Food meant for kids eaten by dogs

Lucknow: Scores of wheat bags - sent by Central government for distribution in four districts with about a million and a half ration card holders - are rotting near a railway track in Etawah for the last one week.

Now it is barely fit for consumption by animals.

But even before this is distributed or thrown away, more railway wagons full of foodgrains are arriving. The scandal grows by the sackful. Read more..........UP: Food meant for kids eaten by dogs

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Kids strangle friend, nail him to wall

GHAZIABAD: Two teenagers aged 14 and 15 years allegedly strangled their 13-yearold friend with a copper wire and then pinned his body to a wall using iron nails.The children were paid Rs 20,000 by a 35-year-old woman,Sabroon,to commit the murder.She was angry with the victim as she suspected he was stealing from her shop and wanted to get rid of him.The two kids have been arrested by the Vijay Nagar police on Monday.The woman is on the run. Read More................Kids strangle friend, nail him to wall

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Woman commits suicide after kids fail in exams

A 32-year-old woman committed suicide by jumping before a train in this Uttar Pradesh district after three of her school-going children failed in their exams, police said Sunday.

Anjana, a resident of Arjun Nagar, killed herself Saturday afternoon near Madia Katra close to Raja ki Mandi station here. Read More................Woman commits suicide after kids fail in exams

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Sorry kids, we destroyed your schools: Maoists

Maoist guerrillas have apologised to students in Bihar for damaging their school buildings and affecting their education.

"Hundreds of copies of the apology have been distributed among schoolchildren. We told them that we were sorry for targeting their schools. We also told them what forced us to target their schools," a Maoist leader told IANS on condition of anonymity. Read More................Sorry kids, we destroyed your schools: Maoists

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Bizarre ritual of lowering the infants into a 50-feet deep well

Sangli (Maharashtra): Authorities have launched an awareness campaign in Maharashtra's Sangli district to rid the locals of practising bizarre superstitious rituals.

Buzz up!Villagers in Sangli follow a ritual of lowering the infants into a 50-feet deep well with a belief it would help in increasing the life of the kids.

This ritual is very old and the villagers observe it every year on the occasion of 'Gudi Padwa' or the Hindu New Year. Read More................Maharashtra villagers sensitized against bizarre superstitious rituals

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Car, Motorcycle drive over the hands of 50 Kids

Fifty children from a karate academy in Vishakhapatnam had a car and motorcycle driven over their hands and the town's Mayor clapped enthusiastically. For this, shockingly, was meant to be a display of the children's ability to endure pain and a test of their skills.

So 50 children waited hands outstretched and the car and motorcycle drove over them. The Mayor, P Janardhan Rao said: "It is very nice that such karate skills are being taught to the children of Vizag." Read More................Car, motorcycle drive over the hands of 50 kids

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80-year-old Father, Four Wives, 30 kids, another on way

At 80, Hussain Ali, a small farmer in Assam, is still going strong but is a little worried as his third wife is expecting his 31st child, even as he is busy cradling a bubbly two-month-old baby boy in the courtyard, born to his fourth wife.

"It is all god's gift and wish that I have a large family of four wives and 30 children," Ali said with a hearty smile as his flowing grey beard tickled the infant and made him cry in his arms.

Donning a skullcap, Ali looked frail and emaciated as he sat in a rickety cane chair outside his cluster of mud-and-thatch huts at Mohkhuli village in Lakhimpur district, about 370 km east of Assam's main city Guwahati. Read More................80-year-old father, four wives, 30 kids, another on way

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60 kids pack into 100 sq ft class!

NAGPUR: What is your idea of a classroom in a school? If you are thinking 50 students listening to a teacher in a huge classroom, think again. Mahatma Phule Prathmik Shala at Vijay Nagar is something different. Here, 60 students pack into a small 10x10 foot room and struggle to listen to the teacher. Read More................60 kids pack into 100 sq ft class!

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Disabled kids buried during eclipse

NEW DELHI, India -- Authorities are investigating reports that disabled children in India were buried up to their necks during this week's solar eclipse as a supposed remedy for their handicaps. Read More................India: Claims disabled kids buried during eclipse

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Snake served with mid-day meal - 55 kids fall ill

New Delhi: Fifty-five school children were hospitalised in West Bengal's Birbhum district on Friday after they found a dead snake in their mid-day meal.

Authorities said that the snake must have fallen into the food accidentally when the meal was being prepared. Read More................55 kids fall ill after snake served with mid-day meal

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Kids bring mom home after 20-yr jungle stay

MUMBAI: In the hospital ward in the western suburbs where Laxmi Baraskar is being treated, the staff call her "Jungle Laxmi" — an apt moniker for the wiry woman who spent the last two decades in the jungle near Guhagar taluka in Ratnagiri. Read More................Kids bring mom home after 20-yr jungle stay

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Two kids die locked in fridge

PUNE: In a freak mishap, two children were suffocated to an icy death after being shut in a deep freeze refrigerator box kept in front of a shop at Jejuri near here, police said on Saturday. Read More................Two kids die locked in fridge

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Pythons kept as pets by two children

By Rajni Khaitan, Indore : Two and a half year old Kanha and six-year-old Anurag of Indore, prefer pythons and other snakes to toys.

Their father Milesh Solanki, a snake lover himself, is proud that his affinity to snakes has been bestowed upon his children. Read More................Pythons kept as pets by two children in Madhya Pradesh

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Kids dump garbage in mayor's chamber

PANAJI: In a move that is sure to raise a stink, schoolstudents, egged on by a ruling party corporator, dumped garbage in the Panaji mayor's cabin.

Angered by the foul smell streaming into their classrooms from the garbage dumped at the anaerobic digestor system plant at Patto, around 1,200 students from five schools at Fontainhas-Mala, undertook a protest march to the Corporation of the City of Panaji. Read more.................Kids dump garbage in mayor's chamber

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Father slits throats of three kids, two die

In Gaya city, 112 km from Capital city Patna in Bihar state of India, an insane man slashed throats of three of his children aged between 18 months and six years. While two of the children, a girl and a boy died, the third kid is battling for life at the Patna Medical College Hospital. Read more........................Father slits throats of three kids, two die.

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Kids get Electric Shocks as Punishment in School

As per NDTV India TV news channel, 22 students of a Bhusaval school in Jalgaon district in Maharashtra state of India were allegedly administered electric shocks by their teacher to discipline them.

The teacher Sumant Mishra took the students to the physics laboratory of the school here and allegedly administered shocks with the help of an eliminator because they were not paying attention in class, police said today.

The teacher was later arrested after the kids and their parents lodged a complaint with the police, however, Mishra was later released on bail.

Its high time authoritarianism of teachers in Indian schools needs to be curbed so that such shocking incidents do not happen again.

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Kids in place of Oxen in fields

In a bizzare incident here is a farm in Bihar's Vaishali district, where a 10 year old has replaced an ox at a plough which belongs to the family of the Union Minister for Rural Development, RJD's Raghuvansh Pratap Singh.

The minister's brother, Raghuraj Singh says that the fields are too slippery after the recent floods and its too dangerous for bullocks and a tractor would skid, so he hires children instead.

''We get children because there is a shortage of labour. The fields are too wet for the bullocks. So we have got children to plough the field before sowing,'' said Raguraj Singh, Farm owner.

The boy and his father are equally matter of fact about this. For them, it's a question of working on the fields or starving.

''We work to live. My feet and arms hurt but I still need to work if I want to eat,'' said Sonelal Kumar, Child labourer.''Bullocks can't tread on this ground. So we have to do it ourselves with the children,'' said Ramkrishna Singh, Farmer.

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Kids pick human bones for a living

At the busiest crematorium in this Tamil Nadu temple town in southern India, the quiet work of a group of little boys is more heart-rending than the wails of bereaved relatives.

About 10 boys visit the crematorium at Thathaneri on the banks of the Vaigai river and rummage through the heap of hot ashes of dead bodies with their small bare hands to pick bones. Read more..............In Madurai, kids pick human bones for a living

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Poor kids to feast on 'tallest' sandwich

A resort at Kovalam in Kerala state of India claims, it has broken the existing record for the tallest sandwich.

The current title is held by O'Brien's Irish Sandwich Bar for a 42-foot-tall sandwich made in 2003.

"A tourist brought over 25 poor children and the sandwich will be eaten soon," said Raja Gopal Iyer, director of the resort. Read more.........Poor kids to feast on 'tallest' sandwich

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Boys at Graveyard school get nightmares

Wanna know why school going children in one of the school's in Bihar state of India are having nightmares? Because their school is located in a graveyard & kids are having recurring nightmares about ghosts..........Read more..........Graveyard school pupils get nightmares

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