A segmental launching gantry used for construction at a bullet train project site near Ahmedabad accidentally skid from its position and affected the adjoining railway line, disrupting the movement of several trains, officials said on Monday.
Enraged by the sexual assault, the victim's family and passengers thrashed Kumar.
The accident took place in the Lumding-Bardarpur Hill section under Lumding division.
Humsafar will be launched as overnight inter-city service on high-demand routes
Days after a railway travel ticket examiner (TTE) was held for allegedly urinating on a passenger on a train bound from Kolkata to Amritsar, another TTE has been accused of allegedly misbehaving with a female passenger when she was leaving from Krishnarajapuram station in Bengaluru.
The protest started at 6 am on Tuesday with the blockade of the old National Highway 6, which connects Kolkata to Mumbai, at Khemasuli in Kharagpur Local police station area by Kudmi Samaj West Bengal, they said.
The Railways will invest Rs 1.21 lakh crore (Rs 1.21 trillion) in 2016-17.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu presented the Railway Budget at the Parliament on Thursday.
Due to the derailment at least 10 intercity trains such as the Indrayani Express, Deccan Express, Intercity Express, Pragati Express, Deccan Queen Express, Koyna Express were cancelled.
A brief information of trains that have been cancelled or partially cancelled or short-terminated on Friday and Saturday.
Uttam Ghosh on how rail passengers will benefit from the Railway Budget.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday presented the Railway Budget.
Equipped with facilities like water purifiers, mobile phone charging points and fire extinguishers among others, the first Antyodaya Express is slated to be pressed into service from Mumbai for Tatanagar this month.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said that the common people have always been the focus of all initiatives by the Indian Railways.
Addressing a BJP rally, Modi said after he levelled the "10 per cent commission" charge against the Siddaramaiah dispensation recently, he received many calls, with people disputing his information about the cut it received, and claiming it was much more.
"What I said was if we had Rafale at the time (of aerial dogfight), then none of our fighter jets would have gone down and none of theirs saved," he added.
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