The editor of a television channel, which first aired the video of a mob molesting a teenage girl in India's northeastern Assam state, has resigned over the broadcast.
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The arrests are slowly adding up - too slowly to matter, really. A week after a TV camera in Guwahati filmed a young woman being attacked, groped, pulled back from the road that she tried to race down, 11 of the 30 people who assaulted her have been arrested.

Meanwhile, Atanu Bhuyan, the Editor-in-Chief of News Live, the channel that filmed the Guwahati molestation incident, resigned on Tuesday (17-July-2012) afternoon.

Atanu Bhuyan said he was under "huge mental pressure for the last few days".

Addressing a press conference at the Guwahati Press Club, the editor-in-chief, Atanu Bhuyan, said he was surprised at chief minister Tarun Gogoi's comment yesterday (16-July-2012) criticising journalist Gaurav Jyoti Neog for not informing the police.

"After Gogoi's comment, Neog was picked up by the police and interrogated for four hours before being released. We fear the enquiry will not be impartial as the police may be influenced by Gogoi's comment," he said.

Assam: one more girl molestated

Posted by webber | Saturday, July 14, 2012 | | 0 comments »



Close on the heels of molestation of a girl in Guwahati that generated national outcry, a teenager met the same fate allegedly at the hands of army jawans in Assam's Sibsagar district, police said on Saturday (14-July-2012).

A team of Army personnel headed by Lance Naik were on patrol duty near a forest in Dolopa where they spotted a teenaged girl collecting firewood, Sibsagar additional superintendent of police S K Dutta said.

When Naik and his team allegedly tried to molest her in the forest, the girl created a furore which was heard by the nearby local villagers who rushed to the spot and managed to free the girl from the armymen clutches, Police said.

Army sources, when contacted, said that there was no information on the matter with them.

The area is flood prone and militant-infested for which the camp of the Army was set up.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi gave police a 48-hour deadline to arrest all the youths involved in the molesation of a girl in Guwahati even as raids were conducted today (14-July-2012) in the hunt for 12 more wanted men including a government employee, a prime accused.
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A controversy also broke out over the video footage of the incident with RTI activist Akhil Gogoi alleging that a journalist who filmed it on Monday (09-July-2012) night had 'instigated' it, a charge rejected as baseless by a local TV channel concerned and condemned by scribe bodies.

The Guwahati incident is no one-off. Urban India has witnessed several cases of women becoming mob targets.

Police have failed to make any breakthrough and arrest any of the seven other culprits from the group that publicly molested and stripped a teenage girl in this main city of Assam last Monday, officials said on Saturday. The incident created a country-wide furore after the video clip of it was telecast.

The 17-year-old had gone to a pub with another girl Monday night. She was looking for an auto-rickshaw when 11 men pounced on her. The other girl escaped. A video clip of the girl being molested was caught on camera and went viral on the net. It caused outrage.

Bollywood condemns Guwahati molestation

The recent Guwahati molestation case has enraged Bollywood celebrities who have come forward to condemn the act, calling for punishment for the culprits.

Here's what the B-town celebs had to say in social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook:

Amitabh Bachchan: Horrid visuals on TV of molestation of young girl... but just a point. How does TV crew know of it live and why don't they intervene?

Bipasha Basu: Guwahati molestation of a 17-year-old girl for 29 minutes on the road! Shameful! These monsters have to be punished!

Anupam Kher: My country gives me millions of reasons to be a proud Indian. But it also makes me feel ashamed to be one on many occasions.

Shekhar Kapur: As a society we must take collective responsibility for Guwahati for making incidents like this acceptable and rampant. Constant bombarding of female image as mere object of sexual titillation is bound to alter perception of the immature male. Physical abuse of women and even rape is not a sexual act, but act of humiliation and power by male lacking in self worth.

Farhan Akhtar: Guwahati pathetic! Shameful! Indian women better realise that they are on their own.

Actor Rahul Bose said he was sickened by the incident. "Saddened to the point of despair that none came to her rescue. How much more violence against women must we see before we realise it will end civilisation as we know it. What makes men silent onlookers to such carnage? what delight in seeing a 17-year-old girl brutalised?."

4 arrested for molesting girl on Guwahati street

Posted by webber | Friday, July 13, 2012 | | 0 comments »



A woman being molested on the streets of Guwahati earlier this week was aired on Thursday (12-July-2012) by a couple of local and national news channels, prompting Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to announce the setting up of a task force to prevent crimes against women.


In an outrageous incident, a teenaged girl was assaulted, stripped and molested outside a pub in Guwahati by a mob of over 20 men for nearly half an hour on Monday (09-July-2012) night.

A Class 11 student was molested outside a pub in Guwahati by a group of nearly 20 men on Monday night. The shameful act continued for nearly 30 minutes till the police arrived and rescued the girl and handed her over to her parents.

The police have arrested four accused including Assam government’s IT agency Amtron’s employee Amar Jyoti Kalita. Kalita maintains a Facebook account and studied at Guwahati Refinery High School.

Two of his accomplices Bubul Das, a local businessman, and Jiarul Choudhury, a video librarian, are also Facebook users.

In Assam, the rate of crime against women is a shocking 36.9 per lakh, almost double the national average at 18.9. The young teen's sickening molestation on Monday could well have been another number added to that statistic had it not been for the video shot by the night reporter of a local TV channel, Newslive, which was uploaded on YouTube and went viral. The arrests were made on Thursday, after that happened.

Playboy's Indian PlayMate Sherlyn Chopra

Posted by webber | Friday, July 13, 2012 | , | 0 comments »



Indian film actress Sherlyn Chopra, who is also known by the name Mona Chopra, becomes the first Indian model to shoot for Hugh Hefner's adult magazine Playboy.

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For someone like Sherlyn Chopra, stripping or posing nude for photographs is no big deal. It is rather an easy peasy task for!

Sherlyn reportedly arrived in Los Angeles last week, and she also stayed at Hugh Hefner's mansion for a few days.

"Playing dominoes with @CrystalHarris @trishafrick @ChelseaRyan_pb @cristalcamden @missashleyhobbs @sherlynchopra," Hugh Hefner had tweeted.

It is believed Sherlyn will start shooting from this week.

Massive earthquake - Indonesia to India

Posted by webber | Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | | 0 comments »



A massive earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia on Wednesday (11-Apr-2012) afternoon. Indonesia's geophysical agency issued tsunami warning following the quake whose epicentre was in Aceh. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre issued Indian Ocean-wide tsunami warning. Indonesia straddles a series of fault lines that makes the vast island nation prone to volcanic and seismic activity. Tremors were also felt in Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Patna and several other cities on the eastern coast of India, according to reliable sources. India also issued tsunami warning for Nicobar Islands following massive earthquake off Sumatra coast.

Gautham Menon teams up with Ilaiyaraja

Posted by webber | Monday, January 30, 2012 | , , | 0 comments »



Isaignani Ilaiyaraaja is known for capturing listeners with his evergreen music even today, and his this quality is what makes every filmmaker want to work with him.
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And, the latest to team up with Isaignani is Gautham Vasudev Menon, a director who now has his reach in Bollywood, after some rocking films in Kollywood and Tollywood.

This will be the first time that Gautham will be working with the legendary composer, for the filmmaker has only used the tunes of Harris Jayaraj and A. R. Rahman thus far.

Gautham seemed so excited when he announced the same through his twitter profile: I'm going to live a dream. Make a dream come alive. ILAYARAJA sir.

Actor Jiiva, hero of the film, tweeted: ❤raja + ❤menon = full ❤songs🎶 Yes The music director of Nethanae yen ponvasantham is our one and only isainyani Ilayaraja avl...

Antarctica is, in fact, a desert!

Posted by webber | Wednesday, January 04, 2012 | , | 0 comments »



Antarctica, as many of us know, is a continent around the South Pole, situated mainly within the Antarctic Circle and almost entirely covered by ice sheets.
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Antarctica is considered a desert, and here is why:

There is little precipitation in Antarctica since it is a polar region. It has neither lakes nor rivers and is actually the driest continent.

It is known as the world’s driest desert, because in its interior region the extreme cold freezes the water vapor out of the air.

Annual snowfall is equal to less than 5 centimeters of rain. Antarctica is also the only place in the world not claimed or owned by any country.