What was expected to be a delight to the taste buds, turned out to be a horror for a 22-year-old solutions engineer, Saurav Sabharwal, working with Nokia-Siemens Network in Gurgaon, Haryana. 

Saurav joined his colleagues on eating most pastry in least time on Wednesday afternoon. He won the bet but ultimately lost his life to asphyxiation. After the competition Saurav choked his throat due to eating three pastries in quick succession and collapsed in the washroom.

He was immediately transported to a hospital but could not be saved.

Gurgaon, Sept. 7 : Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday called on the media to actively develop and promote a feeling of national consciousness, adding that its role in nation-building could never be underestimated. He also said that there was a need for the media to be seen as a balanced medium of opinion generation on issues of national import.

Hooda also announced a donation of Rs. 25 lakh to the National Media Centre in Gurgaon, as contribution for development of its institutional complex.

Gurgaon, Sept 5 : Ten people were killed and two others were injured after a water tank that was under construction collapsed here in the National Capital Region last night.

Eyewitness said that some workers were washing their utensils and others were taking a bath when the half built water storage tank came down on them.

"The tank was outside, it was full of water and people drowned in it. Around 5 people died on the spot and two of us are injured," said Jai Karan, an injured.

Police are investigating into the matter and have not ruled out the use of substandard martial used in making of the storage tank as the cause for its collapse.

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