Thrissur: A 28-year-old man, who tried to prevent some inebriated youth allegedly from molesting a woman co-passenger, was seriously injured after he was thrown out of a moving train at nearby Cheruthurthi, police said on Thursday. The man was found unconscious on the tracks on Wednesday morning, with both his hands severed. He was rushed to a hospital where doctors said his condition is critical. The victim, hailing from Idukki...
10:43 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Puri-Durg Express rammed into a stationary goods train near Mancheswar on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar on Wednesday night but there was no casualty or injury, railway sources said. There was no injury to anyone and all the passengers were safe after 18425 Puri-Durg Express hit the stationary goods train from behind at Kalajhari near Mancheswar, an East Coast Railway (ECoR) spokesman said. The Talcher-bound goods train from Visakhapatnam had...
11:46 PM, Apr 03, 2013
In a miraculous escape, a woman was saved from a speeding train within a split-second in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The woman had allegedly leapt onto the tracks after her cellphone fell. ...
07:43 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Passengers on the Delhi-Kolkata Rajdhani would now be able to connect to internet through Wi-Fi facility while travelling, a railway official said on Tuesday. ...
05:03 PM, Apr 02, 2013
The Delhi-Patna Jansadharan Express robbery case near Agra took an interesting on Tuesday when the Railway Police revealed that passengers who were claiming that they had been beaten up and thrown off the train by the robbers were the ones who had actually committed the crime. ...
03:40 PM, Apr 02, 2013
The Supreme Court on Tuesday withdrew the restraining order on Italian Ambassador to India Daniele Mancini, which it had imposed following Italy's decision to not send back two of its marines arrested in connection with the murder of the two Kerala fishermen. Italy, however, reversed its earlier position and sent back the two marines within the deadline that the apex court had set before they left to vote in Italy's...
11:16 AM, Apr 02, 2013
A gang of miscreants looted cash and valuables from passengers of the Delhi-Patna Jansadharan Express on Monday in Uttar Pradesh. The miscreants not only snatched cash and other valuables from the passengers but also pushed some of them out of the train after they tried to resist their attempts to rob them. ...
11:00 AM, Apr 02, 2013
The Supreme Court will decide on Tuesday on its earlier order to bar the Italian Ambassador to India Daniele Mancini from leaving India. The apex court had issued the order following Italy's decision to not send back the two Italian marines who were arrested in connection with the murder of two Kerala fishermen in February 2012. ...
08:21 AM, Apr 02, 2013
London: Filmmaker Danny Boyle says he had once fired an actor for screaming at an assistant bringing him breakfast. The 'Trainspotting' filmmaker said he did not even think twice that it would delay production on the project because he has zero tolerance for such outbursts on set, reported Contactmusic. "I don't tolerate ego ... We had shot quite a lot of material with him already, and firing him was going...
11:42 AM, Apr 01, 2013
New Delhi: Travelling in trains will become costlier from Monday as the hike in reservation, tatkal, cancellation fees and some other charges announced in the rail budget will come into effect. According to railway ministry, reservation fee for AC classes will go up by Rs.15 to 25 per ticket while reservation fee for second and sleeper class will remain unchanged. "The revision will come into effect on tickets issued on...
03:55 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Shanghai: Two people in Shanghai, one of China's largest cities, died in March after contracting a strain of avian influenza that had never been passed to humans before, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday. The two men, aged 87 and 27, became sick late February and died in early March. Another woman in nearby Anhui province also contracted the virus in early March and is in a critical...
03:22 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Mumbai: A special MCOCA court on Saturday allowed the accused in July 2006 suburban train blasts case to examine Indian Mujhahideen (IM) co-founder Sadiq Israr Sheikh and two others as defence witnesses, ignoring opposition by the Anti-Terrorism Squad. The defence had filed an application in the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act court seeking to call Sadiq, Arif Badruddin and Ansar Ahmed--all allegedly involved in various blasts across India in...
12:30 AM, Mar 31, 2013
New Delhi: Travelling in trains is set to become costlier from next week as the hike in reservation fee and superfast charges announced in the Rail Budget come into effect from April 1. Though Railways have not increased basic passenger fare, it has proposed to increase the reservation fee, superfast and Tatkal charges. Cancellation and clerkage charges will also be hiked from the said date. While reservation fee for second...
09:11 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Bangalore: Millions of street vendors in cities and towns across India will soon be empowered to run their micro level business by law, union Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Ajay Maken said on Monday. "The union government will re-introduce the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Bill in parliament to empower them by law and give micro-level business its due," Maken said at a function...
05:33 AM, Mar 26, 2013
Raipur: Special Task Force jawans busted a naxal training camp in dreaded Abuzamad area in Chhattisgarh and arrested six ultras, including two women and a minor boy, police said on Sunday. Police seized three muzzle-loading guns, one tiffin bomb and other explosives after the joint team of STF and district police engaged in a brief encounter with naxals holed up in the hideout, a senior officer said. "The Maoists were...
01:55 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Railway passenger fare may see another round of hike soon. Railway Board Chairperson Vinay Mittal hinted on Saturday that passenger fares could go up when fuel surcharge becomes applicable in October. ...
02:04 PM, Mar 23, 2013
A goods train rammed into a bus at an unmanned railway crossing near Saraigarh in Bihar's Supaul district on Wednesday, leaving one person dead and six others injured. ...
10:53 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Airport Metro has resumed check-in facility for domestic and international flyers at the New Delhi station. At present, Air India and Jet Airways will provide domestic and international check-in at the station while talks are on with other airlines that have international service to set up their check-in counters at the station. ...
05:44 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Displaying rare courage, the wife of an accused in the 2006 Mumbai serial train blasts case, has demanded action against the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for harassing her, said her lawyer. ...
04:48 AM, Mar 14, 2013
Retired Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) commandant BC Joshi on Tuesday allegedly committed suicide by jumping before a speeding Metro train in Noida, police said. Joshi, a resident of Jal Vayu Vihar in Greater Noida, was apparently in a state of depression, SP City Yogesh Singh said. ...
11:14 PM, Mar 12, 2013
