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Langurs are here in Delhi to keep monkeys away from the Commonwealth Games venues in the city. For this the civic authorities are now ‘deploying' langoors. The New Delhi Municipal Council has brought in 10 langoors, in addition to the 28 which are already used, to chase away monkeys from near the Games venues, an official said.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has constituted a special team for making rounds of all Games venues facing monkey menace. Langur are used in parts of New Delhi to scare away other monkeys who create a menace around the Commonwealth Games venues, a New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) official said on Monday.
New Delhi: Keeping in mind of the fitness of newly-crowned world wrestling champion Sushil Kumar, Delhi Kushti Sangh today felicitated the wrestler with 100 buffaloes, 100kg desi ghee and 100kg almonds. "He is our champion, country''s pride. Read more...................''Buffalo-boost'' for Sushil Kumar
Badaun, Uttar Pradesh: A local mechanic has invented a motor boat by using the engine of an old scooter to to ferry people marooned in over 400 villages in the district.
Munnavar Khan, a resident of Nai Sarai area here, has assembled the motorboat by using a large 'frying pan' and installing the two-wheeler scooter engine in it.
AHMEDABAD: When Irfan Shaikh, 35, started narrating his adventures, officials at Ellisbridge police station were wide-eyed. The reason was apparent: he confessed to having stolen goods worth Rs 25 lakh in seven months. It put his monthly earnings at Rs 3.57 lakh, more than some of the CEOs in the city. However, the 'modest' man used to roam around on a battered scooter. Read more.....This thief's average monthly income pegged at Rs 3.6L
Jalgaon (Maharashtra): A bizarre case of theft of undergarments, biscuits and toothpaste has been lodged by police in Maharashtra against the superintendent and three employees of a local district jail, an official said here Monday. Read More................Prisoner says jail staff stole his undergarments, paste
BHOPAL: A dog's life couldn't get worse. A mongrel brought up in an upper caste home in Morena was kicked out after the Rajput family members discovered that their Sheru had eaten a roti from a dalit woman and was now an "untouchable". Next, Sheru was tied to a pole in the village's dalit locality. His controversial case is now pending with the district collector, the state police and the Scheduled Caste Atrocities police station in Morena district of north MP. Read more.........Dog cast(e) away after dalit touch
AHMEDABAD: Manjula, 31, was bought by a Patel man in Mehsana for Rs 50,000 from her tribal parents when she was 13. After becoming a mother of two daughters and a son, the man kept her girls and threw her out with the son. Manjula is not allowed to even see the girls who became pawns for their father to get a wife from his own community. Read more........Tribal girls sold in new bride barter scheme
Indore: A middle-aged man, apparently under the influence, jumped into the engine of a passenger train and tried to commandeer it. Luckily, the man could not locate the accelerator and his journey lasted only about 50 metres before the train's two drivers and a posse of Government Railway Police (GRP) men managed to get inside the driver's cabin and halt the train. According to reports, there were nearly 450 passengers inside the train at the time. Read more..........Drunk man drives off with train in Madhya Pradesh
Here is little unnatural question, How much Money is Siphoned out of India DAILY??? Wanna know the answer to it? Just read below lines from an article.
More than $125 billion worth of funds meant for the uplift of Indians were illegally siphoned out of the country by corrupt politicians and corporates between 2000 and 2008, hindering inclusive growth, says to a leading think tank here.
“Much of the funds flowing out are generated at home within India and then sent illegally abroad,” said an upcoming report from Global Financial Integrity (GFI).
“So the growth of corruption and India’s underground economy contributes significantly to illicit financial flows from the country,” said the research arm of the Centre for International Policy (CIP).
So if you calculate in Rupee terms, it comes out that approx. Rs. 587500 Crores Indian Rupees were siphoned out of the country between 2000 and 2008 & these funds were meant for the uplift of Poor Indians. So if you consider 8 Years time span in which these funds were siphoned out and then sent illegally abroad, it comes out to be approx. Rs. 200 Crores daily. Can you imagine that approx. Rs. 200 Crores of money meant for upliftment of poor were siphoned out of the country daily.....It's just unimaginable but TRUE. Read full report here....India’s corrupt siphoned out $125 bn in eight years: Report
Can you believe that this person can pass High Voltage Electricity through his body? Yes, his body is such a conductor of electricity that bulbs light through his body, household kitchen appliances run through his body...it's really amazing & unbelievable.....just see below video
A naughty monkey is not seeing eye to eye with residents of the Himachal Pradesh capital. He is focusing instead on their spectacles and running away with them!
The 'farsighted' monkey even enters an office and decamps with a pair of glasses.
In the past week, it has taken away five spectacles from the office of the Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd (HPPCL), a public sector undertaking located in Tuttikandi area. Read More................Naughty monkey on prowl for spectacles
HUBLI: Visitors to Gunalli village in Koppal district had better know who they are going to meet. They are bound to face a hard time tracking down their acquaintance, and will be asked: Gyanappa who? Chikka Gyanappa or Dodda Gyanappa? The tea stall man, the cobbler, the petty shop man, or the landowner? For, at every corner and in every street, is a Gyanappa, or a Gyanavva.
In Gunnalli village, all men are Gyanappa, and all women are Gyanavva. When a male child is born, he is named Gyanappa, and a little girl is called Gyanavva, what else! Unique identity — no aliases, no surnames, not even pet names. Read more.............In Gunnalli village, all men are Gyanappa, all women are Gyanavva
Bhubaneswar: A papaya tree grown in the premises of the rural water supply and sanitation department office in Orissa's Bhubaneswar city, is attracting the religious minded here, as it has reportedly borne a fruit in the shape of Lord Ganesha.
Buzz up!With the festival ofr Ganesha Chaturthi approaching, the emergence of a fruit in this shape, is drawing wide attention, and a large number of believers are converging at the spot to have a glimpse and seek blessings. Read More................Papaya shaped Lord Ganesha attracts Bhubaneswar devotees
NEW DELHI: Akshay Kumar and Om Puri have company now. While they boarded the wrong aircraft, taking them to Egypt instead of Australia in the comedy ' Singh is Kinng', eight Chennai-bound business class passengers from Delhi almost flew to Hyderabad on Monday because they were put on the wrong plane! One passenger felt something was amiss when he found someone occupying the seat allotted to him upon boarding. The others happily settled in and were waiting for take-off. Read more..........AI goof-up: Chennai flyers put on Hyderabad flight
In India Faith in God knows no bounds. Sometimes they see shape of God on a tree, on a wall & even on different fruits. Recently a similar thing happened in Kurukshetra city in Haryana District of India.
Over there, in the home garden of a Doctor, a lemon tree bore a Lemon fruit which as per the Hindu devotees took the shape of Hindu God - Lord Ganesha. As the news spread that a Lemon fruit (Nimbu) has taken the shape of Lord Ganesha, people across the city started thronging the house of Doctor Sahib. Lo!!! people started chanting prayers & started bowing to Lemon fruit which was appearing to be in the shape of Lord Ganesha. Everyone was saying that it is a miracle of God that He has taken the shape of Lemon fruit (Nimbu). Seeing that now a days Lord Ganesha prayers are in full fervor in India, devotion towards this Lemon fruit, which is appearing to be in the shape of Lord Ganesha, is but natural.
What do you say about it? Devotion or Blind Faith.......
CHENNAI: It had all the ingredients of a comic thriller. Early in the morning, a lorry laden with wood rams a pipeline and it bursts. Then, along with water currency notes come out gushing! Soon, rumours spread that money is pouring out of a pipeline and people from several places rush in to collect the notes. There is chaos and traffic in the area is brought to a halt. The drama, that unfolded on the Vyasarpadi bridge early on Tuesday, lasted nearly 30 minutes. The police said later that some thieves had hidden the currency notes under the pipe that was hit by the lorry. Read more........Cash pours out of burst pipe in Chennai
As dusk gathers around the villages in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, the distinctive sound of a cannon echoes across the area. Following this, thousands of faithful Muslims, who have been on a day-long fast for Ramzan, say their prayers before partaking in Iftaar.
The locals have trusted this cannon to mark the time to start and end the fast during the holy month for hundreds of years. Read More................Keeping and breaking the fast with a cannon blast
