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Telangana: Rooster charged Rs 30 fare in TSRTC bus
Hyderabad: A man was charged Rs 30 as fare for a rooster when he was aboard a TSRTC bus on February 8, while travelling from Godavarikhani in Peddapalli to Karimnagar. The bus…
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Digital India- Beggars now ask for alms using QR codes
Hyderabad: Biggers are a common site everywhere be it village, town, city, bus stand, railway station, or elsewhere. People give arms if they have small change in their pocket else they excuse…
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Nail hammered into pregnant Pak woman’s head to give birth to baby boy
Peshawar: In a horrific incident in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a woman was admitted to hospital in Peshawar with a nail hammered into her head, on the direction of a fake ‘peer’…
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UP: Village man puts up “No Entry for BJP” sign, held
Sambhal: A man was arrested for allegedly putting up a board, forbidding BJP leaders and workers from entering his village Bichpuri Sailab in the Gunnaur or the district. The police rushed to…
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Karnataka man steals police jeep, goes on 112 km joyride
Dharwad, (Karnataka): A man, who stole a jeep from a police station in Karnataka’s Dharwad district and went on a long joyride to fulfil his long-pending dream, has been arrested, police said…
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Video: Manipal student packs girlfriend in suitcase, gets caught
A bizarre incident took place early this week when an engineering college student in Manipal tried to sneak his girlfriend inside his hostel by concealing her in a trolley bag. The boy…
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Video: Mother drops three-year-old into bear’s den in Uzbekistan
A three-year-old suffered a concussion and an open wound on her after her mother dropped her into a bear’s den at a zoo in Uzbekistan. CCTV cameras from the Tashkent zoo capture…
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24 hours to 47 years: How couples in UAE divorced in 2021
A couple in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) divorced just one day after tying the knot, making it the shortest marriage recorded in the emirates, last year. Another couple filed for divorce…
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Orphan girl who lived by begging at Patna railway station, now runs a cafe
Patna: The life journey of a girl from Bihar’s Patna is serving as an inspiration for millions of girls across the country as she completed her education after she was found abandoned…
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Taliban’s former captive who converted to Islam longs to return to Afghanistan
Timothy Weeks, now Jibra’il Omar, an Australian teacher, in Afghanistan, was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2016 while returning from work with his colleague Kevin. They were long-time captives under the Taliban…
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Real-life Magneto balances 85 spoons on his body, breaks world record
An Iranian real-life Magneto has taken the internet by storm. 50-year-old Abolfazl Saber Mokhtari broke the previous best record in the Guinness Book of World Records after he balanced 85 spoons on…
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UP polls: Man files papers wearing PPE kit, holding sanitiser, thermal scanner
Shahjahanpur: An Assembly polls candidate here on Tuesday filed his nomination papers wearing a PPE kit and holding a sanitiser and thermal scanner in hands. It is Sanyukt Vikas Party candidate Vaidhraj…
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Salesman at Mahindra showroom insults farmer, here’s what he did next
Humiliated and judged for his looks by a salesperson at a Mahindra showroom in Karnataka, a farmer returned back with 10 lakh rupees, demanding an apology and same-day delivery as promised by…
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Sanitary napkins provided to boys in Bihar school
Patna: Nitish Kumar government’s well intentioned scheme to provide free sanitary pads to adolescent girls enrolled in government schools seems to have gained un-intentioned male beneficiaries ! The `unusual extension’ of the…