Five people died and 12 got injured after five bogies of the 18-coach Doon Express got derailed near Mahrawa station in Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday afternoon. ...
04:41 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Five people died and twelve got injured after five bogies of the 18-coach Doon express got derailed near Mahrawa station in Jaunpur district in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday afternoon. Doon Express 13009 was going to Dehradun from Howrah. Most people have been rescued and the injured have been taken to nearby hospitals. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has demanded a probe into the mishap. The District Magistrate...
01:44 PM, May 31, 2012
Howrah: Two men have been sent to police custody by a local court in West Bengal's Howrah for allegedly raping a newly-married woman in connivance with her own husband who is absconding. "Kartik Das and Raju Prasad were sent to custody by the court for their involvement in gang-raping a 19-year-old married woman. Her husband, who is suspected to have facilitated the crime, is absconding," Howrah Deputy Commissioner of Police...
04:49 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Kolkata: The Rs 1.5 crore-prize money Premier League Soccer (PLS), that has already grossed over Rs 100 crore, is tentatively slated to begin March 24, with the final scheduled for May 6, the organisers said on Monday, while announcing Argentine 2006 World Cup skipper-Juan Pablo Sorin as the icon player of the Haldia franchisee. The franchisee, bought by the Grey Mind Communications, will be coached by former England star John...
11:58 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Kolkata: The much-anticipated Premier League Soccer (PLS) will kick off in West Bengal on March 24, with the final scheduled to be held on May 6, paving the way for a collision with the Indian Premier League. The likes of Fabio Cannavaro and Hernan Crespo, along with some of the world's renowned coaches, will arrive in the city early next month as the pre-season training will begin on March 3....
10:51 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Kolkata: As baby Falak battles for life in Delhi, another infant was found be abandoned in a train in West Bengal. Authorities were informed after some passengers found the six-month-old in a coach of the Howrah-New Delhi Toofan Express at Asanol station raised an alarm. The baby was handed over to the Railway police. The baby has been admitted to a hospital in Asanol and is said to be healthy....
10:10 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Howrah: India has completed one entire year without registering a single polio case in any part of the country. Bringing down the number from 2 lakh a year to zero is a commendable achievement and an example before other countries to follow. But there is hardly any room for complacency. Two-and-a-half-year-old Ruksaar from Shahpara village in Howrah district is the last registered case of polio in India, and the credit ...
07:18 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: A shooting took place on board the Jammu-Howrah bound Himgiri Exprees early Saturday morning at Asansol station in West Bengal. One Railways employee has died and another was injured in the incident. The incident reportedly took place at the door of the train and came to light when the train stopped at the Asansol station. The gunman hasn't been identified. Railway Police is investigating the case and looking...
10:05 AM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: The country has seen three train accidents in less than 24 hours in which atleast seven people have been killed and over 22 others injured. While the first tragedy took place on Tuesday in which seven people were killed in a fire on the Howrah-Dehradun Express in Jharkhand, a train derailed in Anantnag, Kashmir on Wednesday while another collided with a goods train in Odisha. At least 20...
04:56 PM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: The Odisha-bound Samaeshwari Express has collided with a goods trains in Jharsuguda on Wednesday. According to reports, 2 passengers have suffered injuries but no casualties have been reported so far. Relief and rescue teams have been rushed to the site and railway officials are already taking stock of the situation there. This comes a day after 7 people were killed when a fire broke out in two bogies...
09:25 AM, Nov 23, 2011
New Delhi: A passenger travelling from Kolkata to Lucknow has gone missing ater the Howrah-Dehradun express caught fire on Tuesday. The family of 46-year-old Kusum Singh has been unable to get in touch with her but her name also doesn't feature in the list of names of the dead. Kusum's relatives claim they've searched hospitals, the morgue and even other trains on the platform. Questions are now being raised over...
08:23 AM, Nov 23, 2011
Dhanbad: It will take Shaukat Ali a long time to overcome the grief of losing his daughter in the early morning inferno in Doon Express near Parasnath in Jharkhand on Tuesday. His eight-year-old daughter Mahjuvi Ali Akhtar was identified as one of the seven charred to death in the fire that gutted two coaches of the train. "I woke up when I heard loud noises by fellow passengers in the...
07:36 PM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Tuesday said nothing can be ruled out including the 'involvement of miscreants' in the train fire mishap in Howrah-Dehradun Express. "Let us wait for the inquiry report. Involvement of miscreants cannot be ruled out at this stage. But I am not speculating anything. According to the initial report, a person came with some smelly substance, then smoke came out," Trivedi told reporters outside...
02:30 PM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Tuesday condoled the loss of lives in the fire mishap in the Howrah-Dehradun Express and announced an ex-gratia of Rs five lakh to the next of kin of those killed. All other passengers in the affected B-1 and B-2 AC coaches will get Rs 25000 as immediate financial assistance for the inconvenience caused due to the fire, he said. There were a total...
10:15 AM, Nov 22, 2011
Giridih (Jharkhand): Seven passengers, including an Australian woman, were charred to death when a fire broke out in two AC coaches of the Howrah-Dehradun Express in the district early on Tuesday, with the Railway Minister stating that involvement of 'miscreants' cannot be ruled out. Three other Australian women passengers suffered minor injuries and were admitted to the Railway Divisional Hospital. The fire, which broke out at around 3:00 am in...
09:03 AM, Nov 22, 2011
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