Right now, India is the richest country in the world! Wondering how? It's really amazing. It's due to Mr. G Vaidyaraj, who donated all his wealth, about which he actually did not know. He is a descendent of Raja Krishnadev Raya from Mysore district. For the last 300 years or so, three stones were worshipped in his house.But nobody tried to see what it was, except this person, who is a lawyer by profession. One day, when there was nobody in his house, he took the stone out to see what it was that they worship. Due to the dust deposited on it, from many many years, it looked only like a simple stone. But when he touched it, some portion of the stone was cleansed. And he saw a bright ray of light. He saw something which attracted his attention. And he was amazed when he cleaned all of them.The whole room was filled with light. He discovered they were diamonds of about 4600 carats each. He informed the Govt. of India and the news is censored with its security. It's now deposited in a Swiss Bank. The cost of single diamond exceeds the GDP of USA + UK. India can buy virtually 7 developing nations. Even World Bank does not have enough money to buy it. One diamond costs thrice the debt of World Bank over India. One such diamond can buy 10 Bill Gates to you. And the World Bank has proposed the Indian Govt. that it can pay India in Installment if it wishes to do so. India's GDP is 34.25 billion dollars. Bill Gates property is 95 billion dollars approximate so that is the way 'nature changes'. Our Prime Minister has refused to sell it. He said it will be sold or mortgaged for credit when we need it. Otherwise right now we have no problems. You can go through Times of India with a small column on it a week ago. Star TV presented a 115 min documentary on it about 15 days ago. The Hindu with its half page article in it. After that it was censored as classified. Another good news is that in the Desert of Thar a deposit of Oil and Natural gas have been found. This stores what Kuwait has in its stomach. India can go with this ONGC energy reserve with another 30 years. And moreover it can export it to other counties. It's incredible!! But true. An Indian boy in his 12th standard has disproved Einstein's 'Theory of Relativity'. Shocked? Read on... Sudarshan Reddy has theoretically proven the existence of a sub-atomic particle, which can travel at speed greater than that of light, thereby challenging one of the fundamental postulates of the 'Theory of Relativity'. In his recent research paper submitted to the Institute of Advanced Physics (IAP) at Trieste (Italy), Sudarshan has proved the existence of a class of sub-atomic particles called leptons', which can travel faster than light. The international physics community is shocked by this discovery. Dr.Massimo Martelli, President of the IAP has this to say about the paper submitted by Sudarshan. 'After long, careful and critical analysis, I can confidently say that Sudarshan's re search papers show tremendous leap in our understanding of physics. His investigation mounts up on 'leptons'. His work builds substantially on the work of Einstein and others in the field of relativity.' When physicists from Princeton University tried to measure Sudarshan's IQ with an IQ-meter (at the American Embassy in Delhi), the meter broke down. Sudarshan, incidentally, is the brother of Madhu Reddy, the Indian whiz kid who developed an operating system superior to Microsoft Windows. We should all be very proud of these boys.
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Casual attitude, Poor governance stimulates clashes and blasts.
“Poor enforcement of law and a casual attitude towards the judiciary has made India prone to incidents like mass killings, communal riots and bomb blasts.
There is no one to check violation of human rights,” said Indira Jaising, the eminent Supreme Court lawyer, in a seminar.
While sharing her views on violation of human rights that is rampant in the country she says, “The question here as to why we are not able to interfere the claims of the of the government that it is saving the interests of the common man, so the courts don’t want to interfere in the working of the government.”
Indira asserts, “If law is imposed properly and heavy penalty applied on those who violate it, especially on those who have committed heinous crimes, should be booked by the judiciary so that it spreads a social message and leave an impact on the minds of people for a long time.”
Elaborating on the involvement of government officials in helping the miscreants, she specifies, “Sometimes the representatives of the government itself indulge in unlawful killings that result in violation of human rights.
The judiciary should take stern decisions to curb such activities.”
However, Indira claims that the state should not give the liberty to the Armed Forces to conduct encounters like the recent one in Delhi.
Whenever the Armed Forces are going to nab some one who is suspected to be involved in the bomb blasts it should try to arrest them. While she feels that when the extremist indulge in activities like detaining innocent people to get the one in custody released from the jail are separate issues.
She was in town to attend the first symposium organised by a Nepal-based human rights organisation. In the symposium she spoke on insightful topic - “King can do no wrong” at ICSSR auditorium in the Panjab University.
Indira says, “As the title suggest it implies that the powerful people sitting on plum posts can do no wrong.
In the presentation I have suggested that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act should be repealed.
The act is presently enforced in Jammu & Kashmir, Nagaland, Manipur and Tripura.
The act gives the liberty to the Armed Forces to kill whosoever they suspect as the
extremist.”
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Christian nun gang raped, priest assaulted in Gujrat
While Indian PM promosing on international stage that he will look into atrocities and massacre of Christains in India- a christian nun from Kandhamal is crying for justice.
RAPED IN FULL PUBLIC VIEW AND INFRONT OF 12 POLICEMEN
The Orissa government has failed to take any action, under the law of the land, against those who committed bestial crimes — the gang rape of a 28-year-old Catholic nun and the brutal attack on a Catholic priest who courageously resisted their attempts to force him to participate in the atrocity. These incidents took place on August 25 at K. Nuagaon, 12 km from the Baliguda subdivision in Kandhamal district. Both victims filed First Information Reports at the Baliguda police station. Sister Nirmala, Superior-General of the Missionaries of Charity, wrote to the Orissa Chief Minister and the Prime Minister specifying the atrocities.
The brutalisation of the nun and the priest by a mob raising anti-Christian, Hindutva slogans took place around 1 p.m. at the site of the Divya Jyothi Pastor Centre. The church was burnt the previous day in reprisal against the murder of an RSS activist, Lakshmanananda Saraswathi, and four of his associates on August 23. The gang rape of the young nun, whose “virginity [was] grossly violated in public” (and whose identity is being withheld by this newspaper to protect her privacy) took place in front of a police outpost with 12 policemen from the Orissa State Armed Police present and watching, according to Father Thomas Chellan, the priest who was dragged out and badly beaten.
“Around 1 p.m., a gang came and pulled me and the Sister out of the house where we had taken shelter and started assaulting us,” Father Chellan told The Hindu in a telephonic interview from Kerala where he is recuperating.
“My appeals to the policemen who were standing nearby and watching only resulted in further beating. At one point the nun slipped away to plead with the police for help but she was dragged back by the mob and her blouse torn,” he said. The nun was gang raped in a nearby building, and he was doused with kerosene by the mob, which threatened to set him on fire. They were saved by a group of youth who took them to the police outpost where “one among the attackers was present with the police between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m.,” Father Chellan said.
News of the K. Nuagaon atrocity was conveyed through mobile phones to several priests and nuns hiding in the forests, fearing for their lives as the anti-Christian hunt was on. The victims were taken to the Baliguda police station around 9 p.m. where they lodged First Information Reports. “I believe the Sister wrote in her complaint that she was raped,” Father Chellan said.
The atrocity, about which the State government has not gone public, has outraged and terrified Christian organisations working in Kandhamal district. News of it was brought to the notice of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik by Raphael Cheenath, Archbishop of the Cuttack-Bhubaneswar diocese.
Sister Nirmala wrote letters to the Orissa Chief Minister and the Prime Minister on this and other brutal attacks on Christians in Orissa. In her letter, dated August 28, 2008, to Chief Minister Patnaik, she took up “a very sad incident, soon after the eruption of the violence” of “one young sister, consecrated to God, who was administrator of an institute, being hunted out of her hiding place and stripped naked by the mob and her virginity grossly violated in public, without any help from the police present there.”
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Feel ashamed, India is being ruined by politicians.
For the Catholic nuns at Jharsuguda district in Orissa, it has been a tough day. Forty days after one of their own, Meeta Mohanty (name changed), was allegedly raped and paraded naked by Hindu radicals in Balliguda, she was told that the authorities had finally admitted to occurrence of the crime, and asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to investigate it..
The case was transferred to the CID yesterday, but the news was broken to Meeta today. Her first reaction was natural: “I am happy that something has happened in the case. But I prefer a CBI inquiry. I want the real culprit to be punished. I can identify him, though I don't know his name.”
For Meeta, it has been a long wait for justice since August 25 when she, along with Father Thomas Chellantharayil, the head of Divyajyoti Pastoral Centre in Balliguda block of Kandhamal, were pulled out of their hideouts by Hindu extremists, and brutally assaulted.
Meeta remembers how she had instinctively run to the police team standing guard, hoping to be protected. But they looked the other way as the mob dragged her and took her to a local Christian NGO, and raped her.
Still undergoing treatment for trauma, Meeta, a tribal from Sambalpur, today spoke to The Tribune over telephone about how and why she reported the crime in the first place, a decision that was hard to take.
“I spoke up so the voiceless could get a voice. Such suffering is heaped on women every day. Someone had to raise a voice so that this crime is not perpetuated. I want the culprit to be punished and I will cooperate in the investigation,” she said.
For the nuns at the commune, she is an example in courage. Her province head Sister Mary Pulickakunnel describes her as an “exceptional soul”.
“I found Meeta to be more courageous than anyone. She is conscious of her responsibility and is keen to bring the guilty to book. But for that to happen, a CBI inquiry is needed,” said Sister Pulickakunnel, a day after Rapheal Cheenath, Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar made a similar demand.
For her part, Meeta is hoping to recover so she can take her BA II exams. With a two-year theology degree in her kitty, Meeta was preparing for BA II exams when she became a victim of anti-Christian violence in Balliguda, just 15 km from Jalaspeta ashram, where VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati was killed on August 23.
“She had taken her vows only in July this year,” said Sister Pulickakunnel. Away from where Meeta is lodged, Father Thomas Chellantharayil says a CBI enquiry should be ordered in the case.
“Only yesterday, another rape was reported in Tikabali block. This shows that the local police are in no position to control violence. The CBI should be roped in,” he said, shocked at the way Orissa government has been saying it has suspended the Balliguda inspector and arrested four suspects for Barua’s rape.
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Love is not allowed - Teens murdered, honored killing again
Grandfather of the girl maintains she had to die to save family honour, say Noida cops
They had met in the maize fields of the village several times, but this time, 18-year-old Rekha and 17-year-old Sonu were caught.
Her family allegedly strangulated her and beat the youth to death. The bodies were later set on fire in an apparent attempt to destroy evidence.
The alleged honour killing took place in the Wair village near Kakod in Greater Noida on Thursday. The girl belonged to Jatav community, the boy to the Khatik community. Her family owns a ration shop, his father Raju is a farmer.
According to the police, the two were neighbours and fell in love. "Around 11.30 am, they had slipped away to meet in the fields. But a villager saw them and informed Rekha's family. Her father and grandfather reached the spot to find them in a compromising position. They smothered the girl with her dupatta and beat the youth to death," said R K Chaturvedi, Senior Superintendent of Police, Noida.
After the couple died, some members of the girl's family riddled Sonu's body with bullets, using a countrymade gun. The bodies were then drenched in kerosene, put on haystacks and set afire.
A local watchman, who found out about the incident, informed a constable. The bodies were already half consumed by fire when the police reached the spot.
An FIR has been lodged against Puran Jatav, the girl's grandfather and Gulab Jatav, her father. Two other relatives - Samay Pal and Kailash - have been booked too.
"The family is absconding, though we have managed to detain the grandfather," said Chaturvedi. "Puran is unrepentant and maintains that the girl had to die. He says he saved his family's honour," the SSP said.
Sonu was studying at Anand Raj Surana Bhati Wair Inter College in Class XI and the girl was a student of Class X, the police said.
But Mahipal Singh, village pradhan and former principal of the college, denied this. "Rekha had been our student but had failed twice in Class X. The UP education board does not allow a third shot at the exam. Sonu had quit studies a long time ago," Singh said.
With the postmortem pending, the boy's family is yet to receive the body.
"Sonu had never missed my aloo parathas," said Saroj, his aunt. "He was the simplest boy in the village and an introvert. Rekha's family could have sorted this out through discussions. His mother is bedridden and father is almost inconsolable," she added.
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12 year old threashed while saving mother from CRPF
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Sex with minor - Supreme court of India verdict.
If love is blind, so is justice. Long after a boy, then 19 years old, eloped with his 16-year-old girlfriend from rural Punjab and the two had sex, the boy — now a man — stands convicted for rape by the Supreme Court and will spend the next three years behind bars.
The girl being a minor, her consent to sex did not help mitigate the boy's offence. For, law terms sex with a minor, with or without her consent, as rape.
What saved him from a harsher sentence of seven years was a leniency plea from the girl's father. The boy, Rakesh Kumar, had been arrested after the girl's father accused him of kidnapping and raping his minor daughter.
A trial court in Patiala convicted Rakesh Kumar and sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment, despite the girl confessing that she had sex as she was in love with him.
Kumar appealed in the Punjab and Haryana high court, which said it would be harsh to send the boy behind bars, long after the incident, for seven years just because two youngsters in love had sex.
While maintaining the conviction, it reduced the sentence to the period already undergone and asked the authorities to release him. The main ground for leniency, as mentioned in the high court judgment, was the rural background of the boy.
The state government appealed against the judgment saying rape convicts could not be let off lightly as it could encourage other such offenders.
A Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and M K Sharma was caught in a dilemma as on one hand a heinous crime like rape could not be condoned, while on the other, there was a confession from the girl and a plea from her father to be lenient to the convict. In the end, the bench felt that high court was not justified in reducing the sentence of a person convicted of rape, a heinous offence.
The court must not only keep in view the rights of the criminal but also the rights of the victim and the society at large while considering imposition of appropriate punishment, said Justice Pasayat, writing the judgment for the bench.
He said courts, while using their discretion to award punishment less than that prescribed in law, must record cogent reasons and not because the convict belonged to a rural background, as had been stated by the high court.
However, the apex court was also aware that the victim and the accused were in love and the victim had admitted that she willingly had sex with the accused.
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Ex-minister from Maharashtra held for killing deer
Former Maharashtra tribal development minister Dharmarao Baba Atram, who was forced to resign after he was caught shooting down an endangered Chinkara in the forests outside Pune, was today arrested by forest department officials.
Atram had been evading arrest and had sought an anticipatory bail. However, his bail pleas were rejected by the Bombay High Court which asked him to appear before the forest department officials. Atram appeared for questioning two days ago. After intense grilling, he was formally arrested.
According to officials here, forest officer H.G. Dhumal, attached to the Bhor circle of Maharashtra, grilled Atram at a stretch before formally placing him under arrest.
He was subsequently produced before a magistrate's court in Saswad which remanded him in custody for 14 days.
According to the police, some tribals had recognised Atram's official car when he came to hunt for deer in July this year. Subsequently, on a complaint filed by tribals residing in the area, forest department officials raided Atram's farmhouse were the remains of a Chinkara and some guns were recovered.
After the case hit the headlines, top bosses of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), to which Atram belonged, asked him to resign.
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Haryana sets up ‘mahila chaupals’ in the villages
Haryana has become the first State in the country to set up ‘mahila chaupals’ in the villages for the women across the State. This was stated by Chief Parliamentary Secretary Dharambir Singh while addressing the audience at a workshop organised by Development and Panchayat Department at Karnal.
He said development works costing Rs.2,000 crore was being done by the Panchayti Raj Institutions in the State. He added that Rs.371.66 crore was being spent under Haryana Rural Development Fund, Rs.26.37 crore on the construction of chaupals for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes, Rs.8.26 crore on women chaupals, Rs.56 crore on construction of a rural stadium, Rs.129.64 crore under Local Area Development Fund, Rs.357.37 crore on the construction of streets, Rs.425 crore for the development of model villages, Rs.195 crore for the development works of slum area, Rs.175.39 crore under the total sanitation campaign and Rs.233 crore under the TFC Scheme.
Mr. Singh stressed the need to implement the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme effectively so that more and more employment opportunities could be generated for the rural masses in order to accelerate the pace of development in the State.
While appreciating the sanitation programme of district administration, he said 140 panchayats were recommended to the Centre for Nirmal Puruskar.
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Serious doubts about India being mighty !
I have serious doubts about India being a mighty country. More than half of the country sleeps hungry. There is no LAW and no POLICY. This leads to living for the mighty....
I have sen villages and life in a village in India is totally opposite to life in cities. People are being fooled, devided in name of religion/caste and sects and thus whole issue of devide and rule.
I do not know what will happen to this GOLDEN SPARROW but right now, I do not see any element of mighty in India.
Sexuality a tricky subject, 3 m Indians are HIV+
Nearly three million people in India suffer from HIV positive.
The book ‘AIDS Sutra – Untold Stories from India’ was launched at the Oxford bookstore here today. It has been brought out by Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The book contains 16 stories by the most renowned authors of India.
It tries to present a human face to AIDS in India. Writers like — Mukul Kesavan, Salman Rushdie, Siddhartha Deb, Kiran Desai, Vikram Seth, Nikita Lalwani and Nalini Jones have contributed to the book.
The book is priced at Rs 395. On the sale of each book, Rs 80 will go to children affected by HIV/AIDS in cities like Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai.
The fund will help these children to attend school and provide them with the basic care and support.
In India the book is being brought out by Random House and in the USA and UK by Anchor books and Vintage.
The book is being described as India’s first charity book.
Penny Richards, senior programme officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation informs, “There are nearly 3 million Indians living with HIV today. If we want to stop the spread of HIV, we need to embrace everyone suffering with it – regardless of the social class, line of work, or circumstance…. It starts with telling their stories.”
“I was completely unaware of the nature and the scale of HIV/AIDS in India before I took part in this project. I was both intellectually charged and emotionally moved by what I saw, learnt and contributed in a bid to spread AIDS awareness in India,” said author William Dalrymple.
Dalrymple also added, “Personally the entire experience has been an eye-opener. People are open about many things but sexuality is a tricky subject in India.”
He added, “I discovered that there was a silence at every level on the scale and nature of AIDS problem. However, everyone I came across in the sex trade are well aware of the problem and most of the girls I met were HIV +ve but they are using condoms.”
Dalrymple also read excerpts from his stories in the collection.
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India - Following west..loosing sense ?
CHANDIGARH STORY
Wednesday ‘Cinderella Night’, Thursday ‘Trans Night’, Friday ‘Hip-Hop Night’, Saturday ‘Sizzling Night”...this is the way the schedule of a disco buff goes. From coffee houses, private parties to long drives, Chandigarh night life is finally coming of age. Chandigarh is no longer the city of the tired and the retired. It is vivacious, sparkling with night bustle. But there is another side to this life which is hideous and dangerous. Most lovers of club culture are teenagers who do not have the maturity to decide limits. Under the veil of fun and frolic, they are caught up in the cesspool of alcohol, drugs and illicit relationships.
And a new evil that has seeped into this culture is teenage girls going around with men their fathers’ age. " Rich businessman in there forties come to discos often accompanied by young girls in lieu of a few thousand rupees," said a disco manager.
“Girls these days have increased expenses -- branded shoes, bags, Italian food et al. Young boys on pocket money cannot afford these things, so the girls opt for older men with well secure jobs which eventually leads to exploitation and family breakup,” said another club manager.
Alcohol and drugs are inseparable part of the club culture. " I cannot believe that a girl who is a regular at discos does not drink. There may be a few who do not, but most are hooked to drinking and drugs no matter how goodie goodie they may pretend to be," said Aman Basin, a regular at discos.
As for drugs there seems no bar in bringing these inside clubs. One can get drugs from peddlers who lurk around the clubs. Girls send their male friends to buy drugs for them. Opium, cocaine, Ecstasy are some favourites at the discotheques.
The night life is not a secret, to police or anybody else. Even then there is no checking at the disco gates. Rachel (name changed) is just 17 and she visits discos every weekend. But she has never encountered a problem owing to her age.
“I have visited many of the city's discos without check; have drinks now and then. Nobody has asked me about my age or an identity proof." She believes that these issues are irrelevant as there are a large number of underage girls and boys who will never stop coming to clubs. Rather, she believes that the only thing that needs to betaken care of is the safety of girls as single girls are not safe in clubs and during partying.
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Over 10 per cent have no right to citizenship, livelihood or vot
Tribune Special At a time when the Gujjars of Rajasthan are redefining the culture of political protest to demand a special status, it turns out that over 10 per cent of India’s population is living in absolute obscurity. Even after more 60 years after Independence, close to 11 crore Indians don’t have the right to citizenship, livelihood and voting, and are ‘invisible’ to the Indian constitution and law. Legislations passed over the years have in fact eroded their traditional livelihood bases, pushing them to the margins.The startling finding comes from the National Commission on De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-nomadic Tribes, set up two years ago to study the status of de-notified and nomadic tribes in India and recommend welfare measures.In its final report, to be submitted to the government before June 30, the commission is recommending constitutional safeguards for this section, arguing that it is the most backward and the most in need of reservation. “The Gujjars are much better of and should act as big brothers to their invisible colleagues,” feels the commission which, after touring every nook and corner of India, has placed the population of invisible nomadic and de-notified tribes at a whopping 11.71 crore. These people form 500 communities spread over SC/ST/OBC and general categories.Their actual number would be higher, as this figure does not include persons belonging to 123 communities of nomadic tribes and as many communities of de-notified tribes mentioned in the government list but not reflected in the 1931 census. READ FULL ARTICLE
THIS LOOKS LIKE A TYPICAL INDIAN MINDSET
This email is being widely circulated on websites and chat rooms in India. TruthOrFiction.com has found no evidence of this individual, his brother, or his discovery. No article has appeared in the India Times. There is no Carl Uppsala associated with the Nobel Prizes (he is named in the email). There is not a Dr. Massimo Martelli (also named in the email) who is president of "The International Physics Community." Most of all, there is no such thing as an "IQ meter." MORE...
Instead of creating these fiction stories....we Indians should think for a moment on castism based politics which is dividing the country in small pieces.
Indian Saint - Heavy turban, strong neck muscles !
Lives at risk: An overloaded
Lives at risk: An overloaded mini-bus in the Dhansal division. People avail this service out of compulsion as there is no other transport facility available in the region.
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