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Dogs visits mortuary for meal Lucknow: In a shocking incident reflecting gross negligence, stray dogs ate away parts of a woman's body, which had been kept at the mortuary in a government hospital in the state capital. Taking a serious view of the incident, the authorities sacked three employees of the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital and ordered a probe. Sources said that the dogs had eaten away almost the entire face of the woman along with one of the eyes. The woman, a resident of Chinhat area on the outskirts of the state capital, had been admitted to the hospital in a serious condition. The woman had consumed some poisonous substance following a family feud. She died late in the night and her body was kept at the mortuary. The family members were shocked to see the condition of the body, when they reached the mortuary to take the body for cremation. ''Almost the entire face was eaten away...one of the eyes was also missing....stains of blood was seen on the floor outs...

The Three Battles of Panipat My dear Gauri, Throughout the long and chequered history of India literally hundreds of battles, big and small,have been fought, but some of them stand out in memory. Ashoka, for instance , fought the Kalingas in battle, but that battle had a redeeming feature: Ashoka was so ashamed of what he had done and with the terrible loss of life his army had inflicted that he banned all wars and became an ardent follower of the Buddha. Then there is the famous Battle of Haldighat which Rana Pratap lost. But the battle is remembered for the Rana’s bravery. I would like to tell you about three other battles, all fought at a place called Panipat, now in Haryana.The first Battle of Panipat was fought in 1526; the second was fought thirty years later in 1556, and the third and the last in 1761. The first Battle of Panipat was fought between the forces of Babur (who was the founder of the Mughal empire) and those of Ibrahim Lodi who then ruled Delhi. Ibrahim Lodi ha...