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Sydney | 11 hours ago
Human bite stronger than ape's
Sydney, June 23 - The human bite is more powerful than that of a typical ape, says an Australian study.Researchers found that humans can achieve relatively high bite forces using less-powerful jaw muscles, which results in more efficient bite than those of the chimp, gorilla and orang-utan. The human skull does not have to be robust because, for any given bite force, the sum of forces acting on t ... read more

Lucknow | 24 days ago
Skulls, bones found in Uttar Pradesh pond
Lucknow, May 29 - At least 10 human skulls and a number of bones were recovered from a dried-out pond in Uttar Pradesh's Etah town Saturday, police said.The skulls and bones surfaced after the pond in the Kotwali area dried up due to the heat, police said. 'A postmortem centre is near the pond and the skulls and the bones could be of unclaimed bodies. Still it needs to be probed whether the unclai ... read more

Kolkata | 2 months ago
Workers experience hell during Stephen Court clean up
Kolkata, March 29 - The putrid smell of charred and decomposed bodies fills the air, there are huge mounds of debris that can be accessed only by risking one's life. But despite the heavy odds, around 100 Kolkata Municipal Corporation - workers are soldiering on 24x7 to clear the fire-ravaged Stephen Court building here.With the March 23 killer blaze, that claimed 43 lives, sweeping through the fi ... read more

Bhubaneswar | 4 months ago
Tantrik held for human sacrifice
Bhubaneswar, Feb 18 - A tantrik was arrested Thursday on charges of killing a seven-year-old boy as a human sacrifice in Orissa's Jajpur district, police said.25-year-old Pitambara Gaipai was arrested after he confessed that he killed the boy to get perfection in tantra, police officer A.R. Mohanty told IANS. The boy, Srikanta Bagi, a resident of Kubal village in the district, had been missing sin ... read more

Bhubaneswar | 4 months ago
Boy's beheaded body found, sacrifice suspected
Bhubaneswar, Feb 18 - The discovery of a seven-year-old boy's beheaded body in Orissa's Jajpur district triggered tension Thursday, with villagers suspecting it to be an act of human sacrifice by a tantrik, police said.The boy, Srikanta Bagi, a resident of Kubal village, had been missing since Feb 11. While his body was found in a field in nearby Ichhapur village, some 150 km from here, the severe ... read more

7 months ago
Bone implant offers hope for skull deformities
A synthetic bone matrix offers hope for babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the plates in the skull to fuse too soon. Implants replacing some of the infant's bone with the biodegradable matrix could eliminate some of the operations currently used to treat the condition.The remarkable thing about this is the finding that the composition of the matrix changes what the cells ar ... read more

11 months ago
Priest, wife arrested with four human skulls
Lucknow, July 24 - A priest and his wife have been arrested after four human skulls were found in their house in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district, the police said Friday. The skulls were recovered from the roof of the Kabir temple in the Vijaynagar locality in Kanpur, about 80 km from Lucknow. According to police, the priest, Shyamlal, and his wife, Rajkumari, have confessed that they used human ... read more

1 year ago
Police clueless on recovery of 100 human skulls in Aligarh
Aligarh, June 10 - A fortnight after nearly 100 human skulls were discovered by street urchins in a dried-up pond here, the Uttar Pradesh police are still to come up with a credible explanation for the mystery. The skulls were discovered in a pond that runs parallel to the district jail boundary wall here. The residents say only a part of the pond was dug up and there could be even more skulls a ... read more