The Guwahati Siphung express derailed between Salakati and Basugaon in Assam's Kokrajhar District on Saturday, injuring at least two people.
A high-level probe has been ordered into the derailment of the Howrah-Chennai Coromandel Superfast Express train near Jajpur Road railway station, railway officials said.
Monthly and seasonal suburban railway tickets purchased through digital mode will get 0.5 per cent discount from January 1
With conflicting reports on the cause of the train accident near Mathura, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to go for a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry into the mishap.
A Japanese delegation will soon visit India to study the opportunities
The train accident, which claimed the lives of 60 people in West Bengal on Monday, has once again brought about the talk of the installation of anti-collision devices on trains.
Devi is crying continuously while her husband Amarjeet sits still, numbed by the terrible shock.
New Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Tuesday night faced protest from family members of the passengers injured in the Kalka Mail accident and was also heckled as he visited a hospital in Fatehpur.
Over 250 passengers have been rescued, a railway official said.
Opposition and allies alike slammed Railway Minister Mamata Bannerjee for the train collission in Sainthia.
All the 14 derailed coaches of the Patna-bound train 19321 have been removed from the tracks.
PM Modi, BJP president J P Nadda, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal have all expressed grief over the incident.
The benefit offered under small-ticket insurance may not be huge, but it is better to have cover, suggests Sarbajeet K Sen.
The MNS chief gave the Western Railway an ultimatum of 15 days to evict illegal hawkers from all railway stations, failing which, he said, he will deal with them in the 'MNS style'.
'He ruined my life but he did not help me with a single paisa. I wonder what kind of charity he does when he does not pay the very people who are the victims of his bad deeds. All he did was to pay the compensation the court ordered him to pay me,' Abdullah Rauf Sheikh tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com.
While analysts and investigative agencies are busy finding reasons, those who are not too friendly with the Trinamool Congress chief think Railways' security has become defunct of late and that Mamata is paying more attention to politics in Bengal than to her duties in New Delhi.
The accident took place on Thursday evening at Jiamusi railway station when most of the passengers were ready to get off the train and fell under the impact of collision, the officials told state-run Xinhua news agency.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu faces a stiff dilemma on whether to raise fares and freight rates in his second Rail Budget.
A government official in Lucknow said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expressed grief over the incident and announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the families of the deceased migrants and Rs 50,000 to the seriously injured.
The Pune-bound train derailed at 3:10 am, injuring three passengers.
The work is expected to be completed by January 2018.
Fog and negligence of the driver of the rear train are being reported as to being causes of the mishap.
During the fag end of the year, she tabled a 'white paper' in Parliament on Railways financial health which dismissed her predecessor Lalu Prasad's claim of an impressive turnaround during his tenure.
Fifty-nine 'karsevaks' were killed in the Godhra train burning incident of February 27, 2002, triggering the worst communal riots in the history of Gujarat.
Upadhyay was travelling in S2 coach when a couple in the same coach requested him to shift to S5.
Railways has decided to introduce semi high-speed trains in nine sectors which would run at speeds of up to 160 kmph.
The accident caused by Maoists on a railway track in West Bengal on Friday morning, which killed at least 100 people, has raised questions about the lack of security on board long-distance trains in India.During preliminary investigations, railway authorities found that the fish plates on the track had been taken off in order to derail the train. A fish plate forms a crucial link on a railway track as it is the metal bar that holds the tracks together.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajnath Singh on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the wake of Kalka Mail accident which killed 69 persons and left 249 injured.
The semi-high speed Train 18, which has been recently rechristened Vande Bharat Express, can run up to a maximum speed of 160 kmph and has travel classes like Shatabdi trains but with better facilities. It aims to provide a totally new travel experience to passengers.
The railway minister said the demand for his resignation was based on flawed statistics.
At least two people were killed and 75 others injured late on Thursday evening when the Vidarbha Express collided with a derailed local train in Mumbai. The collision took place near Khardi station on Mumbai-Kasara route, central railway sources said.
"It is shocking that such an accident can take place even after a structural audit. Primary responsibility will be fixed by this evening. I have asked civic chief (Ajoy Mehta) to find out names of those responsible," Fadnavis said.
To capture the information regarding movement of migrants and facilitate the smooth movement of stranded persons across the states, National Disaster Management Authority has developed an online dashboard namely, National Migrant Information System, on the existing NDMA-GIS portal
At least 70 persons were injured, several of them seriously, when four coaches of the Guwahati-Puri Express were derailed and four others capsized due to a powerful explosion at Dhatkuchi between Rangiya and Goghrapar railway stations in Assam at 8.20 pm on Sunday. Railway authorities have rushed a relief train with a medical team to administer first aid to passengers at the accident site, while the seriously injured ones are being shifted to hospitals in Rangiya and Guwahati
The Railways cancelled three trains from Howrah and diverted as many in view of the train accident in Sainthia, which has claimed 60 lives. The cancelled trains include the Howrah-Amritsar and Howrah-Rampurhat-Howrah passenger, according to the Eastern Railway.
"We have some doubts in our mind. Whatever has happened is not a casual thing. We will take strong steps against those who are behind this," she said.
Men and women, young, old all came together to save lives where they could and provide succour -- some by providing food, while others provided medicines and a shoulder to cry on.
14 bogies of the Rajgir-Delhi Shramjeevi Express derailed at Sohsarai, between Bakhtiyarpur and Dina station of Danapur division under East Central Railway in Bihar's Nalanda district
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