Baby falls through train toilet

A BABY girl born on the toilet of an Indian train survived after falling down the metal tube onto the tracks. The mother, who was seven months pregnant, fainted in the toilet, resulting in the 1.4kg (three-pound) baby slipping down the tube.
The newborn crashed onto the stones between the steel tracks and sleepers and was found by rail workers.

Doctors said her condition was stable.

"In just 12 hours after the unthinkable incident, she is coming out quite well," paediatrician Raj Kumar told The Times.

The girl has yet to be named by her 33-year-old mother, who was travelling with relatives from their home in Rajasthan state to the western city of Ahmedabad for a hospital checkup.

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Baby for wife’s funeral

A tribal man has exchanged his newborn baby to a childless couple for Rs. 1,200 to raise the funeral expenses of his wife in a remote village of Orissa, India.Bipin Gagarai, who belongs to sahupur village in Jajpur district, had told an official team led by the district welfare officer Shivaji Bhuyan that his wife Gurubari died soon after giving birth to a baby boy, their third child, on July 1. Bipin said he could not get immediate medical attention for his wife because of his penury and she died the next day. As he had no money to transport the body to his village and undertake funeral expenses, he handed over the 2 day-old baby to childless couple livingin the neighborhood.