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Watch this movie and win $10,000?

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Bollywood filmmaker has issued a lucrative challenge to horror movie fans: a $10,000 reward for anyone who can watch his latest supernatural thriller, alone, in a cinema until the closing credits.
Ram Gopal Varma's "Phoonk 2," a sequel to his 2008 film of the same name, is about an evil spirit that traumatizes a family. "Anyone who says the movie cannot scare him is going to be put in a theater by himself," Varma told reporters in Mumbai at an event to promote the movie. Read More................Watch this movie and win $10,000?

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Six-month-old has a pet Python

A python for a pet? Not in the urban jungle perhaps, but in this remote village in Beed district of Maharashtra, few stop to stare at a six-month-old baby playing with a large snake.

The little girl is left to play with the python, crawls behind it, often has the big tail snaking through her tiny legs. She pats the snake, which curls up benignly next to, both soaking in the sun. The child's parents work in the fields. Read More................Six-month-old has a pet python

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Cigarette-holding Jesus in school book triggers row

Shillong, Feb 19 : Pictures of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette in one hand and a beer can in another in a book for primary classes has triggered a row in Meghalaya and the state government is now contemplating legal action against the New Delhi-based publisher.

The objectionable pictures of Jesus Christ found in the cursive writing exercise copies at a private school in capital Shillong was brought to the notice of the influential church by some guardians. Read More................Cigarette-holding Jesus in school book triggers row

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Class 10 student elopes with teacher

It's a different sort of child marriage.

In the Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, a student at a private school ran away with his Science teacher and then married her at a temple.

The sixteen-year-old groom's mother says her new daughter-in-law informed her of the wedding. "She called up and told that they got married. Being a teacher, she fell in love with her student and married him. He is my only son. I won't accept it." Read More................Class 10 student elopes with teacher in Andhra

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Hanging on a tree branch for a phone call

Bhubaneswar, Feb 17 :Just imagine climbing a 30-foot-high tree and hanging on to a branch to make a phone call. This is a grim reality in Maoist-hit districts of Orissa where the extremists have been targeting the towers that relay mobile telephone signals.

After the destruction of several towers, mobile communication has come to a virtual halt in several areas of Malkangiri and Koraput districts of southern Orissa, which border Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. Read More................Hanging on a tree branch for a phone call

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80-year-old Father, Four Wives, 30 kids, another on way

At 80, Hussain Ali, a small farmer in Assam, is still going strong but is a little worried as his third wife is expecting his 31st child, even as he is busy cradling a bubbly two-month-old baby boy in the courtyard, born to his fourth wife.

"It is all god's gift and wish that I have a large family of four wives and 30 children," Ali said with a hearty smile as his flowing grey beard tickled the infant and made him cry in his arms.

Donning a skullcap, Ali looked frail and emaciated as he sat in a rickety cane chair outside his cluster of mud-and-thatch huts at Mohkhuli village in Lakhimpur district, about 370 km east of Assam's main city Guwahati. Read More................80-year-old father, four wives, 30 kids, another on way

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Village set to welcome 2nd Baraat in 120 yrs

JAISALMER: It’s a proud moment not just for Panna Singh’s family but for the entire Devda village. For, on Tuesday it will welcome a ‘baraat’ — only the second time in 120 years. Panna Singh’s daughter Shagun Kanwar will wed Shailendra Singh at this Rajput village, Devda, which had earned notoriety for the very high incidence of female infanticide. Read More................Devda village set to welcome 2nd baraat in 120 yrs

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Celebrating 25 years of darkness

Come Sunday and villagers of Kanugaon in eastern Assam’s Golaghat district will mark a special event — a silver jubilee of living in darkness.

The village has had no power despite having 22 electric poles since 1985.

Special invitations for the event have been sent to officials of the Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB) in the district headquarters at Golaghat, 12 km southeast of the village, for denying them electricity for so many years. Read More................Celebrating 25 years of darkness

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Girl calls off wedding after Groom's 'dirty dancing'

PATNA – In Sarairanjan village of Bihar’s Samastipur district, a homeopathy doctor did an encore of sorts when she refused to exchange marriage vows with her banker bridegroom after exchanging garlands with him on Thursday because he danced along with other ‘baraatis’ to celebrate the occasion, reported Times of India. Read More................Bihar girl calls off wedding after groom's 'dirty dancing'

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Man slashes tongue fearing police arrest

A man slashed his tongue in Cuttack town of Orissa after his landlord filed a police complaint accusing him of stealing valuables from the house, police said Sunday.

Raju Mohanty, staying as a tenant in Madhupatna area of Cuttack town, chopped his tongue Saturday night, fearing police action against him in the theft case in the landlord's house. Read More................Man slashes tongue fearing police arrest in Orissa

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Man's All Internal Organs Backwards

Doctors believe that the 64-year-old could be the only man in the world whose internal organs are in the mirror opposite position of where they should be.

Ashok Shivnani was about to have surgery to remove a tumour on his kidney in Mumbai when doctors realised most of his chest and abdominal organs and many blood vessels were on the opposite side of his body. Read More................Doctor: Man's Internal Organs Backwards

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Man jailed for 74th time

Coimbatore, Feb 14: A 52-year-old man has been jailed for the 74th time by a local court in Coimbatore on Saturday, Feb 13.

Buzz up!Kumar, native of Kothagiri in Nilgiris district, was arrested for stealing from an offering box at a temple in his village. Read More................Coimbatore: Man jailed for 74th time

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College asks girls to cook for boys on V-Day

GREATER NOIDA: Most young people may have got all romantic this Valentine's Day, but for this technical institute it was all about brotherly and sisterly love. In what can probably be described as a celebration of V-Day in the spirit of Bhai Dooj, the Ishan Institute of Management and Technology asked its girl students to prepare food for the boys to mark the day. Read More................Noida college asks girls to cook for boys on V-Day

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President’s husband found guilty of usurping farmer’s land

Amravati: Indian Presidnet Pratibha Patil's husband has been found guilty of usurping land of a farmer in Amravati, Maharashtra and will have to return the land to its rightful owner.

A revenue court here has ordered that the names of relatives of President Pratibha Patil, including her husband Devisingh Shekhawat, to be deleted from the ownership of a disputed piece of agricultural land in a village near here.

The order by Sub Divisional Officer (SDO) Ashok Amankar, in quasi-judicial authority, came on a petition by one Kishore Bansod, who had claimed that the Shekhawat clan had allegedly got their names included in the land title. Read More................President’s husband found guilty of usurping farmer’s land

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Basketball team forced to lose game at Gunpoint

NEW DELHI: Basketball teams which went to Varanasi to compete in the All India Inter University championship have alleged that they were forced to forfeit their matches against the hosts due to intimidation by armed goons who threatened to kill if they didn't lose.

The Delhi University basketball team, North Zone champions and one of the teams expected to win the all India tourney being organized at the Banaras Hindu University from January 27 to February 1 quit their semifinal against the host team after the third quarter, amid continuous threats and unfair play. Read More................DU basketball team forced to lose game at gunpoint

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Ancient dialect extinct after last speaker dies

One of the world's oldest dialects, which traces its origins to tens of thousands of years ago, has become extinct after the last person to speak it died on a remote Indian island.

Boa Sr, the 85-year-old last speaker of "Bo," was the oldest member of the Great Andamanese tribe, R.C. Kar, deputy director of Tribal Health in Andaman, told Reuters.

She died last week in Port Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which were hit by a devastating tsunami in 2004. Read More................Ancient dialect extinct after last speaker dies

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IAS officer with 220 bank accounts, assets worth millions

An Indian Administrative Officer (IAS) in Chhattisgarh has been found to have a staggering 220 bank accounts and assets worth millions of rupees.

This was revealed after the income tax department raided his residence here, official sources said.

The IT department raided the houses of some IAS officers and businessmen in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh in the past two days. Chhattisgarh's Bharatiya Janata Party government is waiting for a final report from the IT department about Agriculture Secretary B.L. Agrawal's assets to initiate action against him. Read More................IAS officer has 220 bank accounts, assets in millions

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Community ostracises woman touched by outsider

AMRAVATI: Want to see just how deeply superstition remains rooted even in today’s society? Visit Mangrul Chavala village, around 50km from Amravati,where a woman from the Pardhi community was ostracized from the community. Read More................Community ostracises woman touched by outsider

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Dalit tortured for daring to wear slippers

Even after 60 years of Independence, there still exists a side of India that is hard to believe. A Dalit man in Tamil Nadu was tortured because he wore slippers in the presence of upper caste people.Read More................Dalit tortured for daring to wear slippers

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Want Gun Licence, Sing Vande Mataram

CHANDIGARH: Want a gun in your hand? First, wear patriotism on your sleeves. Trigger-happy people in Bhiwani district of Haryana are now being made to delve into history and political science lessons, with the DM putting those looking for arms licence through a rigorous test from making them sing Vande Mataram and the national anthem to recalling names of the first prime minister and President of India. Read More................Sing Vande Mataram for gun licence

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Top cop hails Kasab as role model for good training!!!!!!

INDORE(MP): A top Madhya Pradesh cop Rajendra Kumar raised a few eyebrows today when he hailed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani gunman involved in the Mumbai terror attack, as a good role model for training with passion. Read More................Top Madhya Pradesh cop hails Kasab as role model for good training

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Husband and wife told to live as brother and sister

CHANDIGARH: A village Panchayat near Rohtak in Haryana has instructed a married couple, who have a 10-month old child, to start staying as brother and sister as they are from the same Gotra or sub-caste.

After a six-hour discussion on Saturday at Kheri village in Jhajjar district, it was decided that even though the couple got married three years ago with their parents’ consent, they will have to, “end their marriage and start a relation of brother and sister,” as they are from sub-castes which are banned from marriage between them. Read More................Haryana couple told to live as brother and sister

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