Jagannath Dhar
In U.K. a couple, split for 70 years, have got married again. A world War II hero, 90-year Roy Vickerman, had split from his 89-year-old fiancee Nora Jackson after he suffered post-trauma stress caused by wartime efforts. He launched a search for her. This year, after seven decades, he succeeded in tracing her with the help of a radio station. The two discovered that their partners had, meantime, died. They picked up their old love threads again which they had left in the1940s.
A homeless American accepts credit and debit card donations from such Samaritans and well-wishers as do not have change. For this purpose Abe Hagenston, of Detroit, Michigan, has acquired technical skills including that of web designing. He takes VISA, MasterCard, American Express and says that he is the only homeless American who can take a credit card. The card money is transferred to his account with the help of a smart phone attachment which is able to read credit cards. His website helps him and other homeless persons to, occasionally, secure odds jobs.
Avtar Hoti
Sikh turban has saved a Canadian girl from getting drowned. In June, this year, a 15-year-old girl, of British Columbia, slipped into the Thompson river. Avtaar Hoti tried to find some implement which he could throw into the water to save the drowning girl. He found none. He threw his turban. The girl caught hold of it and the India-born Sikh succeeded in pulling her to shore.
Simeen, Faraaz’s
mother
Twenty-year-old Faraaz sacrificed his life in an attempt to save his friends, including a Jain girl. During the Dhaka cafe terrorist attack, of July 1, this year, Muslim zealots allowed Faraaz to, safely, leave the venue because he, also, was a Muslim. Faraaz refused to desert his two friends, including Tarishi Jain, of India. Unhappy with Faraaz’s behaviour, the terrorists murdered him along with their other non-Muslim victims present in the cafe at that time.
Jessica Chasten
Los Angeles film star Jessica Chasten is searching a husband for her grand mother. Thirty-nine-year-old actress says that the old lady is her best friend. So, the grand child wants to select a deserving grand father who can be a good companion for her grandma in sunset years.
In a letter to a newspaper, an American woman complained that her husband is amorous, beyond reasonable degree and does not allow her to sleep peacefully. She needs some rest. On the day following came a reply from another lady which said: “My husband weighs two hundred pounds. He sleeps like a log. It is I who has to take initiative. It is a problem to awaken him. Send your husband for a fortnight to my place and take mine to yours for that period.” The communication ended with her self-composed verse:
“Too much rested,
Want to get exhausted.”
Haryana bull
The semen of a bull of the Kurukhshetra area of Haryana is giving its owner Rs.45 lakh per year. An ejaculation of the Murrah-breed buffalo gives 6 ml of semen. The owner, scientifically, divides it into 600 dozes and sells each doze for Rs. 300. He can get a higher price, too, but, he says, he charges less as a measure of social service.
Betsy Davis
A terminally-ill Californian artist threw a happy party before committing suicide. Inviting her friends for the good-bye event, Betsy Davis, of San Diego, had made a rule: ‘No crying.’ After the fun, smiles and laughter were over, she took a lethal dose of drugs, permitted by the State suicide law.
In the United Kingdom, a burglar got caught after he fell asleep in the house he had raided. When the house owner returned to his home, he found the infiltrator in sound sleep on a bed. The crook was in such a deep slumber that his victim had enough time to call police who came, awakened him and took him into custody.
A Rajkot elderly couple died on July 4, this year, when the husband got crushed under the 128 kg. weight of his wife. Mrs. Manjula Vithlani slipped while climbing the stairs of her house. She fell on Mr. Natwarlal, her husband, who was following her. The couple was rushed to hospital where both died of cerebral haemorrhage.
In Agra, a domesticated parrot helped police in cracking the murder of the bird’s mistress. The parrot would remain silent when a large number of persons visited the house where the crime had been committed, but it would resort to continuous screeching when the nephew of the killed woman’s husband would come there. During police investigation, the nephew confessed that he had killed the woman.
An Indore young man bit a snake into two when the reptile crept into his mouth while he was sleeping. A lover of deep sleep, Vinod Raghuvanshi failed to notice when the serpent crawled on his bed. After killing the vertebrate, he fell asleep again. It was his mother who noticed the happening when she entered the room and awakened the sleepy killer.
A minor U.S. boy, sexually abused by his lady teacher, received six million dollar pay-out in sex-abuse settlement. His English teacher started sexual relationship with the boy when he was 16 years’ old. She became pregnant with his child.
A 72-year-old resident of Baktawang Tlangnuam, a village in the Serchhip district of Mizoram, has become the head of the largest family of the world. He has 38 wives and 89 children.
Rs. 20-lakh worth goat
On the Bakra-Eid day, this year, a goat was priced Rs. 20 lakhs in the Jama Masjid market of Delhi. Its value was super high because the structure of its wool, on its belly, was such as if nature had written the word ‘Allah’ on it.
Procrastination boosts creative ideas. Twenty per cent humans procrastinate. One such person was Oscar Wilde who said: “I never postpone till tomorrow what I can do the day after.” Jihae Shin, Professor, at the University of Wisconsin, investigated staff of some companies and found that often the staff that procrastinated was found more creative and innovative.
A 25-year-old Indian young man inhaled CO to have a painless suicide. On the pretext of conducting scientific research he ordered a CO gas cylinder online and placed it inside a large polythene bag. The victim created an airtight chamber in his bathroom. In the confined space he opened the cylinder and inhaled the gas. AIIMS, where he was treated, did not give out his name.
One may smile, and smile and smile and still be unhappy. A New York University research paper says that appearing overtly happy persons can have a bit of negatived impact on our lives – and, possibly, careers. So, overindulgent smiling needs a little calming down.
China’s one-child policy holds no more. In the earlier regimes, many Chinese were not encouraged to have a second child. That strictness is a matter of history now. Many such couples, who have crossed the normal child-bearing age, are aspiring to have a second offspring. They are flooding fertility clinics to achieve their aim.
Chinese cemetery
In China, running cemeteries has become a booming business. In many cities of that most-populous nation of the world, cemeteries have become full. Burial work gives the entrepreneurs huge profits. For example the Lingshan Cemetery is expecting profits of more than 15 million dollars this year. Citizens of big cities find no place to bury their dead. They go to neighbouring areas. Most Beijing residents are doing so in the Hebel cities, surrounding the Capital.
Wrestler with alligators
A 44-year-old African-American resident of Puerto Rico has been wrestling with alligators and kissing them since he was 13.The game is of native American tradition and he wants to give it up; but no one from his tribe of 600 souls wants to be his successor for this dangerous sport.
Groom Murdoch (84), bride Jerry (59)
Question; what should be the maximum age for getting married? Reply: No limit – except that one’s backbone is straight. Eighty-four-year media mogul Robert Murdoch married model actress Jerry Hall on June 3, this year. It is the fourth marriage for Murdoch. Earlier, too, a Bangladesh P.M. married at age 85. Actress Elizabeth Taylor married eight times; in one case, with her former divorced husband.
A U.S. woman has approached a court for restoring her conjugal rights. Her husband has been sent to prison on a criminal charge. The woman’s plea is that neither religion, nor law, allows her to indulge in adultery. She says that her husband may be punished for what he has done but she should not be punished for what she did not do. She should be allowed to visit the prisoner when she likes and facilities of privacy should be provided her there for enjoyment of rights that marriage provides her. The presiding officer of the court is finding difficulty in deciding the case.
(The writer has been working as a newsman and analyst in Pakistan, J&K, Delhi and U.S.A.)
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