Indian cities: fun and strange facts

Three goats in this city, formerly called Madras, were detained by police in 2013 for vandalising a police car.

A monkey started up a bus and rammed it into two other buses in this Uttar Pradesh city SW of the border with Nepal.

A man in this central Indian metropolis set a world record by typing a 97-character sentence in 48 seconds - with his nose.

Thieves stole a truck of onions in 2013, on the road from this western city to Delhi.

Nakched Mian, from this northern Bihar municipality, had 400,000 rupees stolen by a stray dog.

The local rats are fed and worshipped at the temple here in this Rajasthan town.

In 2015, police in this central Indian town in Maharashtra arrested a parrot for swearing.

A man from this city (formerly Poona) had a $230,000 pure gold shirt made for him in 2013.

In 2015, parents in this ancient Bihar city on the Ganges climbed school walls to pass exam cheat sheets to their children.

Infamous for the worst industrial disaster in history, at the Union Carbide plant in 1984, this is the capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh.

A juvenile rapist from this municipality SW of Delhi was sentenced in 2013 to look after cattle in a cow shed.

In 2012, a TV repairman from this Madhya Pradesh town cut off part of his tongue after his wife accused him of verbal abuse.

A pilot trainer told the science congress at a lecture in this megacity that India had advanced planes 7000 years ago.

For religious reasons, the houses and bank in this Maharashtra village have no locks on the doors.