1500 villagers bury themselves in neck-deep sand

Chennai: Villagers around the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu are intensifying their protests following the loading of nuclear fuel in the plant. Around 1500 protesters have remained buried in neck deep sand at Idinthakarai since 10 am today. They will end their protest at 4 pm today. Read More...........Kudankulam protest: 1500 villagers bury themselves in neck-deep sand

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Officer calls sorcerer in prison for exorcism

The Kishanganj district prison superintendent was issued a notice for allegedly inviting a sorcerer to exorcise the soul of a prisoner who had died behind the bars. District prison superintendent Devendra Prasad had allegedly brought sorcerer Imamuddin from neighbouring West Bengal to the jail in his official vehicle to conduct an exorcism after inmates claimed that they had seen the ghost of undertrial Bishwa Nath, who had died on Tuesday. Read More...........Officer calls sorcerer in prison for exorcism, gets notice

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Scolded over studies, boy shoots father

Sirkazhi (Tamil Nadu), A 17-year-old boy killed his father on Sunday after the latter reprimanded him for performing poorly in the examinations. The shocking incident occurred at Sirkazhi, located about 250 km from Chennai, in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu.

Police sources said the boy, A Gowtham, a Class XII student at a local government school, beat his father Aadiapatham with a heavy stick on Saturday after the latter scolded him for not doing good in his studies. Read More...........Scolded over studies, boy shoots father in Tamil Nadu

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Village bans listening to music on mobile phones... On pain of being hit with a shoe

The ‘Talibani’ village panchayats in Uttar Pradesh are getting bolder by the day and issuing ludicrous diktats in the name of dealing with ‘social ills’.

In the latest ‘fatwa’, the panchayat of Ghatampur village in Saharanpur district has decreed that any youth — male or female — spotted listening to music on the mobile phone would be hit with a shoe five times and will also have to pay a fine of `1,500 to the panchayat. The punishment would be doubled for repeating the “crime”. Read More...........Village bans listening to music on mobile phones... On pain of being hit with a shoe

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1.8 kg hair removed from girl's stomach

Indore: A team of doctors today removed about 1.8 kg of hair from the stomach of a 19-year old girl after an open surgery at a government hospital.

Dr Parvinder Singh Lubana of Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital led a team of gastro-surgeons in conducting the operation.

Dr Lubana claimed that it was a rare case in which such a heavy chunk of hair wrapped around a chalk or stone kind of matter was stuck in between the stomach and duodenum (part of the small intestine). Read More...........1.8 kg hair removed from girl's stomach in Indore

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Man caught trying to board plane with monkey in his pants

CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES IN India have arrested a man who was attempting to board a flight at New Delhi’s international airport with an endangered monkey in his underwear, officials said today.

The suspect from the United Arab Emirates, who was detained along with two other travellers, had arrived from the Thai capital Bangkok and was about to take a connecting flight to Dubai on Jet Airways. Read More...........Man caught trying to board plane with monkey in his pants

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Honeybees ‘Hijack’ 3 Planes

KOLKATA: It's a sting that has Kolkata airport authorities smarting. Three aircraft, all of them parked at the new integrated terminal, were hijacked by honeybees on Monday, sending airline staff scurrying for cover and raising fears that the swanky new terminal could have turned into a happy nesting ground for the insects with a sting in the tail. Read More...........Honeybees ‘hijack’ 3 planes at new airport terminal

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Minor tied to tree, tonsured for stealing Rs.30

Bhubaneswar, A 15-year-old boy was tied to a tree, thrashed and tonsured by a group of people in Odisha in full public view. His offence was that he allegedly stole Rs.30 from the pocket of a villager.

Although the incident took place Sunday in a village near Chandikhol in Jajpur district, about 120 km from here, police swung into action and arrested four people only after a local television channel telecast the footage of the scene Monday.Read More...........Minor tied to tree, tonsured for stealing Rs.30

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Jal Satyagraha: Protesting farmers stand neck-deep in water for 13 days

KHANDWA: It's the 13th day of the Jal Satyagraha at Khandwa and the 90 protesting farmers are not ready to call off what they call as their 'final struggle.'

One of the farmers, 60-year-old Girjabai shivers as she stands neck-deep in water. Her wrinkly palms and feet are narrating the tale of her deteriorating health. The old woman from Kamankheda village in the district, gasps for breath as she voices the angst of her fellow protesters. "The government better shoot us than giving us this watery grave," she says. Read More...........Jal Satyagraha: Protesting farmers stand neck-deep in water for 13 days

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Buffalo died 10 yrs ago, but case for Rs 15,000 still on

NEW DELHI: 'God save the villagers' was the Supreme Court's comment when it found that a rural bank incurred a litigation cost of nearly Rs 30,000 by dragging a poor farmer, who had availed a loan to buy a buffalo, from the district forum till the highest court of the land.

"The buffalo died 10 year back, but the litigation is still on for Rs 15,000," said a bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra while expressing disapproval at the tendency to drag every small matter up to the Supreme Court.Read More...........Buffalo died 10 yrs ago, but case for Rs 15,000 still on

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Judge asks woman to ‘adjust’ to domestic violence

Bangalore: A Karnataka High Court Judge is under fire after he said that it was okay for a man to indulge in domestic violence and beat his wife as long as he was taking good care of his wife.

The shocking statement was made by Justice K Bhakthavatsala while hearing a case in which the plaintiff was seeking divorce on the grounds that she was being subjected to cruelty and abuse by her husband.

The Judge told the woman that she should just "adjust" to the situation for the sake of her marriage and future of her children. Read More...........K’taka judge asks woman to ‘adjust’ to domestic violence

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Poverty-stricken woman sells infant to pay debt

Patna, A poverty-stricken woman in Bihar’s Samastipur district sold her one-and-half-year-old malnourished son for Rs.19,000 to pay off a debt. The infant was recovered from the woman who had bought him, police said Tuesday.

Parvati Devi, in her mid-20s, a resident of Chandchaur village under Ujiarpur police station, sold her son to another woman, Shanti Devi, of a village of neighbouring Begusarai district Sunday. Read More...........Poverty-stricken woman sells infant to pay debt

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Groom stranded as bride flees with money

Jaipur, A bridegroom and about 50 of his marriage party were stranded in Rajasthan’s Barmer town for a week as the would-be bride disappeared right before the ceremony, after duping him of Rs.3.75 lakh, police said Monday.

A first information report (FIR) was registered against the bride and two men who had fixed the wedding after taking the money, they added. One of the men was arrested Monday. The incident took place in Sadar area of Barmer, some 550 km from Jaipur.Read More...........Groom stranded as bride flees with money

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Woman's 24-year fight to prove she is alive

This is the story of an Indian woman who married at the age of 12, became a mother at 19, was deserted by her husband at 23 and was declared dead at the age of 40.

Asharfi Devi, now 64, fought a 24-year-long battle to prove that she was alive and her efforts paid off finally in May 2012 when a village council court ruled that she was indeed alive.

Asharfi Devi's parents married her to a local farmer, Ram Janam Singh, of Barun village in Rohtas district of the northern state of Bihar in 1960. Read More...........Indian woman's 24-year fight to prove she is alive

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Cops Brutality: caught riding bike on vegetable vendor's chest

Courtesy NDTV:
Allahabad: A policeman has been caught on camera riding his motorbike on the chest of a vegetable vendor in Allahabad as other policemen and bystanders stood and watched.

The incident took place on August 18 outside the Rambagh railway station. The vendor, Rohit Kesarwani, claims that the constable had asked him to move his cart and demanded a bribe. He alleges that when he refused, the cop assaulted him, beat him with a stick and threw him to the ground. The vendor alleges that the cop then rode the front wheel of his bike on his chest. Read More...........Cops caught on camera riding bike on vegetable vendor's chest

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