Articles labeled: india

Zombie baby or “miracle”? You decide.

[A] baby girl - born in the city of Mumbai (Bombay) - was diagnosed as stillborn on Monday night.

But she astonished her distraught family by gurgling as they took her off to the cemetery the next day.

It is thought she revived after the effect of drugs - given to her mother during a complicated labour - wore off.

Hospital authorities say they are now investigating possible negligence by staff who attended the birth.

If you need an example of how different cultures in the world are vastly different, we’ve got a perfect one for you.

Worshippers at a Muslim shrine in western India drop babies from a tower for good luck. The babies are tossed from the tower onto a cloth sheet more than 50 feet below. The infants land and bounce on a bed-sheet held taut by men 50 feet below, and are quickly passed through the crowd to their mothers.

This 500-year-old ritual is thought to bring the children good health. Villagers say no babies have been injured during the ritual, which is practiced by Muslims and Hindus in Musti village in the district of Solapur, in the state of Maharashtra.

Be sure to click through to the full story to see pictures of the event that would terrify most American parents.

While there are some crimes we may feel warrants a long, tortuous death, trespassing isn’t one of them. And especially when the alleged trespasser is only 6-years-old.

Police in northern India arrested a man who allegedly threw a girl into a pile of glowing embers after he caught her trespassing, an attack authorities said Wednesday may have been motivated by caste.

The 6-year-old girl is recuperating at a state-run hospital in Mathura, the north Indian city where the alleged attack occurred, said Dr. Ramesh Kumar.

She is considered a dalit _ a member of the lowest caste in India, where a system of rigid social hierarchy still lingers. The alleged attacker, Madan Singh, 22, comes from a higher caste.

Singh discovered the girl relieving herself Tuesday in a field he owned and demanded she immediately stop what she was doing and leave his property.

“When she did not respond, he simply lifted her and threw her in a heap of embers,” local police official Govind Agarwal told The Associated Press. “The cry of the girl drew the attention of the villagers. They came rushing and pulled the girl out of fire.”

Apparently Africa has had enough of Madonna’s nonsense, giving her the runaround in her attempts to adopt another child. So Madonna is now saying, “Screw you guys! I’m going to India!”

Sources say she will start looking once she is done with the promotional work for her upcoming album Hard Candy.

Her husband Guy Ritchie is reportedly supporting her in this endeavour.

Bollywood choreographer Sandip Soparrkar, who had spent some time with Madonna’s family, has also adopted an Indian baby.

“We spoke about how there are so many children in India who need homes”, says Soparrkar

According to a source: “Madonna was very taken with Soparrkar. He told her there were orphans who would melt her heart. Guy was against the idea, but when she wants something, she gets it.”

That last sentence is a keeper. Does Madonna keep your testicles in a little box next to the bed, Guy? Try making a hit movie and maybe she’ll give in to you once in a while.

A newborn in India was born with two fully developed faces (on a “normal”, single body) giving new meaning to talking out of both sides of your mouth.

The newborn is unlike any other child villagers have seen before — she has two faces.

The girl was born on Monday at a hospital in the suburbs of Delhi, according IBNLive.com.

Since then, people in her rural village have been singing and dancing — offering money and asking for her blessings, IBNLive.com reported.

A newborn baby girl fell through the toilet in a moving train and onto the tracks moments after her mother prematurely gave birth, surviving nearly two hours before being found, relatives said Thursday.

The child’s mother, who uses the single name Bhuri, was traveling with relatives on an overnight train when she went to the bathroom shortly before midnight Tuesday and unexpectedly gave birth to a baby girl, said Arjun Kumar, her brother-in-law.

“Later, she fell unconscious and the baby fell through the toilet,” he continued. “Two stations later, we knocked at the door.”

Bhuri opened the door, soaked in blood.

“When we asked her about what happened, she said the baby had fallen through onto the tracks,” Kumar said.

OK, we know they do things a bit differently in places like India, but a hole in the bathroom that opens up right onto the train tracks isn’t exactly a “toilet”…

Last November, we told you about the little girl who was born with 8 limbs, the result of what doctors call a “parasitic twin”. The girl underwent 24 hours of surgery by 30 surgeons, and we’re happy to report that she is recovering nicely and even has taken her first steps:

Lakshmi’s mother Poonam said her daughter, named for the six-limbed Hindu goddess, gets closer to being a “normal child” with each day that passes, the Daily Telegraph reported.

“Lakshmi always knew she was different,” the girl’s mother told Channel 4. “After the operation she instinctively started behaving like a normal child — it’s like she had always been waiting for the opportunity.”

“When she was put in the baby walker she started pushing herself backwards with her legs and burst into laughter with a huge grin on her face,” Poonam Tatma said in the report. “She loves it.”

We had some pretty jerky teachers in our day, but this guy in India is pretty hard core:

Two high school students in Nadia in West Bengal were forced to relieve themselves inside a classroom as the teacher refused to let them go to the toilet.

The teenagers — Class VIII and IX students — have not returned to their co-educational school since wetting pants in the examination hall last week.

The students were asking in the middle of a three hour exam, and the teacher claims it’s the headmaster’s policy not to give bathroom breaks during tests.

But just think of all the things she could get done?…email, laundry, flipping pages from a book and walking on a treadmill — all at the same time.

BANGALORE, India (AP) — Doctors began operating Tuesday on a 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs in an extensive surgery that they hope will leave the girl with a normal body, a hospital official said.

The girl named Lakshmi is joined to a “parasitic twin” that stopped developing in the mother’s womb. The surviving fetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped fetus.