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Rupsona's kidnappers struck at dusk, when most children in her village in eastern India were outside playing and their parents were resting after tending crops all day.
The 14-year-old student had just finished geography class and was walking home along a road lined with rice paddies when she felt a blade at her throat. The man holding the eight-inch knife and his two accomplices were clear: If Rupsona didn't quietly climb into a nearby car, they would slit her throat. When the door closed, she was beaten, groped and forced to swallow pills that made her woozy.
Two car rides and a train trip later, she and her captors arrived at her final destination: the town of Kaithal, almost a thousand miles from her home. A man was waiting for her. He told her that his name was Sandeep Malik and that she was his wife. Later she would learn he'd paid $800 to have her abducted. On her first night in captivity, Rupsona said, Malik forced her to have sex again and again. The nightly abuse continued for fourteen months, until she escaped.
PTI: Thousands of revellers were left high and dry at the New Year eve party that was to take off on the premises of a suburban hotel in Mumbai apparently due to mismanagement by organisers.
Revellers alleged that unprofessional conduct of organisers left them in the lurch as the bash never started as promised though some music was played initially.
The crowd started gathering on the premises of hotel Tulip Star from around 8 pm but no proper arrangements were in place to issue passes to those who booked tickets online and members of crowd alleged that the party never started.
Rahul Gupta (26), who works at a private firm in Cuffe Parade area and the resident of Kharghar in Navi Mumbai, told PTI he has paid Rs 3800 for couple-entry but when he arrived at the spot at around 8:30 pm the party was not started and after a while guests were told that organisers have just run away.
"We are completely disappointed and leaving the place. We hope police will help us to get our refund," he said.
Samkit Mehta (22), an MBA student, said he came with his friend after paying Rs 8,000 but was completely disappointed as no party was happening there. "We had to leave without any celebration," he said.
The ground was overcrowded and organisers were charging Rs 5,000 for those buying tickets on the spot, he alleged.
ACP Dattatreya Jadhav said organisers cheated revellers and the party discontinued midway. "The capacity of the venue was 4000 but about 6000 to 7000 people turned up. We will initiate appropriate action against organisers," he said. Police said the revellers told them that they booked online with one Purplestone Entertainment for the bash.
Temperature rises resulting from unchecked climate change will be at the severe end of those projected, according to a new scientific study. The scientist leading the research said that unless emissions of greenhouse gases were cut, the planet would heat up by a minimum of 4C by 2100, twice the level the world's governments deem dangerous.
The research indicates that fewer clouds form as the planet warms, meaning less sunlight is reflected back into space, driving temperatures up further still. The way clouds affect global warming has been the biggest mystery surrounding future climate change.
Professor Steven Sherwood, at the University of New South Wales, in Australia, who led the new work, said: "This study breaks new ground twice: first by identifying what is controlling the cloud changes and second by strongly discounting the lowest estimates of future global warming in favour of the higher and more damaging estimates."
"4C would likely be catastrophic rather than simply dangerous," Sherwood told the Guardian. "For example, it would make life difficult, if not impossible, in much of the tropics, and would guarantee the eventual melting of the Greenland ice sheet and some of the Antarctic ice sheet", with sea levels rising by many metres as a result.
Temperature rises resulting from unchecked climate change will be at the severe end of those projected, according to a new scientific study. The scientist leading the research said that unless emissions of greenhouse gases were cut, the planet would heat up by a minimum of 4C by 2100, twice the level the world's governments deem dangerous.
The research indicates that fewer clouds form as the planet warms, meaning less sunlight is reflected back into space, driving temperatures up further still. The way clouds affect global warming has been the biggest mystery surrounding future climate change.
Professor Steven Sherwood, at the University of New South Wales, in Australia, who led the new work, said: "This study breaks new ground twice: first by identifying what is controlling the cloud changes and second by strongly discounting the lowest estimates of future global warming in favour of the higher and more damaging estimates."
"4C would likely be catastrophic rather than simply dangerous," Sherwood told the Guardian. "For example, it would make life difficult, if not impossible, in much of the tropics, and would guarantee the eventual melting of the Greenland ice sheet and some of the Antarctic ice sheet", with sea levels rising by many metres as a result.
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