Agartala: India and Bangladesh would soon sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to set up a railway link between Tripura capital Agartala and Bangladesh's southeastern city of Akhaurah, officials here said on Friday. At a cost of Rs 271 crore, India will build a 15-km railway track linking Agartala with Akhaurah which is an important railway junction connected to the Chittagong international port, resource-rich Sylhet and Dhaka. Of the 15-km...
03:47 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Southern Railway has opened a reservation counter at Pampa on the foothills of Sabarimala to serve devotees visiting the hill shrine, where the annual pilgrim season is underway. A divisional railway release on Monday said the single window counter for ticket booking, cancellation and fare related enquiries would function from 8 AM to 8 PM. The Railway has announced special trains from different destinations in the country and back...
11:57 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Cairo: Fifty people, mostly children, were killed when a train slammed into a school bus as it crossed the tracks at a rail crossing south of Cairo on Saturday, further inflaming public anger at Egypt's shoddy transport network. Witnesses said barriers at the crossing were open when the train hit the bus. Transport Minister Mohamed Rashad and the head of the railways authority resigned, and President Mohamed Mursi said those...
02:37 AM, Nov 18, 2012
Roorkee: A woman tourist from Holland was injured after she was pushed out off a running train by an unidentified person who robbed her in Haridwar district, police said on Thursday. Flair de Noozle (34) from Holland was going to Amritsar by Dehradun-Amritsar Express on the night of November 12 when she was pushed off the train by an unknown man, SSP Arun Mohan Joshi said. He said the incident...
07:33 PM, Nov 15, 2012
New Delhi: A Brigadier of the Indian Army is under the scanner for allegedly demanding bribe of USD five million from an Italian company in a helicopter deal, with the Defence Ministry on Saturday seeking details from the government there and assuring "strong action" against the culprits. The allegations were levelled against the Brigadier, who is currently posted at the Officers' Training Academy in Chennai, during an ongoing probe in...
11:53 AM, Oct 27, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) probing the 2006 suburban train blasts, filed an affidavit in the Bombay High Court on Monday saying that it had destroyed call data records (CDRs) of all the 13 accused. The affidavit, filed by Sunil Wadke, who was then a police inspector attached to the technical unit cell of ATS, said that a year after obtaining the information in the form of soft copies, it...
09:39 PM, Oct 22, 2012
A couple set themselves on fire and the bogie that they were travelling in, in Gulbarga in Karnataka. The police claim they were facing opposition from their families, which forced them to take this step. Railway sources say that Shankarappa, a rickshaw driver and Varsha, a student, set themselves on fire as their families were opposed to their affair. "They set themselves on fire inside the bathroom, but came out ...
09:26 AM, Oct 22, 2012
New Delhi: Railways have ordered an inquiry into the Gulbarga train fire incident on Tuesday which claimed two lives and announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 1 lakh to the next of the kin of the dead. Two passengers were charred to death and about nine suffered severe burns when a general coach of Solapur-bound Falaknuma passenger train from Hyderabad caught fire during its halt at Gulbarga station. "An inquiry...
07:38 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Bangalore: The Hyderabad-Solapur Falaknuma passenger express caught fire in Karnataka on Tuesday, leaving at least two people dead and seven others injured. The train caught fire at the Gulbarga railway station in North Karnataka. Two coaches of the train were gutted in the fire. The fire was brought under control as the train was stationary when it caught fire. Some passengers were stuck inside the coaches that caught fire. The...
03:49 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Burdwan: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old higher secondary school girl died after being pushed from a train compartment, allegedly by a stalker, at Kalna in Burdwan district on Saturday. Sujaya Basak, student of Samudragarh High School, was returning from private tuition to her Purbasthali home from Nabadwip in Katwa-bandel local along with four other girls when she confronted a youth, who had been stalking her for past several days,...
08:14 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Rajahmundry: A woman and her two-year-old daughter were killed when they fell on a railway track and run over by a train at Samalkota railway station in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, police said. Another daughter of the deceased woman received severe injuries in the accident, police added. According to Railway Police, the woman had come to the railway station along with her daughters to catch a...
04:50 PM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: Strengthening the safety infrastructure, Railways has developed a new system to prevent train accidents. The new system, Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), is a fusion of Train Protection Warning System (TPWS) and Anti-Collision Device (ACD). "Automatic braking system will be applied if two trains come closer on a same track with the TCAS in force," said Railway Board Chairman Vinay Mittal. TPWS and ACD are already operational on...
01:53 AM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to restrain the Centre from giving training to personnel of the Sri Lankan armed forces, despite a furore by parties like the DMK and the AIADMK that have been protesting against their training programme in India. A group of MPs of the DMK, a key constituent of the ruling coalition United Progressive Alliance (UPA), had earlier last month met Defence Minister AK Antony...
11:18 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Silchar/Agartala: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has cancelled all night trains connecting Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur through southern Assam for an indefinite period due to security reasons, an official said on Saturday. "The decision on cancellation of night trains for an indefinite period was taken following firing at the Agartala-bound Agartala Express at a small station near Lower Haflong (in southern Assam) early on Friday by unidentified militants," a NFR...
03:56 AM, Oct 07, 2012
The wife of a Kingfisher Airlines store manager Manas Chakraborti committed suicide in Delhi on Thursday. Her suicide note said that the family was under severe financial strain as her husband had not been paid his salary for the past six months. Chakraborti had joined Kingfisher after retiring from the Indian Air Force. The couple has a son who is studying in an engineering college. The victim's body was discovered ...
11:57 AM, Oct 05, 2012
Bangalore: The farmer protests in Karnataka against the release of water from the Cauvery to Tamil Nadu have not died down. On Monday, farmer groups blocked the Bangalore-Mysore national highway in protest against the Supreme Court order to release 9,000 cusecs of water from the river to the neighbouring state daily till October 15. Several trains connecting Bangalore and Mysore were also hit. To ensure security, the government deployed three...
10:37 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: Train fares of all AC classes will become costlier by more than 3 per cent from Monday. The new service tax of 3.708 per cent, as per the government notification, will be levied on AC First Class, Executive Class, AC-2 tier, AC-3 tier, AC Chair Car and freight. Passengers travelling in AC-2 and AC-1 will be additionally burdened by the service tax as the fares of these classes...
04:26 AM, Oct 01, 2012
Chennai: With train fares of all AC classes and freight services to cost more from Monday due to service tax, Tamil Nadu government on Sunday demanded its rollback saying the move would only increase inflation. Strongly criticising the UPA for increasing the fares, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said the move was against the people's interest and would increase inflation. "While I strongly condemn the Centre for its act against the...
09:47 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Hyderabad: In a move which angered Telangana protagonists, the railways have cancelled over 40 trains and all local and sub-urban train services in Hyderabad in view of Sunday's Telangana march. In an attempt to prevent people from other districts of Telangana from reaching Hyderabad, the South Central Railway cancelled 12 express and 25 passenger trains. Another two express and five passenger trains have also been partially cancelled. The railways also...
11:38 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: Service tax on AC class train fare will not be realised on tickets purchased before October 1 as railways modified its earlier decision on it. Fares of AC First Class, Executive Class, AC-2 tier, AC-3 tier, AC Chair Car will go up by 3.708 per cent from October 1 with the service tax coming into force on these services. "However, service tax is not leviable on tickets issued...
02:38 AM, Sep 29, 2012
