How providence saved a duo from certain death
Providence was on their side. A trick of fate saved Ashok Kumar Gupta, a resident of Varanasi and his nephew Kanhaya Lal, who were travelling in the ill-fated Sealdah Express along with eight other relatives, six of whom perished in the crash at Khanna, on Thursday.

Election eve Namkeen tragedy: BJP bites more than it can chew
Residents of Gautam nagar, the slum colony where a seemingly innocuous snack caused food poisoning on the day of the Assembly elections, have only begun to overcome the numbing shock the incident caused.

Miss World says she was raped
The new Miss World, Israel's Linor Abargil, says she endured a two-hour sexual assault last month while in Italy for a fashion show. Abargil was attacked on October 6 after going to a travel agency to buy a plane ticket to Rome.

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