Train

Smoke comes out of a Kolkata Metro train

Kolkata: Panic gripped the passengers of Metro Railway in Kolkata on Thursday evening when smoke billowed out of a coach of a train at Mahatma Gandhi Road station. The driver of the train stopped the train as soon as all the lights of third coach went off following a sound at about 9.02 pm, CPRO Pratyush Ghosh said. The driver of Dum Dum-bound train found smoke coming out of the...  

AP: Crackers caused Nellore train fire

Hyderabad: The fire on Tamil Nadu Express that killed 34 passengers near Nellore on July 30 was caused by fire-crackers, according to officials of the Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory here. The officials submitted a comprehensive report to the Government Railway Police here on Wednesday. APFSL director O. Narasimha Murthy told Express that they found out that the major fire broke out from the running train due to burning of...  

Jaya tears into Raju's defence on training Lankans

Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday articulated Tamil Nadus collective political outrage over Union Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Rajus assertion that Sri Lankan defence personnel would continue training in India, saying it smacked of total insensitivity. I am surprised to learn that the Government of India has openly declared that the said training will go on since Sri Lanka is a friendly country. This betrays...  

WB: 1 held for beheading man in train compartment

Kolkata: A man was beheaded by a group of assailants in a crowded compartment of a train in West Bengal's Murshidabad district and an accused was arrested for the crime, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday when the Katwa-Azimgunj Passenger train was entering Bazarsau station in Murshidabad district. A group of assailants attacked Khokon Ghosh, 37, and to the horror of other passengers chopped off his...  

'IAF to procure 75 trainer aircraft from Pilatus'

New Delhi: Indian Air Force (IAF) has signed a contract with Swiss firm Pilatus for procurement of 75 Basic Trainer Aircraft (BTA) to train its rookie pilots and the delivery of these planes is scheduled between February 2013 to August 2012, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday. "A contract for procurement of 75 Basic Trainer Aircraft was signed with Pilatus Aircraft Ltd, Switzerland on May 24...The delivery of these...  

West Bengal: Four killed as train hits car

Jalpaiguri: Four persons were killed and one was injured when a running train rammed into a car at an unmanned level crossing near Bagdogra in Darjeeling district on Saturday night, the police said. The car, carrying five persons who were returning from a programme in Siliguri, was hit by a diesel multiple unit (DMU) at the level crossing in Gosai More leaving four persons dead instantaneously. The injured was admitted...  

Delhi: AC double-decker for Jaipur flagged off

New Delhi: Passengers to Jaipur can now take a ride on AC double-decker train with Railways on Friday flagging off the service heralding a new era in passenger transportation. The train will run between Delhi's Sarai Rohilla and Jaipur and carry 120 passengers in a coach as compared to about 80 passengers in a conventional coach. A ticket will cost Rs 347. The train will leave from here at 5.35...  

Kerala: Suspicious object on track, train services disrupted

Kottayam: Train traffic between Kottayam and Ernakulam was disrupted for an hour on Thursday as an object which looked like a "steel bomb" was found on the railway bridge near Piravom Road station, police said. Several trains, including Kozhikode-Thiruvananthapuram Janshatabdi Express, were halted at different stations as state and railways police and bomb squad launched a search immediately knowing about the presence of the object around 11 am. According to...  

CAG Vinod Rai's service records, dossier missing

Lucknow: The service records of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai "are not traceable", the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has revealed in response to a Right to Information (RTI) application. Lucknow activist Arvind Shukla had filed the RTI application last month, seeking details about the most powerful accountant of the country, who has gained renown as a vigilant anti-corruption watchdog and who is once again in the...  

Bangalore: Will Indians from the Northeast return to work?

An estimated 30,000 had fled Bangalore last week but many others stayed back. ...

Now, Northeast Indians head back to Bangalore

Guwahati/Bangalore: Reflecting a gradual return to normalcy after the panic exodus, Northeast Indians headed back to Bangalore in special trains from Guwahati. The tension has also eased in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. A spokesman for the Northeast Frontier Railway Nripen Bhattacharya said in Guwahati that three special trains had left for Bangalore on Sunday taking back in a phased manner those who had fled from the capital of Karnataka fearing...  

Train bombing attempt foiled in Pakistan

Islamabad: Hundreds of lives were saved when an attempt to blow up a passenger train in Pakistan was foiled after the train engineer spotted some suspicious material on the rail track, news reports said Monday. The Jaffer Express was stopped on Sunday near Kolpur railway station in Bolan district of Balochistan, Geo News reported. The train, on its way to Rawalpindi from Quetta, was about to reach Kolpur, when the...  

NE Indian passengers thrown out of train, 2 dead

Jalpaiguri/Katihar: Two passengers of a Guwahati-bound special train carrying Northeast Indians fleeing Bangalore were killed and seven others injured on Sunday after they were beaten up and pushed out by unidentified persons. Police and railway authorities remained tightlipped on the identity of the attacked passengers, who hailed from Assam, pending an investigation. Special trains were operated by Railways from Bangalore to ferry passengers fleeing the city over fears of attacks...  

NE exodus: Industry hit by manpower crunch

Bangalore: The exodus of thousands of Northeast Indians from Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune has dealt a serious blow to the hospitality and services sectors in these cities. Dhruv Chettry, who is from Guwahati, has been working as a floor manager at Herbs and Spice Restaurant in Bangalore for the past one year. With rumours fuelling panic and an exit of more than estimated 11,000 fellow North East Indians from the...  

South Central Railway braces up for northeast exodus

Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) has made special provisions to cater to the growing number of northeastern people from the city rushing toward their home states amid rumours of impending attacks on them in the wake of Assam violence. "Extra coaches are being attached to trains going towards Kolkata and Guwahati. While two additional general coaches were attached to Hyderabad-Howrah East Coast Express (18646) today, as many coaches will...  

Train engine derailed at Kanpur, none hurt

Kanpur: The engine of the Shramshakti Express derailed on Saturday morning in a yard near Kanpur station, disrupting train traffic on the Jhansi-Banda route. No passenger was injured in the derailment. The incident took place at 6 am when the train was coming to Kanpur from Delhi and halted at Juhi Yard just near the main station. As soon as the train started from Juhi Yard, the engine of the...  

NE exodus: Special trains from Bangalore reach Guwahati

A special train from Hyderabad has also reached Guwahati. More trains are expected on Saturday. ...

Bihar govt takes steps for security to NE bound trains

Patna: Bihar government has made arrangements to ensure security in Northeast-bound trains passing through the state, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said on Friday. This was done as part of special vigilance to check any untoward incident following rumours of impending attacks on the trains, he said. There has been no exodus of people of Northeast origin residing in Bihar nor any attack on Northeastern people residing in the...  

ONGC GT recruitment applications on for 2012

New Delhi: The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is still 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. The process stared on August 4, 2012. 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...  

MP: Goods train gets derailed

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...