New Delhi: Some bogies of an Indore-Ratlam passenger train caught fire on Tuesday night. Thankfully all the passengers were evacuated safely. The rail traffic at the route had to be halted for some time. A probe has now been ordered. This comes just a week after the Hampi Express collided with a goods train killing over 20 people in Andhra Pradesh. ...
08:57 AM, May 30, 2012
Penukonda: The death toll in the train accident in Andhra Pradesh has risen to 24, with over 35 people injured, sources say. The Hampi Express collided with a stationary goods train at Penukonda in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh early on Tuesday morning. The accident happened at around 3:15 am on Tuesday. Earlier, Railway Minister Mukul Roy had said, "It is a sad incident. I have ordered for a...
12:13 PM, May 22, 2012
Penukonda: Eighteen people have been charred to death and over 35 have been injured after the Hampi Express collided with a stationary goods train at Penukonda in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh early on Tuesday morning. The accident happened at around 3:15 am on Tuesday. The Hampi Express was on its way to Bangalore and reportedly overshot the signal. All those trapped inside the first three mangled bogies including...
10:20 AM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General has observed safety related works are being accorded low priority by Railways. Though sufficient funds were available, large number of road over-bridge (ROB) and road under-bridge (RUB) works were pending as on March 2011 and the actual budget allocations reflected low priority due to inadequate commitment by the Railways, the CAG report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday said. Construction of these are essential...
07:53 PM, May 15, 2012
CHENNAI: Though milling crowds and anxious passengers are not a rarity at the Chennai Central Railway station, Monday was a particularly bad day. Following the derailment of a three bogies of a goods train near Katpadi, around 12 trains along the arterial line, faced up to five hour delays. The fact that most of them were vacationers setting out to Bengaluru, Kerala and other places, added to their frustration. All...
08:36 AM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Railways has ignored safety concerns in another project. The 125 km-long Rishikesh-Karnprayag rail link, inaugurated in November, 2011, has been red flagged by a railways chief engineer, Alok Verma, who has said that it was a disaster in waiting. He said that an all important geological study has not been done in an area that is in seismic zone 4 and is landslide prone. In a...
06:42 PM, Apr 25, 2012
CHENNAI: If the Integral Coach Factory has its algorithm right, there will very soon be no smelly toilets on trains. This innovation should make train travel a more pleasant affair. But the absence of smell is only the by-product. The new bio toilets developed by Railways design engineers will do away with manual scavenging on trains and add to the life span of the tracks. The new toilet will have...
08:55 AM, Apr 12, 2012
"Rajnikanth once tried logging into IRCTC at 8 AM and... failed," tweeted an exasperated user. The sluggishness of the IRCTC website is no ...
06:25 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Mumbai: Were surely looking into the future with this technology. Officials behind the world's fourth largest railway network, the Indian railways are, according to a report by The Economic Times toying with the idea of fitting a GPS-based solution in trains, to help it provide real-time tracking - accessible on mobile devices and PCs. Although still under debate and discussion, the reports have confirmed that the Centre for Railway Information...
04:02 PM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: Passengers travelling in AC 1 and AC 2 classes in trains will have to shell out more from Sunday when the upward revision in higher class fares will come into effect. The fare is also being hiked in Executive class and first class as per the Rail Budget 2012-13 announcements. The revised tariff will also be applicable to tickets issued in advance for journey to commence on or...
05:06 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Indians are big losers because the Indian Railways lack drive, ambition and imagination. How? Delhi and Mumbai (1,380 km) are about as distant as Beijing ...
04:22 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Despite initiating steps to prevent crime in trains and stations, there has been an increase in cases of misconduct against women passengers. As per data available with the Railways, a total of 712 cases including rape, murder, robbery and eve-teasing were reported against women and children in railway premises in 2011 as against 501 cases in the previous year. There were 15 rape and 362 eve-teasing cases reported...
09:22 AM, Mar 25, 2012
CHENNAI: Guess where every plastic bottle that you toss on a Chennai-bound train ends up? China! In an effort to ensure the safe disposal of plastic waste, piling up in the pit lanes of coach maintenance yards, the railway has engaged an agency to collect these non - biodegradable material and ship it out of the country to China for recycling. The new initiative that is on a trial run...
08:01 AM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Rail Budget fiasco has not just put the UPA in unprecedented embarrassment, it has also exposed the mess within the Trinamool Congress. Mamata Banerjee is now facing defiance within the party that she has never encountered before. Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Saturday made it clear to the party high command that she will have to give him an order in writing if she wanted him to...
09:59 PM, Mar 17, 2012
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