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Nepal bans schools from using western names

Nepal said on Monday it was banning secondary schools from using names like ‘Oxbridge’, ‘White House’ and ‘NASA’ over fears that the education system is losing its Nepali culture.

The announcement fo

Olympics: Man arrested for throwing bottle on 100m track

A man was arrested after a bottle was thrown onto the track at the start of the men's 100m final at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday, police said.

The man shouted abuse then threw the bottle just before

Nashik's Open University to offer a degree for drivers

For taxi and truck drivers aspiring to get a degree in driving, Nashik-based Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) has launched a course.

A BA degree in road transportation for taxi,

Brit mum gives birth to rare 'tridentical tots'

A couple in UK has given birth to identical triplets whose birth has defied odds of 200 million to one.

According to the statistics, the odds of triplets from a natural pregnancy are 4,000 to one, wh

Oz man scoops $50m jackpot with late mum-in-law's numbers

An Australian man, who is the lone winner of the 50 million-dollar Powerball jackpot, revealed that ticket had belonged to his late mother-in-law "and we always knew she would look after us".

The man

Prison makes me fat, says Brit inmate

A jailbird has complained that prison food is making him fat - after being fed a diet of chips, pies and rice.

In a letter to lags' mag Inside Time this week, John Bowskill said he was desperate for

Meet the Brit boy who eats electric wires and phone chargers

A little UK from Preston has a potentially deadly craving - to eat electrical wires.

The five-year-old left his mother Kate horrified when she caught him munching through a game's console lead and a

Meet the Brazilian snake that looks like a male manhood

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Researchers in Brazil have discovered a new type of snake that resembles a male manhood.

Experts came across the 'Atretochoana eiselti,' dubbed 'floppy snake,' when they examined a hydroelectric dam

Chihuahua finds 2 girls lost in Georgia forest

A Chihuahua is being hailed as a hero after authorities say it sniffed out two girls who were lost in a Georgia forest.

The girls, ages 5 and 8, disappeared on Monday for a couple of hours when they

First man to 'print' gun at home says it 'wasn't that difficult'

An engineer, who 'printed' an AR-15 using a 1000-dollar 3D-printer, has revealed just how easy it is to create a firearm at home at a time when gun control is back on the minds of millions of American

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.