"Some casualties are feared as some of the passengers jumped from the moving train in panic."
The train carrying five lakh litres reached the parched area after a journey of 18 hours.
Suburban services were disrupted with trains on all the three lines -- western, central and harbour -- running late.
The RJD has been told to pay Rs 28,000 as fine for putting up posters, banners and hoardings at Patna and Hajipur railway stations.
It was the fourth such incident in Bihar in less than a fortnight.
A total of 1,177 passengers are booked on the New Delhi-Bilaspur special train, which departed at 4 pm, while 1,122 passengers are booked on the New Delhi-Dibrugarh special train that departed at 4:45 pm.
At least 62 passengers were on Wednesday injured when 15 coaches of the Sealdah-Ajmer Express derailed while it was crossing a bridge near Rura Railway Station in Kanpur Rural district, the second rail accident in the region in two months.
Six long distance trains bound for Howrah and Sealdah were delayed due to the bandh called by the Maoist Communist Centre and People's War in Bihar and Jharkhand.
The train, operated by the Western Railway, began its journey at 10.32 am from Borivili station in the north of the city to Churchgate in south Mumbai.
Long queues outside grocery stores, inflated prices, difficulty in getting important items -- these were some of the problems encountered by people in the National Capital Region (NCR).
The engine and two coaches of Pakala-Bellary passenger train derailed between Kurapalakota and Thummalakunta stations in Chittoor district.
Minister of State for Railways Bandaru Dattatreya, the Railway Board chairman and the general manager of South Central Railway have rushed to the accident site, Kumar said.
BJP MP from Buxar Lalmuni Chaubey was with the trio when they were traveling in the AC First Class coach from Delhi in the Shiv Ganga Express.
The NDA has called the dawn-to-dusk bandh to protest against the removal of D P Ojha from the post of director general of police.
This is the second such site in Mumbai (besides Elephanta Caves) and 25th in Asia being put under the World Heritage list.
The incident occured early on Friday morning when the youths, travelling in 5250 UP Darbhanga-Kurla Pawan Express, got into an argument with passengers over sharing of seats.
New Mumbai-Bangalore & Mumbai-Ajmer express trains
Indian Oil blanked South Central Railways 5-0, while BSF pipped Punjab and Sind Bank 3-2 in the quarter-finals of the Nehru hockey tournament.
An official at the Pakistan high commission in Colombo planned strikes on American and Israeli consulates in south India, reports Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com
The New Year began on a violent note in Mumbai after Central Railway suburban services in Mumbai were disrupted on Friday morning between Diva and Mumbra.
The train runs between Habibganj (in Bhopal) and Hazrat Nizamuddin (Delhi).
The railway minister said this a day after the derailment of the Howrah-Guwahati Kamrup Express.
Under the 20.68 km-long monorail project, services will be provided between Poonamalle and Kathipara with a link from Porur to Vadapalani in Chennai, a senior UD Ministry official said.
Hectic efforts were also on to restore rail traffic in the Warangal section.
There was a collision between the 302 down Varanasi-Asansol passenger train and a light engine near Jaddugram in Gaya-Koderma section under Dhanbad.
The Maharashtra government has directed all schools and colleges in the city and neighbouring Thane district to remain closed on Saturday.
There was no loss of life. The mishap occurred at about 0430 IST, CR sources said.
Seven gunmen boarded an AC-III tier coach of the train at the Bhabhua Road station on the Mughalsarai-Sasaram section of the East-Central Railway and went on a looting spree.
Araria accounted for 20 flood deaths, followed by Sitamarhi (11), West Champaran (9), Kisanganj (8), Madhubani and Purnea (5 each), Madhepura and Darbhanga (4 each), East Champaran (3), Sheohar (2) and Supual (1), said Anirudh Kumar, special secretary in the state disaster management department.
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