The incident came to light on Thursday after the decapitated body of the victim was found lying on the tracks.
December 8, 2018A 16-coach prototype of the high-speed train was ceremonially flagged off by Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani in Chennai.
October 29, 2018After coming to know of the death of her husband, his wife P Varalakshmi, 56, also killed herself by jumping under another train at the same spot, police said.
October 6, 2018Till not very long ago, even ministers and business leaders used to travel by train. Not any longer. What to talk of the elite, anyone who can afford air travel, never takes a train which is ironical given the fact that the entire focus of the railway administration appears to be on improving passenger amenities. …
Continue reading "Train to Nowhere"
September 4, 2018A group of three friends had gone to the railway bridge near Katana Sahib on Chandigarh-Ludhiana line to click selfies on their phones, they said.
August 5, 2018A female elephant was found dead in the Rajaji Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand on Tuesday after being run over by a train, a forest official said.
June 26, 2018A woman on the platform also tried to pull him up from the tracks, but it was too late. He came in-between the train and the platform, was dragged for a few meters and died on the spot.
May 27, 2018The family reported to the Railway authorities that the child was seriously ill when the Brahmputra Mail arrived at Allahabad Junction on Friday.
May 26, 2018The victim, a migrant labourer, was on his way to Kaliachak in Malda district from Howrah on May 14, when the four persons got into the train and sat next to his seat.
May 26, 2018The train was travelling from Hazrat Nizamuddin Station in New Delhi to Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
May 21, 2018The train remained stranded after the collision, leading to train services between Cuttack and Jajpur Road being disrupted for over an hour on the down-line.
May 9, 2018Bollywood star Ranveer Singh on Monday inaugurated a ‘Ranveer on Tour’ train, which is in honour of his contribution to the increasing popularity of Switzerland as a preferred destination for Indian tourists. The train is on the Golden Pass Line and has been launched by Switzerland Tourism and the Swiss Travel System. Ranveer is thrilled. …
Continue reading "Ranveer Singh inaugurates ‘Ranveer on Tour’ train in Switzerland"
May 1, 2018Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he was deeply “pained” by the incident in which 13 children were killed and eight others injured when a train rammed into their school van at an unmanned railway crossing in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district. The Prime Minister expressed his anguish while interacting with the BJP leaders, including …
Continue reading "‘Deeply pained’ over death of 13 children in UP: PM Narendra Modi"
April 26, 2018The deceased, Deepak Patwa, was a businessman who lived in Mulund with his wife and son. Patwa worked in Powai and would have boarded a train at Mulund station between 2 pm and 2.30 pm.
April 25, 2018Local train services on Sealdah- Barrackpore section were thrown out of gear for two hours during peak morning hours causing inconvenience to lakhs of commuters. The irate passengers blocked train movement at Sodepur station in Sealdah division for around two hours, protesting delay in EMU train services during peak hours. Passengers squatted on railway tracks …
April 5, 2018The issue of security in running trains has once again come to the fore and has become a matter of grave concern. A bag belonging to Panchali Bose, the sister of former state minister Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury, was allegedly stolen from the air conditioned compartment of the Malda-bound UP Gour Express on Thursday night. A complaint …
Continue reading "Concern over theft in train"
March 17, 2018Six youth were run over by a train engine early on Monday in Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh, police said. The incident occurred in Pilakhua when seven of them were loitering around a railway track. They apparently had ear phones on and were listening to music when the tragedy struck. All were daily wagers and …
Continue reading "Six mowed down by train in UP"
February 26, 2018