"It Happens Only In India". This Blog is a Directory of Weird & Odd Indian Things, Weird & Odd Indian Facts, Weird & Odd news stories, Weird & Odd Indian Stuff, Weird & Odd Indian Culture News & Weird People of India. Posts in this Blog are a window to the world about those Weird & Odd Facts about India & about Amazing, Strange, Bizarre, Unusual Interesting Stories that actually happen in India.
Rats forced the grounding of an Air India aircraft that arrived in New Delhi from Kolkata as the plane was taken to a remote bay for fumigation. The crew of the Airbus A-321, operating flight AI-021 from Kolkata, found a rat in the rear of the aircraft, airline sources said. Read full story here at......Aeroplane grounded in Delhi as Rats run riot
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India's Sulabh International Museum of Toilets is third on the list of the world's ten weirdest museums compiled by the Time magazine. Read full story & see video here at......Toilet Museum in Delhi is one of the Weirdest
A man in Delhi faced the wrath for wasting valuable time of a consumer forum by filing a legal case against a multiplex for showing Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor's movie Rockstar. Read full story here at.......Man Sues Delhi multiplex over Ranbir Kapoor's Movie Rockstar
New Delhi: A legal issue became an obstacle between a cow and its calf when a Delhi Court Monday refused to pass an order on a plea seeking release of the cow from the custody of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to suckle the calf. The court also expressed shock over the death of 46,000 stray cattle held by the civic agency. Read More................Legal bind between cow, calf
New Delhi: How does it matters, whether goat is valued at Rs.4.5 lakhs or of little value but both shall be killed or sacrificed!!!!!!
With a day to go for Eid-ul-Azha, the goat bazaar at Jama Masjid in old Delhi is doing brisk business. But the star of the show is a goat - with a price tag of a whopping Rs.4.5 lakh. Read More................Delhi’s ‘divine’ goat costs Rs.4.5 lakh
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.
A brawl over Rs 100 proved costly for two teenagers in the city as they ended up stabbing each other.
Police said Tinku and Manu — both 18 years of age and residents of Vasant Kunj in South Delhi — picked up a brawl over Rs 100 early in the morning. Read More................Teenagers stab each other over Rs 100
Kolkata: In yet another blunder by government departments, an advertisement issued by the Indian Railways has placed New Delhi in Pakistan and Kolkata in the Bay of Bengal. Read More................Railways ad places Delhi in Pakistan
New Delhi: Police at Delhi airport detained a naked man who was spotted near the runway Friday evening. According to police sources, the man, identified as Arun Rai, jumped the periphery wall of the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) and started moving towards a taxiway, near runway 29. Read More................Naked man enters Delhi airport, detained
Bollywood actress Preity Zinta pulled off a stunt by jumping off the wall of a toilet at the Delhi airport after she got stuck inside for more than 10 minutes.Read More................Preity Zinta jumps off toilet wall at Delhi airport
Wanna know which are the most haunted places in India where there is a good chance of finding a ghost........Read here..............HAUNTED PLACES OF INDIA
It's a golden jubilee all right, but of marital discord. A 90-year-old retired IPS officer and his 70-year-old lecturer wife - estranged for almost half a century - have dragged their matrimonial dispute to the Delhi High Court.
Now, even as it grapples with Vimla Balani's appeal against a civil court's decision to dissolve her marriage to Jai Krishan Balani, the HC's immediate attention is focussed on a much more pressing problem. . A 90-year-old retired IPS officer and his 70-year-old lecturer wife - estranged for almost half a century - have dragged their matrimonial dispute to the Delhi High Court.
Now, even as it grapples with Vimla Balani's appeal against a civil court's decision to dissolve her marriage to Jai Krishan Balani, the HC's immediate attention is focussed on a much more pressing problem. Read more..............................A marital discord that's 50-yr-old
Man who was 26 years old died & two of his friends & a shopkeeper fell ill, after drinking a soft drink in Seelampur area of north-east Delhi. The police suspect that the drink, which was being sold under the name of a multinational company was adulterated. Police have sent the samples for a lab. test.
The incident happened around 7.45 pm on Friday & all four victims were residents of Chauhan Bangar. They were rushed to LNJP hospital where Kamaruddin 26 years old was declared dead around 9.30 pm. The other victime cousins Sabbab Ahmed 30 years old & Mohammad Arshad 25 years old & shopkeeper Jamil Ahmed 40 years old were reported to be out of danger. All of them had taken a sip out of the bottle from which Kamaruddin was drinking, after he complained that the drink had a weird taste.
Wanna get married? First take Marriage Lessons!!!!!!!!! Yes, Exactly that is happening in India's capital, New Delhi.
With young marriages in the city becoming increasingly fragile, the Delhi Commission for Women, plans to start an exclusive cell where young couples will be counselled about marriage before they tie the knot. Read more...............................Marriage lessons for Delhi couples
This Valentine's Day gardener Kamlakant at Delhi University has been entrusted with guarding the most precious outdoor exhibits in Delhi University's treasury — the roses in the V-C's garden.
As per Kamlakant the head-gardener of Jawahar Gulab Vatika, located right outside the V-C's office, "Every year around Valentine's Day, students insist on plucking the roses from the vatika. When we refuse permission, they steal the flowers. Now, we've been asked to keep constant guard on the flowers on February 13 and 14." Read more..............................This V-Day, 24-hr security for DU roses
Every time you board an aircraft, you hear the standard pre-takeoff announcement of overhead oxygen masks falling in case of fall in cabin pressure. Most passengers feel this will never happen and don’t pay attention to it, but a recent Air India flight from Delhi to Mumbai flew all the way with the masks hanging over the heads of passengers.
The bizarre incident, a serious breach of established safety procedures, took place on AI’s Boeing 747 as it winged its way from Delhi to Mumbai on February 4. The oxygen masks got deployed automatically once the aircraft was airborne. Read more...............................Oxygen masks down, AI plane flies
It was a real family drama which otherwise is seen normally in a Bollywood film. A 32-year-old placement agency owner was bashed up by his wife at a place where he was preparing to marry another woman. The incident took place in Central Delhi’s Prasad Nagar.
The police said the accused, Mukesh Khanna, had been married to Reena from Jharkhand for four years. The couple also has a two-year-old child. Mukesh began avoiding Reena and got engaged to the other woman, a resident of Prasad Nagar, in May last year. Read more.......................................First wife thrashes man at his ‘wedding’
Buying a new car? What about going to a dealer who, along with freebies, offers a free puja for the car with a priest in attendance? As priests hop from household to household performing pujas in the capital, they now have a new job opening, performing quick puja for the customers at showrooms before they drive away with the four-wheeler. Read more..............................Buy a car and get its puja done for free
"A six-year-old Indian boy, Aniket Chindak is hoping to enter the record books after limbo-skating under 57 cars in less than a minute."
A six-year-old Indian boy, Aniket Chindak is hoping to enter the record books after 'limbo-skating' under 57 cars in less than a minute.
Aniket has already created an unofficial world record by squeezing himself under a row of 57 four-wheel drive cars in 45 seconds.
With legs split, chest bent forward and chin almost skimming along the road, Aniket is no more than eight inches above the ground when he vanishes under the vehicles in Belgaum, India.
The wonder-kid, who started skating when he was 18-months-old, is now training for four hours a day and plans to break his world record of 57 cars with a 100-car skate in New Delhi. Read more....................Six-year-old Indian boy eyes 100-car limbo-skate world record
Believe it or not, a 25-year-old man stole the Honda City car of his maternal uncle and sold it off to a second-hand car dealer for a mere Rs 7000(US$ 175). The incident happened in Model Town in north-west Delhi and, according to the police, the accused is now absconding. Read more............................Man sells kin's car for Rs 7,000
