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Bizarre Bazaar: Jun 18 08
ITANAGAR, India MUMBAI, India
There is a lot of excitement in Arunachal Pradesh’s border region with China as work has begun to erect an 80-foot statue of the White Tara or the female Buddha on the dizzy heights of a peak that overlooks Tibet and Bhutan. The White Tara, associated with Tibetan Buddhism, is a female Buddha known for long life, compassion, healing and serenity. The project will include prayer halls, a museum, a library and accommodation for visitors. The base of the statue will have 1,000 petalled lotuses. The project in Tawang district — which the Chinese claim as their territory and is regarded as an integral part of India by New Delhi
In the first study of its kind in India, an employee background screening company has found that nearly85 per cent of candidates submitted "fake documents" when seeking employment. First Advantage specializes in background screening for 90,000 companies globally. It will make public its first 2008 quarterly report pertaining to the kind of "frauds candidates and employees perpetrate to acquire or retain a job". The findings of the 2007 study had come as a shock to firms and their human resource managers. For example, it was found that 21 per cent of the candidates had inflated their previous designations and 21 per cent had provided false information.
LUCKNOW, India
Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested Jagmohan Chawla,accused of duping investors across the country. Chawla is accused of cheating many through his finance companies in Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, police said. "The police were searching for him for the past 10 years after the first case was lodged against him in Lucknow in 1998," said a release from the Director General of Police Headquarters. He was arrested in Goa.
LUCKNOW, India
In an effort to stop the families of female newborns from swapping their progeny for a male child, the Uttar Pradesh health department has demanded that hospitals keep a photographic record of baby and mom, and apply name tags to newborns. There were six complaints of child swapping this year reported from various hospitals in the state, with the latest coming Saturday.
PALAKKAD, India
Three people have been arrested in Kerala on charges of killing a wild elephant which intruded into a private plantation and got electrocuted. Kerala forest department officials said that the men had laid electric wires at the plantation at Dhoni, 15 km from here, to trap small animals. The 10-year-old tusker was found dead at the plantation.
RAIPUR, India
A 20-day-old boy, who was suspected to have been stolen from a government hospital in Chhattisgarh, was left back in a deserted section of the same hospital after 24 hours. Police said the baby was born to a mentally disturbed woman and was stolen. "The kid is very healthy but his mother is mad. So the child was kept separately by doctors at the neonatal ward from where he was stolen," a police official said.
GUWAHATI, India
Students of a primary school in Assam are in trauma after they saw their teacher stabbed to death inside the classroom by her jilted lover. Taslima Begum, 25, was teaching when a man entered the classroom and chatted with her for some time before whipping out a dagger and piercing it into her chest. The teacher was declared dead at a hospital in Nagaon.
KABUL, Afghanistan
A criminal group which abducted and raped schoolchildren then recorded the abuse to make pornographic videos has been busted in the Afghan capital. Thegroup of four people had kidnapped five children below the age of 12 as they came home from school in the city. Separately, agents also raided a house where kidnappers kept a man they abducted for ransom in an overnight raid last night, killing the group leader and arresting two others, one of them a woman. Abduction for ransom has increased over the past year in troubled Afghanistan.
CHANDIGARH, India
A young couple was hacked to death by the girl’s brother at their home in a village near Banur town in Punjab. The cold-blooded murder was committed by Sarabjit Singh to avenge the honour of his family ashis sister had married against the family’s wishes to the boy from an upper caste. Sarabjit attacked the couple with an axe while they were sleeping. He was arrested. The girl’s family, which is from the Dalit community, was against her marriage to the upper caste boy of the same village, Gajju Khera
MAHARASHTA, India
Maoists rebels have beheaded a former member of their organization who had surrendered to the police in a warning to others thinking of giving up their struggle. The incident that occurred in village Murgaon of Dhanora sub district has the entire Maoist-affected region in the grip of tension because of the manner in which the reprisal has been carried out. A group of 40 to 50 Maoists went to the village, called out Anandrao Sainu Koram from his house, tied him to a tree and beheaded him in full view of the villagers who had gathered at the spot.
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