The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal demanded Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw's resignation over the horrific triple train crash in neighbouring Odisha.
Rahul Gandhi will be back "soon", Congress President Sonia Gandhi said in Amethi on Saturday while answering questions about her son's mysterious "leave" which has extended to over a month so far.
Kavach 3.2 version is being installed on approved high-density routes, the railway officials said, adding that upgrading and installation of the latest version on new routes will go on simultaneously to cover a wider railway network in a shorter period.
Five railway employees, including the station master of Bahanaga Bazar, are being investigated in connection with the three-train accident in Odisha's Balasore district that claimed 288 lives, official sources said on Monday.
The Punjab police has deployed its personnel, including commandoes, to manage the crowd. The Rapid Action Force is also present in the Joda Patak area, officials said.
The Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on Thursday ruled out retrenchment of employees in railways and nationalised banks.
A bus plunges into a canal in Khammam district while a car met with an accident in Chittoor on Monday.
In January 3, this year, 18 were killed and over 41 injured when the Kachiguda-Mnamad Express rammed into a stationary goods train at Ghatnandur railway station in Maharashtra's Beed district.
The federal contingency force has taken out 44 victims alive and 71 bodies from the mangled railway coaches in Balasore district since its first team reached the accident site around 8:30 pm on Friday.
'The most important thing is safety as in the past we have seen frequent rail accidents due to which people are scared of travelling by trains,' the new railway minister said.
Operations at the Delhi airport remained normal. However, three flights were returned or diverted to the Delhi airport due to bad weather in Chandigarh, Varanasi and Lucknow on Tuesday night.
The bus was carrying pilgrims from outside Jammu and Kashmir to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine. Katra is the base camp for the pilgrims visiting the famous shrine atop Trikuta hills.
The NDA had decided to boycott the railway minister and other 'tainted ministers'.
The incident took place at 8.40 am. The bus fell from the bridge on a dry bed of the Borad river near Dongargaon village.
'Suddenly I felt a jolt and got thrown off my berth. It took a while before I could understand what had happened,'
Around 29 trains have been delayed by two to five hours due to foggy weather, a railway official said.
The 23-coach 12506 North East Express had departed the Anand Vihar terminal in Delhi at 7:40 am on Wednesday for its nearly 33-hour journey to Kamakhya, about six kilometres away from Guwahati.
Three members of the same family survived the horrific train accident in Odisha's Balasore and returned to their home in West Bengal.
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The deceased included at least five minors, including a six-year-old boy and a girl aged 15, while of the total number of injured, at least six are minors.
There was no casualty and all passengers were taken to Thrissur for their onward journey. Railway ordered a probe.
Upadhyay was travelling in S2 coach when a couple in the same coach requested him to shift to S5.
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'To avoid accountability and cover the mismanagement of the head of the department, they create this kind of sabotage theory.' 'If it's a sabotage theory, then the higher-level officials can go scot-free.'
The accident data would be taken up at the next Kaya Kalp meeting.
The injured, two of them seriously hurt, have been admitted at the Bangad Hospital in Pali, they said, adding the incident led to the disruption of traffic on the route with nearly two dozen trains cancelled or diverted.
The dead included three police inspectors and three home guards, the official said.
The jottings on torn pages of a diary with sketches of elephants, fish and sun on the other side, were probably written during the leisure time of a passenger whose identity is not known as yet.
Dr Anahita had only worn the shoulder harness from the back and had not adjusted the lap belt, police said.
The police in Palghar district of Maharashtra, who are investigating the Mistry car accident case, have found this during their investigation.
Investigators were on Sunday looking into what caused one of the deadliest train accidents in recent times as rescue operations continued
Railway officials also indicated that possible 'sabotage' and tampering with the electronic interlocking system, which detects the presence of trains, led to the Friday accident.
The initiatives intended to benefit the common man include e-ticketing, catering on demand, bio-toilets, food for infants, better stations.
'The bullet train project is a complete sham'
They described the functioning of the interlocking system which prima facie seemed to have been part of the problem which led to the accident, in which at least 275 people were killed.
The metro rake which had only officials and engineers on board ran under the Hooghly from Kolkata to Howrah on the other side of the river.
A thorough probe is underway, none of the authorities has so far talked about any possibility of a sabotage.
