DSP arrested 'after trying to marry a 14-year-old girl'

 

By Piyush Srivastav

The Chandauli police on Monday arrested a deputy superintendent of police for allegedly trying to marry a minor girl.

Pradyumna Yadav, 48, who is posted in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district was arrested by the police during his bid to marry a 14-year-old girl, who is a Class XI student.

The DSP hails from Utadi village whereas the girl is from Bela village.

Deputy superintendent of police Pradyumna Yadav was allegedly caught trying to marry the teenage girl in a temple (file picture)

The marriage was taking place in a temple where the girl's father was also present.

The father said he was in favour of the marriage as this decision will improve the quality of his daughter's life.

Yadav claimed that he had never seen the girl before.

"I saw her photograph. Since she is tall, I thought she would be over 18 years of age," he said.

Sharad Sachan, Chandauli SP said: "We have arrested the police officer and the inquiry is on."

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Google doodles 160th anniversary of India's first passenger train

Visitors to the Google page on Tuesday will be taken on a short journey into the history of Indian railways, with a doodle marking "India's first passenger train".
The doodle has a train, pulled by a steam engine, chugging along over a background dotted with palm trees and a

structure in the distance.

Indeed, 16 April, 1853, was the day on which the first commercial passenger train left Mumbai's Bori Bunder for Thane.

The train; pulled by three locomotives - Sindh, Sultan, and Sahib; was greeted by a 21 gun salute when it was pulling out of the platform.

Google Doodle marks India's first passenger train

However, this was not the first train running in India. Railway lines for hauling materials had been laid as early as 1835. Most of the earliest railways were pulled by horses or men.

The first steam locomotive in the country was Thomason, commissioned in 1951 for hauling construction material in Roorkee for the Solani viaduct. It had a short life though, and was decommissioned after a boiler explosion within nine months.

The Indian government, in 1953, released a stamp to mark the hundred year anniversary of the event.

'Defeat? I do not recognise the meaning of the word!': Margaret Thatcher's best quotes

 

When Margaret Roberts applied for a job with ICI in 1948, an assessment noted that she was 'headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self-opinionated'. Both before and during her political career Baroness Thatcher gave the world a series of memorable quotes. Here are some of the best:

'I wasn't lucky, I deserved it' – Comment on receiving a school prize aged nine

'If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.' – Speech as an MP in 1965

'It will be years – and not in my time – before a woman will lead the party or become prime minister' – Speech in 1974

Mrs Thatcher gives her closing speech at the Conservative Party Conference following the IRA bombing of a Brighton hotel in 1984

'It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease – they've run out of other people's money.' – Tory Party Conference, 1975

'Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.' – Election campaign, 1979

'Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.' On winning 1979 election

 

'Pennies don't fall from Heaven – they have to be earned here on Earth.' – Speech at Lord Mayor's Banquet, 1979

'To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.' Speech at Conservative Party Conference, 1980

'I don't mind how much my ministers talk, as long as they do what I say' – Interview, 1980

'No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.' – TV interview, 1980

'My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: An honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.' – Interview, 1981

'Defeat? I do not recognise the meaning of the word.' – at the start of the Falklands War, 1982

'Oh, I have lots of human weaknesses. Who hasn't?' – Interview, 1983

'This attack has failed. All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail.' – At Tory Conference in Brighton after the IRA bombing of the Grand Hotel, 1984

'We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.' – Reacting to the 1984-85 miners strike

'I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.' – Interview, 1989

'We have become a grandmother.' – On the birth of her first grandchild, 1989

'I fight on, I fight to win.' – After failing to win enough votes to avoid a second round in the Conservative leadership contest. She resigned the following day. 1990

'It's a funny old world...' – Comment on her decision to resign, November 1990

'On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read "The Mummy Returns".' – Conservative election rally, 2001

'I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust.' – Unveiling of statue to herself in the House of Commons, 2007

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How to be happy: The UN celebrates its first International Happiness Day

How to be happy: The UN celebrates its first International Happiness Day with a guide on being cheery

By Katy Winter

It can be easy to get a bit blue at this time of year.

Luckily, the good people at the United Nations have declared today their very first International Day of Happiness and have even provided some helpful tips on how to be joyful for those not in the spirit of the day.

As part of the UN’s Action for Happiness campaign they have compiled a list of the key elements to happier living, based on scientific studies and surveys of what makes people feel the most content and satisfied in their life.

Smile! It is the very first International Day of Happiness

The 10 essentials for happier living can be summed up as a GREAT DREAM as seen on the UN action for happiness website

The ten keys to a more cheerful life have, rather handily, be condensed into the acronym GREAT DREAM: giving, relating, exercising, appreciating, trying out, direction, resilience, emotion, acceptance and meaning.

Unsurprisingly several of the tips focus on increasing the number and quality of relationships in our lives.

Connecting with people both on a personal, and on a large societal level, is important to our happiness

Connecting with people, both on a one-on-one basis, and feeling more connected with society as a whole has been show to increase our sense of well being.

We all know the warm feeling we get when we spontaneously reach out and help someone, or a stranger performs a random act of kindness, such as helping you carry your bags, or even offering a smile on a hellish commute.

 

A study published in the Review of Personality and Social Psychology, showed that helping others increases life satisfaction, provides a sense of meaning, increases feelings of competence, improves our mood and reduces stress and can help distract us from our own troubles.

The UN also point out that while connecting with friends and loved ones our hectic modern lifestyles mean that while we may constantly plan that long overdue catch up without it ever happening.

The key to a happier you ...

1.Be part of something bigger

2.Do things for others

3.Connect with people

4.Take care of your body

5.Notice the world around you

6.Keep learning new things

7.Have goals and things to look forward to

8.Find ways to bounce back

9.Take a positive approach

10.Be comfortable with who you are

Being connected to something bigger, whether it's society or something spiritual, has also been found to be a common trait of those with an omni-smile as it can make you feel like your life has a purpose - even when you are taking out the rubbish in the rain!

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Curse of the Krokodil:::: Drug Abuse

Curse of the Krokodil: Fears as home-made heroin that's rotting Russian addicts' flesh spreads across Europe

• Dubbed 'the drug that eats junkies'
• Majority of addicts die within one year of first hit
• 1.2million addicts in Russia
• Cases now reported in Germany

A deadly drug which rots the flesh of users - and kills the majority of addicts within a year of their first hit - is spreading across Europe.

Krokodil originated in Russia but is now reportedly on sale in Germany - where several deaths have been blamed on its use - leading the Czech Republic's national drug agency to warn of its dangers.

Dubbed 'the drug that eats junkies', it rots from the inside, causing such severe damage to tissue that users suffer from gangrenous sores which open all the way to the bone.

Scroll down for graphic video on effects of Krokodil

Krokodil: Dubbed 'the drug that eats junkies', it turns its users' skin scaly, eating them from the inside. It also rots their brains

The condition can lead to limbs being amputated, but life expectancy for addicts is at the most two to three years, with the majority dying within a year.

Extraordinarily, around 1.2 million Russians are believed to have been ravaged by the narcotic, Time magazine has reported.

The drug, whose name means 'crocodile' - reportedly a reference to the way it turns users' skin scaly - also rots their brains.

Krokodil is a sickening cocktail of over the counter painkillers, paint thinner, acid and phosphorus. In some cases, petrol is also added.

The resulting mixture is called desomorphine - a derivative of morphine - and is extremely addictive.

Gangrenous: Krokodil causes extreme tissue damage, killing the majority of users within a year of their first hit

At just £4 per injection it is a much cheaper alternative to heroin, especially in Russia where the painkillers are available without prescription.

The drug's prevalence in Russia has led to the Czech Republic's national anti-drug agency to warn heroin addicts not to switch to the alternative.

Spokesman Michal Hammer said that although no cases had been reported in the country, its arrival in Germany would eventually see it cross the border.

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