Anna Hazare sets Aug 15 deadline for Lokpal Bill

Beginning his day-long hunger strike at Rajghat to protest against corruption and the recent police brutality, the 73-year-old-Gandhi devotee Anna Hazare said that if the Lokpal Billwas not passed, he would fast unto death at Jantar Mantar from August 16. 

Anna described his movement as the second battle of independence but underlined Gandhi's non-violent path. He said his Wednesday fast was to condemn the police action on Ramdev's supporters at Ramlila ground. Anna likened the police brutality to the British repression of Indians in Jalianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919. He advised his supporters to refrain from violence. "The government is very powerful, If we indulge in violence, it will give the government an excuse to quash the movement," he warned. 

The Gandhian reiterated, "The government has forgotten that people are the masters and not the government. They need to understand that we are one, not different." 

Anna is holding his symbolic one-day fast at Rajghat, the site where Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation, was cremated. Thousands of Anna supporters came out to join his fast despite severe heat and made their way through heavy police presence at the venue. Nationalistic songs in catchy beats were sung and cheered at passionately by Anna supporters. Baba Ramdev's Bharat Swabhiman Trust activists were also seen among the massive crowd. Lots of people have been stopped ahead of barricades because of the heavy turnout. 

Earlier, the veteran lawyer and civil society member of the drafting committee on Lokpal bill, Shanti Bhushan described Anna Hazare the modern day Gandhi. At this the crowed cheered loudly.

Taking a dig at the Congress led UPA govenment Bhushan said, "The (UPA) ministers don't know constitution. They think of themselves as viceroys of the British era. The right of the police to invoke section 144 was misused for Jantar Mantar to justify the unjust action at Ramlila." Bhushan reiterated that the movement against corruption was not about the lokpal bill but about fundamental rights. 

The social activist and leader of the 'Indian Against Corruption' movement Arvind Kejriwal said that if his 
agitation became communal, he would be the first person to leave it. Kejriwal was referring to the government accusation that the anti-corruption movement was a communal Hindu right wing sponsored movement. 

In an offensive against the government, he said, "The ministers have been elected but why are they acting so arrogantly and threatening us?" He challenged the UPA ministers to declare their assets and the political parties to declare their sources of funding. "The government asked us to declare our assets and we did it in 24 hours. We showed where we got and spent money, how much was spent on Ramlila fast. Now we demand the ministers and the political parties to do it too. Let the Congress, the BJP and all other parties give details of the expenses on their rallies for the last five years." 

When Kejriwal mentioned the union minister Kapil Sibal's name, the audience booed and yelled 'shame, shame, Kapil Sibal hai, hai, Kapil Sibal murdabad.' The booing went on for at least five minutes. Incidentally, Rajghat falls under the Lok Sabha constituency from where Kapil Sibal has been elected. 

Cries of 'shame, shame' became louder when Kejriwal mentioned that the government had refused to bring the prime minister, ministers and horsetrading within the ambit of lokpal. 

Kejriwal announced that the next agitation would be on electoral reforms and right to justice. He received huge applause.

Three HIV+ sisters commit suicide

Three young HIV positive sisters from the coastal village of Khadsaliya, about 25km from Bhavnagar, ended their lives by drinking pesticide on Friday night. 

Preliminary investigation suggests that the family members felt stigmatized due to their disease. The police said that the mother and brother of the deceased had died of AIDS four years ago. And sources said that whenever the sisters ventured out occasionally, they were treated as untouchables. 

"We will investigate whether the stigma forced them to take this extreme step," investigating officer J R Zala of Vartej police station said. 

Krushnaben (16), Rekhaba (12) and Dakshaba (10) were daughters of a marginal farmer Vinubha Gohil, who is also HIV positive. 

The family lived in an isolated house in a small orchard on the outskirts of the village, where they had two bighas (12 acres) of land. The sisters consumed pesticide around 11pm on Friday when they were alone at home. By the time their father arrived the situation had become critical. He informed other family members and an ambulance was called though Rekhaba and Dakshaba had died. Krushnaben died at a hospital in Bhavnagar. 

A senior officer at the Gujarat State AIDS Control Society, Gandhinagar, said that the youngest of the three sisters, Dakshaba, was HIV negative. "It is a tragic incident as we had the family registered but the father had developed a false perception that the medicines were harmful as his wife had died during treatment. Her infection was detected at the last stage," said the official. 

"Vinubha Gohil even threatened to attack our workers who went to persuade him to take treatment. He is one of the 59,000 HIV postive patients registered with us," he said. 

Official sources said that there are 1,200 HIV positive patients registered in Bhavnagar district. "We are investigating the matter as the patients were registered with us," Dr B N Vyas, district programme officer of an HIV/Aids government initiative said.
  

Shocking Video - Khammam: Srinivas cuts srilatha throat, later attempted suicide by cutting his throat

Apparently angered over refusing to marry him, a youth allegedly killed a 22-year-old woman by slashing her throat and later attempted to commit suicide in Khammam, police said.

The girl identified as C Srilatha was attacked in broad-daylight by one Srinivas with a knife who had called her at a park, they said.

According to police, the accused and the victim worked together at a cloth store and were in love. However, Srilatha had filed a complaint against Srinivas in 2009 accusing him of cheating her by not marrying her, after which he was sent to jail though after coming out on bail he had promised to marry her.

Meanwhile, Srinivas reportedly grew suspicion that Srilatha had developed intimacy with another person and called her to meet him in the park today, but attacked her with a knife and slit her throat and later injured himself.

Sri Latha

  
The duo was rushed in serious condition to a hospital where Srilatha died undergoing treatment, police said.

"As per the information available, Srinivas slit the throat of Srilatha and later attempted suicide by cutting his throat. The woman died in the incident and the condition of the youth is critical. He is undergoing treatment at Khammam government hospital and is under police custody," Khammam district Superintendent of Police Kanti Rana Tata, told reporters.

The victims relatives alleged that Srinivas was harassing Srilatha to marry him even as Srinivas while being shifted to a hospital said that he resorted to this act as Srilatha was avoiding him and that she was getting married to someone else.

"I cannot live without her and cannot bear that she is going to marry someone else," Srinivas said.

Strongly condemning the incident, representatives of women and local organisation staged a demonstration near the SP office demanding financial assistance to the woman's family.

Maoists brutally beat two police informers in Bihar

Man gets death for 'honour' killing of daughter

Honour killing was punished with a death sentence when a Rampur court ordered a man to hang for hacking his 19-year-old daughter two years ago. 

Last month the Supreme Court had ruled that honour killing, for whatever reason, came within the category of the rarest of rare cases and deserved the death penalty. 

Shaukat Saifi, a 63-year-old farmer from Kirincha village in Rampur, killed his daughter Nasreen Jehan on June 20, 2009, when she turned up with a boy with whom she had spent the night before. She came home and sought permission to marry Yassen, also from the same village, but Saifi flew into a rage as the boy was from a different sub-caste. 

"Saifi was livid and would hear none of it for both belonged to different sub-castes. Saifis are carpenters and the boy was a fakeer, considered much lower in the social hierarchy. The old man tried to put sense into his daughter's head but she refused to budge from her stance. Even the boy pleaded with him to see reason and permit them to tie the knot. When the girl said she was leaving with Yaseen, Saifi lost his head. He hacked the girl to death right in front of everyone in the house," said Mohammad Ismail, a neighbour of Saifi who first reported the killing. 

Pronouncing the verdict, additional district judge Kamini Pathak held that the case qualified as "rarest of the rare". The judge maintained that such an act by a father was most gruesome for a father's home is considered to be the safest place for a daughter. 

This could well be the end of the road for Saifi. "We are in no position to go in for an appeal," his son Qayum said. The young man, who had to quit school and do menial job to maintain a family of five, maintained that his father did nothing wrong. "I have said it earlier, and will say the same thing till my dying day before anyone, that my father is no common criminal and he has not committed any crime."

European cult that mixes yoga with sex sets up base in Tamil Nadu, India

A European cult that mixes yoga with sex and pornography has been found to be operating out of Chennai.

Training nearly 100 youngsters in yoga and 'tantric love' at a rented house in Chokalingam Nagar, Teynampet, for more than two years now, the Movement for Spiritual Integration in Absolute(Misa) is trying to spread across the country.

      
A team of seven Misa teachers, nationals of Denmark and Romania, is now in the city for a special camp, titled 'Tantra — The Path of Love'. A majority of them, including the lead couple Mihai Stoian and Adina Stoian, have starred in porn movies produced by Copenhagen-based production house Sublime Erotica, which the Misa group has close ties with. Misa operates under different names in different countries. It is Natha in Denmark, Tara in the US and Satya in India. 

TOI is in possession of videos that show the yoga teachers, now in India, in explicit sexual acts. Misa's supreme guru, a Romanian called Gregorian Bivolaru, has been jailed on several charges, including pornography, and is now said to have taken political asylum in Sweden. 

When asked about the videos, Mihai, the 42-year-old Romanian national who heads Misa activities in the absence of Bivolaru, said it was an experiment in spreading the group's philosophy and practice. "For many, sexuality stems from desire. We want to spread the message that it is a divine integration of masculinity and femininity to attain spirituality,".

Other Misa teachers who figure in porn videos and now in Chennai are Ulrik Lishoj (Denmark), Simona Colesniuc (Romania) and Nicole Markus (Romania). 

The foreigners' regional registration office said that as these people were on visit visas, they are not allowed to teach yoga or do any such job, but the 'teachers' have an argument. "We are only volunteers. The yoga centre is registered under a trust represented by Indians," said Angela Oestergaard, a 35-year-old Danish woman who manages Chennai Satya Esoteric Integral Yoga at Teynampet. 

'Tantra', as an ancient philosophy and practice, has different definitions. The blurb of MISA's controversial guru Bivolaru's unpublished book The Secret Tantric Path of Love has this to say: Have you ever dreamed of or aspired to make love intensely, profoundly and frantically with your beloved woman for even ten hours in a row? This book reveals a host of such secret methods in a clear and accessible language, if you allow yourself to be guided by the personal experience of the author. 

Mihai, with a salt-pepper beard and dressed in a yellow cotton shirt and trousers, doesn't quite look a yogi. But, for his disciples — he claims there are 40,000 of them in 30 countries — he is much more than that. He is a scientist (a nuclear scientist-turned-researcher in artificial intelligence, he says), philosopher and guru who teaches sexual continence as the panacea for all relationship problems. Don't mistake this continence for abstention-Misa believes sexual continence is the ability to have orgasms at will, minus the ejaculation. "It's perfect for India." Stoian says, "You can bring down the population growth without any contraceptive!" 

But that's not what he teaches at the Satya Yoga centre. It's about the coming together of the masculine and the feminine, Siva and Sakthi to attain supreme spirituality. 

Do their Indian students know about their other life? Yes and no. "I don't know if they have done such videos, but what they do in their country doesn't bother me," says Rajesh Shah (45), a manager with an engineering firm in Chennai. "Two years of learning here has made me more energetic, creative and innovative in all spheres of life." Another student, Sanjai Jain (42), a jeweller, says he has heard of the videos, but not viewed them. "Every famous person faces such allegations," he says. 

With such confidence in their students, Satya Yoga has ambitious plans in India. "We are blending ancient knowledge with modern science. The Indian potential is big. There is a big need for such a comprehensive approach on spirituality. In five years, there will be hundreds of thousands of our students in India," says Mihai, who will be flying out of the country next week. His team of seven teachers will accompany him abroad, while a few other foreigners would stay back to train Indian students.

See What happens if you disrespect Women in India: Man Burnt Alive by Villagers for Attempting Rape & Murder on a Local Village

Mounika In Hospital

Babu Burnt Alive

Mounika In Hospital

Jilla Babu, 30, was burnt alive by villagers (Warangal, Raghunadh palli) as he tried to rape and attempt murder on a local village girl, Mounika. Babu entered Mounika's House when her parents were away and tried to commit rape. Mounika Turned against Babu and started to Shout & Scream which made Babu nervous and furious. Mounika has been beaten with a hammer. A heavy hammer blow on her face made her to lose all her teeth. Mounika condition is Critical and she is fighting with death.

Babu