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Mumbai: Residents of a cluster of row houses in Dindoshi, New MHADA Colony at Goregaon (E) had a first experience with nature’s fury on Friday, reports Mumbai Mirror. Due to soil erosion from the hill, there was a major landslide in the area on Friday.  Huge amount of muck and stones from the hill broke [...]

Russian entrepreneurs, who wished to attract beachgoers to their private beach, have been questioned over a promotional stunt that involved parachuting a donkey.  The donkey, which was spotted soaring in the blue skies, shocked beachgoers as it screamed in fear while circling the Cossack village of Golubitskaya in the Krasnodar region of Russia last week. [...]

LUCKNOW:  The renowned  Islamic seminary Darul Uloom, Deoband, has issued a fatwa prohibiting girls aged 13 and above from riding bicycles. Clerics and educationists termed the edict “ridiculous” and “impractical”. Mufti Arshad Faruqui, chairman of the Darul Uloom fatwa department, told reporters on Friday that the edict was in keeping with the ideals of Islam, [...]

These are the last moments of two Jundollah suicide bombers, Mohammad Rigi, and Abdolbaset Rigi, who posed for the camera as explosive vests are strapped on them before they went on to detonate the devices outside a mosque in Zahedan, Iran, killing 28 people, reports  The Daily Mail, London. Sunni Muslim rebel group Jundollah has [...]

New Delhi: The Indian rupee will have its own symbol, a mix of the Devanagri ‘Ra’ and Roman ‘R’, to become the fifth currency in the world to have a distinct identity.   The new symbol, designed by IIT post-graduate D Uday Kumar was approved by the Union Cabinet on Thursday.   The rupee will join the [...]