2 rapes, 4 murders every hour in India : HindustanTimes.com
How crime prone is India? Every hour, 25 violent crimes take place in the country while 59 housewives commit suicide every day.
And two accidental deaths occur every two minutes across this vast country of a billion people.
The violent crimes include two rapes, four murders, 10 culpable homicides and one dowry death on an hourly basis, say figures compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
CIA 'jets detainees to torture nations' - Just another day, another life, another moment
Aljazeera.Net - CIA 'jets detainees to torture nations'
The CIA uses a secret jet to ferry terror suspects for interrogation to countries known to use torture, according to a television report.
The CBS network's 60 Minutes programme, aired on Sunday, videotaped the Boeing 737 on a runway at Glasgow Airport in Scotland, saying it was able to trace it through a series of companies and executives that apparently exist only on paper.
It said the plane had made at least 600 flights to 40 countries, all after the September 11 attacks on the US, including 30 trips to Jordan, 19 to Afghanistan, 17 to Morocco, and 16 to Iraq.
The plane also went to Egypt, Libya and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to the report.
The aircraft is part of the Central Intelligence Agency's "rendition" programme, in which suspects are sent to foreign governments for interrogation.
The agency has not formally acknowledged the programme's existence.
US-run jail
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A German national, which CBS identified as al-Masri, told a reporter he was on vacation in Macedonia when he was arrested by police and held for three weeks, then taken to the airport, beaten by masked men, drugged and put on board the 737.
The plane left Skopje, Macedonia, and went to Baghdad and then Kabul, with al-Masri saying he awoke in a jail cell where his captors said: "You're in a country without laws and no one knows where you are."
Al-Masri told the network: "It was very clear to me that he meant I could stay in my cell for 20 years or be buried somewhere."
He added his fellow prisoners in the American-run jail were Saudi Arabians, Tanzanians, a Yemeni and a Pakistani who had lived in the US.
Al-Masri said he was in solitary confinement for five months before being released without an explanation.
According to the report, the jet also made 10 trips to Uzbekistan, where former British ambassador Craig Murray said the jet's nominal owner, Premier Executive Transport Services, kept a small staff at the airport in Tashkent.
Suffocation and rape
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Murray said Uzbek interrogators use unusually cruel methods, including "techniques of drowning and suffocation, rape ... and also the insertion of limbs in boiling liquid".
He said he had complained to his superiors that information was being obtained by torture and sent his deputy to the CIA station chief to inquire about the practice.
"The CIA definitely knows," he told the television programme, adding that his deputy had confirmed that evidence "probably was obtained under torture but the CIA didn't see that as a problem".
He was ordered to return to London four months ago and has since left government service, CBS News pointed out.
The American authorities have yet to respond to the CBS programme's allegations.
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The Oil Factor in the war against Tyranny; what is driving the US to label countries as targets for possible military action?
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The War on Tyranny - A subtle shift from the war on terror?
Clip from an Atimes' article
"Historically Washington has had no problem befriending some of the world's all-time tyrants, as long as they were "pro-Washington" tyrants, such as the military dictatorship of President General Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan, a paragon of oppression. We might name other befriended tyrants - Ilham Aliyev's Azerbaijan, or Islam Karimov's Uzbekistan, or the al-Sabahs' Kuwait, or Oman. Maybe Morocco, or Alvaro Uribe's Colombia. There is a long list of pro-Washington tyrants."
BJP offers cow urine as cure all- The Times of India
NEW DELHI: You can now buy lotions, potions and pills to cure anything from cancer to hysteria to piles - all made from cow urine or dung.
A new goratna (cow products) stall at the BJP's souvenir shop is rapidly outselling dry political tracts, badges, flags and saffron-and-green plastic wall clocks with the face of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
"You won't believe how quickly some of the products sold out," says Manoj Kumar, who runs the souvenir shop along with his brother, Sanjeev, at the BJP headquarters in a plush central New Delhi neighbourhood.
"The constipation medicine is a hot seller."
But the biggest seller is a "multi-utility pill" that claims to cure anything from diabetes to piles to "ladies' diseases".
"It's a miraculous cure" the container declares. A month's supply costs a little over $1.
Musical Condoms
Strike the right note with a musical condom!:
(Thanks to the Kerala News website for this item)
[Health India]: London, Feb17 : Now, you can play it safe along with music! A scientist has come up with musical condoms that apart from being a contraceptive gives you the opportunity play you own tone that gets louder as the sex gets more vigorous.
Different lovemaking positions determine what tune is played by the condom, which also works like a normal contraceptive.The rubber has tiny sensors connected to a mini electronic device that produces the sounds.
"But there is no danger of being electrocuted," the Sun quoted Dr Chausovskiy as saying, who has teamed up with a manufacturer to export the condoms to Britain.
They will cost about 20 per cent more than normal condoms. "But people will pay for the extra stimulation," he added. (ANI)
