Death Toll rises to 60 and 150 injured in Uttar Banga-Vananchal Express Collision

At least 60 people were killed and 150 injured when a speeding passenger train ploughed through a train standing at a station in West Bengal's Birbhum district in the early hours of Monday.

The Sealdah-bound Uttar Banga Express rammed into three coaches, one luggage van and two unreserved general second class coaches, of the stationary Bhagalpur-Ranchi Vananchal Express at Sainthia station in Birbhum, about 190 km from Kolkata, at about 2.15 a.m., railway authorities said. 

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UK to learn Indian etiquette lessons

The U.K. India Business Council will run the first of a series of classes on Tuesday, offering tips on how to bow graciously, smile politely and refrain from kissing women.
Around 30 executives will attend the briefing at the UKIBC headquarters in London. The organisation, which receives £1 million of U.K. Government funding annually, is to set up offices in Mumbai and Delhi.

The etiquette lessons come in response to a growing trend of Indian companies recruiting Britons and U.K. companies seeking to establish a presence in the country.

UKIBC, whose advisory board includes Sir Richard Branson and Sir Martin Sorrell, says there are 32,000 Britons in India.

UKIBC chief executive Sharon Bamford said: “The U.S. and Japan are already well established in India but there’s a feeling that if Britain does not get properly involved soon they will be missing the boat. Business in India is all about trust. If you make a wrong move culturally you can throw away your chances.”

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Pregnant man delivers baby girl

An American man, who was born a woman before undergoing a gender change surgery, has given birth to a healthy baby girl at an Oregon hospital, a media report said on Friday. Thirty-four-year-old Thomas Beatie, who legally switched to a male identity while preserving his female reproductive organs, delivered the baby on June 29, 'People' magazine reported.

Once a hot Hawaiian girl, the man now known as Thomas Beatie has delivered a healthy baby girl. Beatie became pregnant through artificial insemination.

Married to 46-year-old Nancy, Beatie became pregnant using donor sperm and his own preserved eggs, through artificial insemination, after relocating in 2005 to Bend in Oregon.

Beatie, 34, who had had his breasts surgically removed and legally changed his gender from female to male.

Despite years of taking male hormones and living outwardly as a man, Beatie kept his female sex organs because he intended one day to get pregnant.

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