghost restaurant being constructed by world-famous conjuror P C Sorcar (junior). Read More................Coming up: P C Sorcar’s ‘ghost’ restaurant

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Jeans, mobile phones banned in colleges

Kanpur: Students and teachers in Kanpur women colleges better watch out what you wear as the institute authorities have prohibited them from wearing jeans, danglers, sleeveless blouses and heels on the campus. Read More................Jeans, mobile phones banned in Kanpur colleges

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Hoist tricolour for a week, High Court tells 8 persons

CHENNAI: ‘‘Erect a flagpole in front of your house and hoist the national flag daily for one week.” This was the condition laid down by the Madras high court for the release of eight people accused of attempting to burn the tricolour in Coimbatore during the anti-Sri Lanka demonstrations in Tamil Nadu in April. Read More................Hoist tricolour for a week, HC tells 8 who insulted flag

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Student takes 17 years to pass Class 10

Sabaidul Islam, 31, from West Bengal's Murshidabad district, has cleared the Class 10 examination after nine attempts spread over 17 years, officials said Thursday.

Islam scored 371 marks out of 600 in the examination, the results of which were declared last week. Read More................West Bengal student takes 17 years to pass Class 10

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Thousands take fish medicine amid swine flu scare

With seven cases of the infectious swine flu being reported from this Andhra Pradesh capital, health authorities are worried about the congregation of thousands of asthma patients from around the country and even abroad who have gathered here to take a traditional fish medicine. Read More................Thousands take fish medicine amid swine flu scare

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When a hale and hearty person is legally dead

Deaths can be homicidal, accidental or suicidal in nature. But what is less known is that the Indian legal system also recognises the concept of 'civil death', which can apply to a person who is alive and kicking. Read More................When a hale and hearty person is legally dead

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India's dancing skipper Bhutia faces the music

NEW DELHI – India football captain Bhaichung Bhutia insists his dancing days are behind him but the club he 'neglected' to appear on a celebrity television show is now telling him to face the music.
Mohun Bagan handed the 32-year-old striker a six-month ban after he missed training to feature in the dance competition, domestic media reported on Tuesday. Read More................India's dancing skipper Bhutia faces the music

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Political party 'bribed' Hindu gods to win polls

Panaji: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Monday charged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders had even 'bribed' Hindu gods to bolster their sagging vote bank in Goa. Read More................Goa BJP 'bribed' Hindu gods to win polls: NCP

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Free gold ring for babies with Tamil names

Chennai: In a bid to promote Tamil language and culture, the Tamil Nadu government has started a scheme under which babies born in city corporation hospitals would be given a gold ring if they are given Tamil names. Read More................Free gold ring for babies with Tamil names

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Cops dump beggar on garbage heap

In a shocking incident, a handicapped beggar has alleged that a Goa Police patrol car had dumped him on a garbage heap, leaving him to die.

Between gasps of pain, the beggar, who identified himself as Shelton, a 47-year-old resident of Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin district, said police had picked him up from the pavement in front of a hotel late Tuesday night and had told him that he was being taken to Mother Theresa's hospital.Read More................Goa police dump beggar on garbage heap

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No admission for Sikhs plucking eyebrows: court

NEW DELHI: An Indian court has upheld a decision by a religious body to deny a female student who plucked her eyebrows admission to a Sikh university, media reports said on Sunday. The ruling said faith-based educational institutions had the right to refuse admission to students who did not meet religious standards, as “maintaining hair unshorn is an essential component of the Sikh religion,” according to the Press Trust of India.

The policy had been challenged by Gurleen Kaur after she was denied admission to the Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar.Read More................No admission for Sikhs plucking eyebrows: court

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Haunted by past lives? Academics wrestle with treating the 'reincarnated'

A teenage boy in Newfoundland is certain he has been here before.

On his first trip to his parents' hometown in India, the youth became consumed by vivid memories of a past life, started viewing his mother and father as "alien" and insisted he belonged with another family, his doctor recounts in a recently published medical journal article.Read More................Haunted by past lives? Academics wrestle with treating the 'reincarnated'

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Convicted rapist jumps from court's fourth floor

LUCKNOW: A man convicted of rape jumped from the fourth floor of a court in this Uttar Pradesh capital Saturday after he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment, police said.
"Imam Ali, 38, jumped from the fourth floor on the civil court's premises after which he was rushed to a hospital," Superintendent of Police (West) Paresh Pandey told IANS on phone. Read More................Convicted rapist jumps from court's fourth floor

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