Woman sets up goons to kill HIV positive lover

She wanted to get rid of the man diagnosed as HIV-positive as he was pestering her for sexual favours. The woman was afraid of being infected with the disease. Shunned by his wife, the man was desperate for sexual relief from his lover with whom he was in relationship for around three years. The mistress roped in three young neighbours with a promise to pay Rs 70,000 to eliminate the man for ever. 

Deepak Purke, an attendant with the Bank of Maharashtra branch in Ayodhya Nagar, was taken to a desolate place near Paunapur in the outskirts of the city on February 13 last month before being stabbed to death. The joint effort of the special squad of assistant commissioner of police RS Pawade and Kalamna police saw the case being cracked with the help of the call details records. Four people, including the mastermind Anita Chaudhari, have been arrested on Tuesday. 

Along with Anita, the police have also arrested two brothers Tejram and Mukesh Moundekar, and Kishore Katwe, all in their 20s, for the murder. The alleged assailants are residents of Lalganj. Head constable Sanjay Wankhede, Anil Karne and Sanjay Bangarkar of the special squad picked up the assailants. 

Police said that Purke, father of two, entered into a relationship with Anita, a mother of three, even while he was having an affair with another woman. Anita's husband had passed away around five years ago. Purke did not have a cordial relation with his family members and often stayed out. He also stayed with Anita on a number of occasions at her place. 

Police said that Anita was given a lot of money by Purke. She had also kept his bike. Soon, however, there was a breakdown in the relationship. Learning about Purke's relationship with Anita, his family member thrashed her. She reported the matter to the police and got Purke's parents and siblings booked for attempt to murder in 2010. 

Police said Purke's health became the prime issue of discord between Anita and him. She contacted Kishore and sought his help in eliminating Purke. Kishore roped in Tejram and Mukesh. She even brought them to Shantinagar where Purke resided so that they could identity their victim. 

It was the call details of the bank that gave police the first clue. Four suspicious mobile phone numbers cropped up before the police. Anita had initially said that she had only one SIM card. But police soon found out that she was possessing more than one. 

PI Rajesh Padvi of Kalamna police station said one SIM was used to coordinate murder plot. Anita had also given a cellphone to Mukesh to coordinate the actions. 

On the day of murder, Anita invited Purke to take his bike. Kishore took Purke as pillion and drove towards Kalamna after they met near Harihar temple. Mukesh and Tejram followed them on another bike. They convinced Purke that the bike was kept in a field near Paunapur where on reaching he was stabbed to death. 

Police said that Mukesh was traced with the help of his girlfriend with whom he had being communicating regularly and had also gone for an outing the day after the murder. Anita apparently had paid only Rs 35,000 till date. Police have recovered the bike of the victim and other evidences.  

10 Things you should never say to a woman

There are few guarantees in life, but this much we can say with certainty: The sun rises in the east, death comes to us all, and you will -- at one time or another -- suddenly find yourself in the midst of a blazing fight with your girlfriendwithout even realizing it. 

Many of us have been there. One minute you're having a conversation, maybe a minor argument, but that's OK; it's all under control. Then you say something -- a word or passing comment, something relatively harmless, or so you think -- and it sets her off. As soon as it leaves your lips, the air changes, and there's no easy way back. 

There are some things men should never say to their women -- conversational land mines that appear insignificant on the face of it, but are anything but. The good news is that we know, for the most part, what they are. Many men have suffered before you. It would be wise to heed their counsel. 

1. "Are you really going to eat all that?" 

Your girlfriend is, by definition, as light as a feather and nimble as a ballerina. To so much as whisper a hint of the notion that she might be, you know, otherwise, is to risk paying a price as heavy as you suspect her to be. In fact, avoid the topic of food altogether if you can. Eating is an emotional, often obsessive business for women, and occasionally it's an actual disorder. It's tied up with their identity, their self-image, their fantasies. So the answer is, yes, she's really going to eat all that. All that ballet must have given her an appetite. 

2. "B*tch" 

The B word is like the N word: Unless you've been appropriately oppressed, you don't get to use it. You might be able to pull off an ironic Snoop Dogg-style "beeeyatch," so long as you're smiling as you say it. But to say "b*tch" with any kind of intent is to pull the pin out of a grenade. 

3. "My ex used to ... " 

Anything you say with the words "my ex" in it will be held against you in a court of law, as it should. Of course it's natural to compare your girlfriends, but keep it to yourself. There are inside thoughts and outside thoughts. This belongs firmly to the former category. 

4. "You always do that" 

One sure way to escalate a minor tiff into a nuclear showdown is to use words like "never" and "always." They're too sweeping to be true, so you'll not only upset her, but also give her the opportunity to prove you wrong and seize the higher ground. And it tends to drag every other argument you've had into your present one, which is like rehashing all the worst parts of your relationship all at once. 

5. "You sound just like your mother" 

Don't compare her to her mother. Or her sister, for that matter. You don't know those people like she does, and you don't know the full complexity of their relationships. And anyway, everyone wants an independent identity, separate and distinct from their family members. 

6. "Yeah, she's hot" 

Chances are she lured you in with an innocent question, like, "Do you think she's cute?" shrugging her shoulders like it wouldn't matter either way. But don't be fooled. You must lie quickly and reflexively. Whether it's a girl in a magazine, a Facebook friend, a waitress -- whoever -- the answer is always no. In fact, you win extra points for casually finding fault in herthe closer you look. Watch your girlfriend light up as you say, "Is it me, or is her nose a bit weird?" 

7. "What's up with your hair?" 

Her hair looks great and it suits her perfectly. She's allowed to have a bad hair day, but you're not allowed to notice. For girls, hair isn't just hair. 

8. "Relax" 

The thing about "relax" is it dramatically reduces the chances of her relaxing. The same goes for "chill" and "calm down." Here's an alternative: "I can see how you would feel that way." It takes a Zen master to actually use it in the heat of combat, but it's there if you need it. 

9. "Is this your time of the month?" 

Even if it is, you're not to mention it. Your role is to pretend that her menstrual cycle has no effect on her tendency to shriek and stamp and then burst into tears for no reason whatsoever. In this matter, you must occupy the high ground and show pity. Indulge her delusion that she is not in fact deranged by hormones and that she's making a valid point. The moment will pass. 

10. "I love you" 

I know what you're thinking. This is supposed to be the magic pill, the cure-all, the instant fix. But the thing about the L word is that it sends women into a heightened sense of awareness. As soon as they hear it, they can tell whether or not you mean it. Misuse the force and it may destroy you. Or as the saying goes, if you play with fire, you might get slapped in the middle of a restaurant. 

Men become stupid around women

A new study has revealed that men suffer mental decline when around, or even just thinking about, women.

In the presence of a woman, men sometimes don’t know what to say. They just can’t think straight when women are around, the New York Daily News reported.

But the same didn’t hold true for women, according to the study from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, first published online last November.

Researchers compaed the findings to a scene in Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, in which a male character, Levi, becomes so nervous trying to think of something to tell a woman, Kitty, that he doesn’t recognize a friend who walks by the pond where they’re standing.

Such temporary lapses in memory or mindfulness are more common “if the woman is attractive and men report trying to impress her,” according to the study’s authors.

And they happen in real life, too.

The researchers used university students as participants for experiments.

During one, the students were asked to complete a lip reading task in which they said words out loud in front of a webcam. They were told someone would see them on the other end of the webcam, and try to read their lips.

Men who were told a woman would be watching them performed worse on subsequent tests of cognitive ability, even when there was no actual face-to-face contact with a woman. Women showed no change.

Researchers suggest the findings could be attributed to evolutionary pressures that have shaped men to be more likely to sexualize otherwise neutral situations, but say further study is necessary. 

Rahul Dravid retires: much more than a wall

"I don't believe that you judge careers, or what people have done for 15-20 years based on one or two matches at the end. It is the body of work over a lifetime that goes into making a success story."

These words, spoken by Rahul Dravid during India's crushing 4-0 Test defeat in England last year, ring true on the day Indian cricket's most successful No. 3 batsman called time on his international career. A terrible final tour of Australia – 194 runs in eight innings, seven bowled dismissals in a row and no catches for the first time in a series of three or more Tests – and India's collective poor showing cost him the chance of a fitting swansong but the memories will live long. Dravid's poor returns in his final series did nothing to take away from the greatness of the man, the batsman and the Indian, or of what he has achieved in an international career spanning nearly 17 years.

Where does one begin to pay tribute to Rahul Sharad Dravid? How do you assess his contributions to Indian cricket? He finishes as the second-highest run-scorer in Test cricket – just pause and read that again, let the words settle in your head – while being a role model for players the world over. He captained India to Test series wins in the West Indies and England to snap decades-long droughts, and played starring roles in some of Indian cricket's most famous overseas victories. Along the way, he adjusted his game to suit one-day cricket and collected over 10,000 runs. And they said he couldn't play ODI cricket.

The list goes on. Dravid was the first batsman to score a century in all Test-playing countries, the first batsman to score 10,000 runs at No. 3, the batsman to face the most deliveries in Test cricket, the longest in ODI cricket to not score a duck (120 innings), and he even batted 173 consecutive innings in international cricket (Tests and ODIs) without a duck between 2000 and 2004 – the longest sequence for any batsman. And in case there was any doubt as to what else he could do, Dravid ended up as the owner of the most catches in Test cricket.

Through it all, across the world and in varied conditions, Dravid was the consummate gentleman, the hard-working player. He rarely displayed anger, was not prone to rage or contempt, stayed clear of controversy (you can hardly call a lozenge a controversy). He batted where the team needed him to, even opening in Tests without hesitation; he didn't compromise on his fundamentals, even when crossing 10,000 ODI runs; he donned the wicketkeeper's gloves, he captained his country; he sealed chases and help set up victories; he gave his best to help India out of trouble; and even when the victim of the BCCI's whimsical hire-and-fire policy he turned up to work and didn't complain. You name it, and Dravid has done it. Such was the man's duty to his cause.

That he did all this under adversity, with team-mates getting more attention, didn't seem to bother Dravid. He was overshadowed on Test debut by Sourav Ganguly, and spent his career overshadowed by Sachin Tendulkar. What it must have been like to play under the shadow of India's greatest player – hell, he was even booed when he came out to bat because he wasn't the next player in, he wasn't Tendulkar – only Dravid can know. The closest we may ever come to know about that was in Dravid's admission, years ago, that "most people want me to get out quickly so they can watch Sachin bat."

Tendulkar was worshipped, VVS Laxman pulled off the unbelievable with silky wizardry, Virender Sehwag put bums in seats, and Ganguly had a legion of followers in Kolkata. What did Dravid get? The epithet of 'The Wall', symbolizing something solid yet distinctly drab, resistant but not repelling. It could hardly have been the sobriquet he envisioned when taking his first strides in competitive cricket as a youngster in Bangalore.

Yet like a wall, he weathered the tough times. His form started to wane from the series against South Africa in late 2006, and continued for two years. But Dravid came back from his slump, and defied his critics. He scored over 1,000 Test runs in 2011, at the age of 38. Those 1,000 runs, he admitted, were the most satisfying because people had doubted his ability to perform at that age.

And so, after 164 Tests and 13,288 runs spanning nearly 17 years, we Indians have much to thank Dravid for. For his repeated role in saving, setting up and winning matches for India, by standing up to the best in the world and in all sorts of conditions, for giving us the belief that victory and escape were possible as long as he was at the crease.

For Kolkata, Headingley, Adelaide, Rawalpindi, and Jamaica – five of India's most famous Test wins ever. In each, Dravid left his mark. Right up there with pride of place are his match-winning 233 against Australia in Adelaide; an epic 270 against Pakistan in Rawalpindi to help clinch a series win; that 180 in the company of Laxman at Eden Gardens to script Indian cricket's defining victory after the match-fixing scandal; his twin fifties on a dodgy surface in Jamaica to set up India's first win in the West Indies for 35 years.

There were also colossal innings to avert defeats in Port-of-Spain, Georgetown and Nottingham, to name three memorable instances. There were four Test centuries in consecutive innings, and four double-centuries in the span of 15 Tests. There were runs in ODI cricket, a format in which Dravid appeared a misfit earlier in his career, and loads of them. He even top-scored in a World Cup.

Today, at the age of 39, has taken the decision to retire with the precision with which he cut and drove the ball down the years. He knew the end was near, but held off until the Indian team returned from a difficult tour of Australia so as not to distract attention from his countrymen. His career is over, and now his legacy truly comes into being. You can only become a legend once you have retired, and from today we can rightfully term Dravid a legend.

Dead woman wakes up and climbs out of coffin

A Chinese woman who was thought to have passed away woke up six days after she had supposedly died.

95-year-old Li Xiufeng was found in bed motionless and not breathing by a neighbour two weeks after tripping and suffering a head injury at her home in Beiliu, Guangxi Province.

When the neighbour could not wake her up, they feared the worst and thought the elderly woman had died.

She was placed in a coffin, which was kept in her house unsealed under Chinese tradition for friends and relatives to pay respects.

But the day before the funeral, neighbours found an empty coffin, and later discovered that the woman had woken up, and was in her kitchen cooking.

"She didn't get up, so I came up to wake her up," the Daily Mail quoted the woman's neighbour Chen Qingwang, 60, as saying.

"No matter how hard I pushed her and called her name, she had no reactions.

"I felt something was wrong, so I tried her breath, and she has gone, but her body is still not cold," he said.

Since Xiufeng lived alone, Qingwang and his son made preparations for her funeral, and the "dead" woman was left in her coffin two days after she was discovered.

The day before she was due to be paid her last respects, Qingwang arrived at her house and found her "corpse" had disappeared.

"We were so terrified, and immediately asked the neighbours to come for help," Qingwang said.

Neighbours searched her property before finding the pensioner in her kitchen cooking.

"I slept for a long time. After waking up, I felt so hungry, and wanted to cook something to eat," she told villagers.

"I pushed the lid for a long time to climb out," she said.

Medics said Xiufeng had suffered an " artificial death", when a person has no breath, but their body remains warm.

"Thanks to the local tradition of parking the coffin in the house for several days, she could be saved," a doctor at the hospital said.

Sachin shouldn't wait for too long to decide his ODI career: Lawson

 Former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson feels Sachin Tendulkar has got the right to decide when to quit one-day cricket, but says he should not wait too long, as otherwise, the criticism will grow. 

"In Tests (in Australia), I thought he played the second best after (Virat) Kohli, who probably played the best. Looked to me he (Tendulkar) was in pretty good form in the Tests," Lawson said. 

"But I wonder whether he is playing the one-dayers for the right reason? Was his heart and mind in it? Is he playing for the 100th hundred or for India? That's what he will have to ask himself," he added. 

"He is one of the greatest players of all-time and he has gained the respect that he can take his own decision, but if he waits too long someone (like Kapil Dev) would not like it," said Lawson, when asked for his reaction to the former India captain's view that Tendulkar should have quit one-day cricket after India's triumph in the World Cup last year. 

The 54-year-old New South Welshman was talking to the reporters on the sidelines of the release of Indian-origin Lisa Sthalekar's autobiography, Shaker, here last night. 

The veteran of 180 Test wickets, conceded he was surprised by the dismal Indian show in the Test series Down Under. 

"Yes, I was surprised. First Test was very close, India were a bit unlucky. Umesh Yadav bowled well. Ishant was a bit unlucky. After that the bowling fell away. I thought the bowling was getting better but Zaheer got injured again." 

The former Pakistan national coach felt that Sharma was bowling a little bit on the shorter side. 

"Ishant was bowling the wrong length, an Indian length on Australian wickets. All the Australian bowlers were getting wickets when they pitched (the ball) up. He was bowling with lot of heart, he was making the effort, but to me the length was a bit wrong in the Tests," Lawson pointed out. 

He was full of praise for Kohli's display and his on-field attitude Down Under, but could not say much about his leadership skills. 

"I like him as a batsman. He has got talent, got quick hands, good feet (movement). He stood up to the Australians and did well on those bouncy pitches. He played well on front foot and back foot. I don't know much about him as a leader. (It's) very hard for me to comment (on his elevation as vice captain). I like his attitude. He does not back down," Lawson said. 

Kohli has been elevated as the vice-captain of the Indian cricket team by the selectors for the upcoming Asia Cup in Bangladesh. 

Lawson was, however, critical of the Indian batsmen's view that slow and low pitches should be prepared for the return series in October-November at home. 

"They (Australian bowlers) have to adjust the length a little bit. It will be nice to get Indian pitches with a little bit of bounce. It was pretty disappointing to read that Indian batsmen want slow turning pitches (during home series against Australia). 

"I always thought you have to improve your game and not try and give everyone back. Try and make some pitches with some bounce. They are doing the basics well and bowling the right line and length," the former speedster said. 

Cheating men likelier to die of heart attack during extra-marital sex

Scientists have warned that men who cheat on their wives have an increased risk of sudden death from cardiac arrest during sex.

This is because they are often with younger women in unfamiliar settings, which adds extra stress.

The revelation emerged from a report published by the American Heart Association, looking at whether patients with heart problems could safely resume their sex lives after treatment, the Daily Mail reported.

The study found patients could resume sex as soon as one week after a relatively mild heart attack, as long as they could walk up a few flights of stairs without discomfort.

The scientists, led by Professor Glenn Levine, from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said autopsy reports of nearly 6,000 cases of sudden death found 0.6 per cent happened during sex.

Although a small proportion of the total, up to 93 per cent of those who died during sex were thought to be engaging in extra-marital sex.

However, Professor Levine cautioned: "I would not blow this too out of context. Without being sarcastic, I really can state that I have not had a patient who asked me about the cardiac risks of an extramarital affair."

The report, published in the journal Circulation, says sex is something doctors should bring up with all heart patients. Yet few do because they're uncomfortable talking about it or they lack information, Professor Levine said.

He said their study provides new guidance. It found having sex only slightly raises the chance for a heart attack and this is true for people with and without heart disease.

"Sexual activity is the cause of less than 1 percent of all heart attacks," he said.

Plus despite the higher risk for a heart patient to have a second attack, there's no evidence that they have more sex-related heart attacks than people without cardiac disease.

Yoga could be future Olympic sport!

A yoga organisation in the US, which apparently seeks to give the unconventional practice an Olympic status, is organising a yoga asana, or posture, competition.

Looking for the perfect pose will be the order of the day at the National Yoga Asana Championship, being put on March 2-4 by USA Yoga, which is holding the competition.

Rajashree Choudhury, who founded USA Yoga, insisted that the focus is on yoga postures.

"I'm not trying to measure anybody's 'eight states," CBS News quoted her as saying while referring the meditative and spiritual aspect of yoga practice.

"The posture can be competitive."

Participants are required to do a series of seven yoga poses in three minutes. Five are compulsory - standing head-to-knee pose, standing bow-pulling pose, bow pose, rabbit pose, and stretching pose.

The participants are allowed to choose the last two poses themselves.

The poses show "how someone can have perfect strength, balance, flexibility in the body," Choudhury said.

The winners will be participating in an international competition scheduled for June in Los Angeles.

Yoga pose competitions are held in India, where yoga originated, and elsewhere around the world. Choudhury took part in them while growing up, as did her husband, Bikram Choudhury, founder of the Bikram Yoga form of hot yoga, which comprises a series of 26 poses done in a heated room.

She believes that the competitions can be a way to interest people in yoga who might be put off by the spiritual aspect, by showing them the athletic aspect.

But not all yoga practitioners have the same opinion.

"The roots of yoga are based in acceptance and non-violence and compassion toward self and others," said Roseanne Harvey, 35, of Montreal, who's been practicing yoga for 15 years.

She pointed out that in most yoga classes, "what we're trying to do is encourage students not to compete."

While saying that the universe of yoga had "room within it for lots of different approaches," Harvey had some apprehensions about what yoga pose competitions would be promoting, that people could get hurt if the idea filters down that it's about being able to get into the perfect positions.