Man with record-breaking 14-foot mustache has some grooming tips

Ram Singh Chauhan of India has the world's longest mustache, 14 feet, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Chauhan had received attention long before entering the world record books. According to the London Telegraph, his famous facial hair was featured in the 1983 James Bond film "Octopussy" and he has made cameos in several Bollywood films.

And the 54-year-old has offered some grooming tips to the BBC for anyone interested in sporting some unusually long facial hair. Read More................Man with record-breaking 14-foot mustache has some grooming tips

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Village sets up its own ‘High Court’

BATHINDA: A Punjab village has been forced to set up its own " high court" to resolve disputes due to rising litigation costs and slow pace of justice. Pulha village elders claim the "court", comprising 35 "jury" members, has settled over 250 cases primarily related to land disputes piled up over last three years in as many months. Read More................Justice delayed, Punjab village sets up its own ‘high court’

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Deity gets permission from High Court to participate in Festival

Shimla: A deity of the Kullu Valley in Himachal Pradesh has got justice in the state's high court which told the administration not to bar its participation in the annual rituals during the Dussehra festival.

The battle for one-upmanship among the followers of two deities -- Shringa Rishi and Balu Nag -- has been settled with Justice Dev Darshan Sud of Himachal Pradesh High Court directing the festival organisers to honour Shringa Rishi during the centuries-old Kullu Dussehra festival. Read More................Himachal deity gets back role in Dussehra festival

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Silly to Bizarre reasons for Divorce

MUMBAI: From frivolous to ridiculous, the reasons why people are seeking divorce is growing bizarre day by day. If a husband wants to step out of his marriage because his wife cooks meat in a cooker while his mother used to do it on slow fire, a woman wants to walk away from her husband as she does not want to employ the same doctor and chartered accountant her husband engages because she cannot understand his mother tongue. Read More................Divorce reasons go from silly to bizarre in Mumbai

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28-year-old engineer in hurry jumps off plane

Chennai: It is always a common sight across India where one gets to see passengers making a bee line to the exit as soon as the flight touches down for landing at the airport. The matter took an altogether different turn when one person redefined impatience and reportedly jumped out of an Dubai-Chennai Air India flight as soon as it touched down at the Chennai airport. Read More................28-year-old engineer in hurry jumps off plane in Chennai

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Govt department says no jeans, t-shirts for women staff

CHANDIGARH: Directing its field staff to wear "decent" clothes to work, the women and child department (WCD) department in Haryana has asked them to desist from wearing jeans and T-shirts to work.

The controversial order has virtually termed jeans and T-shirts as 'indecent' clothing. Its subject line read: "To wear decent clothes in office." Read More................Haryana govt department says no jeans, t-shirts for women staff

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Staff crunch drives headmaster to wield broom

KOLKATA: Imagine the headmaster, a figure we usually address with reverence, of a school having to perform the duties of the group-D staff and sounding assigned to ring the gong that marks the end of a period. At times, he also has to pick up a broom to sweep the floors clean. No, we aren't talking about a school in a remote district of the state. Welcome to the government-aided Adarsh Hindi High School on Mominpur Road. This government-aided higher secondary school has 1,450 students. Read More................Staff crunch drives headmaster to wield broom

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Fighting over Facebook post, boy stabs schoolmate

NEW DELHI: A picture posted on Facebook led to such bitterness among two Class X students of a well-known private school in central Delhi that one of them stabbed the other with a paper cutter in school on Wednesday morning.

The victim suffered six stab wounds, with the cutter slashing through his veins. He was rushed to the Ganga Ram Hospital in Rajender Nagar where an operation was conducted to stop the bleeding. The boy is now reported to be stable. Read More................Fighting over Facebook post, class X boy stabs schoolmate

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Man murders brother for touching his car

New Delhi, A 42-year-old man was bludgeoned to death by his younger brother who was infuriated because the former had touched his car, police said Thursday.

Ravinder, 36 murdered his brother Jagminder by repeatedly hitting him with an iron road May 15 in north Delhi’s Auchandi viilage near Bawana. Read More................Delhi man murders brother for touching his car

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600 teachers go ‘deaf’ to avoid transfers

MUMBAI: Six hundred teachers employed at zilla parishad schools in Yavatmal district have gone to extreme lengths to avoid being transferred. All of them have submitted identical certificates claiming that they are "deaf", and therefore, ineligible for transfer to other schools in the district. Read more.....600 teachers in Yavatmal go ‘deaf’ to avoid transfers

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World's largest paper envelope

Aligarh: A group of students of the Aligarh Muslim University today displayed what they claimed was the world's largest paper envelope.

The 39-ft x 27-ft envelope was made by 12 students of the AMU belonging to faculties of Engineering, Architecture, Fine Arts and Law over a period of ten days.

The envelope is addressed to the UN Peacekeeping operations and carries messages, signed by more than 10,000 youth, for promotion of world peace and prosperity, said Syed Nabeel Mehdi, leader of the group that made the envelope. Read more.........Aligarh university students claim to have made world's largest paper envelope

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The grooms were drunk, the brides said no

Patna, Left at the altar - alone and drunk. That was the fate of two grooms in normally patriarchal Bihar when their would-have-been brides and their families walked out on them because they were simply too sozzled. While one incident took place in Rohtas district’s Khaira village, the other was in Aurangabad’s Judahi village. Read more........The grooms were drunk, the brides said no

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Man uses Barack Obama's photo to get new mobile phone connection

HYDERABAD: If the records of a private telecom operator are to be believed, then US President Barack Obama is a 21-year-old resident of Nalgonda in Andhra Pradesh. In a telling laxity of the telecom service providers in granting telephone connections to all and sundry without proper verification, a Nalgonda resident by the name of M Prasad secured a cellphone connection with the number 9177523297 by passing off the photograph of the US President as his. Read more.....Man uses Barack Obama's photo to get new mobile phone connection

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Where Ramayana recitation continues for 18 years

Achnera (Uttar Pradesh): A Hindu temple in this small, bustling town on the outskirts of Agra is making a record of sorts with the continuous recital of the Indian epic Ramayana for the past 18 years. The Ram Hanuman temple opposite the Achnera railway station, about 25 km from Agra, has become a major centre of attraction for locals and those visiting the town. The recital of the holy book since 1994 is a feat every resident of this town is proud of. Read More................Where Ramayana recitation continues for 18 years

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Student killed over TV remote

New Delhi: Protest in New Delhi and Bangalore will be held on Sunday to seek justice for Richard Loitam, who died following a brawl over TV remote on Apr 18. The student of Acharya NRV School of Architecture in Bangalore passed away in his sleep after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage, hours after his fight with his fellow mate. Reports reveal that Loitam was allegedly punched on his head by his hostel mate. Read More................Student killed over TV remote, protest in B'lore, Delhi

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4-year-old boy shot dead for plucking mangoes

Lucknow: In a shocking incident, a four-year-old boy was shot dead allegedly by his neighbours for plucking mangoes from their orchard in Kharai village in the district. Read More................4-year-old boy shot dead for plucking mangoes in UP

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Snake in woman's handbag creates flutter in hotel

Udhagamandalam: A two-foot long snake in a Kerala tourist's handbag created a flutter in a hotel in Udhagamandalam today. The couple from Kochi had arrived at the hotel after spending the night at a resort in Mudumalai yesterday. When the woman opened her handbag in the hotel, she discovered a snake nestled inside. It was later identified as belonging to the non-venomous 'wolf' species..........Read more....Snake in woman's handbag creates flutter in hotel

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Failed students lock teachers inside school

Jhargram, West Bengal: Class XI students of a school in West Midnapore district who had failed in the annual examination, today allegedly locked up the 50-odd staff and secretary of the school after their meeting failed to yield any result. The students of the Nayabasan Janakalyan Vidyapeeth at Gopiballabhpur said they would not open the gate till they all were promoted to class XII, said Ashok Pattanaik, secretary of the school's managing committee............Read more....Failed Class XI students lock teachers inside school

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Groom thrashed for being late, bride marries someone else

Ghaziabad: Being late for his own wedding proved costly for a bridegroom as he and his relatives were beaten up by irked family members of the bride who was married off to another person...........Read more....Groom thrashed for being late, bride marries someone else

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Married Romeo paraded in undergarments by women

Guntur: 25-year-old Narasimha was paraded around town in his undergarments, wearing a garland of slippers. He attempted to take off the slipper-garland but it was put right back by the angry crowd following him on the roads of Vinukonda town in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Read More................Married Romeo paraded in undergarments by women

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Contractors paid for roads that don't exist

HYDERABAD: The GHMC has landed in a tight spot after realizing that it has paid contractors for the construction of CC roads which do not exist in reality. This has come to light following numerous complaints from residents putting the corporation in a damage control mode. After scrutinising books, it found glaring shortfalls in measurement and even cases where no work has been done at all. Read More................Hyderabad contractors paid for roads that don't exist

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Couples disown girl, fight over baby boy

JAIPUR/JODHPUR: A newborn girl has been abandoned in Jodhpur's Umaid Hospital since her birth seven days ago, and is waiting for a DNA test to identify her biological parents. Read More................Couples disown girl, fight over baby boy

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Refused cheating in exam, youths kill teacher

SONIPAT: In a bizarre incident, a teacher succumbed to his injuries on Sunday after two youths ploughed their car into him on Saturday evening when he refused to allow their friend to cheat in the matriculation examinations of Haryana Open School, near Lahrada village of the district. Read More................Refused cheating in exam, youths kill teacher

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Boy barred from exam over grandfather's death

BHOPAL: A Class II school student in Madhya Pradesh was barred from taking his examination because his grandfather died a few days ago and his teacher told him to "get pure" first. Read More................Boy barred from exam over grandfather's death

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Mentally challenged child was placed on train tracks by father

Mumbai: A father first pushed his mentally-challenged three-year-old daughter from the second floor of their building. She survived. So he took her bleeding body to railway tracks in Mumbai and waited there, hoping a train would end their lives.

A neighbour spotted them and persuaded the father to move off the tracks just as a train was approaching, reports Mumbai newspaper, MiD DAY. Read more.......Mentally challenged child was placed on train tracks by father

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Young children thrown from top of a temple in ritual

Bangalore: As hundreds of people gather, young children are thrown from the top of a 30-foot temple. This is as an annual ritual in Karnataka's Bagalkot district that was conducted on Monday and yesterday.

Locals believe this brings health and luck to newborns. Most of the infants tossed in the air are less than two years old. People hold up blankets to catch the tumbling babies. Read more........Young children thrown from top of temple in Karnataka ritual

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Girl scores poor marks, forced by father to Beg

MYSORE: Enraged by his daughter's performance in Class VII exams, a father forced a girl to beg in her school uniform in front of a city temple.

As the 12-year-old girl, from a reputed school, sat weeping in front of a temple on Monday night, she caught the attention of MP Varsha, an NGO worker, who took her to a police station. There, she told her story: she was being punished by her father for not doing well in exams.

The father was arrested and a case registered against him under the Juvenile Justice Act. Angry neighbours damaged his car. He admitted he made his daughter beg in front of a temple. "My intention was to teach her the hardships of life," he told cops. Read More................Girl scores poor marks, forced by father to beg

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21-hour wait for fraction of a second darshan of the Lord at Tirumala

TIRUPATI: It's an arduous 21-hour wait in the queue for a darshan of their favourite Lord which lasts no more than a fraction of a second. Even as the scorching sun beats down on them, pilgrims patiently await their turn for a darshan of Lord Venkateswara at the hill shrine of Tirumala. Read More................21-hour wait for fleeting darshan of the Lord at Tirumala

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Man spends 2 yrs in jail for murders committed while he was behind bars

With the kind of frenetic lives we lead these days, many of us have often wished we were in two places at the same time. Going by the version of the cops, it seems 27-year-old Ramu Shinde actually pulled off this feat.
Malegaon police arrested the illiterate 'dacoit' for a double murder, but it later turned out he was lodged in Kalyan jail at the time of the incident. Read More................Man spends 2 yrs in jail for murders committed while he was behind bars

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