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Bizarre Bazaar: Jul 02 08
new dehli, India
The river Ganga, along whose banks Indian civilization evolved, has found a new messiah to help purge it of accumulated filth and breathe new life into it. Yoga guru Ramdev is the latest to join the ranks of the river crusaders who are waging a battle against industry and development lobbies across the country and reluctant state machineries to save India’s dying rivers. The 2,500-kilometre river is considered a sacred stream.
goa, India
Several leading newspapers were taken by a hoax about an 88-year-old Nazi war criminal named after the composer Bach who was allegedly found hiding in the jungles near the seaside resort of Goa. The reports in newspapers said Johann Bach had been involved in the killing of nearly 12,000 Jews at the Marsha Tikash Whanaab concentration camp in East Berlin during the Nazi regime. All details were ascribed to the press release by Perus Narkp, based in Berlin. But there was never a concentration camp of that name nor was there an East Berlin at that time.
new dehli, India
Sulabh International, a 38-year-old movement promoting low-cost safe sanitation in the country, has liberated more than 60,000 scavengers, a report by the United Nations Development Program said. The report said Sulabh maintains 6,500 public pay per-use toilets and by 2006, had installed 1.4 million household toilets. An estimated 10 million people used its facilities across the country, the report said.
MUMBAI, India
The death toll on Mumbai’s railways averages a dozen a day, more than New York’s subway system averages in a year. Mumbai’s rail system brings 6.5 million commuters into the city every day, six times the traffic of New York trains, which have an average of eight accidental deaths a year. The result, railway officials say, is trains packed to 2.5 times capacity during rush hour – which in India’s financial capital is called "super dense crush load time."
Lucknow, India
A man in Uttar Pradesh has made it to the Limca Book of Records by talking on a mobile phone continuously for 62 hours. "I am just passionate about making records. They provide me great satisfaction," said Pawan Kumar Srivastava, who made it to the record book for the fourth time. A professional memory trainer in the city, Srivastava claims his feats have also been acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Bhopal, India
An illegal kidney trade racket has been busted in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain town. According to the police, the four accused used to lure poor people, mostly those in government hospitals, on the pretext of getting them treated at better places, free of cost. Police said the racketeers had admitted they removed and sold 15 kidneys, the last one of Rajesh, a restaurant worker.
New Dehli, India
A 22-year-old man was killed by a speeding Blueline bus in south Delhi, police said. According to the police, the victim, Umesh, was riding a bike when the bus hit him from behind in New Friends Colony. He was taken to a hospital but was pronounced dead. The privately owned Blueline buses, considered the lifeline of the metropolis, have been dubbed "killer buses" after negligent driving have caused hundreds of deaths on the capital’s roads.
Shimla, India
For the second successive year, five pairs of the endangered western tragopan laid eggs in captivity at a pheasantry in Himachal Pradesh and – to the delight of bird lovers – two have hatched. The brilliantly coloured bird is listed in the Red Data Book of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a compendium of species facing extinction. The western tragopan is the state bird of Himachal Pradesh and is rarely sighted. It is found at an altitude of 2,000 to 3,600 metres in the temperate forests of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
LUDHIANA, India
Punjab police claimed to have recovered nearly 35 kilograms of explosives, alleging they were brought into the state to target migrants from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The recovery was made in Jagraon town while three people were trying to take the explosives to a new location. Police officials said some terrorist organizations were trying to re-group in Punjab. Last year, a bomb blast in a cinema hall showing Bhojpuri films killed six people, all migrants.
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