Sheena Bora, the Mumbai girl allegedly murdered by her own mother, was a troubled teenager and fought for acceptance and love and care of her parents. The diary entries Sheena made as a young girl in Guwahati first expresses her love for Indrani, and then later in life, her hate for her mother.

In her diaries, accessed by dna, Sheena jotted down study notes, slam notes from friends, phone numbers and letters to her father. It is apparent that she was sad about not being around her biological father Siddhartha Das and repeatedly urged him to come and visit her. This is contrary to what Siddhartha Das told the media about his correspondence with Sheena Bora being barely in touch with him.

In fact, in one of her earlier entries, she writes that she is angry with him. “Daddy, I am very angry with you. O.k. I didn’t get any time to write any letter to you but you should have written to me. Very mean ha! Well, even I am sorry for not writing any letter to you. In Class X, we have to work very hard. In the morning at 7.30. We have to go to school and again I have to attend my maths coaching class 3 O’clock to 4.30 pm and again from 6 O’clock to 8 O’clock my science coaching class. I reach home at about 8.30 pm. Hope you can imagine how hard I’m working.”

Sheena started writing her diary sometime in 2003, when she was in standard X. Her letters to her father reflects that she had great expectations from him. It seems that she first drafted letters to her father in diary and then posted them to him.

She writes: “Daddy, I’ve cut my nails and I haven’t grown them long. I’m following your advice – first studies then style. I know you have a lot to tell me but daddy don’t write anything in any of your letter. I hope you’ll come once before my HSLC exams. Why don’t you make a trip to Guwahati in December. Then you can tell me everything you wanted me to know.”

In another ‘draft’ letter, Sheena enquires from Sidharth which caste she belongs to! “Daddy actually I’m facing a problem. For my HSLC, I’m to fill up some forms and there we are to write to which caste we belong. Daddy, I’m really very confused for I am not sure about my caste. We have got the options – Schedule/OBC/…,” she writes.

In another entry, from the time when she had just appeared for her pre-boards, usually held by the school, she writes that she was sick and could not study much, and that she scored 84%. She even kind of scolded her father for depending on her maternal uncles. She pleaded that he should not start a new venture with two of her mamas, because one of them is looking for a job and will jump the gun the moment he lands a good one. “Don’t you have the capability of starting something from (sic) your own instead of depending upon others,” she asks. She further asks him to give up the job at HITACHI KK and look for a better one.

But then, in the same letter to her father, she turns sheepish. “Oh! It seems as if I am trying to guide you,” she writes.

Sheena then asked him to try and get a certificate, “because this certificate could provide me with scholarships for my further studies,” she writes. She tells him that there are lot of expenses, and that he should do this for her future. The diary entry is marked June 28, 29 and 30.

Given the contents of the letters to her father, it seems that she was in touch with Siddharth Das. An old classmate of Sheena, who now lives in North India, corroborated the same. “I met him in Sheena’s house in 2001, when we were in the eighth standard. She introduced him to me as her father,” said the friend.

In one of her later entries, which looks like it was written when she was studying for the board exams in the tenth standard, after her pre-board exams, she said that she does not know how to look for envelopes, and so has been unable to send letters. In the entry, in which she looks like she is unhappy with her grandparent’s attitude towards Siddharth, she tells him that she wants to talk with Siddharth but cannot ring him up. “They say you are no good, and they don’t like you. But my conscience does not allow me to believe them,” she wrote.

She goes on to say that she does not know much about her mother. She writes that she doesn’t know whether her mother remembers her or not, but because Indrani is her mother, she “is I the corner of my heart,” she writes. It must be added here that Sheena also kept clippings of news reports of her mother. News reports of INX media launching new channels, of Indrani being considered WSJ’s most powerful women with Indra Nooyi and others, etc. were kept by Sheena in a folder.

But she was very lonely as a child. She writes: “Oh! Happy Birthday to me! But I am not happy. It seems as if I have got nothing in my life. Nothing! My future seems very bleak to me. Just depression has encircled me from all sides. Disgusting life it is. I hate my mother, that bloody b***h. She is not a mother. She is a witch…”

Sheena was also not happy when Indrani married Peter Mukerjea. “And now she got married with that old man (Peter Mukerjea). Her this act to Aita & Kaka (Sheena’s grandparents) seems very prestigious, very wise, but not in case of me (Read: my grandparents may find this prestigious or wise, but not me). I hate her. I wish her soul gets condemned and even in hell. I have much grief, much tears to flow but when, where and in front of whom.”

Mumbai: Ten days after being grilled by the Mumbai Police over her role in the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora, TV tycoon Indrani Mukherjea is said to have admitted to her role in the murder. Police sources say that Indrani has told the police of the circumstances behind Sheena’s murder.

Indrani has been accused of murdering Sheena along with her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna and her driver Shyam Rai.

A local court had earlier extended the police custody of the three accused – Indrani, Sanjeev Khanna and Shyam Rai – till September 5.

Peter Mukerjea, who has been married to Indrani for 13 years and set up a media company with her, had first said that he was unaware that Sheena was his wife’s daughter and that Indrani had introduced her as her sister.

A few days after Indrani’s arrest, Peter amended his version to say Sheena did inform him that she was his step-daughter, but he had no reasons not to believe his wife Indrani’s denial of that claim though he found it “difficult to digest”. He claimed that the same thing was communicated to him by his son Rahul Mukerjea, but he had not believed him as well.

Peter maintained that he vaguely remembered the date when he was told about the fact and it was sometime in 2011.

Sheena Bora was in a relationship with Rahul, Peter Mukerjea’s son from an earlier marriage, when she was allegedly murdered on April 24, 2012. The 24-year-old was allegedly strangled in a car, then her body was burnt and dumped at a forest in Raigad, about 84 km from Mumbai.

Her purported remains were found a month later and buried by the police, which treated the body as unclaimed. For three years, Indrani Mukerjea told her family and friends that Sheena had shifted to the US.

CPI leader Atul Kumar Anjan has stoked a controversy by saying that a condom advertisement featuring former porn star Sunny Leone will destroy people’s sensibility and lead to more rapes in India.

Speaking at a rally in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, the senior leader of the Communist Party of India also sought to blame Leone, a former star of X-rated films from Canada, for the spread of porn in the country.

“Now there is an advertisement with her (Leone), have you seen it? She is lying down…and a man comes to her. (They show the advertisement) in the morning, at night…an advertisement for condoms, it is such a dirty and horrific advertisement that develops your sexuality and destroys your sensibility,” he said to cheers from the crowd.

“If such advertisements for condoms appear in the country’s TV channels and newspapers, then incidents of rape will increase. It needs to be stopped,” Anjan added.

name is Karenjit Kaur Vohra – during his speech though he wrongly said she came to India from Australia.

“If you switch on the TV, there is a woman named Sunny Leone, she has been the heroine of films with the most nudity. She has come from Australia to India and she was brought into films by Mahesh Bhatt. For five years she has been around and now she has become a heroine in films,” he said.

Anjan said he had been told by people about Leone’s “dirty movies”. He added: “I don’t want to speak about this before my sisters, they are porn films. I had never watched one till now, so I watched this porn.

“After watching just two minutes, I kept vomiting. They are showing everything and selling everything.”

Several Indian politicians have triggered rows with their remarks on rape. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said last month it is not “possible” for four men to sexually assault the same woman.

Ratna Singh the daring girl who chose to become a naturalist in spite of having a degree in International Law. Perhaps the surroundings of Bandhagarh National Park where she was brought up brought her back to nature. She truly loves nature and in the course of conversation she stresses that the comfort of the cities with internet, wifi Skype is not available but the fresh aroma and air of the jungles and its animals is no comparison to these materialistic things.

Tara Singh started her career as Safari Guide in 2006 when she was the first lady in the profession. In a question as to how difficult it was as a female to join this profession she says her immediate family members had no objection but the far off relatives were a bit apprehensive. But later on as she progressed everything settled down. She here also makes it a point that the gender issue in the cities is more prevalent than in the villages and tribal people. The tribals have gender equality. At first the tribals were a bit apprehensive too but as time went by and the activities like tracking animals that she showed in her performance they were impressed. In fact because of her performance she was more respected than her male counter parts.

When RealNews of India asked how difficult it is to work in the jungles. Prompt came the reply you have to understand the nature and the jungle. She further added the caution is required. We have to check the ground for snakes, feel the smell of animals and guess the distance. She even shared a scary incident to Real News. After attending a party she was returning back to her quarters she felt a big shadow of a leopard appear in front of her. She remained still. With animals if you move or start running they will come after you. So she remained still for ten minutes and was a bit relieved. Just to ensure more of her safety she added ten more minutes then she heard footsteps first, at slow space then becoming faster and more distant. She now knew that the leopard and left and now she was safe.

As a naturalist she encourages city people to visit such wildlife sanctuaries to be away from the wild traffic, the congestion and time bound life. She says you have to feel the fresh air and the surrounding and you will love it Ratna further says.

She along these years has also imparted training to a number of females. Ratna says women become better naturalist as they are more hardworking and patient.

Comparing wildlife to Africa and Australia Ratna defines that they are much better in terms of variety and the laws relating to wildlife is stricter in India. However there are two rare species that others do not have, that is the tiger and bear. The tiger and deer are found in Central and North India.

In a question as to how these wildlife sanctuaries effect the fast moving development of a country Ratna says it is a difficult equation for the government, but if we cannot breathe then what sense does modernization make, Ratna says, making the whole world wake up and realize.

Around a hundred female soldiers of the Military Band who will attend the military parade in Beijing are practicing now, getting ready for the parade. This is the first time female soldiers will perform in the PLA Joint Military Band.

A reporter from the Chinese Military website watched as they trained at the site. Gao Yuan, the female team conductor of the band, will conduct for the first time on September 3.

Gao says, “I have to make sure to show the correct rhythm and beautiful moves without any errors.” For the first week of training, her arms were quite sore from practice.

Gao hopes all the female soldiers of military band can give a splendid performance during the military parade.

Borivali police have registered a criminal case against self styled god-woman Radhe Maa and few others on the complaint filed by Dolly Bindra. “We have registered a case of threat and outraging modesty among other charges against Radhe Maa, Sanjiv Gupta, Talli baba, Bhupendra and others upon complaint of one Dolly Bindra at Borivali police station,” said additional commissioner of police, North region, Fatehsingh Patil.

Bindra told the news channel that she had been asked by the godwoman to have a “sexual relationship with a stranger”. Bindra had filed a complaint in a Mumbai police station, naming 20 people with the allegation. She told the channel that such incidents were common in the godwoman’s satsang and that they had tried to exploit her. “Once, her son and her follower tried to molest me in front of her other followers” she told the channel.
The television actor and former devotee of controversial ‘god woman’ Radhe Maa, Dolly Bindra had written to the Mumbai Police Commissioner complaining that she has received threatening calls. “I am getting life-threatening calls and I doubt on Radhe Maa, MM Gupta, and Asaram’s followers over it. I have filed a complaint and the police will investigate the matter,” Bindra had told ANI.

The self-proclaimed ‘god woman’ became the talk of the town for her pictures in a short skirt that went viral on social media. She has also been accused by a 32-year-old woman of instigating her in-laws to demand dowry.

Daniel Craig, best known for his role as James Bond, is appointed Global Advocate for the Elimination of Mines and Explosive Hazards by the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon. Moon jokes that, in the past, Craig has been given a licence to kill, but now ‘I’m now giving you a license to save’. Craig has previously said his experience of filming in heavily-mined areas motivated him to join the cause.

Several Catholics were left in anger after Miley Cyrus promoted her surprise album with a photoshopped picture of the Pope Francis holding a copy of it. Cyrus, 22, took to the photo-sharing site Instagram September 1 to post the picture.

“All the cool kidzzzz are listening to #mileycyrusandherdeadpetz. check it out,” she wrote in the caption.

Many found the use of the Pope’s photo to promote her album ‘Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz’ offensive.

“Enferma mental (mentally ill),” a fan commented in Spanish. Another said, “This is disrespectful.” Another fan agreed, “Yeah not okay with this, love u but love Pope Francis more.”

The ‘Wrecking Ball’ hitmaker announced ‘Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz’ after performing a new song called ‘Dooo It!’ at the VMAs.

A joint effort with The Flaming Lips, the album boasts guest appearances from Big Sean, the former Disney star’s dad Billy Ray Cyrus and her frequent collaborator Mike WiLL Made It

The Myawaddy-Thinggan Nyenaung-Kawkareik section of the Asian highway linking India, Myanmar and Thailand has been put into service.

Myanmar Vice President U Nyan Tun, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak and Chairman of the Kayin National Union General Saw Mutu Sae Po attended an inaugural ceremony of the service on Sunday, Xinhua reported.

With the 25.6-km-long section becoming operational, travel time between Thinggan Nyenaung and Kawkareik will be reduced from three hours to 45 minutes. The construction of the Asian highway section started in 2012 with the assistance of Thailand. The Asian highway runs from Moreh in India to Thailand’s Maesot via Myanmar’s Tamu, Mandalay and Myawaddy.

The section, also part of the East-West economic corridor of the Greater Mekong Subregion, will not only enhance trade between Myan- mar and Thailand, but also contribute to better links among people in the region. A cornerstone laying ceremony was also held at Myawaddy on Sunday for the building of Myanmar-Thailand Friendship Bridge No.2 to link Thailand’s Maesot with Myanmar’s Myawaddy.

Notably, it has been quite sometime that Myanmar and India has been talking about introducing bus service between Imphal and Mandalay.
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The nation is going to witness the biggest strike named Bharat Bandh by ten central trade unions on Wednesday, 2nd September. Trade unions are going to protest against anti-worker economic policy proposed by National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government. The strike will affect all major services.

On Monday, ten central trade union said that they will be doing one-day nationwide strike, which is going to be the biggest strike, country has ever witnessed. The strike will express the protest against NDA Government newly proposed anti-work economic policy and the changes made in the labour law.

Why Are They Protesting?

On Wednesday, India will witness biggest strike of our country by 10 trade union against the NDA Government for changing their labour law and Anti-Worker Government policy.

Initially, Bharat Bandh was planned to be called in July. The discussion between 11 trade union leaders and union labour minister, Bandaru Datareya couldn’t yield any result for anti-worker economic policy and labour reforms, and later it postponed to September.

New changes proposed in labour law by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and his committee were to increase minimum wages of labour and make them fixed or mandatory across the country.
What Are Union Trade Demanding And What Are The Reaction Of Government On The Demands?

After the failed talk with central ministries, President of Centre of Indian Trade Union, AK Padmanabhan said that they will be going with the strike anyway.

Demands proposed by Union Trade were to seek withdrawal of land acquisition ordinance and changes made in labour law amendments. Trade union also demanded the Government to stop privatisation and foreign investment in defence, insurance and railway.

Some more addition demands include Universalization of Public Distribution System, policies to include price hike, banning speculative trade in commodities and improve employment opportunities.

The Trade Union also suggested broadening the coverage of health insurance and provident fund, and an increase in bonus and workers in schemes live Aanganwadis.

Another suggestion of Trade Union was to increase minimum wages of unskilled labour from Rs. 7,100 to Rs. 10,000 per month. While, for skilled worker it should be increased from Rs. 14,200 to Rs. 20,000 and an average wage of the union must be Rs. 15,000.

In response to the Trade Union, NDA government’s Minister of Labour and Employment said that they are working on 9 of the 12 demands proposed by the Trade Union.

NDA minister also said that the Government is ready to consult with trade union for labour law reforms and said to reconsider their call for a strike in an interest of workers and the nation.

The Trade Union and Government in last two-month have discussed a 12-point charter demand for five times, the government has given a solution of 9 of the 12 demands proposed by the Trade Union positively.

The government has proposed new formula to calculate minimum wages of skilled and non-skilled workers, they also assured a minimum level of pay for workers, working on contract basis. The government is also ready to increase salary limit and double the bonus ceiling.

The Trade Union are stilling demanding over Privatisation and will protest against government policy on Wednesday.
Who Are Protesting And Participating In A Strike?

The nationwide strike was earlier called in July by 11 trade union including BMS but later BMS backed out of the strike, as they want to give some time to parliament, to fulfil their demand for minimum wages. After backing out of strike BMS also requested all unions for thinking again on strike.

After Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) and National Front of Trade Union pulled out of nationwide strike by Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), remaining 10 union trade are claiming a combined membership of 15 crore workers from both public and private sector, including bank and insurance companies have decided to go with nationwide strike after their proposal was failed by Central ministry.

Ten central trade union participating in the nationwide strike are CITU, INTUC, AITUC, Hind Mazdoor Sabha, AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, UTUC and LPF.

Many media reports suggest that even coal unions and All-India Bank Employee Association will also join strike protesting against an anti-worker economic policy of NDA Government.
What Will Be An Effect Of A Strike On The Nation?

Around 15 crore workers from public and private enterprise are going on strike, which will affect mainly coal, cement, power, textiles, banks, oil, aviation, insurance and post office.

Transport facilities will be completely closed in many states like Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab. “Railway being a backbone of India will not be affected by strike”, said Gurudas Dasgupta, General Secretary of All India Trade Union.

Many public sectors undertakings, which are also part of central union trade will not take part in a strike. Thus, service like oil, gas and electricity will not be affected. PSU like ONGC, NTPC and PowerGrid will not take part in the strike.