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As weird as it can pass through :)

Ahmedabad, February 28: A newborn baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving Indian train onto the tracks when a pregnant woman unexpectedly gave birth while relieving herself on Tuesday.

“My delivery was so sudden,” said the Bhuri Kalbi, the mother of the infant, born two months prematurely. “I did not even realise that my child had slipped from the hole in the toilet.”

Kalbi, a 33-year-old woman from a village in Rajasthan, fainted on the toilet seat after the birth for a few minutes before waking up and alerting her family.

“They stopped the train and ran on the tracks to find the baby,” she said, speaking from her hospital bed in Ahmedabad.

Railway staff at a nearby station were alerted and soon found the newborn girl lying uninjured on pebbles by the track. She is now in intensive care because of her premature birth, doctors said.

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Reuters, February 28, 2008

PS: No, the point is neither "it happens only in India", nor "nothing is impossible". It is: Glad to see the baby safe and kicking!

Forbes Asian "Fabulous 50" List - 2007

Great news. A total of 12 Indian companies made it to the third annual Forbes Asia Fabulous 50 List.

The 12 Indian companies in alphabetical order are:

· Bharat Heavy Electricals

· Bharti Airtel

· Grasim Industries

· HDFC Bank

· ICICI Bank

· Infosys Technologies

· Larsen & Toubro

· Reliance Industries

· Satyam Computer Services

· Tata Consultancy Services

· Tata Steel

· Wipro

And, China got only 7 on this list!

References: [Forbes List] [Rediff] [Mint]