Landless labourer becomes oldest father at age 94

SONIPAT: Surpassing the 90 year old Rajasthan farmer, a Haryana farm labourer is claiming to have fathered a child at an age of 94. Earlier, Nanu Ram Jogi of a Rajasthan village had fathered his 22nd child at the age of 90 in 2007. Read more: Haryana's landless labourer becomes oldest father at 94

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'Dead infant' comes to life at cremation ground

Sirsa: In a bizarre incident, a 45-day-old infant declared "dead" by a doctor started breathing, a few seconds before its burial at a cremation ground here today.
"The baby boy was immediately rushed to a hospital where he is breathing normally and is being given intravenous drips," his father Vinod Kumar told reporters. Read More................''Dead'' infant ''comes to life'' at cremation ground

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Corrupt Civil Servants Seeked As Potential Grooms

India's civil servants are being targeted as potential grooms by ambitious families who believe their income from bribes offers financial stability.

Government offices in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, have reported a surge in visits from families looking for potential grooms for their daughters among new recruits to the civil service. Read More................India's corrupt civil servants courted as potential grooms

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To buy Onions, Chief Minister's Wife Seeks Loan

In a bid to rub it in, the wife of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Thursday filled up an application for a bank loan - to buy onions!

Sadhna Singh is also vice-president of the women's cell of the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who took part in a street protest here against the soaring prices of onions.

At the protest, she filled up a form to apply for a bank loan so as to buy onions, which are, in some retail markets of India, still priced as high as Rs.60-70 a kg. Read More................Chief minister's wife seeks loan - to buy onions

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Now, Jeans, Contraceptives Figure in Muslim Fatwas

New Delhi: In a statement that might trigger a dress-code debate, leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has said that wearing jeans or other tight-fitting clothes is not appropriate as per religious beliefs.

In another controversial observation, it said a couple should first seek the opinion of a 'hakim' or Unani practitioner before resorting to use contraceptives if needed for medical reasons. Read More................Now, jeans, contraceptives figure in Darul fatwas

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Parents mortgage sons for loan to repay fine

LUCKNOW: Four minors were mortgaged with a moneylender by their parents against a loan of Rs 28,000 to pay a fine imposed on them by the electricity department for using an illegal connection. Non-payment of fine would have led the parents being sent to jail. The parents Sageer and Shareef, who are brothers, are farm labourers living on daily earnings of Rs 45 to Rs 60. Read more: Parents mortgage sons for loan to repay fine

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Youth Cuts Own Tongue For Abusing Friend

Bhopal: A 25-year-old man in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district Tuesday cut his tongue for abusing and hurting his friend, police said.Anand, who has been admitted to a hospital, left a letter at the Sai Baba Temple in Dewas, around 160 km from here, saying: “I have abused my friend that hurt him very much so I am cutting my tongue.” Read More................Youth hacks own tongue for abusing friend

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Buy a Car Tyre, Get One Kg Onion Free

Jamshedpur (Jharkhand): With spiralling onion prices bringing tears in most of the eyes in the country, a tyre seller here has offered to sell the vegetable free of cost, on the purchase of a tyre from his shop. Read More................Buy a tyre, get onion for free

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Where Children Toy With Guns

JAIPUR/ALWAR: Unike most parents who encourage their wards to be successul in life and imbibe certain values which make their life secure, there are some villages in Rajasthan where parents encourage their wards towards crime.

At an age when children play with toys, they carry guns and are involved with criminal activities. Soon, they become bandits, sending a chill down the spine. Read more: ... But in some Raj villages, children toy with guns

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Dead farmer in ads of Political Party Campaign

Bangalore: A coloured photograph of a man smiling into the camera heralded the BJP's commitment to farmers in Karnataka. The ad was part of the party's campaign for the panchayat elections scheduled for later this month.

A grossly insensitive mistake, as it turns out. The family of Nagaraju from a village about 80 km from Bangalore the Mandya district says he killed himself in 2009 after he was unable to pay off massive debts. He left behind a wife and two young children who are in school. Read more at: BJP's terrible mistake: Dead farmer in ads

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Toilet Shortage in India Costs More Than $50 Billion to Nation

A lack of toilets costs India more than $50 billion a year, mostly through premature deaths and hygiene-related diseases, a study found.

Illness, lost productivity and other consequences of fouled water and inadequate sewage treatment trimmed 6.4 percent from India’s gross domestic product in 2006, or the equivalent of $53.8 billion, according to the study by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program. Read More................India's Toilet Shortage Costs More Than $50 Billion, World Bank Study Says

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Woman discovers her 'husband' to be woman after 6 months

ROURKELA: It took more than six months for 27-year-old Minati Khatua here in Rourkela to realise that she had married a woman and not a man.

But when she realised, her 'husband' had by then vanished with a car and a jeep bought with loans taken from a bank in her name. Read More................Woman discovers her 'husband' to be woman after 6 months

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Family pawns children for a loan

Poverty has driven a family in an Uttar Pradesh village to give away their three children in bondage against a loan of Rs.42,000.

The children have to now toil for 12 hours a day to make up for the loan taken by the family, a distraught relative said.

This followed a request by Sharif Ahmad to get an electricity connection in Milakrota village of Bareilly district, about 250 km from here, around four months ago. Read More................Family pawns children for a loan

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Husband tried to sell wife for Rs.25,000

Kolkata: The evils of child marriage not only shattered the promising career of 17-year-old Amina Khatun but also took an ugly turn when her husband tried to sell her off for Rs.25,000.

Amina, a resident of Mograhat in West Bengal's South 24-Parganas district, was married off to Riyaz Lashkar against her wishes, while she was studying in Class 7. She was not only a brilliant student, but also a class topper. Read More................Her husband tried to sell her for Rs.25,000

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Devotees offer woollens to deities

Rajkot (Gujarat): Devotees in Gujarat's Rajkot city are offering woollen apparels to idols of deities as the region witnessed drastic dip in temperatures. Read More................Rajkot devotees offer woollens to deities

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Villagers Elect Beggar As Village Head

Badaun: Fed up with tall promises made by political parties and local leaders, residents of Sahawar Shah village have made an unusual choice by electing a beggar as their village head.

A total of eight candidates were in the fray but villagers chose 70-year-old Narayan Nat, who has been making both end meet by begging for the past 40 years, locals said.
Read More................Villagers elect beggar as Gram Pradhan

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Actress chargesheeted for touching the idol of Lord

Kerala Police on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against Kannada film actress Jayamala, four years after she made a controversial claim that she had touched the idol of Lord Ayyappa at the famous Sabarimala temple in violation of the hill shrine custom. Read More........Kannada actor Jayamala chargesheeted in Sabarimala case

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Man impersonates Dead Bishop to fraudulently sell his land

Thiruvananthapuram: A man, bearing the same name as a late bishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church, impersonated the cleric to fraudulently sell his land on the outskirts of the city, diocese officials said Monday. Bishop Gheevargheese Mar Dioscorous, head of the Thiruvananthapuram-Kollam diocese, had died in 1999 but his signature appeared on a land sale document at the sub-registrar’s office in March this year, according to media reports. Read More................Man impersonates dead bishop to fraudulently sell his land

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Man Offers Finger In Temple For Leader's Win

PATNA: This single act may go down as the height of caste frenzy in the politically-sensitive state of Bihar. For, believe it or not, a man from Upper Caste Bhumihar community which has traditionally opposed RJD chief Mr Lalu Prasad and his 15-year-rule, was so elated at his rival returning to power in Bihar that he chopped off his finger and offered it to the deities today ~ the second time in five years! He didn’t stop at that. Ignoring the pain of blood oozing out of his slit ring finger, he shouted, “Nitish Kumar zindabad”. Read More................A finger in the name of Nitish Kumar!

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Teen jumps into Girlfriend's funeral pyre, kills self

SIRSA: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old boy allegedly jumped into the funeral pyre of his girlfriend who had committed suicide after her parents refused to accept their relationship.

The incident took place in the Rori village of Sirsa district on Monday. While the girl, Veer Pal Kaur, was a student of Class IX, her boyfriend, Bittu Singh, a native of Malsinghwala village of Punjab, studied in Class XI. The two had been studying in the same school and had been going around for the past couple of years. Read more...................17-yr-old jumps into girlfriend's funeral pyre, kills self

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He becomes She to get a job

NAVIPET (NIZAMABAD): Poverty has forced a 24-year-old youth to turn himself into a woman in the district. The youth, a native of Vaddera Colony in the mandal, underwent a sex change operation in Mumbai and returned home recently.

"My family members were shocked and cried for two days when I informed them about the sex change operation," Kondapalli Shankar aka Ankita told TOI. Shankar went under the scalpel six months ago in a Mumbai hospital. Read more.....He becomes she to get a job

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