Chandigarh: A baby boy, who was flushed down the toilet of a train in Amritsar but was miraculously recovered alive by sweepers cleaning the train, was on Sunday being treated at the Amritsar Civil Hospital, officials said. The new-born was recovered from the Amritsar-Howrah Express train by sweepers on Saturday[Read More…]
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Amritsar train accident LIVE: Over 50 feared dead; PM Modi condoles, Amarinder Singh orders inquiry
LIVE UPDATES: Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has cancelled all engagements in the US and is immediately returning to India Several bodies still lying on railway tracks Around 40 to 45 dead bodies have arrived at Guru Nanak Dev Hospital while several are reportedly still lying on railway lines. Amritsar[Read More…]
IRCTC Online Ticket Booking: 5 things you must know before planning a vacation
The official e-ticketing and catering website, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has come up with an upgradation that brings in new features to serve passengers. To make it easy for people planning to travel during the upcoming Puja vacations including Dussehra, Durga Puja, Diwali to their family, relatives[Read More…]
Bihar: Train catches fire, four coaches gutted
Four coaches of a passenger train were gutted in a fire in Bihar’s Mokama railway yard on Wednesday, an official said. No one was injured in the incident. The coaches were of a MEMU (Mainline Electric Multiple Unit) passenger train that caught fire around midnight. At the time of the[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh: Engine gets detached thrice from train in three hours, no casualties
The Jammu-Patna Archana Express’ engine detached from the train in Uttar Pradesh‘s Saharanpur district thrice within a span of three hours on Friday while on its way to the Bihar capital, though there was no untoward incident, officials said. A Railway Ministry official said the engine of the train, that[Read More…]
Foggy Monday morning in Delhi, 69 trains delayed
Delhi saw a moderately foggy Monday morning with the minimum temperature at 12.4 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. At least 69 trains were delayed, 22 rescheduled and eight trains were cancelled due to the shallow fog in northern India. “The sky will remain mainly clear during the[Read More…]
Russia: 19 killed in passenger bus-train collision
Around 19 people have been killed after a passenger bus was hit by a shuttle train in the Vladimir region east of Moscow. According to Sputnik news agency, the authorities said that the bus drove into the train’s path of the train at a railway crossing. Kazakhistan Foreign Ministry spokesman,[Read More…]
Andhra Pradesh: Woman techie jumped off running train to evade sexual harassment
A trainee software engineer had to jump from a running train in an attempt to escape three men who had been sexually assaulting her in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh. The techie, who works as a trainee engineer at Redington Gulf, sustained head injuries. The 21-year-old was travelling in the[Read More…]
Six coaches of Utkal Express derail in Muzaffarnagar; 20 dead
At least six coaches of the Haridwar-bound 18477 Utkal Express derailed on Saturday at Khatauli railway station, 25 km from Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh. Reportedly, 20 persons have died while 34 others were injured and were rushed to hospitals. Uttar Pradesh ADG law and order, Anand Kumar said preliminary[Read More…]
Book train tickets on IRCTC website now and pay later
Passengers can now book train tickets and pay later for them. The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp (IRCTC) website announced on Wednesday that one can now pay later for tickets booked under the tatkal quota. This service is only available for general reservations, as of now. For tatkal bookings,[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh: Goons savagely beat up Muslim family in a moving train
All the members of a Muslim family were almost hacked to death when a group of gang mercilessly beat them up inside a train in Uttar Pradesh. The family of 10 was returning from a wedding party in Shikohabad-Kasganj passenger train, where they were brutally assaulted by a gang of[Read More…]
Elephant dies after being hit by train
Railways to lay track on Andaman Nicobar Islands
A 240-KM railway line connecting two major islands, with bridges and stations along the coast of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is to be launched soon. It will be part of rail route connecting Port Blair with Diglipur on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands — a first in the country that[Read More…]
Woman thrown out of running train in Bengal
Four people killed as cargo train derails, explodes in Bulgaria
Four people were killed and another 12 were injured under the ruins of at least 20 buildings smashed after a cargo train carrying propane-butane derailed and exploded in the northeastern Bulgarian village of Hitrino, police said on Saturday. “The explosion has also caused a fire. We do not expect a[Read More…]
Lucky escape: 16-yr-old saves friend from being run over by train
A teenager saved his friend from being run over by a train at Kurla station when both of them were heading for home in Dombivli on Wednesday. As the train chugged into platform number 1A, the duo, Virendra Pokle (16) and Sarvesh Dhere (16), started walking in the opposite direction.[Read More…]