Kalyan teenager learns how to steal motorbikes by watching internet videos

The internet is a wonderful medium of education but, there are some who misuse it like a 19-year-old boy who worked in a garage and took to stealing motorbikes. He had learnt how to do it through videos on the internet – and, he had two underage boys as his assistants.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 1 October 2015.

The two-wheelers were stolen from Thane, Kalyan, Dombivli, Ulhasnagar and Virar and, after stealing, when the three tried to sell them, they landed in trouble because the wary buyers doubted that the boys were too young to own a bike.
The police stumbled upon them while probing a motorcycle theft case that led them to the 19-year-old Kalyan resident who worked at a garage, and was in possession of the stolen motorcycle. Subsequently, his accomplices were caught and 13 stolen bikes were recovered. All three of them hail from lower middle-class families.
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A 13-year-old girl of Vadodara has taken to prostitution in order to acquire high end gadgets and mobile phones. Impressed by the various ads that showcase a carefree life with the latest gadgets and mobile phones, this teenaged girl wanted to fulfil her innermost desires to lay hands on these items. But, she came from a family that could not afford these – her mother was a small time shopkeeper.
Therefore, the girl decided to sell her body and turned to prostitution.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 26 May 2015.

Her mother came to know about this until the girl admitted that she had become pregnant.
It has been revealed that the girl is from Anand and was an adopted child. Her parents had adopted her as an infant and had shifted to Vadodara and the father expired three years ago.
The girl had been working as a prostitute independently and would book her clients through a secret secondary phone. It seems there was a rift between mother and daughter and the mother had sent her back to Anand but she revolted and threatened to commit suicide. She sees nothing wrong in what she was doing. Her close friends were aware of her activities.
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2014 - The year of Malala Yousafzai and her Nobel Prize

#malala #nobelpeaceprize #taliban Brave heart 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace prize. She had been shot by the Taliban because she wanted the girls in Pakistan to get educated and not remain suppressed by the draconian laws of the Taliban.
. , has tried to shake the world leaders out of slumber when, in her acceptance speech in Oslo, she gave her unique message – build schools, not tanks.
She is from Pakistan and won this year’s Nobel Prize for Peace along with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi.
At the ceremony, Thorbjoern Jagl-and, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee, at the ceremony in Oslo, the capital of Norway described both the recipients as ‘a young girl and a somewhat older man, one from Pakistan and one from India, one Muslim, the other Hindu; both symbols of what the world needs: more unity and fraternity between the nations.’ It may be recalled that Malala, a schoolgirl from Swat valley in Pakistan became a global icon after she was shot and nearly killed by the Taliban on Oct 9, 2012, for insisting that girls had a right to education. She had a miraculous recovery when she was flown for extensive surgery to Birmingham, England.
After recovery, she continues to stay in London with her family ever since, continuing both her education and activism. Taliban bullets could not rob her of her determination.
During her acceptance speech, she has asked several pertinent questions to the world - why is it that countries which we call `strong’ are so powerful in creating wars but so weak in bringing peace? … Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so difficult?”
These are some questions that world leaders need to ask themselves and put their heads together and solve issues by peaceful methods.
Malala has reiterated that she will continue this fight until I see every child in school, and her wish is to one day become the Prime Minister of Pakistan.