The NewSense

December    7, 2009

Hubli /Cape Town: Indian Lesbians celebrated when the Delhi High Court declared that gay sex in no more illegal and they should be protected under the law. The court had said that a statute in Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which defines homosexual, acts as “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” and made them illegal, was an “antithesis of the right to equality”. “We are elated. We think what now happens is that a lot of our fundamental rights and civic rights which were denied to us can now be reclaimed by us,” said activists after hearing the judgment. But here’s something for Indian lesbians to ponder over. The similar law was also passed in South Africa during 2005 and there were also many celebrations and agitations. Now recently African conservatives have started protesting the gay sex and they have decided to “correct” the lesbians by raping them. Lesbians are being dragged off the street and raped to “correct” them. It has become new trend called as “corrective rape” in the townships on the outskirts of Cape Town. One of the lesbian who lives in this area said she had been attacked on two occasions – on the first occasion they failed to rape her and on second she was raped. This has become a common phenomenon in the region for lesbians. The attackers said lesbians should be “whipped”. “There is no mention of lesbians in the bible,” they said. They said they approved of lesbians being raped to “correct” them and to “teach them a lesson”. They said “women should behave like women” and this was a way of “teaching” them that. Read the rest of this entry »

December   6, 2009

Bangalore /UK: A man named Eric Gordon Douglas has left almost a quarter of a million pounds in his will to towns across the world which shares his surname. Already a place called Douglas Borough council has received a cheque for £10,887.73 from Eric Douglas’s solicitor. The council was surprised to receive the amount and when they wanted to know more information of the donor, solicitor gave them only the name. The solicitor made it very clear that every town or village or city which has name as Douglas will receive the amount from them. Read the rest of this entry »

December 2, 2009

Miami: Tiger Woods, the world’s best golfer and a leading force in sports marketing, was hurt in a car accident in Florida on Friday but was released from a hospital in good condition after treatment. Woods was hospitalized after his Cadillac Escalade hit a fire hydrant and a tree when he pulled out of the driveway at his home in Isle worth, Florida, near Orlando. Since the accident, tabloids and gossip Web sites have fuelled speculation about the events leading up to it, including that there may have been a domestic dispute between Woods and his wife. Read the rest of this entry »

December 3, 2009

New Delhi: MPs have come up with a unique idea in the fight against tobacco. They want that the person buying a cigarette packet should get a free cancer check-up coupon, each time you buy. The proposal is the idea of Parliament Committee on Health and Family Welfare member Maneka Gandhi, who is recommending that tobacco companies start giving vouchers for free cancer check ups inside every cigarette pack. She has also asked the tobacco companies to set up cancer hospitals near ‘pan’ shop. Indeed it is very noble idea. She believed a coupon inside the cigarette packet will drive the message home. Thank you madam people of India who smoke got your coupon message. Now why government should think of only smokers? What about alcoholic addicts? Why don’t government allow free gastroscopy test in the government hospitals for drunkards? Let all the alcoholic bottles be labeled with gastroscopy machine and those who want to know the number of ulcers in their stomach due to drinking can get it checked at free of cost. This also sends message across the society, I mean drinking society. Government can even think of having free HIV test for hookers and their bookers in order to reduce the AIDS. All the three measure will be effective for the health of the individuals. Read the rest of this entry »

November 30, 2009

Raichur: There is a village called ‘Google’ in Raichur district on the banks of Krishna River with thousand residents. Don’t get amazed by the name, it is not copy pasted by cyber world Google. It is more ancient than that. Though you can’t google this ‘Google’ in google but some how flood search engine managed to find it. This Flood killed two, injured around six and washed away some properties of google. When state government relief team received this news which was busy in saving the government from Dissidents flood, they were shocked. Read the rest of this entry »

November 21, 2009

New Delhi: Environmental and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh said if there was any Nobel Prize for dirt and filth, India would get it. He said our cities are dirtiest cities in the world at a function to release a report of TERI (The Environment and Resources Institute). Read the rest of this entry »

November 19, 2009

New Delhi: Vice chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal P K Barbora suggested that women IAF officers must delay pregnancy if they want to  become fighter pilots. According to him women officers must plan a child only after 12-14 years of service so that investment made on a fighter pilot is recovered by the Air Force. It means a husband of women officer has to invest his energy for 12-14 years to get his offspring. He feels women fighter pilots can’t be trained for show purposes and they should be utilized maximum without maternity leave of 10 months in the middle of the service. Read the rest of this entry »

November 30, 2009

Jerusalem: Israel government has agreed to release around 1000 Palestine prisoners in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped by Hamas more than three years ago. In the October Israel had freed 20 women prisoners just to gain the soldier’s video to make sure he is still alive. Read the rest of this entry »