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Honor Killing and it's impact

Honour Killing has become a new matter of concern today where a man is killed for disobeying the racial and social custom. In north India honour killing is common news while other parts of independent India are not far away. Recently a mother had locked her daughter up for 5 days without food and water and threatened to kill her.

The guilty she did by marrying secretly a youth from a lower caste.

The girl, a Metro Rail employee, was rescued by police after her husband complained that his mother-in-law had been torturing his wife for over a week and was planning to kill her.

Police reach there and rescued the girl from the locked room. Her mother had also tried to end her life by slashing her wrist. She was discharged after first aid while her daughter had to remain in the hospital for few days.

In another incidence the family members of a girl allegedly killed her and her teenaged lover and hanged them as exhibits in their house for the village to see their "fate."

Both the girl and her lover were from Jat families but their relation was not accepted to the girl’s family. For that reason they brutally killed the girl and her lover in order to keep their heads up in the eye of society.

Is this a good step what the families have taken? If this type of customs reign then what would be upliftment of Indian society Indian culture and its education?

The smallest winner of Mental Mathematical Calculation World Cup, 2010

A small girl walked into the world arena and won. This is how an eleven year old Priyanshi Somani showed her skill and extra ordinary mental prowess by winning the Mental Mathematical Calculation World Cup, 2010.

The competition was organized in Madgeburg city of Germany on June 7 and 8. She attended the competition and won by beating 37 contestants from 16 countries. She scored the highest in mental square root calculation and beat her two Spanish competitors MarcJornet and Alberto Coto Garcia.

Awards in each category like identifying days based on cue of a date were also given. Priyanshi was the overall winner for the fastest calculations and was awarded a trophy and a medal.

The mathematicians at the University of Leipzing Ralf Laue have set up the questions where a contestant is to answer all the different task categories like addition, subtraction, multiplication, extraction of square roots and even calculating the day of the week for a given date and Priyanshi managed to answer all the questions faster than a calculator.

Priyanshi Somani Maths Competition