There have been contradictory reports on the cause of accident.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who on Tuesday met those injured in the Kalka Mail accident at a hospital in Kanpur, pulled up railway officials after the victims complained that they had not received the promised compensation.During his nearly 40-minute visit to Hallett Hospital, Rahul, who was accompanied by Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal and senior rail officials, inquired about the condition of those undergoing treatment in the Burns, Emergency and ICU wards.
Important for India was Xi's meeting with representatives of PLA officers and soldiers stationed in Tibet. The video of the encounter was interesting to watch, especially the large number of lieutenant generals and major generals, observes Claude Arpi.
The Bramhaputra Mail on Wednesday rammed into a stationary goods train at Karonpuroto, about 25 km from Sahibganj, Jharkhand resulting in a death of at least three people. Ten others were injured in the accident.
At least eight persons were killed on Tuesday night and 85 others injured when a passenger train from Chennai rammed into a stationary train near Arakkonam, derailing five coaches, about 75 km from Chennai, in the third major rail accident in two months.
According to the sources, the three accused had admitted the accident was caused by their mistake and they had not informed the higher-ups about the non-functioning of the traffic signal system.
Over 100 people were injured when 13 bogies of the Kalka Express were derailed near Malwa station in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday afternoon. The train was on its way to Delhi from Howrah station in West Bengal. The rail traffic on the Delhi-Howrah line has been severely affected due to the derailment. Many trains have been diverted or cancelled. Relief operations have started at the accident site and rescue personnel are trying to get the passengers out of the mangled coaches.
The results of the report are too therefore politically motivated," Javadekar said. The BJP, he added, was instead waiting for a court verdict on the Godhra train fire.
Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety G P Garg, in the preliminary inquiry report, has held that it was caused due to the blunder by the station masters of Bhangala and Mirthala.
Human error may have led to the train accident on Tuesday night in which 9 persons were killed with Railway authorities on Wednesday saying the driver of the EMU train that rammed into the rear of a stationary passenger train jumped a few signals and ignored speed restrictions.
Maharashtra CM said a high-level committee will probe the circumstances under which the 40-year-old overbridge collapsed.
At least 26 people were injured, some of them seriously, when Koraput-Rourkela Express collided with a goods train at Sikir railway station in Orissa's Bolangir district in the wee hours on Wednesday, the police said.
'India, by virtue of its gigantic population and geography, stands at the very front line of this climate catastrophe.' 'But this is a threat that our easily distracted national mind is ill-equipped to think about, let alone plan for,' says Rahul Jacob.
The mishap occurred when a man was reportedly overrun by a freight train and the driver stopped to recover the body.
Hundreds of flights were cancelled and train services severely disrupted in Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Poland and in the Scandinavian countries.
The bus that was smashed to bits after it was hit by a train at an unmanned railway crossing in a village in Uttar Pradesh was being driven by the cleaner, not the driver, at the time of the mishap. The accident at Kanshi Ram Nagar district in the wee hours of Thursday killed 38 passengers. The bus was carrying members of a marriage party, who were on the way back to their village after the wedding.
Most of the victims were students, police said.
The stampede on the banks of Godavari River in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh added to India's notoriety for deaths due to such accidents, when sudden, uncontrollable crowds surge out of control.
The accident occurred on Sunday night between Rajapur and Vaibhavwadi stations when the train hit some boulders, which had rolled on to the tracks following a landslide.
At least twelve persons sustained minor injuries when twelve coaches of the Bangalore bound Gandhidham Express derailed at Bhiwandi in Maharashra's Thane district on Wednesday morning.
FMCG, automobile industries say if GST regime kicks in, rail hubs can take Make in India to a new high.
The initiatives intended to benefit the common man include e-ticketing, catering on demand, bio-toilets, food for infants, better stations.
At least 120 passengers were feared killed and Hundred passengers were killed and 160 injured after suspected Maoists derailed 13 coaches of Mumbai-bound Gyaneshwari Express leading to a collision with a goods train in West Midnapore district early on Friday.
Twenty people were killed and 50 injured when a goods train hit the stationary Indore- Gwalior Intercity Express head-on in Madhya Pradesh after it overshot the signal amid heavy rains and poor visibility in the early Monday.
The accident took place between Bohani and Kareli stations, about 150km from Jabalur, around 1500 IST.
The mishap occurred near the city's Park Circus station when a group was crossing the Sealdah-Canning track of the Eastern Railway in Kolkata.
The Monsoon session of Parliament beginning Monday is expected to be a tumultuous affair with opposition stacking up all ammunition ranging from price rise, fuel hike, Bhopal gas tragedy and the Indo-Pak talks to attack the government.
At least 14 people were killed and around 25 injured when a speeding Gonda-Ayodhya passenger train rammed into a truck at an unmanned level crossing in Gonda on Sunday afternoon.
Why should an elected government, any party's government, need a law to protect itself from its people? asks Shekhar Gupta.
'All governments disappointed us. Now we don't have faith in any of them'
'The politician in him saw to it that the foundation stone was laid in Ahmedabad in the run-up to the assembly election in Gujarat in 2017.' 'But the statesman in him also wants it to be his legacy.'
'Life has been my greatest teacher.'
The going is not going to be easy for the DMK and its allies in Elections 2024. Despite the seats sweepstake in the 2021 assembly polls, the vote-share difference of 5.6% (DMK's 45.38% versus AIADMK-BJP's 39.72%) is not insurmountable on a bad day, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
The minimum temperature settled at 2.6 degree Celsius at the Safdarjung observatory, four notches below the season's average, and humidity was 100 per cent. The visibility recorded by the Safdarjung and Palam observatories stood at zero metres at 8.30 am. It was recorded at 100 metres at Safdarjung and zero at Palam at 5.30 am.
At least 30 passengers were killed and as many injured when an over-crowded bus slipped into a gorge near Haripur in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district on Friday.
Fifteen persons, including five women, were killed and 40 others were injured when a private bus rammed into a tree near Dhariwal in Gurdaspur district on Tuesday, police said. The bus was coming to Batala from Gurdaspur when it rammed against a tree near Bidhipur village railway crossing near Dhariwal on Tuesday evening.
Olympic Silver medalist Mirabai Chani's feat is a story of grit, dedication and desire, but it isn't unique. In Manipur, discovers Vaibhav Raghunandan.
National Disaster Response Force teams rescued more than 50 passengers including 16 badly trapped from the mangled bogies of Patna-Indore Express which derailed in Kanpur during the wee hours on Sunday.
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