The report said people with heavy luggage lost their balance because of which the stampede may have occurred.
'Neither did I approach the BJP nor did they ask me to join them. It was a natural choice for both of us to make.' 'It was never for me to ask or for them to give.'
A Kalyan-bound local train derailed near Masjid station in Mumbai on Wednesday morning, disrupting rail traffic on the suburban section of Central Railway.
The telecom and banking departments along with the railways accounted for the maximum number of public grievances among the various arms of the government in the last three years.
Central Zone need 137 to win after J P Yadav took his second five-wicket haul of the match to dismiss East for 134 in the second innings.
Detailed reports have been sought from the state's chief secretary and from the chairman of the Railway Board in four weeks, an NHRC spokesperson said.
>Rohini Acharya, Lalu Yadav's daughter who donated her kidney to her father in December 2022, is on her introductory campaign trail in the constituency that has been represented by her father four times.
The overturned GS and SLRD (Brake Van) coaches are still being restored and rescue works are on, they said.
Both the central agencies had recently initiated action in the case, with the CBI questioning Lalu Prasad and his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi and the ED carrying out raids against the RJD chief's family.
Security has been beefed up in Mumbai on Wednesday after the Railway Police Force (RPF) received an anonymous call that some railway stations on the Western and Central lines and religious places here would be blown up.
A woman passenger travelling alone on an outstation train in Maharashtra was immediately attended to by authorities after she sought help through a tweet directed to the twitter handle of Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, a senior Central Railway officer said.
At least 20 people, most of them pilgrims, were crushed to death under the wheels of Saharsa-Patna Rajyarani Express at Bhamara Railway Station in Bihar on Monday morning.
A scam had come to light in two lesser-known services-- Railway Board Secretariat Service and Railway Board Secretariat Clerical Service -- where promotions were being made allegedly without following due procedures and bypassing Union Cabinet's jurisdiction.
A preview of many of the tableaux, some of which are still being constructed or given finishing touches, was held at the Rashtriya Rangshala Camp in the city.
Some low-lying places like Hindmata, and areas in Dadar and Sion, including the Gandhi Market and road number 24 in Sion, were inundated, forcing pedestrians to wade through the water and making it difficult for motorists to commute.
Train movement halted between Andheri and Churchgate railway stations as the power supply stopped, Western Railway's chief public relations officer Sumit Thakur said.
The ACD is a technological breakthrough by the Konkan Railway and is designed to prevent head-on-collisions.
In the wake of a series of Maoist attacks on trains and rail infrastructure, the railway ministry is likely to seek deployment of paramilitary forces like the Central Reserve Police Force to guard its tracks and property in the Naxal-hit areas.
The ED had launched raids on Friday at multiple locations linked to Prasad's family members including that of his son and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav in Delhi.
A Pakistani family which arrived here to visit the Haji Ali dargah to pray for their mentally challenged son was refused accommodation by several hotels in the city following which they spent the night on a pavement.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to seek clarifications from railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal in connection with the alleged bribery scandal related to posting of suspended railway board member (staff) Mahesh Kumar involving the minister's nephew Vijay Singla.
The first ever air-conditioned suburban local for Mumbai, which was flagged off from Integral Coach Factory in Chennai on March 31, has finally arrived in the metropolis, and its trial run would take place within a week, said a senior Central Railway official on Tuesday.
'Inter-ministerial coordination, information on the proposed PSUs, and due diligence are taking longer than expected to conclude the process.'
Indian Railways plans Rs 39,000 crores non-fare revenue. Via: Branding of trains. Vinyl-wrapping of Rajdhanis, Shatabdis and Garib Raths. Moving billboards.
Two passengers were killed and 37 others injured when ten coaches of a train derailed at Ghoti, near Igatpuri in Nashik district, on Friday morning.
The project will eventually be rolled out to cover 400 railway stations across India
'Farmers have been sent notices in which the government is threatening that if you will join the movement, then we will impound your ancestral properties.' 'We will seal your bank accounts.' 'We will revoke the passports of your kids.'
Union ministers Arjun Munda, Piyush Goyal and Nityanand Rai and farmer leaders from Punjab will meet on Sunday for the fourth round of talks.
Thirteen wagons of one of the trains and an engine jumped off the tracks following the collision.
Even as preliminary investigations by forensic experts and the railway police suggest that the fire accident aboard the Chennai-bound Tamil Nadu Express on Monday was caused by the electric short circuit, the circumstances which led to the accident and heavy loss of life continues to be wrapped in the mystery.
Big challenge to garner sizeable additional resources.
The last time a President travelled by train was in 2006 when A P J Abdul Kalam boarded a special train from Delhi to Dehradun to attend the passing-out parade of the Indian Military Academy cadets.
IRCTC group general manager Virendra Singh (Western region) inaugurated the food stall in presence of divisional railway manager, Nagpur division of Central Railway, D K Sharma.
Budget is likely to focus on infrastructure creation in the N-E
Prabhu hoped that during this 3-4 years period, railways would be able to absorb the impact from their resources
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday quizzed former Railway Minister P K Bansal for over six hours in connection with bribery scandal involving his nephew Vijay Singla and Railway Board member Mahesh Kumar.
A man was shot dead in police firing in Telangana's Secunderabad, trains went up in flames, and public and private vehicles attacked, as railway stations and highways turned into battleground in many states on Friday amid burgeoning protests against Agnipath, the contentious defence recruitment scheme.
A brief history of Mumbai's tryst with bomb blasts
Five days after the tragic triple train accident near this station, it was business as usual in Bahanaga Bazar with a handful passengers, including a few sightseers thronging the tiny way station.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday questioned former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi at her Patna residence and has issued notice to her husband and former railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in connection with the further probe in the land-for-jobs scam case, officials said.
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