31 Doctors in this Family and Still Counting

As per a report:
When Vinamrita Patni, secured 107th rank in the recently held RPMT, she will become the 32nd member of her family to join the medical profession after she completes her MBBS course. Read full story  here at......31 Doctors in this Family and Still Counting

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Family lived with dead relative in their house for ten months because they thought it would keep ghosts away

Now what would you say this report that an Indian family lived with dead relative in their house for ten months because they thought it would keep ghosts away. Read full story here at Family lived with dead relative in their house for ten months because they thought it would keep ghosts away

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Indian man has world’s biggest family with 39 wives, 94 children, 33 grandchildren

An Indian man, from Mizoram, has the largest family in the world with 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren.

Ziona Chana and his family live in a 100-room, four-storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories.

Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. Read More................Indian man has world’s biggest family with 39 wives, 94 children, 33 grandchildren

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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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Where families and friends join students in exams

Students in Bihar can count on the support of their friends and family during their school exams.

The state is now in the midst of its secondary school exams. And what students don't know won't hurt them. Caught on camera are their friends and relatives, scaling walls to pass them cheat-sheets. Read More................In Bihar, families and friends join students in exams

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Family lynched in India for allegedly practicing witchcraft

New Delhi - Villagers in India's north-eastern state of Assam stoned and beat to death four members of a family on suspicion of practicing witchcraft, police said Wednesday.
The incident took place in the Milanpur village in the Sonitpur district some 310 kilometres north-east of the main city of Guwahati in the early hours of Tuesday. Read more....................Family lynched in India for allegedly practicing witchcraft.

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Poor boy marries rich girl, family beheaded in Bihar

Patna Eight members of a man's poverty-ridden family were shot and beheaded before their bodies were thrown into a river in Bihar after he secretly married a wealthy girl, police said on Wednesday. Read more.............Poor boy marries rich girl, family beheaded in Bihar

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Infant Girl killed, family attacked over drawing water

A Dalit woman was refused water from a handpump, her family beaten up by upper caste people and an infant daughter killed in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district, a police officer said Wednesday.
The incident occurred Tuesday in Bhadroni village of Shivpuri district, where caste wars are not too uncommon. Read more...................Infant Dalit girl killed, family attacked over drawing water

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For treasure, man wipes out family, kills self

BANGALORE: The lure of a hidden ‘treasure’ in an abandoned well in the empty fields of Arkavathy Layout made a bangle trader kill five persons on Monday night. When he realized the treasure was a hoax, he committed suicide. The victims included his wife and two children. Read more..................................................For treasure, man wipes out family, kills self

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Family with a 'passion' of collecting things

Meet the Maheshwari family of Gwalior that loves collecting things, and collecting them big.

The father is one of India's biggest coin collectors, his son collects the autographs of celebrities, his daughter-in-law collects mobile recharge coupons and his daughter collects polythene bags! Read more..........................Family with 'passion'

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330 members of a family live in the same house

Gopinath, Babajaan, Lingamma, Fathimabi, Ramachandra Rao, Maangilal, Cariappa, Inayathulla... all live in the same house as part of a 330-member family at 17/1, Padmanabhanagar, formerly Ward 55. The house is situated on three roads: Subramanyanagar main road, Netaji road and Muneshwara temple. Read more.......................330 voters in a family in Uttarahali

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Court to decide, Cremation or burial?

In West Bengal State of India, a 70-year-old woman's body has been lying in a Kolkata morgue for the past one week as her children have approached the Calcutta High Court to decide whether she should be buried or cremated.

A Hindu by birth, Pari Mallik, a resident of Chhoto Mallikpara in Howrah, had married a Muslim after the death of her first husband -- a Hindu.

Pari died on Oct 30 and her children from her first marriage want her last rites to be performed according to Hindu rituals while her second husband and daughter want a burial, local reports said.

Both the families have now approached the Calcutta High Court seeking to perform her last rites according to their own religious practices.

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Cats Protect Family From Snake

In Bhubaneswar city in Orissa state of India, a group of three domestic cats protected a family here from a poisonous cobra by preventing the snake's entry into the house.

The snake appeared in the front yard of the house of Santilata Das, a resident of Orissa's capital city Thursday morning when no one was at home, a local TV channel reported.

The cats surrounded the snake and did not allow it to enter the house. 'I came a few hours later and thanked the cats for protecting us,' Das was quoted as saying by the channel.

'They had also prevented the entry of a snake the same way last year,' she said.

Das's neighbours and local journalists rushed to witness the incident. Later, a volunteer from a city-based snake help line went to the house and captured the reptile.

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School Trains Women to be Submissive, Ideal Wives!

It may sound Bizarre but its true! In Bhopal City in Madhya Pradesh state of India here is one school that trains women to become ideal, obedient and submissive wives and daughters-in-law. "Manju Sanskar Kendra" school in Bhopal city was founded in 1987 & teaches young women the art of being good wives by serving their husbands and in-laws, and thereby preventing splits in the family.

'The primary aim of the Kendra is to prevent Indian families from breaking up under the pressures it faces nowadays,' says Bhau Ayaldas Hemnani, the founder and director of the rather unique school.

It offers a three-month course that stresses on the importance of 'Indian culture' and the woman adjusting to her new family after marriage. While students spend the first month learning Sikh and Hindu scriptures, the second month has lessons in naturopathy and the third is entirely dedicated to domestic life.

As per Hemnani, 'We teach women how to serve their husbands and win laurels and how to behave with in-laws. We also tell them to be tolerant while adjusting to their new home,'.

Women's rights activists and groups have termed the very idea of the school 'ridiculous', anti-women and regressive. They have in fact suggested that schools now be opened to train ideal husbands too.

'We don't have any objection if the centre starts teaching men to be an ideal husband, father or son. It would be a step towards building a balanced society. Why only train girls to be submissive?' asks Sandhya Shelly, state president of the All India Democratic Women's Association.

Chandna Arora of the All India Women's Council, says: 'Thousands of women are doused with kerosene and set on fire by their greedy husbands and their families. Most of these dowry-related deaths are passed off as kitchen accidents. How will they resist dowry or other domestic abuse?'

Contrary to one's expectations, the centre is very popular with over 4,500 having graduated from it so far.


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