Guna: Three wagons of a goods train got derailed on Saturday night between Pilighata and Pagara station on the Guna-Bina rail section, disrupting rail traffic, official sources said on Sunday. The coal-laden goods train was on its way to Kota when its three wagons got derailed around 10.30-11.00 pm, about 30 km away from Guna district headquarters. The derailment led to disruption of rail traffic on the section since last...
12:28 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Bangalore: Where in Bangalore will you find a zero waste campus? Seems impossible, but hold your thoughts, we are about to break that myth. The Direct Taxes Regional Training Institute (DTRTI), located in Jalahalli at HMT Watch Division have set an example with their green initiatives. World famous author, Albert Wood rightly said, Waste is a tax on the whole people, and keeping his words in mind, DTRTI carries out...
12:43 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Patna: A railway official was beaten to death on a train in Bihar by a group of people who thought he was a thief, police said on Wednesday. The ghastly incident took place in Lakhisarai district on Tuesday. Virendra Kumar Tyagi was first thrashed by dozens of passengers at the Patna railway station but he survived, Government Railway Police inspector Rajendra Paswan said. As he boarded the Danapur-Bhagalpur Inter-City Express,...
06:27 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Heavy rains, flash floods and landslides wreaked havoc across much of India on Tuesday. Nearly 34 people were dead and 20,000 were said to be affected in Uttarakhand, eight people had lost their lives in Kerala and four in Madhya Pradesh, while train services between Mangalore and Bangalore in Karnataka were hit. Uttarakhand It has been four days since heavy rains battered Uttarakhand, triggering landslides and flash floods....
02:04 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Hyderabad: The South Central Railway will run 10 special trains between Hyderabad and Kolhapur. Accordingly Train No. 07143 Hyderabad-Kolhapur special train will depart Hyderabad at 11.10 pm on Aug 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 and will arrive Kolhapur at 10.45 pm the next day. In the return direction, Train No 07144 Kolhapur-Hyderabad special train will depart Kolhapur at 07.30 am on Aug 9, 10, 11, 13 and 14 and...
01:40 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Candidates have until August 26 to apply for 889 positions for Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC's) Graduate Trainee (GT) Recruitment 2012. Candidates can log on to www.ongcindia.com to do the same. Following are the number of vacancies under various quotas: Posts of General : 476 vacancies Posts of OBC : 235 vacancies Posts of SC : 97 vacancies Posts of ST : 79 vacancies Posts of PWD...
09:38 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has started inviting online applications for 889 positions for its Graduate Trainee (GT) Recruitment 2012. Candidates can log on to www.ongcindia.com to do the same. Following are the number of vacancies under various quotas: Posts of General : 476 vacancies Posts of OBC : 235 vacancies Posts of SC : 97 vacancies Posts of ST : 79 vacancies Posts of PWD :...
09:42 AM, Aug 06, 2012
The US has organised a boot camp for robots where they undergo training for war. ...
12:59 PM, Aug 02, 2012
The northern regional load dispatch centre data shows Punjab was drawing over 800 MW till 1 pm on Wednesday. ...
07:57 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Chennai: Leela Samson was restrained from functioning as the director of Kalakshetra Foundation in Tiruvanmyur by the Madras High Court on Tuesday. Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar passed the interim order while entertaining a writ petition from a group of 16 Kalakshetra employees. Appointed in February 2005, Leela attained the age of 60 years in May 2011. Noting that it was the age of superannuation and that she had not resigned...
01:23 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Chennai: If you had stayed at the Central Railway Station until the early hours of Tuesday, you might have thought that the country was still ruled by monarchs. The royal treatment that Union Railway Minister Mukul Roy received after he arrived from Nellore in a special luxury train here gave rise to this notion. Visitors to the station fumed at the insensitivity the elaborate drama portrayed just hours after the...
12:25 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Chandigarh/Lucknow: A blame game erupted among some states with whom the Centre also locked horns over the unprecedented power outage on Tuesday that affected 60 crore people - over half of the country's population. The second blackout in two days after the power crisis hit north India on Monday also gave ammunition to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to take potshots at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Power Minister Sushil Kumar...
09:27 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Kolkata: As many as 105 trains on Eastern Railway and 75 others on South Eastern Railway's network were left stranded in seven divisions on Tuesday after the eastern grid collapsed, completely stalling train services for about four hours. Eastern Railway sources said that arrangements were made for diesel engines to run long-distance trains which were stranded at various places. Railway engineers were successful in hauling Sealdah- bound Rajdhani Express, Patna-Howrah...
07:20 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Pune: Officials of the Anti-Dacoity Cell (ADC) arrested three persons on suspicion of their involvement in six train robberies, including the two recent cases where passengers on board the Jodhpur-Pune Express and the Goa-Nizamuddin Express were attacked and robbed of their valuables. The arrests were made on Monday morning. The arrested persons were identified as Sagar Kamathe (19), Atul Nimbhore (22) and Kailas Vagare (22), all residents of Solapur. They...
03:28 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Mumbai: Twenty minutes was all it took for a blaze to turn a sleeper bogie of New Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express into a mass crematorium, incinerating at least 32 people inside. While the gruesome episode has elicited reactions from all parts of the country, it has spurred Mumbaikars to question the preparedness of the railways to deal with incidents like this. About 72 lakh people travel by the citys suburban...
02:19 PM, Jul 31, 2012
Gagan Narang shoots bronze at the London Olympics. Tamil Nadu Express catches fire killing at least 32 people. ...
11:55 PM, Jul 30, 2012
Gagan Narang has provided India its first medal of the 2012 London Olympics, winning the bronze medal in the 10m Air Rifle event. ...
10:34 PM, Jul 30, 2012
New Delhi: The fire in Tamil Nadu Express was the fourth such incident since last year but there are no effective measures including installation of fire and smoke detection alarms in trains. The fire claimed 32 lives including six women and three children. Though the Railways launched a pilot project installing fire alarm system in Bhubaneswar Rajdhani two years ago, the system could not be replicated in other trains. However,...
08:10 PM, Jul 30, 2012
New Delhi: PowerGrid Corp CMD RN Nayak on Monday evening said that the Northern Grid, which collapsed early morning, has been completely restored. The Northern Grid, which caters to power supply in nine states and Union Territories - Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh - collapsed at 2.35 am on Monday. "We have completely restored the Northern Grid," said Nayak. Services of...
07:34 PM, Jul 30, 2012
Amritsar: Four school children were killed and 20 were injured on Monday when a speeding mini local train rammed into their school bus at an unmanned railway crossing at Kot Mehtab Singh village near Amritsar. Three of the injured students are in a critical condition, battling for their lives at the Civil Hospital in Amritsar. Locals are helping the authorities in the rescue operations. The other injured have been rushed...
04:33 PM, Jul 30, 2012
