Huge rise in young alcoholics in UK

London,-There has been a huge increase in the

number of young alcoholics in Britain, figures have revealed.

According to the statistics, there has been an overall

rise of some 61 per cent young alcoholics in the UK. In fact,

hospital admissions for alcoholic liver disease among the

early 30s age group in the northeast have increased by more

than 400 per cent since 2002.

The northeast also has the highest rate of 11 to 15-year

-olds who drink in England and the highest rate of under-18s

admitted to hospital because of alcohol.

Seven of family jailed for practising witchcraft

     Thane,-Seven members of a family including a

father, his two sons, two daughter-in-laws, and a son-in-law

who were found guilty on the charges of child sacrifice were

sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment by the

Additional Sessions Judge in Vasai court R M Joshi today.

     All the accused have also been fined Rs 3,000 by the

judge while a convict who gave false information to the police

were sentenced to additional jail term of 1 year.

     The accused sentenced are Saccharam S Jaiswal,50,Sanjay S

Jaiswal,27, Dinesh S Jaiswal,29, Saitsh S Jaiswal, 22, Mrs.

Ritu Jaiswal, 30, Dolly Jaiswal, 25 and Vishal Jaiswal, 29.

     Vishal has been awarded additional jail term of one year

for misleading the police while a senior lady member of the

family Sunita S Jaiswal, 45, was set free for want of

sufficient evidence by the court.

     The family of Jaiswal living at Nalla Sopara resorted to

conduct witchcraft as one of the accused Dolly had no issue

and while doing so, ended up killing two children in October

2010. 

Roshan named the sexiest Asian man

 0f 2011

London,-Hrithik Roshan has

emerged as the sexiest Asian Man in the World of the year

2011.

  According to a survey conducted by the 

Weekly Newspaper, Hrithik, 37, beat off tough competition from high

profile stars to top the 50-strong list.

The popular A-list actor won by the biggest ever margin

in the history of the men's list to topple last year's winner

Ranbir Kapoor, who finished sixth.

     Hrithik, who was third last year, got votes from all

over the world from fans of different ages and cultures  via

social networking sites like Twitter.

     

Professor Siddhartha wins award in England

London,-Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Indian

origin American physician who won the Pulitzer Prize for

General Nonfiction, has added another literary accolade by

winning the Guardian First Book Award for his "biography"

of cancer, The Emperor of All Melodies.

The book, which traces the disease from the first

recorded mastectomy in 500BC to today's cutting edge research,

was the only non-fiction title on the shortlist, and beat four

novels for the award worth 10,000 pounds.

The chair of judges, Lisa Allardice, editor of Guardian

Review, said Mukherjee's "anthropomorphism of a disease" was a

"remarkable and unusual achievement".

Mukherjee is assistant professor of Medicine at Columbia

University.