Accountant quits 'boring' job, turns highway robber

Here is the story of an accountant who left his job of accountancy as he was getting too bored with his job. So this 31-year-old Rajib Chatterjee from West Bengal state of India got attracted to the life of a highwayman robbing people. Over the years, he built up a gang and a notoriety that would put even hardened criminals to shame.......Read full story........Accountant quits 'boring' job, turns highway robber

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National highway becomes home for thousands

Here is the plight of Bihar flood affected people who are forced to live on the national highway for days, endlessly awaiting relief.

"We have no food left after our stock of sattu (roasted gram powder) provided by a voluntary organization ended Monday. For the last nine days we have been living dangerously on the highway, hoping to get some relief," as per Munheshwar Jha who is among hundreds of people in flood-ravaged Bihar's Darbhanga district.

There is nothing left to eat except a little dry chura (beaten rice). They do not know when the wait will end.

"Two days ago, a few food packets were dropped by air force helicopters. But it was impossible for old people like us to catch them as hundreds of hungry people fought with each other for it," a frail Jha said.

"All sections of society ... from landowners to landless laborers, the poor and the rich are forced to take shelter on the national highway. Nature's fury hardly discriminates," said Narayan Chowdhary, a schoolteacher.

The floods in Darbhanga have displaced hundreds of thousands of people, now living either on the highway or on embankments without food and water for days.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Bihar have been displaced and are without essentials including medicines for days in the floods the UN says are the "worst in living memory".

According to the preliminary estimate made by the disaster management department over 12 million people spread over 19 of Bihar's 38 districts are affected by floods. The disaster has claimed 91 lives so far.

News Credit:Bihar Times

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Elephant robs Motorist in India

Stories of Bandits robbing on the highway have been heard earlier but have you ever heard of a "Bandit Elephant" who robs people on the highway!!! Yes, waylaying motorists in northern Keonjhar district in Orissa state of India has complained that a wild elephant refuses to let their vehicles pass unless they give him food.

Witnesses told the "Hindustan Times" daily that the elephant has been scouting for food on a highway, forcing motorists to roll down windows and get out of their vehicles. "The tusker then inserts its trunk inside the vehicle and sniffs for food," Prabodh Mohanty, who has had two encounters with the elephant, told the newspaper. "If you are carrying vegetables and bananas inside your vehicle, then it will gulp them and allow you to go."

But if the motorist does not roll down the glasses of the vehicle or resists opening the vehicle door, the pachyderm pushes the vehicle and stands right in front of it until the driver allows him to carry out its routine check.

Forest officials said the elephant is old and looking for easy food. "We are telling commuters regularly not to tease the elephant," said Sirish Mohanty, a forest ranger. "So far it has not harmed anybody. But if people don't heed our advice and harass the tusker, then it can retaliate."

India is home to nearly half the total population of wild Asian elephants. Of the 10 000 elephants in the country, more than 60% live in the eastern states.

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