Mumbai: A major fire broke out at 'Centre One' shopping mall outside Vashi railway station in neighbouring Navi Mumbai late on Wednesday evening. Six fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the fire-fighting operation was underway, fire brigade sources said. The fire started sometime after 9.30 pm, they said, adding the cause of the fire could s not be ascertained as yet. ...
11:33 PM, May 09, 2012
CHENNAI: They are the two major railway terminals linking Chennai with the rest of the country. Attracting over three lakh people every day, the citys premier landmarks handle roughly 150 trains, and tens of thousands of passengers. However, the absence of a pharmacy is a blot on these stations, which otherwise have several first-of-its-kind initiatives to their names. What is more, neither Central nor Egmore has an Internet caf, at...
08:19 AM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: A powerful bomb struck a crowded platform at a railway station in this Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing three persons and leaving over 40 others injured. The bomb that was planted in a bag exploded shortly after the Awami Express, travelling from Karachi to Peshawar, pulled into platform no 2 at the Lahore railway station. Eyewitness Asif Butt told the media that the blast occurred at 6.45 pm...
07:56 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority has decided to construct foot over bridges (FOB) to connect monorail stations with the suburban railway stations. "The FOB will help commuters, travelling towards Wadala and further, reach for monorail without being hassled by the vehicular traffic on roads," MMRDA Joint Project Director (PR) Dilip Kawathkar said on Friday. The first of such FOBs - 250 meters long and 4 meters wide -...
10:12 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Body of an unidentified toddler was found on Thursday in a toilet at the New Delhi railway station, police said. The body of the one-and-a-half-year-old child was found in the ladies' toilet at platform number 1 around 6 pm, they said. According to police, there were no external injury marks on the body. The case is being probed. ...
11:56 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Mumbai: Central Railways' grand vision to have corporates, builders and private companies adopt railway stations and build toilet blocks seems to have gone down the drain due to lack of interest displayed by potential developers. More than four months ago, senior officials of the network and General Manager Subodh Jain had proposed construction of '5-star' toilets. They had also identified stations like Dadar, Thane, Kalyan, Vikhroli, Kurla and CST for...
02:33 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Mumbai: Anger turned to amazement for 90-year-old Savitri Desai when her son Ravi came to Chinchpokli railway station to take her back home yesterday. Although she was apprehensive of going back home out of fear of harassment by the family members, she relented after her son's assurance of proper behaviour. "I am glad to be with my family and I am grateful to all the commuters who took care of...
01:42 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Mumbai: A sloshed female ticket checker (TC) in the Central Railway (CR) has been accused of misbehaving with commuters at Ambernath railway station on Friday night. The primary medical report confirmed that she had consumed liquor. Radha Tomar (34) created a ruckus in a local train and at platform three at Ambernath, commuters said. According to RPF sources, she was off her duty at 9 pm at Dombivli, when she...
01:38 PM, Feb 27, 2012
BANGALORE: If everything goes as per plan, you can reach the City Railway Station from Malleswaram and Rajajinagar without any hassles including the zillion signals on this stretch. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is gearing up to construct an eight-lane corridor between Okalipuram Junction and Fountain Circle known as Sangolli Rayanna Circle near Kempe Gowda Bus Stand. As per the plan, apart from an eight-lane corridor between Okalipuram Junction...
08:52 AM, Nov 28, 2011
HYDERABAD: Pre-paid autorickshaw service has been introduced at the Secunderabad railway station here. It was inaugurated by transport minister Botcha Satyanarayana on Thursday. On an average, 1.5 lakh passengers visit the station in a day either for boarding trains to other destinations or arrive from other places. It is expected that the new service will prevent fleecing of passengers by unscrupulous autorickshaw drivers. The pre-paid service booths will collect Rs...
08:40 AM, Nov 25, 2011
New Delhi: A man trying to board a train to Indore at New Delhi's Nizamuddin Station on Wednesday night slipped and fell into the gap between the platform and the moving train. Alert bystanders raised the alarm, causing someone to pull the chain and stop the train. But no one was able to reach the man and lift him from the tracks. Authorities had to saw off the metal steps...
10:09 AM, Nov 17, 2011
New Delhi: The Khalistan Tiger Force on Monday claimed responsibility for the Ambala RDX Haul, saying that the explosive were sent to terminate Congress leader Sajjan Kumar. Sajjan Kumar is a key accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Earlier on Monday, the Khalistan Tiger Force has issued a letter to the media saying that the RDX haul was the group's doing. The letter also claims that the KTF does not...
12:46 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Thursday revealed that the explosives found in an abandoned car in Ambala was meant for banned terror outfit Babbar Khalsa International and was to be used in Delhi. As per the Delhi Police, central intelligence agencies had provided the input that a module of the Lashkar-e-Toiba was active in J&K. Then on October 12, a specific input was passed on about a consignment of...
02:44 PM, Oct 13, 2011
New Delhi: A possible terror attack was foiled just days before the Diwali festival with the recovery of over 5-kg explosives and detonators from a car parked outside the Ambala Cantt Railway Station, police said on Thursday. Haryana Police sources said two newspapers with Jammu dateline and empty sweet box from a shop in Jammu was found in the car. Acting on a tip-off, a joint police team of Delhi...
07:47 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Visakhapatnam: A 30-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gang raped by three persons at the Simhachalam Railway station, police said on Thursday. Railway Police on Thursday arrested two of the accused besides another woman on charge of helping the trio in the crime which took place on Wednesday night. Deputy Superintendent of Police (Government Railway Police) C Harshavardhan told reporters on Thursday night that three persons, who are petty vendors, forcibly...
11:50 PM, Jun 23, 2011
A 17-year-old girl was gangraped at the Kalyan railway station. All three accused are absconding. ...
10:21 AM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: Assam Police averted a big mishap at the Guwahati railway station on Friday when its personnel found an explosive inside the Kanchenjunga Express. Police personnel defused the explosive device planted inside a train during routine search after its arrival at the railway station. The IED was recovered from a tiffin box, during a general security check. A bomb squad is at the site searching the entire station. No...
09:50 AM, Jun 17, 2011
Rourkela: About 250 activists of Rourkela Steering Development Committee (RDSC) were arrested from Rourkela railway station on Sunday for trying to obstruct train movement in the Howrah-Mumbai line as part of their rail-roko agitation. Normal train services were not affected by the rail roko agitation by the RDSC demonstrators, railway sources said. The district administration had imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 crpc in the area on Saturday night in...
11:36 AM, Apr 17, 2011
Mumbai: A fire broke out in a slum adjoining the Bandra Railway Station in the western suburbs this evening, fire brigade sources said. Train services have been affected on western line as fire has spread to Bandra East Station, resulting in delays and changes in platforms. The fire was reported from Garibnagar area in Bandra East, they said, adding that there were no reports of any casualty. Eight fire engines...
10:20 PM, Mar 04, 2011
New Delhi: Two weeks after an unidentified woman's body was found dumped at the New Delhi railway station, the police have finally cracked the case. The girl has been identified as Neetu Solanki, a law graduate. The police is on the look out for her live-in partner who is the prime suspect in the case. Neetu Solanki was a go getter, a law graduate who also studied engineering. She wanted...
07:44 AM, Mar 02, 2011
