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A Hindu Kashmiri Brahmin Baba has mysterious powers to reduce his weight drastically so that he becomes nearly weightless. Such a Baba having curious powers recently appeared in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district. The Bab was staying at a Lord Hanuman temple at Balasarai village in Haradi area of Uttar Pradesh in India.
This mysterious Baba’s supernatural powers have taken the Indian media by storm as no one has actually seen such powers of a Hindu Holy man in recent times. This Baba's traits have been leaving the people & media just awestruck.
This Baba is seen offering prayers and doing Yagna (Hindu Fire ritual) on the top of the Tree. He also makes a bed of tree leaves on the tree top & rests over there and also sleeps on the top of tree leaves just becoming weightless.
People also wonder how and when this mysterious Baba climbs on the tree up and when he comes down. People are thronging at the village site to see the mysterious powers of the Hindu Holy man.
Police is also there at the site to maintain law and order situation at site as lot many people are coming to see this Baba in that village site.
Kottayam: Expressing support to Anna Hazare''s anti-corruption movement in a unique way, a 60-year-old man has launched a ''relay'' fast here atop a coconut palm tree.
The palm-top campaign launched by Rajendran of Veloor near here elicited instant response from fellow-villagers, who joined him by sitting near the tree.Read More................Man fasts atop coconut palm to support Hazare
Zirakpur: While the drama surrounding his ‘elevated’ protest continues, Avtar Singh Nagla refuses to budge. Sitting atop a eucalyptus tree the past four days, some 40-foot above the ground, this politician says only Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal can bring him down.
Bhubaneswar: A tribal is living atop a tree in Orissa since Tuesday after he failed to pay his wife’s hospital fees, officials said Thursday.
Okil Munda, 26, a resident of Sansanadi village in Mayurbhanj district, admitted his pregnant wife in the government hospital at the district headquarter town of Baripada, some 270 km from here Monday. The 21-year-old woman gave birth to a girl after a caesarean operation. Read More................Man climbs tree to escape wife’s medical bill
In the 21st century India that recently marked its 64 Independence Day, Tagore's dream seems to have been recreated in quite a different scenario.
One such example of that is visible in district Sitamarhi of north Bihar. Here, village students from Gainpur Tola of Madhuban Purbi Basaha Panchayat, Baj Patti Block, come carrying sacks. They require it everyday to sit on the ground to study under a tree. Read More................Some children still study under a tree in 21st century India
For 19 years, he came home drunk every night, and beat up his wife, demanding dowry.
Tired of his promises to change his ways, the women of a small village in the Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh finally tied the offender to a tree on Monday and took turns beating him. Read More................Women tied him to a tree and took turns beating him
Bhubaneswar, Feb 17 :Just imagine climbing a 30-foot-high tree and hanging on to a branch to make a phone call. This is a grim reality in Maoist-hit districts of Orissa where the extremists have been targeting the towers that relay mobile telephone signals.
After the destruction of several towers, mobile communication has come to a virtual halt in several areas of Malkangiri and Koraput districts of southern Orissa, which border Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. Read More................Hanging on a tree branch for a phone call
CHENNAI: Tense moments prevailed at Saidapet sub-jail here when two inmates, accused in robbery cases, climbed a tree, in protest against not being produced in court for a long time. Read More................2 jail inmates climb tree in protest
Ranchi: Left without a roof over their heads for marrying against their families’ wishes, a couple in Jharkhand took shelter under a tree 25 years ago. It was to be their nest for the rest of their life.
Mangra Mahali and his wife Balkhi, both tribals in their early 50s, have been living under a tree near the Tatisilve railway station, about 30 km from here.Read more.................Life and love under a tree for 25 years
Here is a dream come true. A house on a Mango tree. Conceived and designed by a Civil Engineer Mr. K. P. Singh from UDAIPUR (Rajasthan - India). Mr. K.P.Singh and his family is living in the house since 2000.
Puri: The pomp and splendour was all there when the bride and groom tied the nuptial knot in a village in Orissa - not a marriage of human beings but of two trees in a gesture aimed at preserving the green cover.
Villagers performed this unusual 'marriage' at Jimiti in the coastal district of Puri, some 60 km from here, in the hope that the gods will help them to preserve all trees in their locality. Read more......................................Villagers perform tree 'wedding' to send green message
If you thought that Coconut trees grow only in open, then here is a surprise for you, as a couple in Bangalore city in Karnataka state of India were in for a surprise when they found a coconut tree growing in a cupboard in their home. Read full story at TOI....................They didn't sow, but still reaped!
In Barsol village of Dharampur taluka of Valsad in Gujarat state of India, a full-grown leopard was chased by a pack of street dogs. The dogs forced the big cat, which strayed from a nearby forest, to take refuge on a tree for more than an hour. Read full story at TOI.................................Chased by dogs, leopard takes refuge on tree
In a horrifying incident, a three-year-old Vignesh was tied in a sack and left hanging from a tree for more than seven hours at Kaveeripattinam village in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu. He was bought down after passers-by heard his wail. All because he was HIV positive. Read more........HIV+ kid in TN left hanging from tree for 7 hours
A roadside tree at the gate of the Ambar Hall in Kothrud in Pune city in Maharashtra state of India is currently drawing huge crowds. The reason — instead of fruits and flowers, the tree is laden with books written in Marathi. Read full story here..............A tree to teach reading habits
INSPIRED by the toe pads of tree frogs and crickets, researchers in India have created a form of sticky coating that is both strong and reusable.
When conventional adhesive tape is pulled off a surface, cracks form on the tape, which also picks up dust and other particles, quickly losing its stickiness.
Writing in the journal Science, the researchers described how the toe pads of tree frogs contain 'microscopic channel patterns' that stop cracks from forming.Read more...........Tree-frog inspires new super glue in India
In India there is no dearth of miracle believers. Sometimes they see Lord Ganesha on a tree trunk & sometimes they see the Lord on a wall. Sometimes sea water becomes sweet & sometimes honey starts dripping from the picture of "Sai Ram". In the same line of those believers here is another miracle.
People of Gopalpur in Behala in West Bengal state of India are suddenly astonished with a 'miracle'. Over here a peepal tree adjacent to Behala Flying Club is oozing water for the last five days. A similar phenomenon had recently taken place in Madhya Pradesh state of India also, where people queued up to drink water from a 'miracle tree'. Read full story here......Hundreds flock to 'miracle tree'
