Students of the highest quality..!!

A 28-year-old teacher, on her way back from school, became the victim of an acid attack by three youths after she refused to marry one of them. Shine was returning home from Shanti Niketan school in Loni town when three youths threw acid on her face and fled the spot, Superintendent of Police Yadvendu Singh said.

She was rushed to a hospital with 25 per cent burns on her face and body, he said. According to Loni police Inspector Ashok Rana, motive behind the attack was the victim''s refusal to marry one of the accused.

However, no arrest has been made in the regard, he added.

Making advances on one's own teacher is bad enough.Throwing acid deserves stringent punishment.Infact,punishments to such dogs should be sooo severe that it should act as a deterrent to others who dare think of doing such cowardly bastardy acts..!!

Not The Way To Treat A Dead Soldier's Mortal Remains

Sabu's poor parents and the entire village was grieving, waiting for his coffin. When it arrived, the smell of putrefying flesh inside filled them with anger instead. How could the Indian Army send back one of its dead in such a manner, they are now asking.

Villagers in the small hill town of Ambalavayal near here in Wayanad district are upset over the 'disrespect' shown by the Indian Army to the body of 23-year-old Sabu Varghese, a gentleman cadet at the Indian Military Academy (IMA) Dehradun who was found dead in a swimming pool of the academy Monday.

Sabu's father is heart-broken over the condition in which the body was sent.

'My wife and I are casual labourers. On Monday morning I got a call from my son's officer saying that my son has suffered an accident. I immediately asked him what I should do and he said nothing needs to be done. I was soon told that my son has died,' said Varghese.

The family was then informed that the body would arrive soon.

'Our endless wait began. The body arrived late Wednesday evening and I was shell shocked to see the box in which it was kept. It was just a wooden box. There were a few army officials and they advised me not to open the box. I insisted on seeing the body of my son and opened the box. All I could see was his teeth and nothing else. No one was able to stand near due to the stench.

'Is this way the army treats its people?' asked Varghese, sobbing.

A neighbour and a political worker, 73-year-old K.R. Unnniry, told IANS: 'We were first told that the body would arrive on Tuesday, and we sent an ambulance to the Karipur airport (near Kozhikode). Later, we were told that the body would arrive only on Wednesday.'

He said when the body arrived on Wednesday 'it was smelling and we were shocked because we found out that the body had not been embalmed'.

'It was a horrible sight because we found the body was wrapped in a plastic sheet with a cloth placed on top of it. When we removed the cloth, to see the face, the flesh of Sabu's face was stuck on the cloth. This is an unpardonable act done by the army,' said Unnniry.

As the news spread, over 1,000 people gathered to share the family's sorrow and anger.

According to locals, Sabu was a bright student and after working in the army for nearly four years as a clerk was selected to join the IMA.

'We are poor people and I was so happy when my son would tell me about the Indian Army. Our joy knew no limits when he said that soon he would be an officer. But what I got was this... The army should never treat anyone like what they did to my son,' said a weeping Varghese.

Wayanad Lok Sabha MP M.I. Shahnawaz (Congress) said that he has taken up the issue at the highest level.

'If there is any lapse on the part of the officials it will be seriously dealt with,' said Shahnawaz.

The villagers have now placed all their hopes on Defence Minister A.K. Antony, who belongs to the state. They are hoping he will take suitable action against the erring officials who did not embalm Sabu's body.

Yahoo.

Well,this incident is not a good advertisement on the professionalism of the Indian Army.There are some reports which says the Army is woefully short of officers and that the Army is looking to have massive recruits.

The inhuman way a dead soldier's body is handled does not help the Army in any way in attracting youngsters to its fold..

Hope this is only a very very unfortunate exception and that the guilty officers will be punished.

Hope the Indian Army will do every thing possible to help and apologize to the family members for this unpardonably disrespectful act..

Tendulkar Reply to Former Aussie Coach

Sachin Tendulkar has hit back at John Buchanan for finding faults in his batting technique against pace bowling and advised the former Australian coach to change his opinion which "doesn't have to be right all the time".

"It is only his opinion. John Buchanan doesn't have to be right all the time. If I couldn't handle short deliveries, then I wouldn't still be scoring runs," Tendulkar said in an interview to the 'Wisden'.

"Maybe he needs to change his opinion. There must be something very wrong with all the bowlers around the world that they have allowed me to score so many runs," he retorted.

Buchanan had said before India's 2007 tour of Australia that video analysis of the Tendulkar reveals his footwork has become sluggish, especially early in his innings, making him vulnerable to short-pitched deliveries followed by a fuller one.

Sachin need not respond to these silly comments.It will only give importance to a limelight seeker like Buchanan.Sachin responding is exactly what Buchanan wants.

some how Buchanan got some credit,as the accidental coach during an Australian Team performance in an era Australia had such legendary players like McGrath,Warne,Gilchrist,Hayden,Langer,Ponting playing together.

No coach was neeeded to motivate such a highly motivated,highly talented all-conquering team.

We all saw what Buchanan achieved with the Kolkota Knight Riders team.All his so-called out-of-box ideas like multi-captaincy etc either did not materialise or bombed badly or remained in the box itself...

Mr.John Buchanan is a nobody in the world of Cricket.Sachin Tendulkar is a living Legend in cricket world.

Sachin has scored runs in all countries in all sorts of pitches against all sorts of bowlers under all sorts of circumstances..

He doesn't need to get into a to-and-fro with a NOBODY..!