Brave Girl Puts Mother Behind Bars

An 11-year-old Muslim girl in West Bengal who was married off forcibly has lodged a police complaint leading to the arrest of her mother and the priest who officiated the wedding.

Little Bilkish was married off by her mother Mayna Bibi against her wishes to 25-year-old Tufan Sheikh of the same Mahammadpur village in Murshidabad district nearly a month ago.

Tufan, who works as a daily labourer in Lucknow, wanted to take Bilkish with him to his place.
Unhappy with the marriage and fearing that her studies would come to an abrupt end, the Class 4 girl on Wednesday picked up courage and went to a police station with her friend during lunch break.

There she lodged a complaint against her mother and others leading to the arrest of Mayna Bibi and Kazi Marzem, the priest who officiated her marriage.

"Parents marrying off their children below the age of 18 should be hanged," Bilkish said."I have always told my mother that I want to study and be a teacher some day. But she refused to listen and forced me into this marriage," Bilkish said.

Police are on the lookout for the girl's husband, mother-in-law, the marriage registrar and witnesses to the marriage.

Mirza Mainuddin, the head master of Bilkish's school, was proud of what his student did and said people involved in the marriage of a minor should be given exemplary punishment. Bravo Bilkish!

Headmaster Beaten for Making Girls Strip!

Enraged parents beat up a headmaster in Hyderabad who threatened teenage girls with a cane to force them to strip and then photographed them, police source said.

After taking the girls’ photos on his digital camera, he sent them to pornographic Websites, as well as storing them on his computer.

After being beaten, V Srinivas Rao, in charge of a private school in Vijaywada town in Andhra Pradesh, was garlanded with slippers - an insult - by several parents and taken to a police station where he was arrested.

To escape from being penalised by the cane of the headmaster, girl students went up to his room and posed for his digital camera, police assistant commissioner K Satyanarayana said.

Thus, Rao had bullied 16 girls into stripping.

Cocaine and Drug Inside the Colombian Congress

Colombian politicians use cocaine at work and the drug is being sold within the halls of Congress, the senate vice president was reported to have said, disclosing details of an investigation that uncovered serious security breaches.

"Biscuit sellers, shoe sellers, astrologers and marijuana and cocaine dealers all enter Congress," Senator Edgar Artunduaga said.

Artunduaga, however, refused to provide the names of lawmakers he said were using cocaine, despite pressure from some of his colleagues. He noted that it's legal in Colombia to possess small amounts of marijuana, cocaine or heroin for personal usage.

"But I will denounce the (drug) dealers to authorities," he said, describing some of them as "middle-ranking officials."

"Artunduaga should present evidence and say who are the lawmakers that use drugs, or resign," said Armando Benedetti, a pro-government deputy in the lower chamber.

"Speaking for myself, nobody has offered me any," Navarro, who is running for president in next year's elections, told Caracol radio.

Colombia is the world's biggest producer of cocaine. The United States has provided some USD 4 billion in mostly military aid to Colombia since 2000 to combat drug trafficking and leftist rebels that control much of the trade.

Only Love, No Sex Dear!

A Malaysian woman had spiked her New Zealand lover's drinks to slow him down because he wanted sex up to five times a day.

Mee Kwan Ng, 41, a former air hostess from Kuala Lumpur, walked free on Wednesday from the Auckland District Court after justices ruled there was insufficient evidence for her to stand trial on a charge of administering a poison to her former fiance, Martin Walker, 53.

Outside the court, her lawyer, Michael Corry was reported to have said, "She put the pharmaceuticals in his drink to reduce his ability to make sexual demands. She just got to the end of her tether and was trying to introduce medication which would make him drowsy, which would in turn reduce the level of demand for sexual relations."

Ng, who moved in with Walker when he proposed marriage after they corresponded by email, admitted to police that she drugged his food and beverages because he demanded sex four to five times a day and she wanted to "slow him down".

Meanwhile Walker revealed, "I think she was probably trying to dampen my romantic and sexual ardour," but said he accepted that she was not trying to cause him significant harm.

Once a Dishwasher, Now a Millionaire

A non-resident Indian (NRI) who has created waves by buying a former mining town in Canada was once so poor that he could not afford college education and washed dishes to survive.

Back in 1963, when Krishnan Suthanthiran wastaking care of his father's grocery store in Tamil Nadu, he was asked why he didn't go to college even after topping in his high school.

A friend replied: "His father is too poor to send him (to college)."

Now the founder-CEO of Best Medical, a US-based company supplying high-tech medical equipment, he credits his rise to the many well-meaning people who crossed his path 'at the right time, at the right place'.

Suthanthiran - today a millionaire busy transforming a ghost town he bought for USD 5.7 million - admitted he had found the reply 'a bit insulting'.

The father of one of his friends gave him Rs.300 and sent him to meet the college principal. Later, Suthanthiran, who left India when he was 15, started scholarships in the name of the man who helped him and helped to build a school in his hometown.

After he got admission in Carleton University in Canada, he washed dishes to make ends meet. He finally got a research assistantship and in the 1970s moved to the US, looking for a job.

He has also bought a TV company to make sure the tourism plan gets in-your-face publicity. He envisages not just buildings, houses, apartments, swimming pools, coastline and hills but also spas, skiing and water sports facilities.

"I made sacrifices. I didn't marry and have children. My work became my life. That's what is unusual but also unbelievable. I maintained a low profile and did not have much of a social life," Suthanthiran said.

Source: IANS

A blind Singer From Myanmar

Angel Khaing Zar Lwin has an incredible voice. She is also blind.She can sing in Chinese, Japanese, English and Myanmar, and has also participated in Chinese singing contests.The 18 year-old lost her sight at the age of one. She cannot see her audiences but is a tireless performer.At the age of 11, she started singing on the street outside her house, now she is taking Yangon’s singing contests by storm. She was named most talented at Grand Plaza Parkroyal Hotel’s singing contest and was 3rd runner-up at Dagon Centre’s Myanmar Rap to the Beat competition.But her ultimate dream is to be known worldwide.She was an excellent student, usually getting first prize in all her classes. When she finished the eighth grade, she had to study harder for the higher grades. She is fine except for her blindness. She has very good hearing. Her mother and aunty narrate the words of songs and she listens to us carefully. She listens to the lyrics, and then practises.

Money Never Betrays Me

Of the more than 2,000 Japanese girls, the quote above is quite striking. It comes from a veteran who had been working at a "soapland" in Yoshihara for 5 years.

From an early age, her life has been nothing but a series of betrayals, shes told me. Her father abandoned her when she was just a kid. Her boyfriend suddenly disappeared from her life. She could no longer believe in anything, and ended up at a place where she could make money with her body.

As for myself, I have worked at various jobs in the sex industry since turning 18. I started doing this line of work because the man I was in love with had made me work at a sex massage parlor. Eventually, I fell in love with the money. Well, to be more accurate, I do not mean that I was in love with the money itself, but rather I got satisfaction and felt confident in myself for earning money with my body.

Ayumi Sakai, Former Sex Worker (now a writer)

My Step-brother Raped Me, says Teenager

Her bedroom was supposed to be a safe place. It wasn't. A young Chatsworth teenager is receiving counselling and undergoing medical treatment after allegedly being raped by her step-brother. The story of her alleged ordeal is the talk of the community.

The two were at home on their own when the incident took place on August 3, 2005 morning. Her father and stepmother were not at home at the time of the incident.

Capt Jeff Ellappen, commander of the Child Protection Unit, was reported to have said the girl was apparently followed into her bedroom by her stepbrother.

"He allegedly pushed her on to the bed and began removing all her clothes. He then raped her," said Ellappen. "A medical examination has yet to be conducted.".

He said the identity of the suspect is known but an arrest cannot be made until the medical examination has been carried out.

A friend of the victim said the teenager is in a 'bad state' and was not eating or drinking anything.

Mike Tyson May Turn Porn Star for Cash

Former World Boxing Champion Mike Tyson may star in a porn film with Jenna Jameson.

Tyson, who retired from boxing last month, said that he desperately needs money to pay his tax bills of several million dollars, and a porn career could help him in his cause.

"I just talked to a gentleman called Jimmy who's involved with Jenna Jameson. They said they were interested in getting me involved in the adult film industry. I need the money up front," femalefirst quoted him as saying to Zoo magazine.

American boxing journalist Pedro Fernandez also said that Tyson, who was jailed for six years in 1992 on rape charges, would triumph in the sex industry.

Source: ANI

Raped for 'Indecent Public Behaviour' in Gujarat

In shocking similarity to the Mumbai incident, two cops picked up a girl allegedly for indulging in indecent behaviour in public July 27 at Bhuj (Gujarat).

The girl, who was accompanied by two girls, was taken to the Bhuj city police station for interrogation and then raped in a vacant residential quarter on the police station premises.

The victim, who appears to be aged between 13 and 15 years, has been picked up in connection with a case of indecent behaviour in public.

The policemen called the girls, apparently under the pretext of interrogation and for having their photographs taken, to the police station at Wednesday noon.