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POPSUs Indians can be quite confounding sometimes Largely lost in this euphoria is the sense that in the real Mumbai Jamal Malik wouldn't have come within five miles of a TV game show. Of course the film was fantasy, but the fantasy had an ugly core that Indians are blind to. Jamal would not have survived his torture in a real Mumbai police station.
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POPS New marriage law proposed for Muslim women in India Controversial points of new nikahnama --Triple talaq said in one go will not be acceptable --Talaq to be spaced out over a period of 3 months --Talaq not be allowed via phone or SMS --New Nikahnama insists on free will for the girl in case of nikah --Talaq cannot be given under the influence of alcohol --Talaq given to pregnant woman should be considered illegal
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POPSIndian elephants turn thespians to save wild mates Villagers are increasingly encroaching on forest land, while elephants are increasingly barging into villages, killing dozens of people each year, often by trampling on them. The villagers' tactics involve building makeshift electric fences from electric pylons around villages, which electrocute elephants on contact. A dozen elephants have been killed in this way in eastern India so far this year, conservationists say Only about 120,000 square km (46,340 square miles) of India's landmass -- less than four percent of the total -- is suitable for elephants, according to a survey by the environment ministry last year
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POPSCable TV May Improve Gender Relations in India The authors point out that changes in reported attitudes may not directly translate to changes in behavior, however, saying, "We may be concerned that exposure to television only changes what the respondent thinks the interviewer wants to hear.”
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POPSMohammad Ali Jinnah's daughter moves court over Mumbai estate The historic house was the venue for watershed talks on the subcontinent's partition between Jinnah and Indian leaders. Pakistan has repeatedly requested New Delhi either to sell or lease the house for use as a consular office. India has neither refused nor accepted that request
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POPS Central government accused of 'selling out' Bhopal gas victims The deadly gas leak from the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal on December 3, 1984, has killed more than 20,000 people so far. An estimated 150,000 people continue to suffer from toxic effects of the gas, including diminished vision, cancer, respiratory, neurological and gynaecological disorders
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POPS Human bones in demand at Bhutan monasteries "Mukti Biswas, an arrested villager in another district of West Bengal state, told police he had plucked bodies from the river, as well as collecting those left behind at Hindu cremation centres by poor people who lacked the wood to perform a proper cremation" how disturbing...
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POPS Aids network launches campaign against quacks "The quacks are not only a stumbling block in the fight against Aids but also they cheat unsuspecting patients, often poor and uneducated," said Shabana Patel, a representative of the Indian Network of People Living With HIV and Aids in the western state of Maharashtra
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POPS Tyson dances to Bollywood music in Las Vegas "He was courteous and friendly on the sets and spoke to everyone from the assistants to the production guys with ease." The music video was shot over a two-day period with nearly 100 American performers
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POPS Large dams behind methane emissions "The difference between the figures of methane generation and emission is due to the oxidation of methane as it rises from the bottom of a reservoir to its surface"
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POPS Indian Navy's first hyperbaric medicine chamber Ever since it was installed in 1983, the hospital has treated 74 patients with approximately 600 sittings in 2007 alone. But now the new facility will be provided to the common man, although at a token charge.
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