'There are more good people in society than bad ones'

Read why Naresh feels he is lucky: unusual story of an IIT guy; from Rediff:
I get help from total strangers without me asking for it. Once after my second year at IIT, I with some of my friends was travelling in a train for a conference. We met a kind gentleman called Sundar in the train, and he has been taking care of my hostel fees from then on. ... ... ...
Surprise awaited me at IITAfter my first year, when I went home, two things happened here at the Institute without my knowledge.
I got a letter from my department that they had arranged a lift and ramps at the department for me. It also said that if I came a bit early and checked whether it met with my requirements, it would be good.
Second surprise was, the Dean, Prof Idichandy and the Students General Secretary, Prasad had located a place that sold powered wheel chairs. The cost was Rs 55,000. What they did was, they did not buy the wheel chair; they gave me the money so that the wheel chair belonged to me and not the institute.

Child left behind as parents rushed for flight

A four-year-old girl was left behind at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport today as her mother, father and four siblings rushed to catch a flight to Paris, police said.
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According to the police, the girl’s parents realised she was missing when the pilot informed them just when the aircraft was taking off. “It is usual that travellers in a rush forget their luggage but not a child,” a police officer said.

Nine climbers have died on K2, the world’s second highest peak

Gilgit (Pakistan), Aug. 3 (Reuters): At least nine climbers have died on K2, the world’s second highest peak, in Pakistan in one of the blackest days in the sport of mountaineering and the toll could rise, expedition organisers said today. Those confirmed dead included three South Koreans, two Nepalese, along with Serbian, Norwegian, Dutch and French climbers.
Unconfirmed reports said one Pakistani had died and several foreign and local climbers were unaccounted for.
Catastrophe struck on Friday, when a chunk of ice broke from a serac, a pillar or cuboid of ice, and tore away fixed lines from a perilous steep gully known as the Bottleneck, above 8,200 metres.