Gorgeous Bollywood Actress Pratyusha Banerjee Commits Suicide At 24

Actress Pratyusha Banerjee has reportedly committed suicide. The 24-year-old actress, who was also a popular contestant in the reality show 'Bigg Boss', hanged herself from a fan at her Kandivali residence but was detected and taken to the Kokilaben Ambani Hospital where she succumbed. 

However, no suicide note was found from the flat, a police officer said, adding the exact cause of the death, which occurred around afternoon, will be known only after an autopsy is conducted. 

According to rumors, Pratyusha Banerjee took her life, because she learnt that her boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh secretly married someone, breaking her heart. It is also heard that he dropped her body off at the hospital and absconded with her phone — the only link connecting him to her death.

Her friends and colleagues Shashank Vyas, Gurmeet Choudhary, Debina Bonnerjee and several others were spotted at the hospital. It seems the actress hung herself at 4-5 p.m. when there was no one at home. Singh spotted her and brought her home.

Reason for the extreme step was not yet known, but Banerjee was reportedly facing problems in her relationship with boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh.  Her last status message on Whatsapp read, "Marke bhi muh na tuzse modana" (even after death won't be turning my face away from you) with a smiley. Pratyusha and her boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh, who had appeared on the TV show 'Power Couple' recently, had been according to the rumour mills facing some relationship problems.

Mumbai Police spokesperson Dhananjay Kulkarni, deputy commissioner of police, as well as officials from Kokilaben hospital confirmed the news of her death. Her body will be sent to Cooper post mortem centre. He said that the hospital had sent a report on the Jamshedpur-born actress's death. 

According to the officials at Kokilaben Hospital, she was brought to the emergency room by a relative by around 6 pm. The doctors then carried out an ECG, but did not get a pulse. They finally declared her dead and informed the police who arrived at around 8.30 pm to conduct the panchnama. 

The actress made her debut on TV with "Balika Vadhu" as Anandi. She gained immense popularity and stardom with the show. Almost a few years into the show, the actress started falling ill too often and was asked to leave. The actress cited that her mother was too sick and needed her care; hence, she quit the show and walked out. She was replaced by Toral Rasputra.

She then signed up for "Bigg Boss 7" for a hefty sum. The actress became friends with Kamya Punjabi through this stint and later went on to become the brand face of Kamya's BCL team. She was also seen on "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5," and, while everyone thought her popularity would take her to the end, the actress was ousted soon. Banerjee  was next seen in "Sasural Simar Ka," where, for the first time, Pratz played the negative role of a witch, aka Daayan. Her last stint was "Power Couple" with her beau, Singh. 

A source reveals that her friends were not too happy with her choice. They didn't get the right vibe from Singh, and, in the process, avoided her.  Before Singh, Pratz was dating Makrand Malhotra. Sources claim that their relationship was very violent. The actress had even lodged a complaint against Malhotra at the police station for following and harassing her after the breakup. During her stint on "Power Couple," the actress confessed to Mahek Chahal, her co-contestant, that she was planning to marry Singh by March 2016.

The case has been registered under Section 174 of CrPC.

Tamil TV actor Sai Prashanth kills Self; Suicide note Found

Popular Tamil TV actor Sai Prashanth committed suicide at his residence in Chennai, police said, adding he had left a suicide note saying no one must be blamed for his death.

Prashanth is said to have mixed poison in his drink and consumed on 14 March 2016, leading to his death. He was 30.

Police said the reason behind Prashanth’s suicide could be loneliness and depression.

In his suicide note, released by the police next day, Prashanth said his second wife Sujitha or for that no one else should be blamed for his decision.

He also said that his death would not create any problems for Sujitha and that his parents would return all her jewellery along with Rs.500,000.

After divorcing his first wife, Prashanth remarried three months ago.

In the suicide note, the actor also urged his wife to give up her anger and said he had been a good father to his daughter Rakshitha. He also wrote that he was a ‘problem’ for himself.

In his letter, Prashanth thanked actress Radikaa Sarathkumar, with whom he worked in serials, and her company Radaan for their support.

Known for working in serials such as ‘Annamalai’, ‘Selvi’ and ‘Arasi’, Prashant also starred in Tamil films like ‘Neram’, ‘Thegidi’ and ‘Vadacurry’. Prashanth started his career as a video jockey and hosted a popular show, ‘Dil Dil Manadhil’. His last day of shoot was on the sets of Radaan’s Tamil serial “Thamarai” on March 10. He is survived by his parents, his second wife and a daughter. 

Mass Grave of Women and Children uncovered in Palmyra.

A mass grave including the bodies of women and children has been uncovered in the former Isis stronghold of Palmyra.

The government-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (Sana) said at least 40 corpses had so far been recovered from the site, with some beheaded and others showing signs of “brutal” torture.

The report linked the discovery to a massacre documented in May 2015, when Isis militants were reported to have slaughtered more than 400 mostly women and children in Palmyra just two days after capturing the city.

State employees, their families and those believed to be loyal to the regime were said to be among those targeted.

Isis committed numerous atrocities during its reign over Palmyra, when its world-famous ancient ruins became a favoured backdrop for gruesome propaganda videos showing the execution of prisoners.

During their nearly 10-month occupation of Palmyra, the jihadists executed at least 280 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor which confirmed the discovery of the mass grave.

Soon after IS stormed Palmyra, it shot dead 25 soldiers in the ancient Roman theatre.

It later released a video of the mass killing in which the executioners appeared to be children or teenagers.

Saudi Arabia Executions 2016

Saudi Arabia has already executed 82 people this year and is on course to behead twice as many prisoners as it did in 2015, according to new statistics compiled by a leading human rights organisation.  

The total death toll in Saudi Arabia could possibly reach a record high of more than 320 by the end of the year if the current rate is maintained as is mentioned by the UK daily paper the "Independence".

This would be more than double the 158 executions carried out by the Kingdom last year, which was in itself a dramatic rise on the 88 people it beheaded in 2014. The figures were compiled by the UK organisation Reprieve using a combination of official statements from the Saudi government and reliable local media reports.

Human rights groups are increasingly concerned about the fates of Ali al Nimr, Dawoud al Marhoon and Abdullah al Zaher, who have all been sentenced to death by the Saudis despite being children at the time of their alleged crimes. All three were convicted for alleged offences connected to protests calling for reform in the Kingdom and could be executed at any time without warning.

Saudi Arabia looks set for yet another record breaking year of beheadings. The deep injustices of the Saudi system mean that those being sent to the swordsman’s blade are in many cases tortured into ‘confessing’, guilty of nothing more than calling peacefully for reform, or even sentenced to death as children. 

True British TV Comedian Ronnie Corbett dies aged 85

Ronnie Corbett, the veteran entertainer and one half of The Two Ronnies, has died at the age of 85.

The diminutive star passed away surrounded by his family on Thursday morning, his publicist confirmed. It is understood that Corbett, who died in hospital, had been ill for several months.

He and the late Ronnie Barker became one of the funniest duos of their generation, hosting the BBC comedy sketch show that became one of the most popular TV programmes of the late 20th century.


Corbett and his wife Anne Hart, with whom he had two daughters, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last year.

The BBC aired a one-hour profile of the comedian and actor on New Year's Day, but it is understood that he was too ill to take part in the programme, which was produced in November.

His wife later revealed that, during a celebration to mark the achievement, he had collapsed in a restaurant and was rushed to hospital.

A statement from Corbett's publicist said: "Ronnie Corbett CBE, one of the nation's best-loved entertainers, passed away this morning, surrounded by his loving family.

"They have asked that their privacy is respected at this very sad time."

Corbett's health had suffered over the past few years, and in 2014 he was admitted to hospital with gallbladder problems.

Delusional Illusion - The Marriage

The other night I was out at the bar, enjoying some time away from the house and the kids. I’m a stay at home mom, so every couple of weeks I need a break. NEED.

I like to go out singing at my favorite karaoke bar. It lets me stretch out in my own skin for a while without any demands being made of me. It’s rejuvenating.

Since my favorite hobby happens to take place at a bar, I do get hit on from time to time. After ten years of marriage, I’ve gotten used to explaining to guys that I’m not only married, I’m committed-married. One would think a gold band on the third finger of the left hand would do it, but more often than not it simply elicits questions like, “Well, does that matter?” or “If you’re married, why isn’t your husband here with you?” – as if to imply that married people aren’t allowed hobbies of their own or time apart.

This last time I was out, however, I had an experience that changed the way I think about my answer to those questions.

A nice man (and, yes, married people can find other people nice) was chatting with me when suddenly the questions shifted a bit and I could tell he was starting to feel out if I was available. He was polite about it, and after I told him I was married, he asked, “Do you think it’s forever?”

I’d never been asked that before, in that context.

My reflex response was, “Well, yes – he’s my best friend!” I then talked for a bit about our life together, and some of the high-level stuff that made this a “forever” marriage.

That night as I drove home, though, the question came back to me. I thought about it’s implications some more, and I had some really beautiful revelations.

This is a forever marriage.

He truly is my best friend.

I can be out in the world and see other people who are attractive, intelligent, engaging, and fun, but they are all of those things in that moment.

My husband is all of those things to me, forever.

The man I’ve met in the moment has no idea which album is my favorite to listen to on Sunday morning while we make brunch.

He doesn’t know how to push my buttons by purposely mispronouncing words, or the hilarious arguments that can invoke.

He doesn’t know that when I grab his hand in a certain way, what I’m asking for is an epic thumb wrestling war.

He couldn’t possibly know the words to the song we made up about our old dog, sung to the tune of I’m a Little Teapot. This man I’ve just met doesn’t know that I can be depressed in the winter, and that I need a little extra emotional support over the months of February and March.

Or that I can be an explosive rage monster when I’m stressed out.

He might not be prepared to be a crazy hippie with me, raising and slaughtering chickens and rabbits for meat.

He sure as hell wasn’t there to keep our family from starving to death when we were homeless for a time in 2009.

He hasn’t put in the long hours of grueling work so his children could be raised at home by one of their own parents, which we agreed to do from the time we first discussed having a family together.

He didn’t intuitively know how to push a pressure point in my back during labor to ease my tension and make for an amazing, spiritual birth of our son.

He certainly didn’t conceive that son with me on a cold Valentine’s night on a crappy old mattress on the floor of a crappy old apartment that perpetually smelled like pot from the neighbors down the hall. It was the first place we lived with four solid walls after losing our house, and it felt like a mansion.

I’ve always known that we have a “forever” marriage (day by day we choose to make it so), but until I was asked that question in that context, I hadn’t really thought about the entirety of what was behind my response when I’d say, “I’m married.”

The guys who ask, “Are you happy?” are asking about now. And, truthfully, not every moment of a marriage is going to be happy. That question doesn’t examine where you’ve been or where you’re going. It asks you about now, because the goal for them is for satisfaction now. But, I never answer the question in the “now.”

Marriage isn’t a “now” thing. It’s a continuum.

I’ve turned down nice guys, creepers, and your average drunk who is throwing out lines in every direction hoping for a nibble. My rejection of the man has nothing, NOTHING, to do with who they are.

It has everything to do with who my husband is, and what our marriage is.

He is my best friend. And our marriage is, day by day, forever.

Marriage isn’t cheap, and it isn’t something to be taken for granted – real marriage is forever. Click below to share if you agree.

Hasnen Anwar Warekar & The Killings

The residents of Kasarvadavli village in Thane woke up to a horrific sight of a woman in blood soaked clothes, her throat slit, begging for help. She was trying to escape from her brother who had killed 14 members of his family.

Hasnen Anwar Warekar (35), allegedly killed his wife, two kids, four sisters, parents and six of his nephews and nieces with a butcher’s knife before committing suicide by hanging himself.

The sole survivor of the massacre is Hasnen’s 22-year-old sister Subiya, whose screams roused the neighbours and brought the police to their doorstep.   It is with the help of traumatized Subiya, who has received 25 stitches on her neck, that the police is trying to reconstruct the sequence of events eading to the midnight killings.

On Saturday, Hasnen had invited his three sisters and their children home for dinner. While no specific occasion was cited, he insisted that everybody joins him at his house. “Subiya, who stays in Koparkhairne, initially refused to join them since her daughter, Arsiya (5 months), was unwell. But he went to her house and picked her up and would not take a ‘no’ for an answer,” said a relative of the family.

It is suspected that Hasnen, an accountant, had laced their food with a sedative and slashed their necks after they went to bed, all of them having decided to spend the night at the house.

Incidentally, all of them retired to different rooms with Hasnen and his family going to sleep upstairs, the parents in the hall area and the sisters in another bedroom on the ground floor. Preliminary investigation by the Thane police suggests that Hasnen had procured a butcher’s cleaver used for sacrificing animals during festivals and killed his wife and children first. He then came downstairs and killed his parents before proceeding to kill his sisters and their children.

What has baffled the police is the apparent lack of motive as Hasnen was known to be a quiet and unassuming person with no known mental ailment. One of the theories doing the rounds is the possibility of the massacre being a ritual slaying which possibly had something to do with the accountant’s skewed understanding of the concept of ‘qurbani.’ Hasnen worked with a private company in Mumbai and had no known financial troubles or disputes.

Hasnen stayed with his wife Jabin (28), two kids — Mubashira (6) and Humaira (3 months) — in a two storey house in Kasarvadavli villa off Ghodbunder Road.  His parents — Anwar Warekar (55) and Asagadi (50) and an unmarried sister Batul Warekar (30) — also stayed with him. Three sisters — Subiya Bharmal (22), Maria Fakhi (28) and Sabeena Khan (35) — were married and stayed elsewhere in the city.

At around 2.30 am, a neighbour heard the sound of a vessel being struck on a window. When she checked it out, she heard a faint scream; the alert neighbour roused others in the cluster who rescued Subiya after breaking open a window grill.

“Subiya was standing at the window sill on the ground floor: her clothes were soaked in blood and she was screaming for help. When we tried to open the front door, she warned us that her brother Hasnen was out there with a knife and he had killed everybody in the house; also, that he was trying to kill her too. She asked us to break open the window grill and get her out,” said one of the rescuers giving a graphic account.

Sources claim that after Hasnen slit Subiya’s throat, he killed her five-month-old daughter in front of her. She also saw her one of her sisters and their children’s throat being slit. “She did not succumb to her injuries like the others and pretended to be dead; after he left the room, she dragged herself to the bedroom and managed to lock it from the inside. She then started hurling vessels on the window to wake up the neighbours,” said a relative.

Some of the neighbours, who tried getting into the house through another window, claim that they saw Hasnen allegedly roaming around the house with a knife. “He was alive when we got Subiya out. But five minutes later, when we tried to enter through the kitchen window, we saw him hanging from the ceiling fan with the bloodied knife in his hand,” said Farzan, a childhood friend of Hasnen. The police were alerted and they broke open the front door.

“There was blood everywhere – splattered on the walls, on the floor, on bed-sheets. It was horrific,” said an officer who first reached the house.