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In a shocking incident, two minor sisters were sold by their parents for a price of rupees 20,000 to an unknown woman in Pathria district of Madhya Pradesh.

“”An aunt of the victim had filed a complaint in the police station. She has alleged that the sisters, sisters aged 16 and 17, have been sold off somewhere in Madhya Pradesh. Our team has left from Madhya Pradesh. Once they are able to trace the sisters will be able to take the investigation further,” said a police official.

Police have detained the victim’s parents Manbhula and Prabhasini for questioning.

(IANS) A Tripura youth has been arrested for posting nude photographs of his former girlfriend on Facebook after she rejected him, police said here on Sunday.

West Bengal’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) made the arrest.

“A CID team from Kolkata with the help of Tripura Police arrested Arup Deb from Khowai (in western Tripura) and took him to Kolkata on Saturday,” a police official said.

The CID personnel seized four mobile phones and a computer hard disc from the accused.

IANS) The Reserve Bank of India has extended the deadline for exchanging pre-2005 currency notes of various denominations, including Rs.500 and Rs.1,000, by six months till December-end.

“The Reserve Bank of India has extended the date for the public to exchange their pre-2005 banknotes till December 31, 2015,” the central bank said in a press release.

RBI had, in December 2014, set the last date to exchange these notes as June-end, asking the public to deposit the old design notes in their bank accounts or exchange them at a convenient bank branch.

IANS) The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday acknowledged having received former cricket administrator Lalit Modi’s confidential e-mail — in which he accused three international players of being involved in betting — and sharing it with the Indian cricket board’s anti-corruption unit.

ICC said the information was also provided to its Anti Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU) and it dealt with it in accordance with its procedures.

One of Italy’s most successful coaches Arrigo Sacchi believes that Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic has better individual skills in comparison to Argentine star striker Lionel Messi, but that the latter is a better team player.

Ibrahimovic is widely regarded as one of the most gifted and talented forwards in the modern game and has impressed fans for long with his bagful of tricks that he can deliver with the ball at his feet.

As per a new study, combination of red pomegranates and luscious toffee-like dates can help you win the war against heart disease. Just half a glass of pomegranate juice a day with a handful of dates can do the trick!

A team of researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has discovered that the combination of pomegranate juice and dates along with their pits provide maximum protection against atherosclerosis (plaque buildup or hardening of the arteries), which can cause a heart attack or stroke.

Hawaii has become the very first state of US to push the authorised smoking age from 18 to 21 with effect of which purchase and use of digital cigarettes will also be banned for individuals under the age of 21 from January 1, 2016.

Governoe of Hawaii David Ige signed the bill of raising the minimum smoking age in the state, on June 19, Fox News reported.

All the anti-tobacco promoters of other states of US are weighing following suit that whether Hawaii’s historic step will light a match under the campaign nationally remains to be seen or not.

(IANS) Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s five-nation tour of Central Asia in July, the focus is back on an agreement for the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) that India signed more than a decade ago with Russia and Iran — even as a June 30 deadline for the Iranian nuclear deal draws near.

(ANI): Seems like, Kim Kardashian is now planning to extend her IQ along with her family.

Pregnant with her second child, the 34-year-old reality TV star wishes to go back to school to broaden her horizons intellectually and wants to work alongside a private tutor to further her education, reported The Inquisitr.

Tabloid media reveals that Kanye West is also encouraging his wife to take classes, especially after receiving honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

(ANI): Mohit Suri’s latest direction ‘Hamari Adhuri Kahani’ has been adapted by the movie’s producer, Mahesh Bhatt, and will be staged in Delhi on August 1, and then in Karachi.

The Bollywood director recently broke the news on Twitter by mentioning that he will soon be directing a project adapted from his recent production starring Emran Hashmi and Vidhya Balan, with the award winning National School of Drama (NSD) graduate, Happy Ranajit, and the Pakistani sufi rock band Raeth, the Dawn reported.

(ANI): Bollywood actress Juhi Chawla has definitely become a fan of Shabana Azmi after she got an opportunity to work with the renowned actress in her upcoming film ‘ Chalk N Duster’.

Speaking at an event in Mumbai where she facilitated by a leading Hindi daily for her contribution to Indian cinema, the 47-year-old actress said, “I was quite overwhelmed with Shabana and was awestruck by her personality”.

The ‘My Brother Nikhil’ star added that the she learned lot of things the way Shabana works on her role.

(ANI): Former world champion Tyson Gay edged past 19-year-old Trayvon Bromell on Saturday to win the 100m at the US trials.

Gay clocked 9.87 seconds to overcome Bromell, who finished second with 9.96, and will make a return to the World Championships in Beijing in August for the first time since 2009.

Reflecting on his performance, Gay said that he felt the race as the toughest of his career and insisted that his 10 years of experience came in handy while outpacing ‘tough kid’ Bromell, the BBC reported.

(ANI): Commonwealth Games silver medallist pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa stormed into the Canada Open badminton tournament final after claiming straight sets win over Shiho Tanaka and Koharu Yonemoto in their women’s doubles event in Calgary.

Jwala and Ashwini, who won the 2011 World Championship bronze, overcame the Japanese duo 21-17, 21-16 in a thrilling semi- final contest that lasted 30 minutes.

The third seeds Indian pair will take on top pair of Eefje Muskens and Selena Piek from Netherlands in the summit clash. (ANI)

(IANS) Two militants were killed in a joint operation by the army and police and four militants were nabbed with a cache of explosives in two incidents in Meghalaya on Sunday, police said.

In the first incident, acting on a tip-off, a joint team of the 19 Dogra Regiment and Meghalaya Police intercepted the movement of unidentified Garo militants in and around Pach Kilo area in North Garo Hills district.

Pach Kilo area is about 300 km west of state capital Shillong.

(IANS) After months of ‘will it? will it not?’, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has declared that – by political implication – Narendra Modi still remains its best bet in the Indian electoral arena.

Like the knight in shining armour, he is expected – yet again – to rescue the BJP from the demons which now and then crop up in the form of assembly elections in different states with varying degrees of significance in the larger Indian political system.

The trailer of filmmaker Sanjay Gupta’s action film “Jazbaa”, which marks the comeback of actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, will be launched on August 15, which is also the country’s Independence Day.

Gupta, who is gung-ho over the film after getting a casting coup with established actors like Irrfan Khan, Atul Kulkarni, Jackie Shroff, Chandan Roy Sanyal and Shabana Azmi along with Aishwarya, shared the news on micro-blogging site Twitter.

“JAZBAA First Theatrical Trailer will out on 15th August 2015,” Gupta posted.

It is 1 year 1 month and 1 day; roughly 398 Days of BJP government in Power. The glitters of BJP which we saw in Pre Election era and which we continue to see on Every Small or Big celebration has somehow managed to keep Indian People away from the reality of the government. Now that as we all know everything has a limit of its own Of course that fake glitter that was giving people the illusion of Golden Era of Indian Politics has begin to vanish. Just like the Gold Plated Bangles people buy begin to lose its shine and illusive look after some time.

(IANS) Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday said the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) chief Mukesh Kumar Meena was accused of money laundering and a probe was ordered against him in May.

Meena was appointed as ACB chief by Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung on June 8 superseding Additional Commissioner S.S. Yadav. The Delhi government has objected to the appointment of Meena.

“Mukesh Kumar Meena was involved in Hawala scam along with the curtain scam. A probe against him in Hawala scam was ordered on May 1. The ACB is probing the matter,” Sisodia said.

Adnan Sami, who has lend his voice to several Bollywood songs, will be seen trying his hand at qawwali for the first time in his upcoming song ‘Bhar Do Jholi Meri’ in ‘ Bajrangi Bhaijaan’.

The playback singer recently landed in Mumbai to launch the song and discussed why this song is a different kind of romantic number.

Whilst interacting with the media, the 41-year-old singer said, “Yes, it is a fact that I love singing romantic numbers, however, this song is a different kind of romance and this one is romance with the almighty.”

Andhra Pradesh Government will construct a tribal museum in Bheemunipatnami in the district.

“The museum will be constructed by Tribal Welfare department at an expenditure of Rs 20 crore on four-acre land for which chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu will lay the foundation very soon,” Tribal Welfare Minister R Kishore Babu said after visiting the plot at Kapuluppada area yesterday.

He said another Rs 5 crore will be spent on construction of a tribal cultural research centre on Visakhapatnam-Bheemunipatnam beach road.

Gold eases on Tuesday as the euro slid sharply against the dollar, and as stock markets rallied on hopes that Greece would reach a deal with its creditors to stave off default.

Spot gold was down 0.6 per cent at $1,178.10 an ounce by 1405 GMT, while U.S. gold futures for August delivery were down $6.30 at $1,177.80.

The metal posted its biggest one-day loss in nearly a month on Monday as a rally in stock markets driven by expectations of a Greek deal sent last week’s rise in ..

A Korean 26-year-old man recently created a stir on Internet as he was captured drinking booze and getting in nightclubs even though he looks like a 12-year-old kid.

Shin Hyomyung, who is also known as Korea’s Peter Pan, was recently approached by a TV network and was filmed going to a club wherein he showed his ID proof with his birth year 1989, but the guy hasn’t yet hit puberty, the Mirror reported.

A woman named Silvana Valentino Locke is a crazy cat lover, who forks out 90,000 pounds each year on her 122 cats.

The mother of two, who lives with her 32-year-old husband, has 52 cats living in her four-bedroom house while 40 live at the bottom of her garden with another 30 in a neighbouring field, reported the Mirror.

Talking about her love for the cats, 55-year-old Locke claims that it’s an addiction and she feels like she has OCD about cats and it’s her job to look after them all.

You may want to get rid of your “skinny” jeans, as a new study has shown that squatting in the tight pants for long could damage muscle and nerve fibres in the legs, making it hard to walk.

A case study of a 35-year-old woman revealed that after she spent many hours squatting in the uncomfortable jeans while emptying cupboards, she arrived at hospital with severe weakness in both her ankles.

A Hindu temple in the Swiss capital Bern is one of the few in the world that allows women priests to officiate religious ceremonies. It’s a move that has been met with approval – and some dismay – by the local Hindu community.

It’s Friday and Mala Jayakumar is busy making preparations for the weekly ceremonial worship of the Saivanerikoodam Hindu temple’s principal deity Shiva. Few outsiders know about the colourful temple hidden behind the glass façade of the very modern-looking House of Religions in Bern.