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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'Mentally ill' woman chained for 3 yrs

BHUBANESWAR/BALASORE: A voluntary organisation rescued a 30-year-old woman who was chained for the past three years by her family at Jidtal village in Balasore district. Her family claimed she was "mentally unstable". Read full story...........'Mentally ill' woman chained for 3 yrs

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When, 'Witches' cure the ill by slapping them

A group of women, believed to be blessed with powers of witchcraft, claim to have treated people suffering from dreaded ailments like cancer and Aids by stroking or even slapping them - an annual tradition in a Chhattisgarh slum during the festive Navratri season.

As hundreds of people gathered at the banks of a pond at a slum called New Purena, on the outskirts of Raipur, about five women began their ‘healing’ with cries of “Maa Jagdambe” at midnight Friday.

They picked up a few children suffering from heart ailments, three women with cancer and two HIV-positive rickshaw pullers from the crowd of around 500. Read more............Here, 'witches' cure the ill by slapping them

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