Railway Track

School uses red coloured uniform to save students from trains

Ranchi: A school near Jharkhand's capital Ranchi has changed its uniform's colour from sky blue to red to ensure that the children are not crushed by a train when they cross the railway tracks while going to or returning from the school. The residents of Angada also say that now the children will be safe while crossing the railway track.

In fact the parents had forced to school to change the uniform's colour to red.



Actually, there is a railway tracks very close to a government school in Angada. The children cross the track while going to or returning from school everyday endangering their life. ...more    

Maoists blow up railway track in Bihar to enforce strike

Patna: Maoists on Saturday blew up a railway track in Bihar to enforce a two-day strike called by them to protest against the killing of their cadres in Jharkhand, railway police said. Ten Maoists were killed in a gun battle with the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a rival splinter group of the Maoists, in Chatra district of Jharkhand on the intervening night of March 27-28, 2013. "Maoists blew up a...  

Lovers found dead on railway track in Gurgaon

Two lovers, missing from their houses since the day before, were found dead on a railway track in Gurgaon on Monday, police said. Balwant, 28, a cooking gas agency employee based in Ashok Vihar, and Class 9 student Kavita, 16, who lived with her family in Chakkarpur in new Gurgaon, were in love and wanted to get married, police said. ...  

Tattoo artist death: Train driver says he hit a man

New Delhi: The Delhi tattoo artist death case took an unusual twist on Monday after a train driver admitting hitting a man on railway tracks near the same spot on the same date at the same time when Paras Bhasin reportedly died near the railway tracks. The train driver's statement now puts a big question mark on the victim's family's claims that he was murdered by his in-laws. The Delhi...  

Tattoo artist's family blames in-laws for murder

New Delhi: The family of the Delhi-based tattoo artist Paras Bhasin, whose mutilated body was found by the police near railway tracks in Ganesh Nagar in East Delhi on Monday morning, has alleged in its FIR that Bhasin was under constant threat from his in-laws and that his wife was kept under house-arrest by her family after it came to know of their marriage. Bhasin's family said that he was...  

Kerala pipe bomb: Second plotter held

Kottayam: The Piravom pipe bomb probe reached a successful culmination on Monday with the arrest of Santhosh, the accomplice of Senthil, who together planted the bomb on the railway track near Piravom Road Railway station on Thursday. Santhosh, 35, of Mudasseril house, Veliyandu at Edakkattuvayal, was held from his hiding place at a rubber plantation at Edakkattuvayal, a few km from his residence. Senthil had been arrested from Shoranur on...  

Kerala: Pipe bomb in rail track planted for experimental blast

Kottayam: Those who planted the pipe bomb near Railway track at Velloor near Kottayam were trying to conduct an experimental blast and subsequently trigger panic among people, sources close to police told Express.Police suspect that the primary motive of the perpetrators was to spread panic rather than conducting blasts. The pipe bomb was unearthed adjacent to Railway track at Velloor near Kottayam on Thursday.The bomb was found one and half...  

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. ...