Southern Railway

Pak hackers deface inactive Railways website

New Delhi: An inactive website of the Southern Railways www.southernrailway.gov.in has been defaced apparently by Pakistani hackers.

The hacker group that calls itself 'Pak Cyber Pyrates' replaced the home page of the website with a page with content that denounces India's role in Kashmir.

The official Southern Railways website moved to a new domain www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in back in 2010.

Inactive websites are a soft target for hackers as they are not constantly monitored. Recently the hacker group Anonymous had targeted an inactive Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) website accusing the company of censoring content on the Internet. ...more    

Telangana stir: 8 trains cancelled, 22 diverted

New Delhi: The agitation over the issue of Telangana has led to the cancellation or diversion of several trains in the Southern Railway. The railway has cancelled as many as eight trains and diverted 22 others because of the agitation. The trains that have been affected pass through Andhra Pradesh. Most of the affected trains have been diverted to the Konkan route. Some of the trains hit by the agitation...