RANCHI: At least two passengers on board the 12810 Howrah-Mumbai Mail were killed and 18 others were injured after multiple coaches derailed in between Rajkharsawan and Barabamboo railway stations in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district in the early hours of Tuesday. The train had departed from Howrah on Monday evening.A medical team of the Chakrdharpur division…
NEW DELHI: Navy chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi on Tuesday visited Mumbai to review the overall state of guided-missile frigate INS Brahmaputra, which suffered extensive damage after tipping over at the naval dockyard, as well as the measures required to get the warship upright and sea-worthy again.While efforts are being made to find the junior…
LUCKNOW: A preliminary probe into the Thursday’s derailment of Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express (15904) conducted by a six-member team of railway officials has found cloth pieces were used with at least 72 elastic rail clips to fasten the rail track. The team blamed the engineering department for the derailment. One member of the panel, however, disagreed with…
NEW DELHI: Saurabh Gaikwad, the 25-year-old son of former Pune deputy mayor and NCP (SP) politician Bandu Gaikwad, allegedly rammed his speeding SUV into a poultry tempo transporting chickens, injuring two people in Pune early Tuesday morning, the police said.The incident occurred at approximately 5 AM at Z Corner on Manjari-Mundhwa Road when Saurabh Gaikwad…
NEW DELHI: The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS), probing the reason behind Kanchanjunga Express’s fatal collision with a goods train, shared provisional findings highlighting multiple lapses in the signalling and operating procedures that led to the accident.In the findings released on Tuesday, it has been mentioned that the loco pilot and assistant loco pilot of…
NEW DELHI: Amid debate over whether loco pilot was at fault or signalling system was behind the fatal accident in West Bengal, officials said seven trains, including the Kanchanjunga Express and the goods train which rammed it, were issued authority letters to pass the defective automatic signalling system. Barring the goods train, the other six…
NAGPUR: A woman and a man from a family belonging to the Bagadiya tribe of Rajasthan were killed and 15 others were injured when a car carrying six friends, allegedly drunk after partying at a dhaba, drove onto the footpath where they were sleeping near Dighori toll plaza in Nagpur shortly before midnight Sunday.Bhushan Lanjewar,…
NEW DELHI: At least nine people were killed and over 50 were injured as a goods train rammed into Kanchanjunga Express on early Monday morning near New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal.A passenger of the Sealdah-Kanchanjunga Express, standing beside a damaged coach, recounted that their train was moving at a slow pace as it approached Rangapani,…
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VARANASI: At least 12 pilgrims from Jharkhand and West Bengal were injured when their bus rammed into a stationary truck on the national highway in Jhansi village of UP’s Chandauli district on Sunday morning. The pilgrims were heading to the Kedarnath shrine in Uttarakhand.Chandauli SP Anil Kumar said the injured pilgrims were admitted to the…
