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Jharkhand: Naxals strike again, blow up rail track

New Delhi: Naxals have struck again the second time in 48 hours. They've blown up a key rail route in Jharkhand's Latehar district. No casualties have been reported but several trains on the Kolkata-Ranchi-Delhi route have been affected. This attack comes barely a day after Maoists targeted former assembly speaker Inder Singh Namdhari's convoy. He managed to escape unhurt, but his escort vehicle was caught in what top police officials...

Maoist blow up railway tracks in Jharkhand

Ranchi: Maoists on Monday blew up railway tracks at two different places in Jharkhand as they began a day-long strike in three states to protest price rise and corruption. A group of armed Maoists packed explosives to blast a stretch of railway track, four km from Mile station in Ramgarh district, at 1.15 AM, police sources said here. The guerrillas blasted another stretch of railway track between Dania station in...

Maoists blows up rly tracks in Dhanbad

Naxals have stepped up attacks on the railways and security forces on the second day of their 48-hour bandh. ...

Militants blow up rail track in Kashmir

This is the first time that separatist guerrillas have attempted to disrupt rail traffic in the valley. ...

Naxals blow up railway track in Orissa

Train services on the Howrah-Mumbai route have been disrupted. ...

Mother jumps from running train to save newborn

The newborn slipped through the toilet pipe and fell on the tracks. ...

Lalu bends rule and railway track for in-laws

Dhaka: Bangladesh's cricketers, who play their first Test in more than a year in Zimbabwe next week, need to find the "right tempo" if they are to succeed, coach Stuart Law said on Monday. Bangladesh open the tour with a three-day practice game on Saturday before playing a one-off Test and five one-day internationals. The Test starts in Harare on August 4. "Once again it's not a skill problem from...

Now a rail robot to avoid accidents

Four B.Tech students have made a robot which can help trace faults and cracks on railway tracks. ...

Rajdhani escapes blast in Assam

A powerful bomb exploded on the railway tracks in central Assam just after the train passed the spot of the blast. ...

Angry man lies down on railway tracks

A man angered by changes in a local rail timetable protested by lying down on the tracks in front of a train. ...

Lalu, Rabri make a railway connection

The native villages of Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi would soon be connected by train. ...