The weight-shedding Punjabi ‘bhangra’ dance exercise has been successfully adopted by the Bathinda police in the state of Punjab in India and will be followed probably by the entire state to make cops fitter and healthier. The state’s Director General of Police (DGP) N.P.S Aulakh has asked Bathinda district police chief Naunihal Singh to make a presentation on the initiative […]
Over 300 Indians commit suicide everyday
Stories about "India Shining" might be the hype of the day, but there is a grimmer picture of a nation in crisis: On average, a farmer commits suicide every half hour. And it is the farmer in economically more developed states, who are most vulnerable. The overall figures are no less depressing. In 2005, the last […]
Man marries daughter in front of wife
A 36-year-old man from Jalpaiguri in India married his teenage daughter and made her pregnant, justifying his act by claiming that he had divine sanction for his incestuous lust. What’s even more apalling is that his wife was the prime witness in the nikah of her daughter to her husband. Afazuddin Ali’s wedding happened quietly and […]
Prison turned into Luxury Hotel
A once notorious Boston Jail has now been transformed into a Luxury Hotel. The elegant iron-railing balconies were once catwalks where guards stood watch over the inmates to make sure they didn’t try to break out. The newly opened Liberty Hotel, was a very much infamous jail where Boston locked up its most notorious prisoners. The transformation […]
Whale found deep in Amazon Jungle
A minke whale has been spotted more than 1600km (994 miles) from the Atlantic Ocean, deep inside the Amazon rain forest.The whale ran aground earlier this week but after being freed with the help of vets and biologists it disappeared shortly afterwards. It is the second time this week in Brazil that a lost animal has […]
Used Condoms recycled into hair-bands
Used condoms are increasingly being recycled into hair bands in southern China, threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases that they were originally meant to prevent. In the latest case of potentially harmful Chinese-made products, rubber hair bands have been found in markets and salons in Dongguan and Guangzhou cities in Guangdong province, the ‘China Daily’ said. "These cheap and […]
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