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Did you know? There is a mosque in the middle of a lake in the heart of Kolkata. Yes, you have guessed it right. Lake Mosque is the only mosque in the city which is situated on an island in the middle of Rabindra Sarobar lake . Though being a such a big lake, the history of Rabindra Sarobar lake/Dhakuria lake is rather a blurry one. But the most accepted theory is that, the lake was built in early 1920s under Calcutta Development Trust which was created by Lord Curzon to beautify Calcutta. During the excavation of the lake, 3  cannons were unearthed which is now displayed on the southern shore of the lake. In 1926, a bridge was made connecting to the island by Burn and co.  The current Muttawali or the owner of the lake is: Saifuddin Ahmed. The property is not a public one but it is a private property. The property is dedicated to the service of God. According to Saifuddin, his family was the resident of Gobindopur village. After the defeat odf Siraj-ud-d...

At least 13 people were killed and 80 injured after a van rammed through crowds of people in the heart of Barcelona Thursday in what the Spanish Prime Minister described as a barbaric act of terror. Eyewitnesses reported scenes of panic and chaos as the van plowed down the renowned Las Ramblas avenue in the early evening. Catalan police were treating the incident as an act of terrorism and sealed off the area. Catalan President Carles Puigdemont said two suspects had been arrested. He said 80 people were in hospital, 15 of them in a serious condition. Barcelona officials ordered all public events to be canceled, while metro and train stations in the area were closed. video of the spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwisrniisow source: cnn

At a three-hour long session in Delhi today, BJP chief Amit Shah, accompanied by various power point presentations , met 31 of the party's top leaders including ministers to brief them on his strategy for dominating the 2019 general election. In short, his credo: focus on seats the BJP didn't win last time. His instructions to expand the BJP's diet were issued as news came in from Bengal of Mamata Banerjee's victory of giant proportions in local elections in Bengal. Ms Banerjee, who is among the most persistent and vocal critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, won all seven civic bodies that were decided today; the BJP's solace lies in the fact that it has shoved the Left aside as the runner up, though a very distant one. "I think we will do very well in Bengal," said Kailash Vijayvargiya, who is in charge of the state, in an interview to NDTV.  Mr Shah has toured Bengal and other states like Gujarat and Karnataka exhaustively over the last few m...

      -BY  ANINDITA Sex is the emotion in motion...              || Lipstick under the burkha || So why lipstick?  The deep red lipstick becomes the colour and mode of rebellion, giving the viewers a hint of what goes on inside a woman—the turmoil, the pain, the swallowed humiliation, the unshed tears, the unspoken resentment and anger. চারটে মেয়ে চারটে গল্প সবটাই Base on their sex life. যৌনতা অপরাধ না আড়ালে আবডালে বলার মতোন ও না শুধু এটা ইণ্ডিয়া যেখানে বিয়ের পর কণ্ডোম ব্যবহার টা বিরক্তিকর লাগে সে যতই বাচ্ছা হোক আর নষ্ট হোক কিংবা জিন্স পরলে মেয়ে রা সংস্কৃতি ভুলে যায় কিংবা সেক্সুয়াল রিলেশনশিপ থেকে বিয়ে টা অপ্রত্যাশিত বা বছর ৫৫ -এর বৃদ্ধা যৌনতা নিয়ে ভাবলেও পাপ।  -this is how india think about sex. বিয়ের পর ৩ টে বাচ্ছা যদিও বর থাকে বাইরে বছর দু এক পরপর আসে তাতেও ৩টে বাচ্ছা অসংখ্য বার বাচ্ছা নষ্ট আর i-pill ভর্তি বাক্স। অবাক হলেন না? ভাবছেন কন্ডোম থাকতে এসব কেন?  বুঝলেন না? মর্দানী...

The annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) says that the average overcrowding rate in Indian prisons is 14 per cent. What the report does not reveal is that 149 jails in the country are overcrowded by more than 100 per cent and that eight are overcrowded by margins of a staggering 500 per cent. These alarming statistics were revealed in the Centre's reply in response to a question in the Lok Sabha on August 8. It also brought into focus the horrendous levels in Satyamangalam sub-jail in Erode district of Tamil Nadu where 200 prisoners are "stuffed" in a space meant for 16 people. The overcrowding rate actually oversimplifies an understanding of the problem. What this statistic fails to capture is the feeling of being stuck in a dark, dingy enclosed area where privacy is non-existent, where threats of bodily violations loom constantly, where money and power determines the floor space you get to stretch your legs, where the entry of "mo...

The Leopard that died of shame- It's a funny story with a strong message which was narrated by Captain Raghu Raman in Goafest 2016. Location- Eastern sector ( where Bangladesh is a country now ) Time- 1971 operations In the officer's mess, there's a leopard mounted on the wall, and the gold plaque under it says 'The leopard that died of shame'. In 1971 operations, this unit was posted towards the Eastern sector, where Bangladesh is a country now, and they were involved in that operation. In those days or even now in some of the units, the drinking session continues till late at night. If the cooked food isn't heated up twice or thrice, it's not considered to be a good unit. The boozing session goes on till late night. So finally, it's 2 o'clock at night. It's a mystic location in a completely dense forest area. The mess is in the middle of the jungle having low visibility, and the officers have left the mess. And the Masalchi...

Meet this man,  The Kargil War hero  (other than Capt. Vikram Batra), unknown to many, sole survivor of the 18 Grenadiers " Grenadier   Yogendra Singh Yadav" ​In 1999, soldiers of the 18 grenadiers were ordered to advance and capture the Tiger Hill. They were crawling the hill from the back but then a heavy stone slipped and went rolling over 5 soldiers. These were immediately detected by the Pakistanis and were shot at the moment. After that, 3 grenades were launched by pakistanis straight over the head of the rest soldiers which resulted in even more deaths (but the dead men did their job very well). Grenadier Yogendra was the only man alive then.  4 bullets had already penetrated his body  but he mustered up his courage and went up to the enemy bunkers. There  a total of 15 bullets thrashed his body.  But he was still alive! His trouser was torn from the back. He completely lied unconscious there. As the pakistani men were failing ...