Now You Can Be Jailed For Even Looking For Torrents + 5 Other Stories That Made Our Sunday

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Now You Can Be Jailed For Even Looking For Torrents + 5 Other Stories That Made Our Sunday


After a brief and fumbling ban on porn, the Indian government seems to be trying ban torrents - the very idea of torrents. If you visit a torrent website, a report suggests, you might be committing a crime, one that earns a 3 lakh fine and 3 years in jail. (And you know they don't have wifi in jail). The extent of this ban extends to looking at" a torrent file, or downloading a file from a host that may have been banned in India, or even for viewing an image on a file host like Imagebam." Here are 5 more stories that may interest you:



India Has Invented The First Vaccine For Leprosy, Bihar And Gujarat Get The First Dose

The first exclusive vaccine for leprosy, made in India, will be piloted in five districts of Bihar and Gujarat in a few weeks as a part of the country's efforts at eradicating the crippling disease that affects 1.25 lakh people every year.

About 60% of the global leprosy patients live in India, where detection and treatment leave many of them crippled. If the pilot phase shows satisfactory results, the programme will be implemented in other high-prevalence districts across the country.

The vaccine, mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP), will be administered as prevention for people living in close contact with those infected by the bacteria. "It is the first vaccine for leprosy, and India will be the first to have a large- scale vaccination programme.

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After 8 Years Of Attacking J&K Police With Stones #Azadi Protestor Now Wants A Police Job

A 6-year-old boy, sliver of a brick in hand, looks ahead at a group of CRPF men and shouts, "Aye, Bihari".

As others burst out in laughter, more join in. The insults flow thick and fast. "Bhel puri, Kallu". Then in chorus: "Pagal, pagal". The boy then pulls down his pants and pees in the direction of the security men.

"That drives them crazy," says an ace stone-pelter who goes by the code name "JD". He has been to jail four times and has two FIRs against him.

"JD" was 15 years old when he flung his first rock at the security forces. That was in 2008. Eight years on, "JD" finds the situation different.

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