Tourists gather on a houseboat to sunbathe and observe life in the backwaters of southern India's Kerala state, in this January 2006 photo. Kerala state is the latest star on India's tourist map, long dominated by the Taj Mahal. Kerala's tropical beaches, mist-clad hills, unique cuisine and distinctive dance forms are some of the draws, but the most powerful is a cruise through the labyrinthine backwaters on a hand-crafted boat. (AP Photo/Vijay Joshi)

A woman paddles past a houseboat in the backwaters of southern India's Kerala state, in this January 2006 photo. Kerala state is the latest star on India's tourist map, long dominated by the Taj Mahal. Kerala's tropical beaches, mist-clad hills, unique cuisine and distinctive dance forms are some of the draws, but the most powerful is a cruise through the labyrinthine backwaters on a hand-crafted boat. (AP Photo/Vijay Joshi)

Fishermen check their nets on the Arabian Sea near Cochin, India, in this January 2006 photo. Cochin is one of the gateways to the backwaters of Kerala State, a popular destination for vacation cruises. (AP Photo /Vijay Joshi)

Local residents and railway workers take out a critically injured person from one of the three coaches of the Mangalore-Chennai Mail passenger train from Kadalundi river, in Kadalundi village in southwestern state of Kerala, Friday, June 22, 2006. As many as 51 people were killed and 288 people were injured after six cars of a passenger train derailed and three of them plunged into a river (AP Photo/ Krishnan Guruswamy) 

People gather beside the wreckage of a train crash near the southern Indian city of Calicut in the southern state of Kerala, June 23, 2006. The accident, which took place on Friday night in which three train carriages tumbled from a bridge into a river in the southern city, claimed three more lives on Saturday and took the death toll since Friday to 57. REUTERS/ PJ Shelly   

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