The world’s cheapest car will be launched next week with backers hoping its troubled birth and the global economic crisis will not put off buyers.
Daksha, a shy Gujarati woman in her early 30s, wants a child — but not for herself. The baby is for the ”Britishers”, the couple seated in the lobby of the Indian fertility clinic. It is the first time that the British Asian couple, Ajay and Saroj Shah, from Leicester in central England, have met Daksha. The 31-year-old is ”loaning” her womb to them for 150 000 rupees (about £2 000).
Rights groups on Monday launched an e-mail campaign urging South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela to turn down an invitation to take part in Mahatma Gandhi birthday celebrations in the western Indian riot-ravaged state of Gujarat.