Mathura/Vrindavan (India): Sati as a practice was not invented by Ancient Indian texts but by the greed of people. Most of the contemporary historians believe that the practice of Sati was encouraged to deprive the widows from the property of their deceased husbands.

Agra (India): A sum of Rs.11 lakh have been stolen from an ATM, which was without CCTV camera and security guard and which was unlocked after cracking the code in Uttar Pradesh's Agra city, police said Monday.

  The sexy Latino actress Barbara Mori, back in India for the second time in a month and probably the last time now, feels let down on two counts. One, of course, is the unfavorable public response to her much-awaited film with Hrithik Roshan this weekend; and, the second, is that her dream of visiting the Taj Mahal remains unfulfilled.

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Agra (India): When the blind bard of Braj Bhasha, Soor Das sang of the childish antics of Sri Krishna along the Yamuna bank at Gau Ghat near Keitham lake in Agra, people believe it was the little Krishna himself who held his walking stick to show him the way.

Agra (India): Eight people, including two government engineers and six members of a family going to pay condolences, were killed in two road accidents in Agra district Monday, police said.