We have champagne waiting, say relatives
It was truly the gift of the millennium. One that they would cherish forever. It was in the afternoon that the news of the release of the passengers reached the friends and relatives of the hijacked passengers.



I would've preferred death -- Hostage
"I would have preferred death than seeing India releasing militants in exchange for us," lamented a 60-year-old passenger of the hijacked Indian Airlines Airbus, Guru Krishnanad Bhat of Garhwal.



Govt official becomes rain god
He is simply known as the check dam wado bhai. Mansukhbhai Suvagiya is the new messiah for thousands of villagers in water-scarcity-hit, parched areas of rural Saurashtra.



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