The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday took into custody three railway personnel in connection with the June 2 Balasore train accident, making its first arrests in the case, officials said.
With more than a 100 runs still to get, it would be an uphill task for Maharashtra to turn the match around on Day 3.
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.
Five small crude bombs along with some crackers were found lying along the tracks near Jharsuguda in Orissa on Saturday, triggering a bomb scare and briefly disrupting rail services on the Mumbai-Howrah route.
If we can adhere to those standards, most passengers will be happy.
Another woman from Malda district said that her son was killed in the accident.
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 call for the agitation was given by the Gurjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti. According to police, youths in large numbers blocked a rail track in Bharatpur's Bayana.
The indefinite sit-in on railway tracks by residents of Haryana's Mirchpur village seeking fresh probe into the killing of two Dalits in April last year entered the third on Monday, disrupting rail traffic on the Jind-Jakhal section of the Delhi-Ferozepur route.
Train services on the central railway were disrupted on Thursday morning after angry commuters began their 'jan andolan,' protesting the continued delay in restoration of normal services after the July 26 deluge.
Vineet Saxena came up with a gritty 65 as Railways crawled to 191 for 5 in their first innings against Bengal
Suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist guerrillas blew up railway tracks and a portion of government complex housing the office of the block development officer n Bihar's Naxal-hit Jamui district in the wee hours of Friday to protest the recent arrest of its self-styled area commander.
Officials say funds and land likely to be tied up by the end of this year.
Revamping Indian Railways will need bold thinking, and lots of money and time. And all three may be scarce, points out T N Ninan.
Shivam Dube continued his recent streak of form with a counter-attacking fifty that proved to be the cornerstone of Mumbai's excellent 330 for six against Bengal
'I am helpless and there is no one to help me.' 'I have been on this platform since Saturday.'
Incessant rains apparently caused cracks in the bridge, resulting in its collapse, an official said.
So far 2,06,024 pensioners have submitted DLCs.
Didi will skip the meeting in protest against the violence unleashed in Bengal allegedly by Left Front and Congress workers during a trade union strike. She slammed the 'double standards' of the Congress and the Left.
The Centre is likely to cut budgetary support to the railways by around Rs 5,000-10,000 crore for 2018-19, out of the total budgeted GBS of Rs 53,060 crore. Due to this cut in GBS, the railways is likely to depend more on borrowings, asset monetisation, and internal generation to meet the capex target of Rs 1.465 trillion for the current year.
'Our thrust would be on basic facilities first like sanitation'.
Indian Railways under Piyush Goyal has chalked out a new plan for station redevelopment. Railway stations in 15 cities may soon offer residential apartments.
The idea of modernising railway stations under a PPP arrangement was aired several years ago by the then railway minister, Lalu Prasad, who visualised attracting Rs 15,000 crore (Rs 150 billion) investment in 22 stations.
Locally manufactured coaches can achieve similar speeds as Talgo trains.
While most other big companies like Tata, Mahindra and Reliance remain non-committal on FDI, Nikhil Gandhi was the lone voice supporting 51 per cent FDI through the automatic route.
The Gotthard Base Tunnel is one of the world's most beautiful engineering marvels.
Railway passengers would soon have access to movies, television content, music videos and audio tracks as RailTel and media group Eros International have come together for providing entertainment services to travellers.
However, speculation remained rife that the meeting was part of Banerjee's plan to form an opposition front with regional players minus the Congress.
Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal spoke with the media about his privatisation plan, safety road map and innovation strategy.
Two youths, who saw a woman fainting on the rail track on seeing an approaching train, failed to rush to her help; instead took out their mobiles to capture the ghastly scene.
Railway police on Friday gave a clean chit to three officials of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group whose statements were recorded in connection with the death of Airworks technician Bharat Borge.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday started its investigation into alleged criminal negligence leading to the Balasore train accident which claimed 278 lives after registering a first information report (FIR), officials said.
Sources said the duo attackers -- Rohit Rathore of Jaipur and Nitin Fauji of Haryana's Mahendragarh -- had planned to flee the country and had been allegedly promised Rs 50,000 each to kill Gogamedi.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh and Agriculture Minister Nanki Ram Kanwar had a providential escape in Korba district as a speeding train came on to the tracks as their convoy was about to cross the railway level crossing.
A bomb exploded on a rail track in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, damaging a portion of railroad but causing no injuries, the police said.\n
Opens operations in high-speed train, freight and suburban corridors to private sector
Slow pace in modernisation and infrastructure addition chokes tracks, constrains productivity, raises costs and invites political interference.
A thorough probe is underway, none of the authorities has so far talked about any possibility of a sabotage.
The 35-year-old security guard who was the prime suspect in the rape and murder of an 18-year-old girl student of a government hostel in south Mumbai, was not officially appointed but was a laundry man who died by suicide after the crime, the police said on Wednesday.
The railways is expecting a revenue of Rs 1,84,820 crore during the current financial year (FY17).
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