"His example should remain an inspiration to us now and in the future."The Queen is doing everything she can to make India like her But so far it does not seem to be working.. A bus plunged into a ravine in rural central Quebec yesterday, killing more than 40 people, Quebec police said. The bus, carrying elderly passengers on an outing for Canada's Thanksgiving holiday to see the turning of the seasons. Police said the accident occurred about 60 miles northeast of Quebec City.

It happened at the bottom of a steep hill heading into a hard right curve. "There are more than 40 victims at the moment," the provincial police spokesman Real Ouellet said at the scene. Significantly, at this shrine she wrote a veritable encomium. "Mahatma Gandhi showed throughout his life a tolerance, mutual understanding and respect, virtues as important today as then," she wrote. At Lutyens's sublime masterpiece, the presidentialpalace, the cannons boomed out their hollow welcome.

At Raj Gat, down by the Yamuna River, where Mohandas Gandhi was cremated after his assassination in 1948, the Queen laid a wreath and signed the visitors' book.At Mohammad Ali Jinnah's mausoleum in Karachi on Thursday she had signed her name and left it at that. It was Pakistan - so Pakistan claims - which extended the invitation to the Queen to visit the sub-continent, and she was welcomed there with an outpouring of Anglophilia. In India, however, the grudges are mounting up.Yesterday, Sikhs demonstrated in central Delhi against the British army's ban on the wearing of turbans, and were dispersed by watercannon.The Queen took it all in her stride. However, that is all by the by, as the Ministry of External Affairs denied that Mr Gujral had said anything of the sort - though not before his alleged remarks were all over India's pages and the world's television screens.Whoever was responsible, it seemed an odd way to put out the welcome mat, although in an attempt to restore relations, Mr Cook and Mr Gujral later issued a joint statement expressing "satisfaction at the strength and closeness of bilateral relations".But it all served to emphasise the contrast with the royal visit to Pakistan.